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The following is a list of Canadian golfers competing on major golf tours:

• Conners, Corey (Titleist)
• Hadwin, Adam
• Hughes, Mackenzie (Titleist)
• Pendrith, Taylor
• Silverman, Ben
• Sloan, Roger
• Svensson, Adam
• Taylor, Nick (Titleist)
• Grewal, Savannah
• Henderson, Brooke
• LeBlanc, Maude-Aimée (Titleist)
• Szeryk, Maddie
• Cockerill, Aaron (Titleist)
• Ames, Stephen (Titleist)
• Weir, Mike (Titleist)
• Bateman, Wil
• Creighton, Myles
• du Toit, Jared
• Giroux, Thomas
• Macdonald, Stuart (Titleist)
• Papineau, Etienne (Titleist)
• Yellamaraju, Sudarshan (Titleist)
• Costabile, Selena
• Johnson, Kate
• Kong, Tiffany
• Thibault, Brigitte
• Anderson, Matthew
• Crisologo, Chris
• MacDougall, Brendan
• Rowe, Lawren
• Savoie, Joey
• Sekulic, Max
• Sihota, Jeevan
• Steele, Noah
• Travale, Johnny
• Wilson, Chris R.
• Lee, Richard T.
• Pittman, Jordan

Last updated May 9, 2023. For corrections or submissions, please email Golf Canada

Nick Taylor's win at RBC Canadian Open is 'everything'

Walk-off playoff eagle snaps Canada's winless drought at 69 years

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TORONTO – When Jordan Klein, a long-time member at Oakdale Golf and Country Club, thought about his course hosting the RBC Canadian Open, there was an inkling, that, well, something like this could happen. There’s always a chance with golf.

And then, after a 72-foot eagle on the fourth playoff hole Sunday in Toronto, it did happen. History. A seminal moment. Something that no Canadian will ever forget.

Nick Taylor won the RBC Canadian Open, becoming the event’s first Canadian winner since Pat Fletcher in 1954. The drought is no longer, extinguished at 69 years.

He did it. He really did it.

Nick Taylor jars 72-footer for eagle to win four-hole playoff at the RBC Canadian

“It’s everything,” Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum said of what Taylor’s win means for Canadian golf. “It’s that other bookend to (Brooke Henderson’s CPKC Women’s Open) win. Brooke and Nick Taylor are going to be connected together now, having Canadian Open wins together over the last five years. It’s a moment we’ve been waiting for (for) so long.

“It is unbelievable for Canadian golf”

Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum

Applebaum was on the receiving end of the LinkedIn message from Klein when the club – which celebrates its centennial in 1926 and is hoping to have the RBC Canadian Open again – decided it wanted to try to bring the PGA TOUR there. It became the 37th venue in the 117-year tournament history when the balls hit the air Thursday morning.

But it’s one venue that has delivered in the biggest of ways for Canadian sport.

“Definitely taking nothing away from Mike Weir’s 2003 Masters victory here, but this is right up there with the greatest Canadian golf accomplishments. Brooke Henderson winning in Regina, yes. But honestly it’s up there, truly, with some of the greatest accomplishments in Canadian athlete history,” Adam Hadwin said.

Hadwin, who grew up in Abbotsford, B.C. along with Taylor, playing the same golf course – Ledgeview – was among the trio of countrymen who followed the entirety of the playoff. Corey Conners and Mike Weir (who had left the property and came back) watched each of the four extra holes in person.

They were in the locker room peeking at the coverage on the TV with Taylor’s brother, Josh, as Tommy Fleetwood finished at 17 under, tied with Taylor in regulation. The TOUR winners had all changed into leisurewear – Hadwin and Conners were waiting on the charter to the U.S. Open. Beers were cold and open, from Sleeman – a brewery in Guelph, Ontario. They weren’t going to miss this one.

Josh Taylor said the win showed the determination of his brother. There are so many young, amazing players in Canada, he explained, and this shows they’ll be able to do it, too.

Taylor, to his credit, hung in there in the biggest of moments as the playoff continued.

Nick Taylor wins playoff in dramatic fashion at the RBC Canadian

Earlier in the season, he went toe-to-toe with Scottie Scheffler at the WM Phoenix Open. That was rowdy. A scene. Taylor was right there until the end. This was a similar setting, but totally different stakes.

“I think it's a tournament that we've circled on our calendar since probably junior golf. But ever since I've been on the PGA TOUR, this is one that we want to do as well as we can in, and the crowd support was the most unbelievable thing I will probably ever experience in my life,” Taylor said. “To break that curse, if you want to call it … I'm pretty speechless.”

Fleetwood had three makeable chances to win the tournament, including in regulation, but when his putts wiggled by each time, Taylor stepped up when it mattered the most.

“He’s put himself in some big-time moments,” said Hadwin. “He played well through those moments, and it showed today.”

Nick Taylor’s interview after winning RBC Canadian

Dave Markle, Taylor’s caddie – a nice player in his own right, having gone to Kent State, the same school as Conners, Taylor Pendrith, and Mackenzie Hughes – was a calming presence through the wildest of Sundays. He kept telling Taylor to see his shot. He saw this coming.

