Golf legend and 73-time PGA TOUR winner Jack Nicklaus was on hand at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ont., on Tuesday to help celebrate Canada’s 150 birthday and kick off the 2017 RBC Canadian Open.
Nicklaus who was inducted into the Hall in 1995 joined some legends of Canadian golf in welcoming the inductees. Renowned amateur champion Judy Darling Evans along with legendary club maker Bob Vokey was officially inducted as the 78th and 79th honoured member.
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Bob Vokey (2017)
One of the world’s foremost wedge designers making Titleist Vokey wedges a trusted brand among golfers of every age and skill level. Vokey designed wedges for many of golf’s notable players including Seve Ballesteros, Lee Trevino, Bernhard Langer, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Davis Love III, Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott, Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, as well as Canadians Mike Weir, Ian Leggatt, Graham DeLaet and Brad Fritsch.
Judy Darling Evans (2017)
Won numerous provincial and national amateur titles including three Quebec Junior titles, six Quebec Amateur titles and a Quebec Senior title in addition to a Canadian Junior Championship and two Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship
She and her mother Dora are the only mother-daughter duo to have won both the Quebec and Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship
HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!
ABOVE: Laurence Applebaum, CEO of Golf Canada instructs Nicklaus on how to take a wrist shot.
RBC presented Nicklaus with his first hockey sweater and Golf Canada CEO Laurance Applebaum provided instruction for his first wrist shot.
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