The Greater Vancouver Classic was a
golf tournament that was held in the
Greater Vancouver
Greater Vancouver, also known as Metro Vancouver, is the metropolitan area with its major urban centre being the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The term "Greater Vancouver" is roughly coterminous with the geographic area governed b ...
area, in British Columbia, Canada. Founded as the BC TEL Pacific Open in 1994, it was a direct replacement for the cancelled
British Columbia Open on the
Canadian Tour. In 2000 it was re-titled as the Telus Vancouver Open.
For 2002, the tournament had agreed a new multi-year sponsorship deal with a lawn car company and was to have been titled the ''Perfectly Natural Classic'', but they backed out resulting in a great deal of discussion over a new unsponsored name. Having considered
Greater Vancouver Open
The Greater Vancouver Open was a professional golf tournament in Canada on the PGA Tour, held in southwestern British Columbia from 1996 to 2002. It was played after the majors in late summer, at the Northview Golf & Country Club in Surrey, a subur ...
and Vancouver Open, which risked confusion with the
PGA Tour event,
eventually it was changed to Greater Vancouver Classic, and from 2006 the Greater Vancouver Charity Classic. In 2009, the name changed again, this time to the City of Surrey Invitational; it was to be the final time the tournament was held.
Winners
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Former PGA Tour Canada events
Golf tournaments in British Columbia
Recurring sporting events established in 1994
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2009