1904- John H. Oke

Born: Northam, England 1880
Professional at Royal Ottawa Golf Club 1904 - 1905
Worked at Royal North Devon Club and served as assistant to J.H. Taylor (The Great Triumphrate) at Mid-Surrey Golf Club
Returned to England in 1905, then emigrated to U.S. in 1918

1905- George Cumming (far right)

Born: Bridge of Weir, Scotland, May 20, 1879
Professional at the Toronto Golf Club from 1900 until his death in 1950
Apprenticed to Andrew Forgan, Glasgow Golf Club
Other showings in Canadian Open: runner-up 1906, 1907, 1909 and 1914
Also won: 1914 CPGA Championship
1905 U.S. Open: tied lowest 18 hole score for eighth Place
Known as the Dean of Canadian Professionals

1906, 1911  - Charles Murray (far left)

Born: Nottingham England,1882
Professional at The Royal Montreal Golf Club from 1905 until his death in 1939
Immigrated in 1880s with family, settled in Toronto and trained under George Cumming
Also won: CPGA Championship 1912; Quebec Open 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924
Other showings in Canadian Open - tied runner-up, 1920, 15 Top Tens

1907 - Percy Barrett

Born: Huddersfield, England,1880
Professional at the Lambton Golf and Country Club from 1903-1914, then at Weston (1915-1922), Uplands (1923), and Lakeshore (1924-1926), all in the Toronto area.
Protégé of Harry Vardon (of the Great Triumphrate) at Ganton, England
Showing in Canadian Opens: Runner-up 1904, 1905; four other third-place finishes before 1911 (all of which earned him a total of $400)
Also won CPGA Championship, 1923, 1925 as pro at Weston Golf & Country Club
Died suddenly in 1927

1908, 1913- Albert Murray (middle)

Born: Nottingham, England, September 3, 1887
Professional at Outremont, Montreal
Immigrated to Canada with his family at 8 months of age
Trained under George Cumming                       
Youngest winner of the Open (20 years of age) 
Also won CPGA championship, 1924; Quebec Open 1930
Opened Canada's first indoor golf school was also a golf architect
Died 1974

1909, 1914- Karl Keffer (left)

Born: Tottenham, Ontario ,1882
Professional at Royal Ottawa Golf Club 1911 - 1945
Trained under George Cumming
Other showings in Canadian Open: Runner-up, 1919 tied with Bobby Jones
Also won Manitoba Open, 1919; Quebec Open 1927
Only Canadian-born player to win the Canadian Open
Service in WWI apparently hampered his playing ability

1912 - George Sargent

Born: Dorking, England; 1882
Professional at Royal Ottawa Golf Club 1906-08
Protégé of Harry Vardon (of the Great Triumvirate)
Won U.S. Open,1909, with record breaking 209
President of PGA of America, 1921 - 1926
Introduced motion picture swing analysis in 1930
Died 1962

1919, 1920- J.D. (John Douglas)  Edgar

Born:  Newcastle-on-Tyne, England; September 30,1884
Professional at Druid’s Hill Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Won French Open ,1914
Wrote The Gate to Golf, a golf instruction manual with teaching aid
Won the 1919 Canadian Open with a record 278 strokes
Died 1921

1922 - A.A. (Andrew Albert) Watrous

Born: Yonkers, New York, 1899
Professional at the Redford Country Club, Detroit, Michigan
Michigan Open champion six times between 1926 and1949
Michigan PGA Champion nine time
Runner-up in British Open, 1926, member of Ryder Cup team, 1927, 1929
Won the U.S. Seniors in 1950 & 1951
Died 1983

1923 – Clarence W. Hackney

Born: Carnoustie, Scotland, date unknown
Professional at the Country Club of Atlantic City, New Jersey

PHOTO: 1923- Clarence W. Hackney

1924,1925,1927,1928 - Leo Diegel

Born: Detroit, Michigan, April 27, 1899
Won PGA Championship 1928, 1929
Member of first four Ryder Cup teams
Gave the name to a putting stroke known as Diegeling
Wrote an instructional book called Nine Bad Shots of Golf
Instrumental in establishing of the Tucson Open
Died 1951

