Nathan heads north to Toronto this week for the RBC Canadian Open, seeking to defend the title he won in a playoff against Retief Goosen last year, albeit at a different venue. After some rather indifferent form of late Nathan is looking forward to playing an event which now means so much to him.

"I will not be heading up there until tomorrow," said Nathan on Monday evening. "I did however play the course in a media day  a few weeks back and really liked it," he added referring to the new venue, the Stanley Thompson designed St George's Golf and Country Club.  "It has Poa greens and from what I saw back then, it is going to be a very good test."

"I hit it just awful last week but putted and chipped a little better. I have been working on a few changes and its been either good or bad so hopefully it will be the latter this week."

photo during Nathan's 2009 Canadian Open win

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