The Times Colonist Island Savings Open is a golf

Golf

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 tournament on the Canadian Tour. It is the longest running Canadian Tour event. It is currently played at the Uplands Golf Club in Oak Bay, British Columbia

Oak Bay, British Columbia

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. It has been played at several courses on a rotating basis, all in the Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...

 area. It was originally play as the Victoria Open.

Tournament hosts

Years	Course
Glen Meadows Golf Club	1981
Uplands Golf Club	1984, 1989, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008-11
Royal Colwood Golf Club	1985, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006
Gorge Vale Golf Club	1986-88, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007
Cowichan Golf Club	1991
Cordova Bay Golf Club	1994, 1998

Winners

Times Colonist Island Savings Open

• 2011   José de Jesus Rodríguez

Times Colonist Open

• 2010   Brock Mackenzie
• 2009   Byron Smith
  Byron Smith (golfer)
  Byron Smith is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the Canadian Tour.Smith was born in Rancho Mirage, California and attended Pepperdine University. He did not play golf during his last two years at Pepperdine but he turned professional in 2001.Smith first played on the Canadian...
  
  
• 2008   Daniel Im
• 2007   Spencer Levin
  Spencer Levin
  Spencer Joseph Levin is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Levin was born in Sacramento, California. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles before transferring to the University of New Mexico, where he was a two-time All-American...
  
  
• 2006   Mike Grob
• 2005   Craig Taylor
• 2004   David Hearn

Victoria Open

• 2003   Patrick Damron
• 2002   Scott Hend
  Scott Hend
  Scott Robert Hend is an Australian professional golfer, renowned as a long hitter.Hend turned professional in 1997 and joined the PGA Tour of Australasia. He has since played on most of the major golf tours around the world. He has won three times in Australia, and was the inaugural winner of the...
  
  

Shell Payless Open

• 2001   Paul Devenport
  Paul Devenport
  Paul Dale Devenport ' is a semi-retired professional golfer from New Zealand.Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Devenport grew up in Paraparaumu Beach where his house backed onto the 13th hole of the Paraparaumu Beach Club. After playing amateur golf in Wellington, he was offered a full golf...
  
  
• 2000   Jason Bohn
  Jason Bohn
  Jason Duehn Bohn is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Bohn was born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1995 with a degree in Finance. In 1992, while a sophomore on the Alabama golf team, Bohn was playing in a charity...
  
  
• 1999   Ken Duke
  Ken Duke
  Kenneth Wootson Duke is an American professional golfer.Duke was born in Hope, Arkansas. After turning professional in 1994, Duke first qualified for the PGA Tour in 2004, but failed to keep his card and returned to the Nationwide Tour...
  
  

Payless Open

• 1998   Jay Hobby
• 1997   Rick Todd
  Rick Todd
  Rick Todd is an Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour, Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour and the Canadian Tour....
  
  
• 1996   Arden Knoll
• 1995   Norm Jarvis
• 1994   Matt Jackson
• 1993   Brandt Jobe
  Brandt Jobe
  Brandt William Jobe is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour but has previously competed on the Nationwide Tour and the Japan Golf Tour....
  
  
• 1992   Mike Colandro

Victoria Open

• 1991   Rick Todd
  Rick Todd
  Rick Todd is an Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour, Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour and the Canadian Tour....
  
  
• 1990   Steve Stricker
  Steve Stricker
  Steven Stricker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour including the 2001 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and two FedEx Cup playoff events. His most successful season on tour came in 2009, when he had three tournament victories...
  
  
• 1989   Kelly Gibson
  Kelly Gibson
  Kelly Gibson is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Gibson joined the Nationwide Tour in 1990. He won the Ben Hogan Tri-Cities Open in 1991 and also earned his PGA Tour card that year through qualifying school...
  
  
• 1988   Todd Erwin
• 1987   Craig Parry
  Craig Parry
  Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2002 WGC-NEC Invitational and the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral.Parry was...
  
  
• 1986   Bob Panasik
  Bob Panasik
  Robert R. Panasik is a Canadian professional golfer. He is the youngest player ever the make the cut in a PGA Tour event....
  
  
• 1985   Jeff Sanders
• 1984   Charles Bolling
• 1982-83 No tournament
• 1981   Dave Barr
  Dave Barr (golfer)
  David Allen Barr is a Canadian professional golfer who has played on the Canadian Tour, PGA Tour and Champions Tour.Barr was born in Kelowna, British Columbia. He attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was a member of the golf team. He finished as runner-up in the 1972 Canadian...
  
  

External links

• Coverage on Canadian Tour's official site