1926 - Macdonald Smith

Born: Carnoustie Scotland, 1890
Finished third in U.S. Open, 1910; runner-up,1930
Won Western Open, 1912, 1925
At the time considered best player never to have won the British or U.S. Opens
Died 1949

1927, 1930, 1934 - Tommy Armour

Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, September 24, 1884
Pro at Congressional Country Club, Washington, DC: 1926-1929; Tam O’Shanter Golf Club, Detroit Michigan 1929-1931; Medinah Country Club, Chicago, Illinois, 1932 – 1943
Won U.S. Open, 1927; PGA Championship, 1930; British Open, 1931
Wrote:  A Round of Golf with Tommy Armour, Classic Golf Tips and How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time
Died 1968

1931 – Walter Hagen

Born: Rochester, New York, December 21,1892
Won U.S. Open, 1914, 1919; British Open, 1922, 1924, 1928, 1929; PGA Championship
1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927
Known for his colourful approach to the game
Wrote The Haig
Credo: “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way”
Died October 5, 1969

1932, 1937 - Harry Cooper

Born: Leatherhead, England, August 4, 1904
Immigrated as a boy to Canada, where his father was steward of the Hamilton Golf & Country Club
Grew up in Texas
Won Los Angelos $10,000 Open Championship in 1926
Lost U.S. Open in Playoff with Armour in 1927
Held record for shooting 60 over 18 holes 
Nickname: “Lighthorse”
Died: 1999

1933 - Joe Kirkwood 

Born: Sydney, Australia,1897
Won Australian Open, 1920; New Zealand Open, 1920; Australian PGA, 1920  
Beat Harry Vardon in England in 1921
Trick-shot Artist
Died 1970

1935 - Gene Kunes

Born: Erie, Pennsylvania, 1908
Professional at South Hill Country Club Golf, Norristown, Pennsylvania
Also won Maryland Open, 1935; Pennsylvania Open, 1941
Played in eight Canadian Opens between 1930 and 1964

1938, 1940, 1941 - Sam Snead

Born: Hot Springs, West Virginia, May 27, 1912
Also won PGA Championship, 1942, 1949, 1951; Masters1949, 1952, 1954; 82 wins on PGA tour
Runner-up at 1969 Open at the age of 57
Nickname: “Slammin’ Sam”
Died May 23, 2002

1939 - Harold McSpaden

Born: Rosedale, Kansas, July 21, 1908
Not accepted into the forces during WWII, McSpaden and his best friend on the tour, Byron Nelson, did more than 100 exhibition matches to raise money for the war effort
Had 17 Career victories; placed second on 1944 Money list; had three consecutive second-place finishes to Nelson during Byron’s 11-victory run in 1945
Nicknames: “Jug” and, with Nelson, “The Gold Dust Twins”
Died April 1996

1942 - Craig Wood

Born: Lake Placid, New York, 1901
Ryder Cup Team member 1931, 1933, 1935
Died: 1968

1945 - Byron Nelson

Born: Fort Worth, Texas, February 4, 1912
Won masters 1937, 1942; PGA Championship1940, 1945;
U.S. Open 1939
Recorded 11 consecutive victories in 1945
Made 15 consecutive cuts
Passed away in 2006

1946 - George Fazio

Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1911
Semi-prominent professional during 1940s and 1950s,
Became a golf course architect in the 1960s and designed such courses as Pinehurst No. 6 and Juniper Hill, Florida
Uncle to famed golf course architect Tom Fazio
Died 1986

1947 - Bobby Locke

Born: Germiston, South Africa, 1917
Served in South African Air Force during WWII
Won South African Open in 1938, 1939, 1940
Won the Harry Vardon Trophy, 1946, and seven titles in (four in five starts) in the U.S. and Canada in 1947
In two and a half years in North America, won 11 of 59 tournaments and was runner up 15 times
Also won British Open 1949,1950, 1952, 1957

1948- Chuck Congdon

Born: Tacoma, Washington
Professional at Tacoma Golf & Country Club 1935 - 1965
Won the Washington Open 1939, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1962
Founder and president of Pacific Northwest Section of PGA
Died 1965

