Shane Pinto<\/a> has accepted a sponsor exemption into the Commissionaires Ottawa Open presented by Lepine Apartments on PGA Tour Americas, taking place July 16-19 at The Marshes Golf Club. The course is about 10 minutes from the Canadian Tire Centre.<\/p>\n\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be fun. Going to have to work on my game a lot leading up to it,\u201d Pinto told Sportsnet.ca. \u201cI don\u2019t think I’ll finish anywhere near half of the top but hopefully I get a somewhat of a good showing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claude Giroux also played the event on a sponsor invite in 2024, shooting 81-78 to miss the cut. Pinto said Giroux told him about the event and thought it would be something cool for the 25-year-old to try.<\/p>\n
Pinto, who signed a four-year, $30 million contract with the Senators in November, said he\u2019s only ever played golf in front of his friends, but added that the unique experience will be exciting.<\/p>\n
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Shane Pinto takes a drive off a tee at Bethpage Black in New York. (Ben Coles\/Ottawa Senators)<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure I\u2019m going to snap hook one somewhere,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201cI\u2019ll start with a double bogey and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
American Brett White won the Ottawa Open in 2025 in a playoff after an incredible final-round 59. He was seven shots back of the lead to begin the day, but his 8-under 28 on the back nine was capped by an epic 63-foot eagle putt on the 72nd hole to give him the clubhouse lead.<\/p>\n
White\u2019s comeback was the largest in PGA Tour Americas history.<\/p>\n
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32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/p>\n
Hockey fans already know the name, but this is not the blog. From Sportsnet, 32 Thoughts: The Podcast with NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas is a weekly deep dive into the biggest news and interviews from the hockey world.<\/p>\n
Latest episode<\/a><\/p>\nThe Senators are in Utah to face the Mammoth Wednesday night in the first of a back-to-back before heading to Colorado to face the league-best Avalanche on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Pinto has 12 goals and nine assists this season. He suffered an upper-body injury on Dec. 4 and returned Dec. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 One Ottawa Senator is going from the rink to the links. Shane Pinto has accepted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-393901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}