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2012 Canadian Tour

golf tour season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4625072 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2012 Canadian Tour was the 27th season of the Canadian Tour, the main professional golf tour in Canada since it was formed in 1986.

PGA Tour takeover

In October, it was announced that the PGA Tour would takeover the tour, being renamed as PGA Tour Canada from 2013 onwards.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2012 season.

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in Canadian dollars.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2012 Canadian Tour” as golf tour season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 1986, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Canadian, Tour and golf can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as golf tour season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4625072. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 1986 and 2013.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “2012 Canadian Tour”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 2012 Canadian Tour primary sources, 2012 Canadian Tour archive and Canadian research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012 Canadian Tour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.