Canadian Golf in Its ‘Best Place … Ever’
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2019-06-07
By ADAM STANLEY, PGATOUR.COM
HAMILTON, Ontario — Currently, there are 10 Canadians with TOUR membership, the most since 1970 when records were kept. Eight of those players are active most weeks: Mackenzie Hughes, Corey Conners, Adam Hadwin, Nick Taylor, Roger Sloan, David Hearn, Ben Silverman, and Adam Svensson. The other two are Graham DeLaet, who is on a major medical exemption following microdiscectomy surgery and hopes to return later this year; and Mike Weir, who has played mostly on the Web.com Tour this season (next May he turns 50 and will eligible for PGA TOUR Champions).
Of the active Canadians, five are inside the top 125 of the FedExCup standings; only Australia (six) has more among the non-U.S. members. Conners and Hadwin are in the top 20 of the International Team standings for this year’s Presidents Cup and hope to make a big push down the stretch this season.
Twenty-six Canadians are scheduled to play at Hamilton Golf and Country Club, a healthy showing that includes established TOUR pros, up-and-comers and the country’s only major winner, as Weir makes his fourth TOUR start of the season. He'll play the first two rounds at Hamilton with countrymen Taylor and Hearn.