Masters | |
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Established | 2002 |
2025 host city | Guelph, Ontario |
2025 arena | Sleeman Centre |
Men's purse | CAD $200,000 |
Women's purse | CAD $200,000 |
Current champions (2023) | |
Men | Joël Retornaz |
Women | Rachel Homan |
Current edition | |
Grand Slam of Curling events |
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The Masters is a Grand Slam event on the men's and women's World Curling Tour. It is the second Grand Slam event and first major on the women's and men's tour. The event is an amalgamation of the men's World Cup of Curling and the women's Sun Life Classic. There was also a men's Sun Life Classic, which has been discontinued. The Sun Life Classic was an annual WCT event (but not a Grand Slam event) held every November at the Paris Curling Club, Brant Curling Club and the Brantford Golf & Country Club in the Brantford, Ontario area. [1] The World Cup was a Grand Slam event and was held in various locations across Canada, and was also previously known as the Masters.
The first incarnation of the event with both men and women was held in 2012 at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre and the Brantford Golf & Country Club in Brantford, Ontario.
The event is currently sponsored by World Financial Group, a multi-level marketing company.
Notes
Past champions are listed as follows: [2]
Year | Winning skip | Runner-up skip | Purse |
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2005 | Kirk Ziola [3] | Jim Lyle | |
2006 | Dwayne Fowler [3] | Brad Gushue | 35,000 |
2007 | Glenn Howard [3] | Kirk Ziola | 53,000 |
2008 | Glenn Howard [3] | Jean-Michel Ménard | 47,000 |
2009 | Mike McEwen | Martin Ferland | 50,000 |
2010 | Mike McEwen | Brad Gushue | 50,000 |
2011 | Niklas Edin | Sven Michel | 50,000 |
Year | Winning skip | Runner-up skip | Purse |
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2007 | Julie Hastings [3] | Krista McCarville | 32,000 |
2008 | Marie-France Larouche [3] | Jacqueline Harrison | 47,000 |
2009 | Jo-Ann Rizzo | Shannon Kleibrink | 50,000 |
2010 | Jennifer Jones | Kelly Scott | 50,000 |
2011 | Sherry Middaugh | Erika Brown | 50,000 |
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