Canada’s Nick Taylor wins RBC Canadian Open

Toronto –

Nick Taylor gained the RBC Canadian Open.

The Abbotsford, British Columbia participant hit a dramatic 72-foot eagle putt on Sunday’s playoff 4 holes to beat England’s Tommy Fleetwood and finish Canada’s 69-year drought within the U.S. Males’s Golf Championship. hit the

Taylor and Fleetwood tied at 17-under after 72 holes to high a crowded leaderboard at Oakdale Golf and Nation Membership. Each gamers birdied on the primary gap of the playoff, then picked up back-to-back pars and Taylor hit a shocking clincher on the 18th.

The large celebration included Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin, additionally from Abbotsford, who ran onto the inexperienced to congratulate Taylor with a bottle of champagne earlier than being tackled by a safety guard.

CT Pang, Tyrrell Hutton and Aaron Lai tied for third.

Taylor began the day tied for eighth at 11-under with a course-record 63 in Saturday’s third spherical.

The final Canadian to win the occasion was Pat Fletcher in 1954.

This 12 months’s version did simply that.

With the US Open subsequent week on the Los Angeles Nation Membership on the West Coast, many of the top-ranked gamers have taken a break from Toronto to arrange for the third main of the boys’s golf season.

No. 12 Sam Burns was the highest-ranked participant on the Canadian Open Discipline FedEx Cup standings however missed out. No.13 Rory McIlroy and No.16 Tyrrell Hutton battled the weekend.

The truth that eight Canadians certified, probably the most since 2002, was additionally encouraging.