1949 – E.J. (Dutch) Harrison

Born: Arkansas City, Arkansas, March 29, 1910
Won 15 events between 1937 and 1958; Western Open, 1953; Bing Crosby
Pro-Am, 1954
Won U.S. National Senior Open 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Regular on Ryder Cup team
Died June 19, 1982

1950, 1951 - Jim Ferrier

Born: Manly, Australia. February 24, 1915
First Australian to win a major
Won five of six New South Wales Opens between 1933 and1938; Australian open 1938, 1939
On U.S. Tour 18 times; won PGA Championship, 1947
Died June 13, 1986

1952 - Johnny Palmer

Born: El Dorado, North Carolina, 1918
Won Nashville Invitational, 1946; Western Open, 1947; Houston Open, 1948; World Championship of Golf, 1949

1953 - Dave Douglas

Won Shell Houston Open, 1955
Member of Ryder Cup Team, 1953
Played in eight Canadian Opens between 1948 and 1956

1954 - Pat Fletcher

Born: Clacton-on-Sea, England,  June 18, 1916
Professional at the Saskatoon Golf and Country Club 1946 - 1956; The Royal Montreal Golf Club, 1956 - 1975
Immigrated to Canada at two years of age, raised in Victoria, British Columbia
Won CPGA Championship, 1952; Saskatchewan Open, 1947, 1948, 1951; Quebec Spring Open in 1956, 1957
Died in 1985

1955 - Arnold Palmer

Born; Latrobe, Pennsylvania, September 10,1929
U.S. Amateur champion,1954
Won 62 PGA Tour events, including four Masters, two British Opens, a U.S. Open and 29 tournaments between 1960 and 1963; 10 Champions Tour events and 11 other international tournaments
Member of six Ryder Cup teams
Won six Canada Cups, playing with Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus
First player to reach US $1 million in career earnings (1968); led the PGA Tour in earnings four times.

1956 - Doug Sanders

Born: Cedartown, Georgia, July 24,1933
Turned pro after winning Canadian Open, 1956
Won Western Open, 1958
Won 17 other PGA Tour Events
Member of the 1967 Ryder Cup Team

1957 - George Bayer

Born: Bremerton, Washington, 1926
Played for the NFL Redskins, 1949
Took up professional golf at 29 years of age
Also won Mayfair Inn Open, 1958; St. Petersburg Open, 1960
Died March 23, 2003

1958 - Wesley Ellis Jr.

Won the Texas Open, 1966
Played in five Canadian Opens, between 1958 and 1970, winning $6,632 in total

1959, 1963 – Doug Ford

Born: West Haven, Connecticut, August 6, 1922
Turned pro in 1949
Won PGA Championship,1955; Masters, 1957; 15 other Tour events
Member of Ryder Cup team, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961

1960 - Art Wall, Jr.

Born: Honesdale, PA, November 25, 1923
Master’s Champion, Crosby, Vardon Trophy, 1959
Won 12 PGA Tour events, including Greater Hartford Open in 1966, and the Greater Milwakee Open in 1975 – at 51, the oldest PGA Tour winner
Fighting Billy Casper for the Canadian Open championship in 1967 in Montreal, Wall birdied the 16th with a 20-foot putt. As he walked to the 17th tee, one of the spectators said, `Way to go, Art. Let’s get two more birdies and then you can give us a big smile.’ Art didn’t break stride and turned to the man and said "Sir, if this were a smiling contest, I wouldn’t have entered.’"
Died: October 31, 2001

1961 - Jacky Cupit

Born: Longview, Texas, February 1, 1938
Won four PGA Tour events
Recently the professional at The Links at Lands End, Texas

1962 - Ted Kroll

Born: New Hartford, New York, August 14, 1919
Awarded three Purple Hearts during WWII
Joined PGA Tour in 1949
Won Greater Hartford Open, 1952
Died April 25, 2002

1964 - Kelvin Nagle

Born: North Sydney, Australia, December 21, 1920
Won (with Peter Thomson) the Canada Cup (now called the World Cup), 1954, 1959; British Open, 1960
Also won New Zealand Open and New Zealand PGA nine times each

