Greater Vancouver Open
| Location | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Established | 1996 |
| Course(s) | Northview Golf & Country Club, Ridge Course |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,072 yards (6,467 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | $3.5 million |
| Month played | August / September |
| Final year | 2002 |
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The Greater Vancouver Open was a professional golf tournament in Canada on the PGA Tour, held in southwestern British Columbia from 1996 to 2002. It was played after the majors in late summer, at the Northview Golf & Country Club in Surrey, a suburb southeast of Vancouver.
For its first three years, it was an alternate event in late August, concurrent with the NEC World Series of Golf at Firestone in Akron, Ohio. In 1999, the new Reno-Tahoe Open became the alternate event for the WGC-NEC Invitational at Firestone. The Vancouver tournament was promoted to a regular tour event and scheduled a week later, as the Greater Milwaukee Open moved up to July. Renamed the "Air Canada Championship," sponsored by the country's leading airline, it was coupled with the Canadian Open for consecutive tournaments north of the U.S. border in early September.
Mike Weir won that year for the first of his eight tour wins; he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event on home soil in 45 years. Three weeks earlier, he co-led the PGA Championship after three rounds, but finished in a tie for tenth. Weir later won a major at the Masters in 2003.
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