The Edmonton 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 that was held in
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anc ...
, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1993 as the Klondike Golf Klassic and was held during the week leading up to the
Klondike Days
K-Days, formerly known as the Edmonton Exhibition, Klondike Days, and the Capital Ex, is an annual 10-day exhibition held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada mostly in late July. In recent years it has attracted between 700,000 and 800,000 visitors per ...
summer fair. In 1996
Telus
Telus Communications Inc. (TCI) is the wholly owned principal subsidiary of Telus Corporation, a Canadian national telecommunications company that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services including internet access, voi ...
become the tournament's main sponsor and it was re-titled as the ED TEL PLAnet Open, before becoming the Telus Edmonton Open the following year.
The Edmonton Open came to an end after the 2009 edition when it was merged with the
ATB Financial Classic, which was played in Edmonton in 2010 and 2012.
Edmonton's PGA Tour Canada event since 2016 is the
1932byBateman Open (previously known as the
Syncrude Oil Country Championship).
Winners
References
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Former PGA Tour Canada events
Golf tournaments in Alberta
Recurring sporting events established in 1993
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2009