Goldline TCA Men's Bonspiel 
Entering its 115th Year!
2010 Event
Host Club: Thornhill Golf & Country Club
Dates: January 9 - 16, 2010
Final s Broadcast on Rogers TV
Rogers TV presents exclusive coverage of the Goldline TCA Men's Curling Bonspiel Championship Finals on January 23rd beginning at 2 PM. The coverage features the Seniors final at 2 PM and the Open final at 4:30 PM on Cable 10 in Toronto, Peel and York & Cable 63 in Durham and Scarborough.
Rogers TV is a one-of-a-kind TV channel tailor-made for local audiences. In 2010, our stations will produce 17,000 hours of original, informative local programming; reinforcing Rogers Cable's commitment to the communities we serve. Rogers TV is a service available exclusively to cable customers as part of the basic service of Rogers Cable Communications Inc., Canada's largest cable company, delivering high quality entertainment, information and communication services to 2.3 million customers in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland. For more information, visit www.rogerstv.com 2010 Draws & Results
 Open Seniors Senators
If you have any questions about the draw, please send an email to our DrawMaster (Jim Stewart).
Live Scoring will start with the Senator event finals on Friday, January 15th.
Check out real time updates for the finals of all events for all divisions as they happen!
Open Division Senior Division Senator Division
2010 Winners
Open Main Event - Leaside Curling Club
Paul DeVriendt - Vice, Adam Beck - Skip, Craig Thompson - Lead, Doug Flowers - Goldline,
Gord Smardenkas - Second
Winners Seniors Main Event - Richmond Hill Curling Club
Gilles Phillipe - Lead, Tony Hoevenaars - Second, Rick Harper - Skip, Tony Baxter - Vice, Doug Flowers - Goldine
Winners Senators Main Event - Whitby Curling Club
Winston Muschett - Lead, Dave King - Vice, Bill Baker - Chair, Paul Barnett - Skip, Ron Robbins - Second
All Winners
The Draw started on Saturday and finished on Thursday. Last team in the draw wins.
Congratulations to this years winner, Patrick Corrigan from the Royals whose team wins a golf vacation from Ultimate Golf Vacations. Runner-up Al Boyle from Tam Heather receives a round of golf for four at Eagle Ridge courtesy of Clublink.
Congratulations to these teams who were runners-up:
| Alfred Wong |
Leaside |
Round of Golf - Markham Green |
| Doug McMillan |
Thornhill |
Round of Golf - Blue Heron courtesy of Clublink. |
| John Nicol |
Unionville |
Dinner for 8 at Thornhill |
| Bob Stoll |
Weston |
4 dozen TaylorMade Penta Golf balls courtesy of the GTA Amateur Golf Tour |
 Draw 1 Draw 2 Draw 3 Draw 4 Draw 5 Draw 6 Final 6
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The TCA Energizer Men's bonspiel is one of the world's oldest continuous curling event. The winners of the first Championship was the Rennie Rink, from the Caledonia Curling club, in 1896. Prior to 1896, there was a city competition, but the format was different. At that time, 16 players threw 16 rocks, and there was no championship. The game was played by eight man teams throwing one rock each. As time went on the game changed and by the mid 1800's, the most popular format of play was the Single Rink.
A championship was proposed in 1895 and the first Single Rink Championship of Toronto was held in January of 1896. They played twenty-two ends on natural ice with straw brooms. The good news was you couldn't sweep a rock until it reached the middle line. Hiram Walker sponsored the event in those early years before passing the torch to the Canada Life Assurance Company in 1906. Every January for the next eighty years, curlers assembled in clubs across the city to compete for the right to call themselves "Canada Life Champions."
From 1994 -1997, the Investors Group sponsored the event, and in 1998 a determined group of curlers from the Weston Golf & Country Club kept the tradition alive. Brick Brewing stepped in as sponsor from 1999-2001. From 2002 until 2009 Johnson Controls assumed sponsorship of this great event, under the banner of TCA Energizer Men's Bonspiel. In 2010, the TCA was pleased to welcome Goldline Curling Supplies as sponsor of this great event for the next 5 years.
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