Vernon’s Chris Baryla hung on to win on the Nationwide Tour today, landing a spot at #20 on the Nationwide Tour’s money list. The Top 25 gain automatic entry to the PGA Tour. No certainty that Baryla will make it to the tour, but with only two tournaments left, including the tour championship, he has a [...]
My latest Sympatico column, about the final weeks of the Nationwide Tour and the Canadians involved, is now online. Lorne Rubenstein in the Globe coincidently wrote on a similar topic that can be found here.
Here’s a taste from my column:
While the PGA Tour winds down after the $10-million FedEx Cup, a number of Canadian golfers [...]
My regular weekly MSN/Sympatico column is now online.
Here’s a taste:
A year ago, heading into the Nationwide Tour’s Ford Gretzky Classic in Collingwood, Ont., Chris Baryla was considered one of Canada’s rising golf stars.
In 2003, while an amateur, Baryla played in the U.S. Open and became the first amateur in a generation to play on the [...]
It wasn’t that long ago that the CPGA Championship disappeared after merging with the Nationwide Tour and holding the event in Cambridge, Ont. at Whistlebear Golf Club. The reason? Hardly anyone paid any attention. So the event simply folded and the CPGA Championship has still not returned — despite a lot of talk about bringing [...]
The second stage of PGA Tour Q School is now finished, with veteran Jim Rutledge, Regina’s Kent Eger and former child star Richard Lee, all making it through to gaining at least conditional status on the Nationwide Tour. Interestingly Chris Baryla, once considered one of the top prospects in Canadian golf but who spent most [...]
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