Gene Littler – 1965

Born: San Diego, California, July 21, 1930 
U.S. Amateur champion, 1953
Won 1954 San Diego Open as an amateur
Won 29 PGA Tour events, including U.S. Open, 1961
Member of seven Ryder Cup teams
Winner of eight Champions Tour events
Inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990
Nicknamed Gene “the machine” because of his smooth tempo swinging the golf club

1966 - Don Massengale

Born: Jacksboro, Texas, April 23, 1937
Played in five Canadian Opens between 1960 and 1970
Won a total of $22, 981

1967 – Billy Casper

Born: San Diego, California, June 24, 1931
Won 51 PGA Tour events, including U.S. Open, 1959, 1966; Masters, 1970
Member of seven Ryder Cup teams
Won nine Champions Tour events
World Golf Hall of Fame member (inducted 1978)
Second player to reach US$1 million in career earnings (1970); leading money winner on PGA Tour twice (1966, 1968)
PGA Tour Player of the Year 1966, 1970

1968- Bob Charles

Born: Carterton, New Zealand, March 14, 1936
Won six PGA Tour events, including British Open, 1963; 21 other tournament wins worldwide
Won 23 Champions Tour events
Member of nine New Zealand World Cup teams
Only left-handed golfer to win a major before Mike Weir won in 2003
Does everything right-handed except games requiring two hands

1969 - Tommy Aaron

Born: Gainsville, Georgia, February 22, 1937
Won three PGA Tour events, including the Masters, 1973
Member of two Ryder Cup teams
One Champions Tour win
Made the cut at the 2000 Masters (at 63, the oldest player to make the cut)

1970 - Kermit Zarley

Born:  Seattle, Washington, September 29, 1941
NCAA individual champion while at the University of Houston, 1962
Two PGA Tour victories
One Champions Tour win
Co-founded the PGA Tour Bible Study group in 1965

1971, 1977, 1979 – Lee Trevino

Born: Dallas, Texas, December 1, 1939
Spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corps
Won 29 PGA Tour events, including six majors: U.S. Open 1968 (his first tour win), 1971; British Open, 1971, 1972; PGA Championship, 1974, 1984; Canadian PGA champion, 1983
Member of six Ryder Cup teams
Won 29 Champions Tour events
Won five Vardon Trophies for lowest scoring average on Tour

1972 - Gay Brewer, JR.

Born: Middletown, Ohio, March 19, 1932
Won Carling Open, 1961
Master’s Champion, 1967
Member of Ryder Cup Team,1967, 1971

1973, 1975 - Tom Weiskopf

Born: Massillon, Ohio, November 9, 1942  
Won16 PGA Tour events, including British Open, 1973
Won five tournaments within an eight-week span in 1973
Four-time runner-up at the Masters
Member of two Ryder Cup teams
Four Champions Tour victories

1974 - Bobby Nichols

Born: Louisville, Kentucky, April 14, 1936
Won 1964 PGA Championship
Eleven other PGA Tour victories
One Champions Tour Victory
Member of the 1967 Ryder Cup Team
Recipient of the 1962 Ben Hogan Award

1976 - Jerry Pate

Born: Macon, Georgia, September 16, 1953
U.S. Amateur champion, 1974
Won eight PGA Tour events, including U.S. Open, 1976
Member of Ryder Cup team, 1981
Rookie earnings of US$153,102 in 1976 were the most ever until Hal Sutton broke the mark in 1982
Always marks his ball with coin on tails

1978, 1982 - Bruce Lietzke

Born: Kansas City, Kansas, July 18, 1951  
Won 13 PGA Tour events
Won four tournaments twice, including the Canadian Open
Seven Champions Tour victories
Member of Ryder Cup team, 1981
The only player in the field at all three tournaments at which a player shot a 59: the1977 Danny Thomas Memphis Classic (Al Geiberger), 1991 Las Vegas Invitational (Chip Beck) and 1999 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic (David Duval)

1980 - Bob Gilder

Born: Corvallis, Oregon, December 31, 1950
Six PGA Tour victories and seven Champions Tour victories
Member of Ryder Cup team, 1983
The highlight of his 1983 Westchester Classic victory was a third-round double-eagle on the 509-yard 18th hole. A fairway marker commemorates the feat and marks the exact spot where he hit his 3-wood.