“He’s been building up to this all year,” said Markle. “I’m the least surprised of anyone to see this happen.”

While Taylor’s Canadian pals were front-and-center (and that big-hug moment with Markle will go down in Canadian sports lore as the most iconic of images), he was missing a couple key members of his squad. His wife, Andie – who gave him “a talking-to” after he sat 120th following the first round – was at home in British Columbia along with son Charlie and newborn daughter Harper Mae. They jumped on FaceTime, briefly, after his win. There were some tears. Taylor didn’t get that run-out-on-the-green moment with them, but it didn’t take away from how special the win turned out to be.

“I got to say ‘hi’ to Charlie and he was probably shocked at what the hell was going on,” Taylor said with a laugh. “I made ‘a big shot,’ though. That’s what he said.”

So, what’s next? How will this register in Canadian golf history?

Mackenzie Hughes took to Twitter and called Taylor’s win “the most amazing thing” he’s ever seen. Weir’s Masters victory in 2003 inspired a generation of Canadians like he and Taylor and Conners and Pendrith to pursue this dream. Taylor might do the same.

Brooke Henderson, Canada’s winningest golfer of all time on the PGA or LPGA Tour, has been busy rewriting the history books over the last few years. She’s won 13 times including two majors. She captured the CPKC Women’s Open in Regina, Saskatchewan in 2018 (on a day that was eerily similar, weather-wise, to Sunday in Toronto) and knows exactly what it takes to win a national open. She broke a 45-year winless drought herself.

“Amazing victory by Nick!! Winning at home is the best,” Henderson said via text message. “All of Canada is proud today! Congratulations to Nick on the impressive win!”

Nick Taylor’s news conference after winning RBC Canadian

Taylor took the RBC Canadian Open trophy into Oakdale’s clubhouse, where its membership, clad in navy blazers, raised a toast. Josh Taylor was there, arm-and-arm with his brother. Hands shook. Moet & Chandon champagne, enjoyed. Another moment on a day full of moments. Although the tournament ended three hours prior, there was Markle, still in the Oakdale clubhouse wearing his caddie bib. He hadn’t changed.

The sports programming in Canada will all lead with Taylor’s win Sunday night. The papers will have Taylor’s photo on the front Monday morning.

The moment draws comparison to Sidney Crosby’s gold medal-winning goal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Weir’s green jacket, the Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series wins and the Toronto Raptors’ NBA title. Canadians will now discuss Nick Taylor in the same sentence as those moments that have come before.

So, how do you put history into words?

“To think that I'm the person that people are thinking about is kind of breathtaking,” Taylor said with a pause. The emotion hit. “I don't think it's going to sink in for quite some time what happened today.”

A first-time venue. A deserving champion. An all-time moment.

O Canada, indeed.

Canada's Adam Svensson wins RSM Classic to claim 1st PGA Tour title

'to be honest, it's not even real right now,' says surrey, b.c., native.

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Adam Svensson handled the cold air and the heat of contention as if he had been there before, closing with a 6-under 64 to win the RSM Classic on Sunday at Sea Island for his first PGA Tour victory.

Svensson, a 28-year-old from Surrey, B.C., was locked in a four-way tie for the lead on the closing stretch of the Seaside course when he poured in an 18-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole, and then hit a tee shot to 10 feet on the par-3 17th for a birdie that gave him a cushion.

Brian Harman (65) and Sahith Theegala (66) were in the group ahead of him and missed birdie chances from about 25 feet on the closing hole.

Callum Tarren of England (64) was the first to post at 17-under par and was hopeful of a playoff. Svensson capped off his bogey-free final round with a par for a two-shot win.

He finished at 19-under 263 and played the tougher Seaside course in 20 under the final three rounds. His tournament began with a 73 on the Plantation, which put him in a tie for 108th. His first job was to make the cut. He wound up winning the trophy.

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B.C.'s Adam Svensson clinches 1st PGA Tour win at RSM Classic

Svensson is starting his third full year on the PGA Tour and gets a two-year exemption, along with a trip to the Masters and the PGA Championship. He has never played a major.

"To be honest, it's not even real right now," Svensson said when he finished. "I'm so happy. I put so much work in. To win on the PGA Tour means everything to me. ... I just kept believing in myself, and here I am."

Theegala recovered from a double bogey on the par-5 seventh hole when he was in trouble left off the tee and then hit a chip that came back to him from behind the green. He made five birdies over the last 11 holes.

Harman got in the game late, hitting a fairway metal on the par-5 15th hole that was inches away from rolling in, setting up a short eagle. He birdied the 16th to share the lead, but had to settle for pars on the final two holes.

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Cole Hammer, who graduated from Texas in May was playing on a sponsor exemption, shot a 65 to tie for fifth, which gets him into the Sony Open.

The PGA Tour now takes a six-week break in the final wraparound season before resuming with the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua the first week of January.

By winning, Svensson was the last man to qualify for that field, the first elevated event that will have a $15 million US purse.

Svensson won $1,458,000, more than he won in either of his two previous seasons on the PGA Tour. He is the second Canadian to win this season, joining Mackenzie Hughes, who won in Mississippi.

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