launched in 2020<\/a> during the pandemic, when golf exploded in popularity.<\/p>\nThe promo includes tee gifts, official PGA Tour pin placements and signage including mock leaderboards.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll four days are full now, all tee times,\u201d Cranston said Thursday, seven days after bookings went live. \u201cWe\u2019re up to 52 slots a day, from 6:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon, because we want to make sure people can get 18 holes in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Air Canada Championship trophy, borrowed from BC Sports Hall of Fame, sits on a table at the first tee box, for photo ops.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe set up the golf course the way it was on the day and year of the tournament we pick. This year we chose the 2001 year, when Joel Edwards won. So today it\u2019s Thursday pins and tees from that year\u2019s tournament, Friday is the Friday pins and tees, Saturday, Sunday, all four rounds, exactly the way it was in 2001. We also open up a bunch of tee boxes that we don\u2019t normally use for normal everyday play, so we stretch it out to 7,000 yards, tees from the very tips. People love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notables who played PGA events at Northview include Payne Stewart, Sergio Garcia and Mike Weir, who in 1999 was the first Canadian in 45 years to win a PGA Tour event on Canadian soil.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was here the year,\u201d Cranston recalled. \u201cMy dad got tickets through work, I think, and we were out here watching him on hole 14 when he sunk that shot, jarred it (for eagle). I remember being on (hole) 18 watching him win the event. It was very cool. I was pretty young at that time so I didn\u2019t realize the significance of a Canadian golfer (winning), until I was more into the business. It\u2019s a great part of the history here.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, Sept. 14, Vancouver Canucks players, coaches, management and alumni will return to Northview course during another Jake Milford Charity Invitational Golf Tournament<\/a>, a season-kickoff event for the NHL club prior to training camp in Penticton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018PGA Tour Experience\u2019 at Surrey golf course 30 years after first tourney Published 3:36 pm Thursday, August 27,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-873872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}