Tournament information | |
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Location | London, Ontario |
Established | 2002 |
Course(s) | Highland Country Club |
Par | 72 |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour Americas |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | C$225,000 |
Month played | September |
Current champion | |
Hayden Springer |
The Fortinet Cup Championship is an annual professional golf tournament played in Canada. It is the season ending event on the PGA Tour Americas, having previously served the same function on the PGA Tour Canada, commonly known as the Canadian Tour. The PGA Tour Americas replaced the PGA Tour Canada and the PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2024.
The tournament was founded in 2002 as the Bay Mills Open, hosted at the Bay Mills Resort in Brimley, Michigan, United States, and became designated as the Canadian Tour's "Players Championship" the following year. In 2006, the tournament moved to Ontario, Canada as the new Canadian Tour Championship. [1] It has since remained in Ontario, and adopted different names under various title sponsors.
In 2015, it was an event reserved for those in the top 60 on the PGA Tour Canada money list. The top five players on the money list after the tournament were given what later became Korn Ferry Tour cards while the remaining players remained exempt on PGA Tour Canada. In 2024, after the tournament became part of PGA Tour Americas, the tournament was open to the top 120 players in the Fortinet Cup standings, awarding ten Korn Ferry Tour cards with those up to 80th retaining PGA Tour Americas status.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions into Canada, the PGA Tour organised substitute tours in the United States that served as the replacement tours for PGA Tour Canada. The 2020 substitute was known as the LocaliQ Series Championship in Duluth, Georgia. The 2021 substitute, the Forme Tour Championship, was held in Huntsville Golf Club in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Both served as the PGA Tour's official substitutes.
Fortinet Cup Championship
Forme Tour Championship
LocaliQ Series Championship
Canada Life Championship
Freedom 55 Financial Championship
Tour Championship of Canada
Canadian Tour Championship
Bay Mills Open Players Championship
Bay Mills Open
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