It was the outcome everyone in the rain-soaked gallery at Oakdale Golf & Country Club wanted to see on Sunday, Canada’s own Nick Taylor walking away the winner at the RBC Canadian Open, becoming the first local in 69 years to win his country’s national title.
There is a cliché in golf about how dinner always tastes better when a round ends on a positive note. Make a clutch birdie on 18, and it will be delicious. Make a bogey, and you might need help washing it down.
Allison Koehnke, a 36-year-old from Salem, Oregon, made the first hole-in-one of her life on Friday on the stunning, cliffside par-3 16th hole on Sheep Ranch.
For all of Bryson DeChambeau’s pursuit of length off the tee, it was a different kind of distance that paid dividends on Saturday at the PGA Championship.