Another Canadian almost won on tour today. (Mackenize Hughes was -8 on the weekend after finishing right o the cut line and loss by one) Would have been the third in less than a year... journeyman types (Connors, Taylor, Hughes).
I had a neat interaction with Hughes in 2014 when I went and watched a Canadian Tour (now McKenzie tour) event on my home course. There are no spotters on the Canadian tour (or not many anyway if there are some). He hit a fade / slice drive into an area I was familiar with when i hit it longer) and I was able to find his ball in a bit of a wooded area.
Typically the Canadians on the PGA choke once they get in contention but they have done well this past year. Goes as far back as Mike Weir. Weir had that great year in 2003, and in the five years after that was a very good Thrusday-Saturday player, whose scoring average rank dropped by an average of about 100 spots over those five years.
Graham Delaet was a hell of a ball striker for a two or three year period, but his yips around the green would always find a way to bite him in the ass. One of the better players in tour history never to win an event. (33 top tens, 6 top 3 finishes, and not one single win) Too bad injuries did him in. He had them surgeries as Tiger had but could never get fully healed.
