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2012 RBC Canadian Open
(The 33rd of 37 events in the PGA TOUR Regular Season)
Ancaster, Ontario July 23 – 30, 2012 FedExCup Points: 500 to the winner
Hamilton G&CC Par/Yardage: 35-35—70/6,966 Purse: $5,200,000 ($936,000)
Weather: Mostly sunny skies with a few clouds and highs in the upper 70s. Winds were out of the north/northeast at 10-20mph.
Position
Player
Score
Robert Garrigus
64-66-64-—194 (-16)
William McGirt
63-66-66-—195 (-15)
Scott Piercy
62-67-67-—196 (-14)
Scott Stallings
69-66-63—-198 (-12)
Chris Kirk
69-66-63—-198 (-12)
Bo Van Pelt
65-66-67—-198 (-12)
Robert Garrigus (64-66-64—194, 16-under)
Robert Garrigus shot a bogey-free, 6-under 64 to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the 2012 RBC Canadian Open. This is Garrigus’ second 54-hole lead on TOUR. His only previous third round lead came at the 2010 FedEx St. Jude Classic, a tournament he lost in a playoff.
Garrigus is ranked seventh in driving distance this week and fourth for the season.
Garrigus has made 12 of 19 cuts this season, with four top-ten finishes, including a loss in a playoff at the Transitions Championship.
In three previous RBC Canadian Open starts, Robert Garrigus’ best finish is a tie for 34th in 2007. He also tied for 44th in 2006 and 2008.
In his last PGA TOUR start, at the John Deere Classic, Robert Garrigus had a strong start, shooting rounds of 65-66 at TPC Deere Run and was tied for fourth at the halfway point. He shot even-par 71s on the weekend to tie for 25th. Garrigus has two runner-up finishes in 2012—at the Humana Challenge (two strokes behind winner Mark Wilson) and the Transitions Championship, where he lost a playoff to Luke Donald, an extra session that also included Jim Furyk and Sang-Moon Bae.
Garrigus is currently ranked 32nd in the FedExCup with three events he can still play remaining before the Playoffs begin. The $1,621,656 he’s already won this season represents a career-high, surpassing the $1,503,923 he won a year ago.
William McGirt (63-66-66—195, 15-under)
William McGirt, just one shot back, is looking to become the seventh first-time winner on the PGA TOUR this season. McGirt, a Wofford Terrier, is looking to earn his first win in just his 57th start on TOUR.
McGirt is playing in the RBC Canadian Open this week after he qualified with his tie-for-fifth performance at last week’s True South Classic in Mississippi. That was his best PGA TOUR finish in 56 previous TOUR starts. After enjoying four under-par rounds at Annandale Golf Club in Madison last week, McGirt added his seventh consecutive under-par round, with his 66 on Saturday at Hamilton Golf and Country Club.
McGirt is making his third straight start in Canada. He tied for 59th at the RBC Canadian Open at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club a year ago and missed the cut at the Web.com Tour’s Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic in 2010.
For the second straight day, McGirt birdied holes 4-6.
He is currently ranked 118th in the FedExCup standings. A win Sunday would move him into the top 40 in the season- long points race.
Scott Piercy (62-67-67—196, 14-under)
Scott Piercy shot his third consecutive round in the 60s at Hamilton Golf and Country Club with a 67 on Saturday.
After missing both the U.S. Open and AT&T National cuts in June and earlier this month, Piercy has reeled off 12 consecutive rounds in the 60s and is 42-under during that period. He tied for 12th at The Greenbrier Classic (66-68-68-68), was solo third at the John Deere Classic (65-69-67-65) and begins Sunday’s final round two shots back.
Scott Piercy’s best streak of sub-70 rounds prior to his current run came in 2009, when he played the last two rounds of the Humana Challenge in Partnership with the Clinton Foundation and the first three rounds of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in the 60s.
