The 2025 golf season was a reminder that the momentum in Canadian golf not solely continued however accelerated with tempo. Pushed by wins on and off the course, expanded programming, industrial and philanthropic success, and a ardour for the game that spans coast-to-coast, Canadian golf is in a terrific place.
Golf holds its place because the primary participation sport in Canada as is clear by one other record-breaking 12 months, with 11.2 million scores posted on the Golf Canada App by greater than 360,000 Golf Canada members at 1,550 member golf equipment throughout the nation.
Sunday, August 24TH, 2025
CPKC Girls’s Open
Picture Bernard Brault, Golf Canada
FINAL ROUND
The skilled recreation mirrored the success of current years as Canadian golf followers have been handled to a different memorable 12 months. Ask a Canadian golf fan to choose a spotlight from 2025 and they’d most likely say Brooke Henderson’s win on the CPKC Girls’s Open. Henderson’s triumph on the Mississaugua Golf and Nation Membership returned her to the winners’ circle after an unimaginable efficiency in entrance of the house crowd to win her second CPKC Girls’s Open title. Henderson’s win additional strengthened her place as probably the most profitable Canadian skilled golfer in historical past together with her 14th win on the LPGA Tour. She closed the LPGA season with a T7 end on the CME Group Tour Championship.
Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C. continued his profitable methods on the PGA TOUR, taking the Sony Open in Hawaii in January for his fifth profession title on Tour. Taylor has received a minimum of as soon as in three consecutive years and all three through playoff, together with the historic 2023 RBC Canadian Open in an exhilarating four-hole playoff with Tommy Fleetwood. Taylor additionally added a T19 end on the Tour Championship in November.
Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont. continues to claim himself as one of many recreation’s greatest, incomes seven high 10 finishes on the PGA TOUR together with a T4 end on the Tour Championship and his fourth high 10 end at The Masters. Taylor Pendrith of Richmond Hill, Ont. added 4 high 10’s in addition to a T5 end on the PGA Championship in Might.
Extra noise was made by Canadians on the worldwide skilled circuits, together with 17-year-old Anna Huang of Vancouver, B.C. who turned professional in January and went on to win back-to-back tournaments in September on the Girls European Tour (LET). The Workforce Canada member earned her first skilled win on the La Sella Open in Spain and adopted it up per week later with a win on the Lacoste Girls Open de France and closes the 12 months ranked no. 114 on the Rolex World Rankings.
Sudarshan Yellamaraju of Mississauga, Ont. recorded his first skilled win on the Bahamas Nice Abaco Basic in January and completed the 12 months with 4 high 10’s on the Korn Ferry Tour. The 24-year-old earned his PGA TOUR card for 2026 by ending nineteenth within the Korn Ferry Tour season standings and would be the youngest Canadian on Tour subsequent 12 months.
Becoming a member of the Canadian contingent will probably be A.J. Ewart of Coquitlam, B.C. Ewart earned medalist honours at PGA TOUR Q-College final Sunday. The Workforce Canada member was joined by Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C. who saved his card by ending T2. Ewart and Svensson deliver the Canadian contingent as much as seven members on the PGA TOUR in 2026.
Myles Creighton of Digby, N.S. and Leah John of Vancouver, B.C. earned their first skilled wins in 2025, with Creighton profitable The Wichita Open in June on the Korn Ferry Tour and John earned her first Epson Tour win on the 4 Winds Invitational in August. John earned her 2026 LPGA Tour card ending T10 on the LPGA Q-Collection Remaining Qualifying Stage. Maude-Aimee LeBlanc additionally retained her standing for 2026, becoming a member of Henderson and John because the Canadian contingent on the LPGA Tour subsequent 12 months.
The newbie circuit introduced one other banner 12 months for Workforce Canada, led by 15-year-old Workforce Canada – NextGen member, Aphrodite Deng of Calgary, Alta. In July, Deng received the 76th U.S. Women’ Junior Championship turning into the primary Canadian to win the title in match historical past. One month later, Deng adopted up her historic efficiency and captivated the crowds in Mississauga with a T20 end on the CPKC Girls’s Open, incomes the Marlene Stewart Streit Low Beginner Award. Deng additionally received twice on the AJGA taking the Junior Invitational and Mizuho Americas Open and was later named junior participant of the 12 months by the AJGA.
Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont. received her second straight Canadian Junior Women Championship in August and have become the ninth multi-time winner and first back-to-back winner since Heather Kuzmich in 1982. Liu added 4 further wins in 2025, together with the Peloton Glencoe Invitational. Michelle Xing of Richmond Hill, Ont. received the 2025 Canadian Girls’s Beginner Championship in July. Each Liu and Xing earned silver medals as a part of Workforce Canada 1’s runner-up end on the 2025 World Junior Women Golf Championship in September with Clairey Lin of Langley, B.C. Workforce Canada 2 represented by Clara Ding of White Rock, B.C., Eileen Park of Purple Deer, Alta. and Ruihan Kendria Wang of Vancouver, B.C. completed sixth led by Ding, the person runner up who additionally added a 2025 win on the GolfBC Group BC Girls’s Open.
Lauren Kim of Surrey, B.C. earned her second collegiate win for the College of Texas on the Betsy Rawls Invitational in March and competed in her second consecutive Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner. Vanessa Borovilos of Etobicoke, Ont. received the Chevron Collegiate in her freshman 12 months at Texas A&M College. Workforce Canada teammates, Tillie Claggett of Calgary, Alta., Nicole Gal of Oakville, Ont. and Vanessa Zhang of Vancouver, B.C. have been all victorious in 2025 as properly.
Austin Krahn of Christina Lakes, B.C. took residence gold on the 2025 Canada Summer season Video games and added two provincial titles this previous 12 months whereas Dawson Lew of Toronto, Ont., a current addition to the Workforce Canada program, received the Canadian Junior Boys Championship in August and added 4 further wins in 2025.
Some acquainted names additionally added nationwide championships to their trophy cupboards this 12 months. Shelly Stouffer of Nanoose Bay, B.C. received her third Canadian Girls’s Senior Championship, Judith Kyrinis of Thornhill, Ont. claimed her fourth Canadian Girls’s Mid-Beginner Championship, Charles Fitzsimmons of King, Ont. received his third Canadian Males’s Mid-Beginner Championship and Natasha Stasiuk of Oakville, Ont. received her fifth straight Canadian All Skills Championship. The UBC Thunderbirds claimed the lads’s and ladies’s Canadian College/Faculty Championship in convincing trend as soon as once more.
Past the skilled and newbie ranks, the way forward for golf in Canada shrines shiny. The game has welcomed a brand new wave of members with grass roots programming that has launched golf to extra youth and ladies yearly.
First Tee – Canada posted its highest participation numbers in 2025, with greater than 106,000 youth collaborating in applications throughout the nation, a 25 per cent improve from final 12 months. Since its inception in 2021, First Tee – Canada has reached over 276,000 younger Canadians.
As well as, 481 places provided programming throughout colleges, group centres and golf amenities, supported by almost 350 coaches, each will increase from final 12 months. First Tee – Canada continues to be a frontrunner in youth programming with a concentrate on strengthening variety and fairness within the sport. In 2025, 74 per cent of partnered colleges and group organizations served underrepresented communities with near 60 per cent of applications delivered for free of charge to members. By the efforts of six First Tee chapters nationwide, youth participation is turning into extra reflective of Canada’s variety with 42 per cent of on-course members figuring out as feminine and 36 per cent as BIPOC. This system’s development was backed by robust donor help with the Golf Canada Basis elevating greater than $10 million for the game in 2025, together with $4.5 million for First Tee – Canada.
First Tee – Canada was additionally the proud charitable beneficiary of the 2025 RBC Canadian Open and First Tee – Alberta obtained almost $200,000 by way of it’s partnership with the Rogers Charity Basic in 2025. In step with golf’s charitable giving, the CPKC Girls’s Open continues to go away a significant legacy in every host metropolis by way of its CPKC Has Coronary heart program, this 12 months donating a file $4.5 million for MacKids and Trillium Well being Companions, supporting pediatric and cardiac well being.
For the primary time, the Youth on Course program was accessible in each province throughout the nation. This system permits Golf Canada members between the ages of 6 to 18 to play sponsored rounds for $5 or much less at collaborating programs throughout designated instances. In 2025, Youth on Course members performed almost 50,000 sponsored rounds throughout Canada, marking a file excessive season and a 51 per cent improve over rounds performed within the earlier 12 months. This system additionally drove robust engagement, with 4,470 new members becoming a member of Golf Canada to entry these inexpensive taking part in alternatives.
She Performs Golf expanded in 2025 with the addition of a week-long pageant in Atlantic Canada within the fall complimenting stops in Vancouver, Calgary and the Larger Toronto Space. The She Performs Golf Championship Collection as soon as once more aligned with week-long festivals and supplied 4 exemptions into the CPKC Girls’s Open.
