Fortinet Cup Championship
{{Infobox golf tournament
| name = Fortinet Cup Championship
| image =
| location = London, Ontario
| establishment = 2002
| course = Highland Country Club
| par = 72
| yardage =
| tour = PGA Tour Americas
| format = Stroke play
| purse = C$225,000
| month_played = September
| aggregate =
| to-par =
| current_champion = {{flagicon|USA}} Hayden Springer
}}
The Fortinet Cup Championship is an annual professional golf tournament played in Canada. It is the season ending event on the PGA Tour Americas, having previously served the same function on the PGA Tour Canada, commonly known as the Canadian Tour. The PGA Tour Americas replaced the PGA Tour Canada and the PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2024.
The tournament was founded in 2002 as the Bay Mills Open, hosted at the Bay Mills Resort in Brimley, Michigan, United States, and became designated as the Canadian Tour's "Players Championship" the following year. In 2006, the tournament moved to Ontario, Canada as the new Canadian Tour Championship.{{cite web |url=http://www.cantour.com/leagues/custom_page.cfm?leagueID=11764&clientID=3776&pageID=2986 |website=CanTour.com |title=Canadian Tour Championship Past Champions |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708115035/http://www.cantour.com/leagues/custom_page.cfm?leagueID=11764&clientID=3776&pageID=2986 |archivedate=July 8, 2011}} It has since remained in Ontario, and adopted different names under various title sponsors.
In 2015, it was an event reserved for those in the top 60 on the PGA Tour Canada money list. The top five players on the money list after the tournament were given what later became Korn Ferry Tour cards while the remaining players remained exempt on PGA Tour Canada. In 2024, after the tournament became part of PGA Tour Americas, the tournament was open to the top 120 players in the Fortinet Cup standings, awarding ten Korn Ferry Tour cards with those up to 80th retaining PGA Tour Americas status.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions into Canada, the PGA Tour organised substitute tours in the United States that served as the replacement tours for PGA Tour Canada. The 2020 substitute was known as the LocaliQ Series Championship in Duluth, Georgia. The 2021 substitute, the Forme Tour Championship, was held in Huntsville Golf Club in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Both served as the PGA Tour's official substitutes.
Winners
Fortinet Cup Championship
- 2023 {{flagicon|USA}} Hayden Springer
- 2022 {{flagicon|CAN}} Wil Bateman
Forme Tour Championship
- 2021 {{flagicon|USA}} Brad Miller
LocaliQ Series Championship
- 2020 {{flagicon|USA}} David Pastore
Canada Life Championship
- 2019 {{flagicon|USA}} Patrick Fishburn
Freedom 55 Financial Championship
- 2018 {{flagicon|USA}} Danny Walker
- 2017 {{flagicon|USA}} Rico Hoey
- 2016 {{flagicon|FRA}} Paul Barjon
- 2015 {{flagicon|USA}} Jason Millard
Tour Championship of Canada
- 2014 {{flagicon|CAN}} Ryan Williams
- 2013 {{flagicon|CAN}} Max Gilbert
Canadian Tour Championship
- 2012 {{flagicon|CAN}} Eugene Wong
- 2011 {{flagicon|CAN}} Stuart Anderson
- 2010 {{flagicon|USA}} Aaron Goldberg
- 2009 {{flagicon|CAN}} James Love
- 2008 {{flagicon|USA}} Tom Stankowski
- 2007 {{flagicon|USA}} Bret Guetz
- 2006 {{flagicon|CAN}} Stuart Anderson
Bay Mills Open Players Championship
- 2005 {{flagicon|USA}} Michael Harris
- 2004 {{flagicon|USA}} Chris Wisler
- 2003 {{flagicon|USA}} Rodney Butcher
Bay Mills Open
- 2002 {{flagicon|USA}} Jeff Quinney
References
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External links
- [https://www.pgatour.com/canada/en_us/tournaments/canada-life-championship.html Coverage on the PGA Tour Canada's official site]
Category:PGA Tour Canada events
Category:PGA Tour Americas events
Category:Golf tournaments in Michigan
Category:Golf tournaments in Ontario