With the longest made putt of his PGA TOUR career, Canada’s Nick Taylor rolled home a 72-foot eagle on the fourth hole of a playoff to win the 2023 Canadian Open on Sunday. Tommy Fleetwood could only stand and watch as the crowd erupted at Oakdale Golf & Country Club.
Nick Taylor.
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Taylor fired a final round -6 66 to force the playoff, with some of the best players in the world in the hunt such as Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose behind him. His -17 overall was matched only by England’s Tommy Fleetwood, who was also in search of his maiden PGA win.
The players played the Par 5 18th hole twice, both making birdie and par in the playoff. That switched the Par 3 9th, where both made another par, before Taylor’s putt sent the Toronto crowd crazy.
It’s the first PGA TOUR win of Taylor’s career, and he’ll head right to Los Angeles Country Club for the U.S. Open starting on Thursday. Taylor was already in as one of the top-five players in the FedEx Cup standings that wasn’t exempt by any other means, but he moves well into the Top 60 in the Official World Golf Rankings now.
The last Canadian to win his national championship was Pat Fletcher in 1954.