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in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, Ju ly 12 ,2 01 8 | 16 SALES PERIOD | JULY 12-18, 2018| No rain-checks or layaways. Selection will vary from store to store. GREAT TIME TOPLANT! ENJOY SAVINGS ONTERRA QUALITYPRODUCTS! GET INHERE ANDSAVE! THERE'S SAVINGS IN EVERY DEPARTMENTANDFRESHSTOCKARRIVINGWEEKLY! FINALWEEKOFTHISGREAT SALE! SHOPEARLYFORTHELARGESTSELECTION.SALEITEMSARECLEARLYMARKED.WHILESUPPLIESLAST. Selection will vary from store to store. 50%50%50505050505050505050505050 OFFOFF FINALWEEK! HOT BUYS & DOOR CRASHERS ALL WEEKEND LONG! FOLLOW US ON: www.terragreenhouses.com OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Mon - Tues 8 am - 6 pm | Wed - Fri 8 am - 8 pm | Sat - Sun 8 am - 6 pm At long last, the RBC Ca- nadian Open got its new date on the PGA Tour sched- ule. But whether Oakville will ever get to host golf's na- tional championship in ear- ly June remains to be seen. Next year's tournament will take place at the Hamil- ton Golf and Country Club in June 3-9. That places it a week ahead of the U.S. Open. Since 2007, the tourna- ment has had an unfavour- able spot in the schedule, the week after the British Open. The travel, time change and weekend follow- ing a major made it chal- lenging to attract players. Golf Canada made the best of the situation, char- tering a plane to bring play- ers back for the tourna- ment. As well, over the years, RBC-sponsored play- ers like Dustin Johnson, Jim Furyk, Brandt Snedek- er, Matt Kuchar and Jason Day helped boost the field. This year's field will in- clude four of the top five fin- ishers from this year's U.S. Open, including winner Brooks Koepka, runner-up Tommy Fleetwood, John-Tommy Fleetwood, John-T son and Tony Finau. Two- time Masters champion Bubba Watson and Ian Poul- ter, ranked 28th in the world, will also be part of the field. Canadians Adam Had-field. Canadians Adam Had-f win, Corey Conners and Da- vid Hearn have also com- mitted. In addition to the new date, RBC has also sweet- ened the pot by increasing the purse by almost 20 per cent, from $6.4 million to $7.6 million. That puts it among the top 10 PGA events played in North America, excluding majors and FedEx Cup playoff tour- naments. "We're quite confident that the combination of a June date and a more com-June date and a more com-J petitive purse will lead to an elevated tournament for a number of reasons," said Mary DePaoli, executive vice-president, chief mar- keting officer for RBC. "We are now an early stop in the schedule when competition is running high. We are now positioned as part of a core cluster of high-calibre events." "This new date for the Canadian Open is incredi- ble," said Adam Hadwin, Canada's top-ranked player at No. 48 in the world. "This will elevate this tournament back to the stature it has had. It will make it a lot easi- er to attract all the great players that I know want to come up and play but maybe just haven't been able to fit into their schedule before." Glen Abbey, which will host the tournament for the 30th time, may never get to reap the benefits, though. The tournament will be hosted by Hamilton in 2019 and 2022. Though Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum said the tournament has had an incredible partner- ship with ClubLink, the owner of Glen Abbey, and the Town of Oakville, it sounded as though the tour- nament will be moving around before any return to the Oakville course, which has hosted the past four Ca- nadian Opens. "As far as 2020 and 2021, we've had really developed discussions with a number of phenomenal golf courses, epic tracks, places that peo- ple want to play, places that players want to get to, and hopefully in the near future we will have some an- nouncements in that re- gard." Even if Glen Abbey doesn't host before 2022, ClubLink CEO Rai Sahi didn't close the door on a re- turn to Oakville. "There may still be an op- portunity. It's going to take time before the land gets de- veloped, a bunch of years left, so it may be possible to come back here," he said. "But we do have other cours- es, including Rattlesnake, that we are prepared to redo and have the Canadian Open there." GOLF Canadian Open gets its new date, but maybe too late for Oakville HERB GARBUTT hgarbutt@metroland.com Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum, Mary DePaoli, executive vice president, chief marketing officer for RBC and PGA Tour executive vice-president and chief of operations Andy Pazder had reason to celebrate after announcing a new June date for the RBC Canadian Open which will take effect next year. This year's tournament at Glen Abbey July 23-29. Graham Paine/Metroland