Redkacheek's Playbook: 2025 RBC Canadian Open
One more week until US Open...but until then we have a new course for the RBC Canadian Open to contend with. This year the course is moving to TPC Toronto which has hosted a few PGA Americas events, but never the PGA Tour. So without further ado, let's get into what we know about the course.
Course Preview
With this course being new to the PGA Tour, we don't have much data to go off of here. I was able to scour X and it seems many people have come to the same conclusion: very long, easy greens. The reset is somewhat questionable...like is the 3.5" bluegrass rough really nasty...are the fairways soft and forgiving...how difficult are these greens and the chipping areas. Most of this shouldn't really matter, but for me knowing the rough situation is pretty important. I am not a big fan of course comps, but hole comps is massively valuable, so it would be really helpful to know if these holes are playing long and wide open or long with a 0.3 to 0.45 Missed Fwy Penalty.
Without this information we can still make a decent guess and assume it plays somewhere in between. What do we know?
Course is long, and seemingly drivers on almost every Par 4/5.
Approaches are long, likely 3 or 4 inside of 150 yards, 6 175-200 and 8 over 200. This is pretty helpful, even if we are off a little, narrowing down these approaches is key to profiling course fit.
If you missed this earlier, this is a look at how different every player's approach data can be. Even playing some of the same events, they wind up hitting very different allotment of approaches, so SG:APP is made up of completely different buckets.
ApproachIQ gets us as close to apples-to-apples as possible by removing the non-relevant data. here is who stands out the most: