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The 2010 RBC Canadian Open will be hosted at St Georges Golf and Country Club in Toronto, Ontario. The PGA event will take place July 19-25 2010. St Georges is a Stanley Thompson design built in 1928 and currently ranked #3 in Canada according to Score Golf. Keith Bartlett, St Georges superintendent and his crew are actively preparing for the course for the open and the major controversy is the third green. The problem is the slope of the green and the difficulty to find an ideal pin position.
This third green is will prove to be one of the most challenging projects leading up RBC Canadian Open. Bartlett had this to say about the third green “the slope is about 4 per cent to 5 per cent, while 2 to 3 is ideal”. Brad Klein an architecture editor for Golfweek magazine has studied green speeds for awhile and said “that when slope gets above 2.5 per cent, a green is essentially unpinnable”. This isn’t the first time a golf course has had problem green speeds, the 2001 PGA Championship had troubles with the 18th green.
Green speeds are one thing that PGA officials normally insist on being as fast as they can. What will St Georges do to fix the third green and satisfy PGA tour officials? One off the suggestions I read was raising the green height so it’s a different height than all the others. One of the thoughts that I had but it may be to time consuming would be rebuilding the whole green. This is an obstacle Keith Bartlett and his staff will have to over come in preperation for the open this coming July.
Some information from http://www.ontgolf.ca/
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