RBC Canadian Open R1

Canadian Open 2022 R1

June 09-12
St. George’s G&CC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
$8,700,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Wyndham Clark, starting on the back nine, made the turn in 31 after firing five birdies then made two more to close with a bogey-free 7-under 63 and take the lead in the RBC Canadian Open.

Canadian Open 2022 R1

“All around I hit it great,” said the American. “I drove it pretty good off the tee. I did miss some fairways, but when I missed it, it wasn’t that bad. I hit a lot of great iron shots in there, and yeah I made a good amount of putts from 10 to 20 feet, and I didn’t really miss much inside of 10 feet either.

“Putter felt good. My caddie and I, we felt really confident in our reads, and the balls went in today.”

Canadian Open 2022 R1

“[The course is] definitely playing long,” he continued. “I mean, I don’t know how long this golf course is, but it’s not running out that much because of how soft it is, with all the rain they’ve gotten. But that also makes it tough and really important to hit fairways because the rough is so thick that a lot of times it could be 160 to the hole and you can’t even get all the way to the green because the rough is so thick. So it definitely makes it important to hit the fairways.

“And then just the slope of the greens out here, you’ve really got to be smart when you do get in trouble or out of position, or even when you’re in position, you just want to hit it to where you’re below the hole and you don’t have these big breaking, sliding putts.”

Canadian Open 2022 R1

Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick lies one shot back in second place followed by Americans Doug Ghim and Harold Varner III at 5-under.

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and Canada’s Mackenzie Hughes are tied in fifth place at 4-under.

McIlroy, the 2019 winner, is the current defending champion due to the event being cancelled for the last two year because of the pandemic.

“I felt like the course was there to go even lower just from the rain and how receptive it was,” McIlroy said. “Overall, very happy with the start of the week, especially coming off a disappointing weekend at the Memorial last weekend.”