1981 - Peter Oosterhuis

Born: England, May 3, 1948
Turned professional 1968
Won 19 international events
Led British Order of Merit, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974
Runner-up, British Open, 1974, 1982

1983 - John Cook

Born: Toledo, Ohio, October 2, 1957
1978 U.S. Amateur champion
Won 11 PGA Tour events, including his first, in a five-man playoff at the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, 1981
Won three times and finished third in earnings in 1992
One at least one event for three straight years 1996-1998

1984, 1992 - Greg Norman 

Born: Mt. Isa, Queensland, Australia, February 10, 1955
Won 20 PGA Tour events, including British Open,1986,1993; 66 international victories
Finished as runner-up eight times at a major
First player to earn US$1 million four times,1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; finished inside the top-10 on the money list nine times; in 1996, became the first player to surpass US$10 million in earnings
Nickname: “The Shark”

1985, 1987 - Curtis Strange

Born: Norfolk, Virginia, January 30, 1955
Won the NCAA Championship while attending Wake Forest University, 1974; Won 17 PGA Tour events, including back-to-back U.S. Opens in 1988 and 1989
First player to surpass US$1 million in a season (1988); Topped the season money list three times
At least one victory for seven consecutive years, 1983 to 1989
Member of five Ryder Cup teams

1986 - Bob Murphy

Born: Brooklyn, New York, February 14, 1943
U.S. Amateur champion, 1965
NCAA champion, 1966
Won five PGA Tour events
Earnings of US$105,595 in 1968 at the time a record for a first-year PGA Tour player
11 Champions Tour victories
Member of Ryder Cup team, 1975
Recieved the 1996 Ben Hogan Award from the Golf Writers Association of America for his comeback from arthritis

1988 - Ken Green

Born: Danbury, Connecticut, July 23, 1958
Started playing golf at age 12 in Honduras, where his father was principal of the American School and the only choices for sports were golf or soccer
Won five PGA Tour events
Member of Ryder Cup team, 1989

1989, 1997 - Steve Jones

Born: Artesia, New Mexico, December 27, 1958
Won eight PGA Tour events including U.S. Open, 1996
Spent nearly three years off the Tour due to ligament and joint damage to left ring finger suffered in 1991; completed comeback in 1996 to become first sectional qualifier to win U.S. Open since Jerry Pate in 1976

1990 - Wayne Levi

Born: Little Falls, New York, February 22, 1952
Won 12 PGA Tour events
Won the 1982 Hawaiian Open with an orange golf ball, the first player to win with a ball that wasn’t white
PGA Tour Player of the Year, 1990, after winning four times and becoming just the fifth player to earn more than US$1 million in a season

1991, 1994 - Nick Price

Born: Durban, South Africa, January 28, 1957
18 PGA Tour victories, including PGA Championships, 1992, 1994; British Open, 1994
One of only three players in the 1990s to win two major titles in the same season, joining Nick Faldo (1990), and Mark O’Meara (1998)
Member of four Presidents Cup teams
Along with Tiger Woods, 15 victories were the most by any player in the 1990s
One of only seven players since 1945 to capture consecutive majors, joining Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson and Tiger Woods
Finished in the top 50 on the money list for 17 consecutive seasons, 1984-2002

1993 - David Frost

Born: Cape Town, South Africa, September 11, 1959
10 PGA Tour victories
12 international victories
2 Presidents Cup Teams
In 1994, established 300-acre vineyard with brother Michael in South Africa

1995 - Mark O’Meara

Born: Goldsboro, North Carolina, January 13, 1957
U.S. Amateur champion, 1979
Won 16 PGA Tour events, including Masters, 1998 and British Open, 1998
PGA Tour Player of the Year, 1998
Oldest player to win two major championships in the same year
Won at Augusta on his 15th try- the most for any first-time champion
Six of his victories have come at pro-am events
Member of five Ryder Cup teams

