EXPERT PICKS

Each week, our panel will select which Canadian Tour player is most likely to win the tournament and who is the dark horse (a player that missed the cut in the previous tournament that is likely to rebound and win).The panel is made up of people from the golf industry including media, instructors, and former Canadian Tour members.

Below are the final standings from this year's picks:

Name Final Earnings Final Rank Scott Macleod $62,637.85 1 Tim McKay $61,771.54 2 Ian Leggatt $61,519.00 3 Ashley Chinner $58,092.67 4 Jeff Dykeman $55,906.00 5 Gord Holder $49,542.18 6 Robert Thompson $48,500.24 7 Garry McKay $41,568.08 8 Ian Hutchinson $39,110.58 9 Fraser Mulholland $38,854.72 10 John Randle $34,571.25 11 Peter Robinson $34,169.12 12 Jason Logan $33,087.14 13 Todd Saelhof $30,932.89 14 Bob Weeks $29,647.59 15 Curtis Stock $28,909.21 16 Wes Gilbertson $28,147.00 17 Brad Ziemer $26,760.29 18 Bryan Outram $25,280.71 19 Todd Halpen $24,715.71 20

BOB WEEKS, SCORE Golf
@Bobatscoregolf

Bob Weeks has been with SCOREGolf since 1987 and currently writes, broadcasts, comments and Tweets across its various formats. He began covering the Canadian Tour before many of today’s current players were born.

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ASHLEY CHINNER, 1996 Canadian PGA Champion
@AshleyChinner

 
Ashley was a touring golf pro and has been a member of the CPGA since 1989. He has played in golf tournaments in Canada and around the world and is a past champion of the Canadian PGA Championship. In 2001 Ashley joined the insurance industry and since that time he has been instrumental in working with leading golf clubs across the country to develop risk management plans and asses their specific insurance needs. In his role at Signature Risk Ashley is responsible for the growth of Signature Golf across the country. Ashley works with independent insurance brokers and their golf course clients to make the insurance buying process as easy to understand as possible.??

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JEFF DYKEMAN, PGA of Canada
@jeffdykeman


Before he became Director of Business Development & Brand, Jeff served as the Manager of Education & Employment as well as the Assistant Tournament Director for the Canadian PGA National Championships. Prior to that, he spent time as the Sales & Marketing Manager at Crimson Ridge Golf Club and in the Game Day Promotions Department of the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League (AHL). In 2010, Jeff was voted one of the Most Interesting People in Ontario Golf by Ontario Golf Magazine.

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GORD HOLDER, Ottawa Citizen

Gord Holder has been the Citizen's golf columnist since 1997, and an avid golfer even longer than that. The game and the stories of the people who play it have taken him all over Eastern Ontario and West Quebec and to several other parts of both provinces, as well as to Scotland and Sweden. He has also covered LPGA and PGA TOUR events and national, provincial and regional championships too numerous to mention at the amateur and professional levels. A graduate of Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, he worked at newspapers in Portage la Prairie and Brandon, Man., before joining the Citizen.

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IAN HUTCHINSON, Sun Media 
@golfnewsnow

Ian Hutchinson is the golf columnist for Sun Media and editor/president of www.golfnewsnow.ca, Canada's golf industry website, as well as contributing to golf magazines/websites in Canada and the United States.

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IAN LEGGATT, Former Canadian Tour Player, PGA TOUR winner and now Director of Golf at Summit Golf & Country Club.
@sportsnetleggo

Ian played on the Canadian Tour from 1990 to 1999. His best season was in 1998 where he had 3 second place results and finished 4th on the Order of Merit. Ian won the 2002 Touchstone Energy Tucson Open on the PGA TOUR and the BUY.COM’s 2000 Dayton Open. He currently works as a golf analyst on television.

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JASON LOGAN, SCOREGolf Magazine
@jasonSCOREGolf


Jason was born in Port Perry, Ontario and earned a bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University in 2001. He has been at SCOREGolf Magazine since 2003 and has been the magazine's managing editor 2006. Jason has covered the 2007 Presidents Cup in Montreal and Mike Weir's appearance at Toronto's Eaton Centre the day after winning the 2003 Masters. Jason began golfing at the age of six.

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SCOTT MACLEOD, Flagstick Golf Magazine
@Flagstick


Scott is a member of the Golf Journalists Association of Canada and has been the full time Editor at Flagstick Golf Magazine, based in Ottawa, Ontario, since 2000. As both an author and photographer his work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and websites throughout North America. He has been involved in golf for more than 25 years. He is active as a tournament golfer himself and has been involved in player development for his regional golf association.

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GARRY McKAY, Hamilton Spectator
@gmckay

Garry McKay has covered golf for the Hamilton Spectator for more than 40 years. He also writes for numerous other golf publications. Garry is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America and he's currently the president of the Golf Journalists Association of Canada.
 
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FRASER MULHOLLAND, Former Canadian Tour Player and Commissioner of the Vancouver Golf Tour.
@vancouvergolf

The Scottish-born Fraser Mulholland had golf in his genes since the age of 7. Fraser kept his attention to golf while he studied at UBC and played on the Men’s Varsity Golf Team. A PGA member of Canada since 1992, Fraser has accumulated 19 years of experience in professional golf instruction, tournament play and golf course & tournament operations. Fraser has become one of the most accomplished professional golfers in BC and in Canada, winning 38 professional tournaments. In 2006 Fraser embarked on a journey to create a Developmental Tour for the local talent and created the Vancouver Golf Tour, now recognized as Western Canada’s Premier Developmental Tour.

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JOHN RANDLE, Former Canadian Tour Player
@RandleGolf


John is a former Canadian Tour member. He played the tour from 1990 to 1997. His playing career has been highlighted by over 50 professional wins including the PGA of BC Championship. John has been teaching the game full time since 1998 and is presently the Academy Director at the Bear Mountain Golf Academy. He was the PGA of BC Teacher of the Year in 2002 and 2007 and works with several tour professionals.

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PETER ROBINSON, CBC Sports
@PRGolfWriter

Peter Robinson has covered golf in Canada for more than a decade and is a Contributing Editor SCOREGolf and regular contributor to CBC.ca.?

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TODD SAELHOF, Calgary Sun
@SaelhofGolf

Todd Saelhof is your average golfer -- more a hacker than a low-handicapper -- who loves the sport and how it challenges patience and potential. Todd is the Calgary Sun’s golf editor. He's hoping one day to crack 80 to prove that a golfer with a slice in his 40s can indeed get better with age. After traveling all over North America to golf, Todd believes you can't beat Alberta/B.C. golf, where the mountains offer a fantastic backdrop and a magnificent canvas from which to carve the best courses on the globe.??

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CURTIS STOCK, Edmonton Journal
@CurtisJStock

A sports writer for the Edmonton Journal, Curtis has been covering golf for almost two decades. A member of SCOREgolf magazine's Top 100 panel, Curtis was recently presented with an Order of Merit by Golf Canada (Royal Canadian Golf Association).

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ROBERT THOMPSON, Sympatico.ca
@Going4theGreen

A bestselling author and award-winning reporter, Robert Thompson has been an influential sports and business journalist for more than a decade. Currently a columnist with Sympatico, and Ontario Golf, and a contributing editor to SCOREGolf, Robert has been a multiple winner at the Golf Journalists Association of Canada awards in each of the past two years.

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BRAD ZIEMER, Vancouver Sun
@BradZiemer

Brad Ziemer joined the Vancouver Sun in 1985, after beginning his journalism career at the Canadian Press. A former sports editor at The Sun, Ziemer covered the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies before they departed for Memphis. He has been on the hockey beat since 2001. Ziemer, who also covers the local golf scene for The Sun, is a graduate of Western Washington University.

BRYAN OUTRAM, Inside Golf
@BryanOutram

Bryan Outram has been the editor of Inside Golf Magazine for 14 years. He also wrote columns for the Coquitlam Now and The Voice, two local weekly papers in the Vancouver area. 

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Tim McKay, Sun Media
@TimMcKayGolf

Tim McKay is a golf columnist and editor for Sun Media/QMI Agency. 

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Wes Gilbertson, Calgary Sun
@SUNGilbertson
 
 
Wes Gilbertson is a sports reporter and golf feature writer at the Calgary Sun. As a lifelong Alberta resident, he's living proof that thin mountain air doesn't turn everybody into a long-drive specialist.

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Todd Halpen, Todd Halpen Golf
@swinkeytodd

A graduate from the University of Victoria, Todd was a member of the Golf Canada National Team in 2007, Canadian Tour Member in 2009, co-founder of Swinkey Golf Inc., has competed in two Canadian Opens (2006 and 2008) and now coaches full time at the Golf Canada Centre in Calgary. He also operates toddhalpengolf.com and enjoys beer league hockey, power lifting, and skiing #sendit #deepball #yyc #lifestyle @swinkeytodd

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