The Calgary Open was a
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
tournament on the
Canadian Tour
PGA Tour Canada, commonly referred to as the Canadian Tour, is a men's professional golf tour headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The United States based PGA Tour took over operation of the tour on November 1, 2012, at which time it was renamed PG ...
that was held at Heritage Pointe Golf Club in
Heritage Pointe
Heritage Pointe is a hamlet located in Alberta, Canada within Foothills County. It is located north of Dunbow Road, between Highway 2 (Deerfoot Trail) and Highway 2A (MacLeod Trail), adjacent to the southern boundary of Calgary.
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near
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1997, and was the first time the tour had based an event in the Calgary area.
Telus
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was the tournament's main sponsor and as such it was titled as the Telus Calgary Open. It ran for four years through 2000, when Telus sought to more evenly distribute their sponsorship of tour events across the season.
Winners
References
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Former PGA Tour Canada events
Golf tournaments in Alberta
Recurring sporting events established in 1997
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2000