1996 - Dudley Hart

Born: Rochester, New York, August 4, 1968
Two PGA Tour wins
Father of triplets and a hockey fan who has season’s tickets for the Florida Panthers

1998 - Billy Andrade

Born: Bristol, Rhode Island, January 25, 1964
Member of NCAA Championship team from Wake Forest University, 1986
Four PGA Tour wins
In closest race ever for the top 30, season earnings of US$665,602 missed by US$5 in 1997
Became the first player in six years to win first two Tour titles in consecutive weeks in June 1991

1990 - Hal Sutton

Born: Shreveport, Louisiana, April 28, 1958
U.S. Amateur champion, 1980
Won 14 PGA events, including PGA Championship, 1983
Won seven times in his 20s, once in his 30s and six times in his 40s
Member of four Ryder Cup teams

2000 - Tiger Woods

Born: Cypress, California, December 30, 1975
In 2004 he had 39 PGA Tour victories and from 2005-2007 he won 21 PGA Tour events.
PGA Tour Player of the year six times
Won six consecutive U.S.GA titles: U.S. Junior (1991-93) U.S. Amateur (1994-96)
In his rookie year, won twice and had three top-10s in only eight starts
In 2000 won three consecutive majors, nine time overall, set the single-season earnings mark of $9,188,321 and his non-adjusted scoring average of 68.17 was the best in the history of the game.
Youngest player to ever win the career Grand Slam
With his Masters victory in 2001, becoming the first player to hold all four professional major titles at once
Has four Masters wins, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005
In 2002, became the first player since Jack Nicklaus in 1972 to capture the Masters and U.S. Open in the same season
Has missed the cut only 4 times in his career (including the 1997 Bell Canadian Open)
Between 1998 and 2005, Woods made the cut in 142 consecutive events, breaking the PGA Tour record of 113 previously held by Byron Nelson
Has won events in more than 12 different countries (including Canada, Thailand, Germany, Japan & Malaysia)
To date has made over US$82 million dollars in career earnings

2001 - Scott Verplank

Born: Dallas, Texas, July 9, 1964
U.S. Amateur champion, 1984
Won the 1985 Western Open as an amateur, the first amateur to win a PGA Tour event in 29 years (Doug Sanders at 1956 Canadian Open)
NCAA champion, 1986
Time between his 1988 Buick Open win and his victory at the 2000 Reno-Tahoe Open (12 years, 27 days) is the fifth longest in PGA Tour history.
Won medalist honours at 1997 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament
Finished 18th on the money list in 1998, the highest by a Q-School grad since John Daly was 17th in 1991
Member of Ryder Cup team, 2002

2002 - John Rollins

Born: Richmond, Virginia, June 25, 1975
Virginia State Amateur champion, 1996, 1997
Finished sixth on Nationwide Tour money list in 2001 to ensure a return to the PGA Tour, where he finished 13th on the money list in 2002, the best finish in the following season by a Nationwide Tour grad since David Duval finished ninth in 1995

2003 - Bob Tway

Born: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, May 4, 1959
Three-time All-American at Oklahoma State University and member of two national championship teams 1978, 1980
Up until 2004 he has won eight PGA Tour events, including PGA Championship, 1986
Finished outside the top 100 money winners just four times in 16 years on tour

2004- Vijay Singh

Born: Lautoka, Fiji, February 22, 1963
34 PGA Tour Victories, including the 1998 PGA Championship, the 2000 Masters Championship
22 International Victories
Seven time competitor for the International Team at the President’s Cup

2005- Mark Calcavecchia

Born: Laurel, Nebraska, June 12, 1960,
13 PGA Tour Victories between the years 1986 – 2007 including the 1989 British Open
Member of the American Team at four Ryder Cups, two Dunhill Cups and one President’s Cup

2006, 2007- Jim Furyk

Born: West Chester, PA, May 12, 1970
13 PGA Victories between 1995 and 2007
3 International Victories including the 1997 Argentine Open
Has represented the United States on six Ryder Cup Teams, five President’s Cup teams, and one World Cup Team.

Chez Reavie – 2008

Born: November 12, 1981 Wichita, Kansas
The 2008 RBC Canadian Open was his first PGA Tour victory.