It’s official: TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley’s North Course will host the 2025 RBC Canadian Open – SCOREGolf

The worst kept secret in Canadian golf has been made official.

Golf Canada announced today that the 2025 RBC Canadian Open will be played on the recently renovated North Course at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.

Speculation about the Caledon, Ont., facility landing the tournament has been rampant since it embarked on an Ian Andrew-led overhaul of its parkland-style course previously named Toot. That track has played host to PGA Tour Canada tournaments in the past and is the site of the newly formed PGA Tour Americas’ season-concluding Fortinet Cup Championship in September. It will also conduct the Monday qualifier for this year’s Open.

As well, TPC Toronto is the future home of Golf Canada, with a new headquarters for the governing body slated to be built alongside the North course’s 13th hole. (Construction on that building has yet to begin). Two weeks ago, TPC Toronto opened its sprawling new 60,000-square-foot clubhouse, replete with photos and memorabilia brought over from the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum.

“This incredible property with its spectacular clubhouse facilities will deliver an outstanding and dramatic supported by an operational capacity befitting a world-class championship,” sated Laurence Applebaum, Golf Canada’s CEO, in a media release. “This is a special and deserving moment for TPC Toronto in stepping onto the global golf stage in hosting the 114th playing of our national open championship.”

Venue has long been an issue for the Canadian Open, which next week will be played at Hamilton Golf and Country Club in Ancaster, Ont. (Hamilton is an ideal host with 27 holes on the property and its large driving range, putting green, first tee, 10th tee, ninth green and 18th green mere steps from the clubhouse.) In recent years, the championship has rotated among Hamilton (2019), Toronto clubs St. George’s (2022) and Oakdale (2023) — both of which required players to shuttle to a makeshift range — and longtime permanent host Glen Abbey (2015-2018).

With the memberships of the above-mentioned private clubs not keen on welcoming the PGA Tour on a steady basis, Glen Abbey considered outdated and undersized, and RBC’s stated desire to keep the tournament in the Greater Toronto Area, where it is more financially successful, the search has been on for new candidate. Despite its remote location over an hour’s drive from downtown Toronto, Osprey Valley checks a lot of boxes beyond its TPC designation and being the future home of Golf Canada.

The new North Course can play over 7,500 yards and the massive property — there are three courses at TPC Toronto — can easily accommodate however large of a tournament build Golf Canada wants to conduct. Next week, a handful of the bigger names in the RBC Canadian Open field will visit TPC Toronto for an RBC client outing. 

“This is a momentous occasion for Osprey Valley and represents a major step in our ongoing transformation as a facility, along with the culmination of many years of hard work, planning and preparation by our team,” said Osprey Valley president Chris Humeniuk. “We have long envisioned that Osprey Valley would become one of Canada’s greatest golf destinations, and becoming the host venue for the country’s national championship is a tremendous component of that vision becoming a reality.”

A venue beyond 2025 is still a question mark for the tournament. Last year’s host Oakdale had an option to bring the tournament back in 2026 but it’s believed the membership has voted no to doing so. According to sources, the logistical hurdles involved in hosting a year ago, plus the PGA Tour’s on-again, off-again negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has steered the largely Jewish club away.

Should the 2025 tournament go well — hurdles include how players take to the new course and the lengthy commute to get there for those wanting to stay downtown Toronto — the assumption is that TPC Toronto will become the tournament’s semi-permanent home with the likes of Hamilton and St. George’s or another Toronto-area club taking the tournament on occasion.

Of note, title sponsor RBC has not signed a long-term extension as it waits to see how the future of the PGA Tour — and the Canadian Open’s place in it — unfolds.