Day 2: RBCCO and Zokol Pettersson

On Tuesday night, Richard Zokol got an honour to relocate when it officially became a member in the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. In front of 200 guests in the home course of Marine drive from Zoke, as his friends call him, everything was feted with speeches by Lorne Rubenstein and Mike Weir. Both eloquent and funny, honest and humourous. The mentioned how Zokol were much more than one player, said Rubenstein, a person "out-of-the-box" golf. There were some light-hearted jabs in the days of Disco Dick when to wear headphones between two shots to cut out distractions and some revelations in recent days as a roommate of Bobby Clampett at Brigham Young, a group made as a walk-on and eventually crossed a NCAA title. Zoke, of course, has a long and distinguished career plays titled NCCA, a Crown Canadian amateur, a Canadian PGA and two PGA Tour victories and 26 occurrences in the Canadian open. But he has done a lot more including some development player, TV with World Golf's Acura and the construction of long road to Sagebursh. And to top it all off, celebrated the 25th anniversary of marriage with the beautiful wife Joanie last night as well.  * * * * * * Defending champion Carl Pettersson was in the press room on Tuesday evening, recalling its performance a year ago in St George when he was fired that miracle 60 Saturday. There was a funny exchange between himself and local writer who had obviously done some research in history, but they did not believe the part about Pettersson drinking seven beers while waiting to see if he made the cut. Q. is the comment you made about having enough time to have seven beers waiting to learn is not a joke?
CARL PETTERSSON: No. (laughter.) big guy really had the seven beers and had to be the caddie disk home. The next morning came back and shot 60. He added that the PGA Tour in his career, he has shot the number each in the 60s. As for the current year, Pettersson Shaughnessy called one of the best courses the tour has played all year and was a great raw which will be a factor. He said that he had the feeling of a US open and he expects to try to repeat.

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RBCCO day 1: Weir, Hadwin and Shaughnessy

There are many good things about flying London-Vancouver directly, like yesterday although it did take eight hours to keep track of all the mini-series the Kennedys (wow, can flee with the White House) and still have time to sleep for a few hours. However, I landed with some fine weather here, have a rarity on the West Coast this summer. It is blatantly terrible here with rain and cool temperatures. They told me yesterday that there was only one day more than 30 degrees here until now. The most interesting news of the day was a confirmation that Mike Weir has gone back to the stack and tilt method, reuniting with Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett, two of whom are in accordance with the report in Vancouver this week. Robert Thompson was the first time this week. It is a strange path for Weir to take, but if it works for him, then who really cares. Even after he left the Plummer and Bennett in 2009, it was still determined to remain focused on the ball, as this method is supported, so there really is a big jump from what causes delay. And nobody seemed to be all bent shape, when he returned with Mike Wilson before. At least the fixed in one method and focus. Today Weir and all other RBC group players teeing it at a private event at Capilano. I also had the opportunity to rotate around the Shaughnessy, one of the really nice lessons in this country. My first comment was that raw is even more than what was here last time. It was a long time afterwards. Of course everything rain probably helped to those efforts. Everything is certainly Green around here, and seems to be in excellent shape. Today is a busy working day at the top with Richard Zokol's induction into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. Adam Hadwin, wonderful surprise of last year, I chat with the press. You know that it is the third-ranked Canadian Iraq now on the official World Golf ranking?

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RBCCO day 3: duration

This year's Edition of the national championship has the conditions to be that one of the best in an enormous amount of time. There is a great way to set up Shaughnessy as harsh as anything all year round. Raw is long, more than it was during the opening of the UNITED STATES this year, and the Greens are tiny PGA Tour standards. Each player who I spoke to said it will be a difficult test, but that should be so for a tournament of this stature. The only help that we get the players are supposed to have that rain on Wednesday night, which can help to broaden the stimulates a touch. Then there is a check mark in this field, which is just as intense as it was because the incident got charged with post-British open date. There is a player no. 1 in the world within Luke Donald, who said he would not have trouble shaking off missed cut last week at Royal St George 's, which he called "an anomaly" is also Matt Kuchar and Rickie Fowler and Lucas Glover, all play some solid golf. Jim Furyk, and Ernie Els, Hunter Mahan, Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen, Geoff Ogilvy and on and go. Sure, some of them are here because they have their logos for RBC bags, but others here is because the tournament has done a good job of finding great courses and hosts a solid events. Has achieved its purpose, the best in class, one of the top events, this is not a great event world championship golf or Fedex Cup. "I think tough courses draw better players," said Fowler. "I mean, I like to play more golf. As for the course, I have heard many good things from other PGA Tour players. Ben crane was one of the first wave to tell me about this. He is probably one of the favorite locations so I was excited to come here. ""Tour is now in dying breed, "added Donald. "Our playing very long, kind of wide open Golf. That is, you know, this is long enough, but it is a challenging golf course, close, classic. I believe that people enjoy playing golf style. "PXE: new mobile yesterday the firing of Steve Williams in around the course with more players saying they created too surprised. The question is then which would you choose as the next Tiger and more understood looper it was Nick Faldo, former caddie, Fanny Sunesson. By the way, Sean Foley, TW coach offers "no comment" when asked about the switch ... I chatted with Tommy Gainey, known as two gloves. He said that the only coach who has is his brother, who can usually understand what is going wrong with the game, Tommy's through a telephone conversation. I do not think he could understand what's happening with the swing if I had it on a table, lab and dissected it. ... There are a lot of attention Nick Taylor, Matt Hill and Adam Hadwin but no mention of Darren Wallace who is equally smooth with maple syrup swing ... I wonder if this will be the first RBC Canadian open in four years not to suffer through a rain delay of some kind. Nick Taylor confirmed yesterday that he will take a back to school European qualifying tour.

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