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