The Telus Skins Game was a Canadian annual summer

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event, sponsored by

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, and officially known as the Telus World

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. It was hosted at a different golf course each year within Canada. Between 2006 and 2012, the Telus Skins Game incorporated a "world" theme, which incorporated five golfers from different countries. In May 2013, it was announced that the Skins Game would not be played after Telus decided not to renew its deal as title sponsor.

History

2012 Glen Arbour Golf Course, Halifax, Nova Scotia 2011 Banff Springs Golf Course,

Banff, Alberta Banff is a town within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is located in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately west of Calgary and east of Lake Louise. At above Banff is the community with the second highest ...

2010 Bear Mountain Resort,

Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The ...

2009 La Tempête Golf Club,

Lévis, Quebec Lévis () is a city in eastern Quebec, Canada, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City. A ferry links Old Quebec with Old Lévis, and two bridges, the Quebec and the Pierre-Laporte, connect western Lévis wit ...

2008 Predator Ridge Resort, Vernon, BC 2007 The Raven Golf Club at Lora Bay, Town of the Blue Mountains, ON 2006 The Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course, Banff, AB 2005 Nicklaus North Golf Club,

Whistler, BC Whistler ( Lillooet/Ucwalmícwts: Cwitima, ; Squamish/Sḵwx̱wú7mesh: Sḵwiḵw, ) is a resort municipality in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mount ...

* No player won the skin on the 18th hole. The players decided to give the money to charity. 2004 Club de Golf Le Fontainebleau,

Blainville, Quebec Blainville is a suburb of Montreal located on the North Shore in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Blainville forms part of the Thérèse-De Blainville Regional County Municipality within the Laurentides region of Quebec. The town sits at the foot o ...

2003 Royal Niagara Golf Club,

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, Ontario 2002 The Mark O'Meara Course at Delta Grandview Resort,

Huntsville, Ontario Huntsville is a town in Muskoka. It is located north of Toronto and south of North Bay. Of the three big Muskoka towns, it is the largest by population (21,147 per 2021 census) and land area (710.64 km2). Huntsville is located in the ...

2001 Angus Glen Golf Club,

Markham, Ontario Markham () is a city in the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Downtown Toronto. In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest ...

2000 Predator Ridge Resort,

Okanagan Valley The Okanagan ( ), also known as the Okanagan Valley and sometimes as the Okanagan Country, is a region in the Canadian province of British Columbia defined by the basin of Okanagan Lake and the Canadian portion of the Okanagan River. It is part ...

, B.C. 1999 Le Diable, Mont Tremblant, Quebec 1998

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, Morell, P.E.I. 1997 Nicklaus North Golf Club, Whistler, B.C. 1996 Summerlea Golf Club,

Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec Vaudreuil-Dorion () is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec, Canada. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. ...

1995 The National Golf Club of Canada,

Woodbridge, Ontario Woodbridge is a very large suburban community in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, along the city's border with Toronto. It occupies the city's entire southwest quadrant, west of Highway 400, east of Highway 50, north of Steeles Avenue, and generally s ...

1994 Richelieu Valley Golf Club, Sainte-Julie de Vercheres, Quebec 1993 Devil's Pulpit Golf Club,

Caledon, Ontario Caledon (; 2021 population 76,581) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. From a shortened form of Caledonia, the Roman name for North Britain; Caledon is a developing urban area, although ...

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