Canadian Open 2022 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
1	Wyndham Clark	-7	63
2	Matt Fitzpatrick	-6	64
T3	Doug Ghim	-5	65
T3	Harold Varner III	-5	65
T5	Mackenzie Hughes	-4	66
T5	Rory McIlroy	-4	66
T5	Lee Hodges	-4	66
T5	Tony Finau	-4	66
T9	Shane Lowry	-3	67
T9	Carlos Ortiz	-3	67
T9	Jim Knous	-3	67
T9	Mark Hubbard	-3	67
T9	Alex Smalley	-3	67
T9	Sam Burns	-3	67
T9	Keith Mitchell	-3	67
T9	Patrick Rodgers	-3	67
T9	Jonas Blixt	-3	67
T18	Vaughn Taylor	-2	68
T18	Brandt Snedeker	-2	68
T18	Charley Hoffman	-2	68
T18	Luke Donald	-2	68
T18	Danny Lee	-2	68
T18	Nick Hardy	-2	68
T18	Kramer Hickok	-2	68
T25	Hank Lebioda	-1	69
T25	Adam Hadwin	-1	69
T25	Justin Thomas	-1	69
T25	Seung-Yul Noh	-1	69
T25	Robert Streb	-1	69
T25	J.J. Henry	-1	69
T25	Chris Kirk	-1	69
T25	Jason Bohn	-1	69
T25	Aaron Rai	-1	69
T25	John Huh	-1	69
T25	Kelly Kraft	-1	69
T25	Brendon Todd	-1	69
T25	Scottie Scheffler	-1	69
T25	Justin Rose	-1	69
T25	Sebastián Muñoz	-1	69
T25	Ryan Moore	-1	69
T25	Bill Haas	-1	69
T25	Jonathan Byrd	-1	69
T25	Chase Seiffert	-1	69
T44	Hayden Buckley	Par	70
T44	Scott Piercy	Par	70
T44	Nick Taylor	Par	70
T44	Adam Long	Par	70
T44	Justin Lower	Par	70
T44	Matt Wallace	Par	70
T44	Rory Sabbatini	Par	70
T44	John Rollins	Par	70
T44	Trey Mullinax	Par	70
T44	Roger Sloan	Par	70
T44	Emiliano Grillo	Par	70
T44	Sean O’Hair	Par	70
T44	Ricky Barnes	Par	70
T44	Tommy Gainey	Par	70
T44	Wesley Bryan	Par	70
T44	Aaron Cockerill	Par	70
T44	Stuart Macdonald	Par	70
T61	Max McGreevy	+1	71
T61	Rafa Cabrera Bello	+1	71
T61	Corey Conners	+1	71
T61	Jhonattan Vegas	+1	71
T61	Cameron Percy	+1	71
T61	Austin Cook	+1	71
T61	Henrik Norlander	+1	71
T61	Ben Martin	+1	71
T61	Bo Van Pelt	+1	71
T61	David Lipsky	+1	71
T61	David Skinns	+1	71
T61	Dylan Wu	+1	71
T61	Jared du Toit	+1	71
T61	Sahith Theegala	+1	71
T61	Danny Willett	+1	71
T61	D.A. Points	+1	71
T61	Stephan Jaeger	+1	71
T61	Brett Drewitt	+1	71
T79	Vince Whaley	+2	72
T79	Brian Stuard	+2	72
T79	Mike Weir	+2	72
T79	Jason Dufner	+2	72
T79	Joseph Bramlett	+2	72
T79	Trevor Werbylo	+2	72
T79	Ben Kohles	+2	72
T79	Yi Cao	+2	72
T79	Christopher Gotterup	+2	72
T79	John Merrick	+2	72
T79	Myles Creighton	+2	72
T79	Sangmoon Bae	+2	72
T79	Brice Garnett	+2	72
T79	David Lingmerth	+2	72
T79	Ben Crane	+2	72
T79	Camilo Villegas	+2	72
T79	David Hearn	+2	72
T79	Ryan Armour	+2	72
T79	Rasmus Hojgaard	+2	72
T79	Adam Svensson	+2	72
T79	Andrew Novak	+2	72
T79	Braden Thornberry	+2	72
T79	Seth Reeves	+2	72
T79	Paul Barjon	+2	72
T79	Jeffrey Kang	+2	72
T79	Austin Smotherman	+2	72
T79	Dean Burmester	+2	72
T106	J.T. Poston	+3	73
T106	J.J. Spaun	+3	73
T106	Martin Trainer	+3	73
T106	Satoshi Kodaira	+3	73
T106	Brandon Hagy	+3	73
T106	Cameron Champ	+3	73
T106	Parker McLachlin	+3	73
T106	Sam Ryder	+3	73
T106	Dawie van der Walt	+3	73
T106	A.J. Ewart (a)	+3	73
T116	Matthias Schwab	+4	74
T116	Dylan Frittelli	+4	74
T116	Joshua Creel	+4	74
T116	Joe Deraney (a)	+4	74
T116	Scott Gutschewski	+4	74
T116	Martin Laird	+4	74
T116	Tyrrell Hatton	+4	74
T116	Wes Heffernan	+4	74
T124	Harry Higgs	+5	75
T124	Scott Brown	+5	75
T124	Richard S. Johnson	+5	75
T124	Curtis Thompson	+5	75
T124	Max Sekulic	+5	75
T124	Patrick Flavin	+5	75
T124	Sung Kang	+5	75
T124	Ted Purdy	+5	75
T124	Callum Tarren	+5	75
T124	Robert Garrigus	+5	75
T124	Brad Adamonis	+5	75
T135	Tyler Duncan	+6	76
T135	John Huston	+6	76
T135	Callum Davison	+6	76
T135	Mark Hensby	+6	76
T135	Jim Herman	+6	76
T135	Cameron Smith	+6	76
T135	Greyson Sigg	+6	76
T135	Johnny Travale (a)	+6	76
T143	Jonathan Kaye	+7	77
T143	Peter Malnati	+7	77
T143	Greg Chalmers	+7	77
T146	Johnson Wagner	+8	78
T146	George McNeill	+8	78
T146	Bo Hoag	+8	78
T146	Brendan Leonard	+8	78
T146	Brian Davis	+8	78
T146	Albin Choi	+8	78
152	Nick Watney	+9	79
153	William Buhl	+11	81
154	Matt Every	+12	82
WD	Michael Gligic		46
DQ	Kevin Stadler		79