SCOREGolf - How the PGA Scramble presented by BMW became Canadian golf’s amateur major

By: Rick Young, SCOREGolf 

Driving home from Niagara Falls, Ont., on a late summer evening in 2015, my mind kept drifting to what I’d just experienced when it should have been focused on the busy Queen Elizabeth Way highway.

The national final for a first-year PGA of Canada Scramble — featuring 20 five-person teams comprised of four amateurs and the PGA of Canada professional from the clubs at which they had qualified — not only had diverted my attention but captured my heart.

Emceeing the inaugural awards presentation at Lookout Point Country Club, the mood in the clubhouse that evening was as upbeat as the golf that had been played. Of the amateurs, professionals and PGA of Canada officials I spoke with, there was an overwhelming sense that the event had only scratched the surface of its potential.

PGA of Canada member Terry Kim, now general manager at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley, punctuated that on behalf of his winning Angus Glen Golf Club team by saying; “What an incredible event this week. If you didn’t have fun, then I’m not sure golf is the sport for you.”

Eleven years later, the PGA of Canada Scramble presented by BMW is Canadian golf’s “major” championship for amateurs.

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