Scott Piercy is making his third start in the RBC Canadian Open. He tied for sixth in 2011 at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, and tied for 40th in 2009, at Glen Abbey Golf Club. With 10 rounds under his belt in this event, Piercy has yet to post a score worse than par—his even-par 72 he shot in the final round in 2009 his worst performance.
In addition to his three starts at the RBC Canadian Open, Scott Piercy also has a tie-for-24th finish at the 2008 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic on theWeb.com Tour. Piercy shot a final-round 64 at The Georgian Bay Club in Collingwood.
Piercy is ranked 39th in the FedExCup standings.
Third-Round Leader Stats
The third-round leader/co-leader has gone on to win 10 of the PGA TOUR’s 31 stroke-play events in 2012. The last to do so was Scott Stallings, at last week’s True South Classic.
The last third-round leader of the RBC Canadian Open to hold on for the win was Chez Reavie in 2008. In the last two Opens held at Hamilton Golf and Country Club, 2006 champ Jim Furyk was a stroke back of the 36 hole leaders. In 2003, Bob Tway was five behind the leader at the halfway point.
Miscellaneous
Chris Kirk shot a third-round 63, tying his lowest round on TOUR. This is Kirk’s first appearance at the RBC Canadian Open. Kirk has made 11 of 18 cuts so far in 2012 with three top-ten finishes. Kirk earned his PGA TOUR victory last year at the True South Classic.
Last week’s winner, Scott Stallings, shot a third-round 63 to move into a T4 at the RBC Canadian Open. Stalling’s win at the True South Classic was his first top-ten finish on the PGA TOUR since he won the 2011 Greenbrier Classic. Stallings’ 63 is his career low round on the PGA TOUR, beating his previous low of 64.
En route to his 7-under 63, Stallings holed his approach shot from 103 yards on the par-4 10th for an eagle-two. Should he win this week, Stallings would become the first player to win in successive starts since Tiger Woods won the 2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational a week after winning the Buick Open.
Retief Goosen (T11) shot a 63 Saturday, his lowest round on the PGA TOUR in 42 starts dating back to the 2010 season. Goosen has made six of nine cuts on TOUR this season with one top-ten at the U.S. Open.
Ten players have shot all four rounds in the 60s at the RBC Canadian Open and gone on to win. The last to do so was Jim Furyk in 2007 at Angus Glen.
This week at the RBC Canadian Open, there have been eight rounds of 63, more than any other tournament on the 2012 PGA TOUR schedule. Two other players, Scott Piercy and Tim Clark, shot 62. Only the Humana Challenge in Partnership with the Clinton Foundation had more rounds at 63 and better in 2012. That week at the three-course event in the Palm Springs, CA, area, there were seven 63s, two 62s and two 61s. This week, there have been 10 63-or-better rounds at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. Here’s a look at the tournaments with the most 63-and-better rounds this season:
Tournament
63
62
61
Total
Humana Challenge
7
2
2
11
RBC Canadian Open
8
2
0
10
The Greenbrier Classic
0
2
1
3
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
2
0
1
3
Farmers Insurance Open
1
2
0
3
Travelers Championship
0
2
1
3
PGA TOUR 63-and-Better Rounds in 2012
Score
Total
61
7
62
15
63
27
Here’s the breakdown at the RBC Canadian Open:
Player
Score
Round
Tim Clark
62
Second
Scott Piercy
62
First
Bud Cauley
63
Second
Retief Goosen
63
Third
Brian Harman
63
Second
Chris Kirk
63
Third
William McGirt
63
First
Garth Mulroy
63
Second
Greg Owen
63
First
Scott Stallings
63
Third
It’s Ontario vs. Saskatchewan tomorrow for low Canadian as David Hearn (Brantford) and Graeme DeLaet sit at T50, tied for low-Canadian score at the RBC Canadian Open. The low Canadian earns the River Meade Cup.
In addition to David Hearn and Graeme DeLaet, there were 21 Canadians in this week’s field. Four made it to Sunday.