She Performs Golf featured 24 occasions throughout 19 golf amenities and engaged with greater than 800 girls and women. Throughout all festivals, over 700 members have been new to the sport and took half in newbie pleasant actions led by near 90 girls coaches and volunteers.
Suggestions remained overwhelmingly constructive, with 97 per cent of members sharing that the occasion(s) supplied an environment that made them really feel comfy and welcome, and 88 per cent indicating they’re very prone to proceed collaborating in golf following their expertise.
As well as, 23 girls-only Strive Golf clinics have been delivered by way of RBC Group Junior Golf, reaching 275 women.
Bolstered by one other record-breaking 12 months for scores posted, the Golf Canada App obtained a significant replace in 2025. New enhancements included group rating posting, making it simpler than ever to file scores to your taking part in companions throughout group rounds. The introduction of smartwatch help for Android wearables introduced on-wrist GPS yardages and digital scoring to a variety of units, whereas upgraded GPS instruments now present exact entrance, center and back-of-green distances to help smarter membership choice and on-course technique. The replace additionally launched a Golf Canada membership referral program and a brand new achievements system, together with enhanced privateness controls that enable customers to decide on whether or not their scores seem of their buddies’ feeds.
An thrilling new chapter for the RBC Canadian Open was written in June, as TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon, Ont. grew to become the thirty eighth course in match historical past to host Canada’s Nationwide Males’s Open Championship. Followers have been handled to an exhilarating end as New Zealand’s Ryan Fox beat Sam Burns in a four-hole playoff. The a hundred and fifteenth taking part in of the RBC Canadian Open will return to TPC Toronto in 2026.
Throughout match week a brand new initiative, Birdies for Trails was created in collaboration with companions at TPC Toronto and WM. Each birdie at The Rink Gap (no. 14) straight contributed to lift $29,500 for the Credit score Valley Conservation Basis and the event of the Credit score Valley Path, a passageway stretching 100 kilometres in size, linking Orangeville, Ont. with Port Credit score (Mississauga), Ont.
Following the match, RBC and the PGA TOUR introduced a multi-year extension of the financial institution’s title sponsorship of the RBC Canadian Open. RBC, a long-time supporter {of professional} and newbie golf in Canada had been the proud title sponsor of the Males’s Nationwide Open Championship since 2008.
Because the out of doors season drew to a detailed in most elements of the nation, Golf Canada launched a complete off-course golf technique to reinforce the year-long golf expertise. Golf has developed right into a 12-month exercise, and the technique is supported by the Simply Swing marketing campaign, highlighting the advantages and completely different types of off-course golf. The technique additionally focuses on Provincial Golf Associations and their partnership with Golf Canada in launching a brand new facility membership providing, particularly designed for off-course operators to advertise their operations to Canada’s largest and most engaged golf viewers.
As Canadian golf continues to write down thrilling new chapters, one will finish in early 2026. Glen Abbey Golf Membership has been the house of Golf Canada and the Canadian Golf Corridor of Fame since 1977. In February 2026, Golf Canada will transfer its operation to the brand new residence for Canadian golf at TPC Toronto.
The brand new residence for Canadian golf may also be residence to First Tee – Canada together with a 30,000 sq. foot 18-hole group placing course that’s free and open to the general public. For extra info on the house for Canadian golf, please click on right here.
In February, three new members have been inducted into the Canadian Golf Corridor of Fame, together with completed newbie golfer, Richard Scott, former skilled golfer Jerry Anderson and famend course architect Charles Blair Macdonald. Parts of the Canadian Golf Corridor of Fame are proudly weaved into the principle clubhouse, locker rooms and lodging villas at TPC Toronto. Memorabilia highlighting Canadian golf legends and vital moments in Canadian golf historical past are additionally being showcased throughout the property.
Canadian golf couldn’t occur with out the numerous fantastic folks – volunteers, membership employees, superintendents, PGA of Canada professionals, operators, media, and different business stakeholders – whose efforts are paramount to the success of the game. Nearer to residence, Golf Canada is pleased with its employees for his or her efforts to advance the game and who as soon as once more earned the group its Nice Locations to Work designation.
With the vacation season upon us and the ebook on 2025 drawing to a detailed, one factor is definite, Canadian golf has by no means been stronger. The momentum continues and it brings the promise of extra nice moments that lie forward.