Position
Player
Score
David Hearn
68-68-72-—208
Graham DeLaet
69-69--70—208
Albin Choi – a
69-68-72-—209
Matt Hill
70-69-71-—210
Matt McQuillan
70-67-77-—214
Victor Ciesielski
74-66—140
Adam Hadwin
66-74—140
David Markle
69-71—140
Cory Renfrew
70-70—140
Stephen Ames
70-71—141
Brad Fritsch
68-73—141
Mackenzie Hughes – a
71-71—142
Greg Doherty
74-70—144
Michael Gligic
72-72—144
Andrew Parr
75-69—144
Mike Weir
72-72—144
Rob Couture – a
73-72—145
Jon Mills
77-69—146
Chris Ross
74-73—147
Ben Ferguson
78-69—147
Eugene Wong
76-71—147
Nick Taylor
75-74—149
Brian McCann
75-75—150
This marks the fifth time the RBC Canadian Open has been contested at Hamilton G&CC. Here are the previous winners.
Year
Winner
Score
2006
Jim Furyk
266 (-14)
2003
Bob Tway
272 (-8)
1930
Tommy Armour
277 (-3)
1919
J. Douglas Edgar
278 (-2)
There were six past RBC Canadian Open champions in the field this week, with three making the cut. They are 2004 winner Vijay Singh (T11), 2009 champ Nathan Green (T15) and 2008 winner Chez Reavie (T62). Defending champion Sean O’Hair, two-time champ Jim Furyk (2006-07) and 1998 winner Billy Andrade missed playing on the weekend.
Since its 1904 inception, only 15 players have won the RBC Canadian Open more than once, with Jim Furyk the most recent (2006-07). Furyk is also one of five players to win this event in back-to-back seasons, with Leo Diegel pulling off the feat twice (1924-25 and 1928-29). The first was J. Douglas Edgar (1919-20), and Sam Snead (1940-41) and Jim Ferrier (1950-51) also won consecutive tournaments.
Bogey-free rounds:
First Round: Robert Garrigus (64), Gavin Coles (65), Roland Thatcher (66), J.J. Henry (67), Josh Teater (67)
Second Round: Tim Clark (62), Ken Duke (65), Chris Kirk (66) and Cameron Tringale (69).
Third Round: Robert Garrigus (64), Chris Kirk (63), J.B. Holmes (64), Ryan Palmer (64), Retief Goosen (63), Brendan Todd (66), Nathan Green (65), Ken Duke (67), Bill Lunde (67), J.J. Henry (68)
In the third round, the par-4 eight hole ranked as the hardest with an average of 3.215, while the par-5 fourth played as the easiest, with a 4.620 scoring average. In 2003, the par-4 18th ranked as the toughest hole. The par-3 sixth was the most-difficult hole in 2006.
Scoring averages at the par-70 Hamilton Golf and Country Club
Front Nine
Back Nine
Total
Thursday
34.590
35.520
70.109
Friday
34.520
34.880
69.400
Saturday
34.532
34.937
69.468
Previous third-round scoring average at Hamilton Golf and Country Club
2003 – 70.926
2006 – 69.247
2012 – 69.697
(The 33rd of 37 events in the PGA TOUR Regular Season)
Ancaster, Ontario July 23 – 30, 2012 FedExCup Points: 500 to the winner
Hamilton G&CC Par/Yardage: 35-35—70/6,966 Purse: $5,200,000 ($936,000)
Third-Round Notes – Saturday, July 28, 2012
Weather: Mostly sunny skies with a few clouds and highs in the upper 70s. Winds were out of the north/northeast at 10-20mph.
Position
Player
Score
1
Robert Garrigus
64-66-64-—194 (-16)
2
William McGirt
63-66-66-—195 (-15)
3
Scott Piercy
62-67-67-—196 (-14)
T4
Scott Stallings
69-66-63—-198 (-12)
T4
Chris Kirk
69-66-63—-198 (-12)
T4
Bo Van Pelt
65-66-67—-198 (-12)
Robert Garrigus (64-66-64—194, 16-under)
Robert Garrigus shot a bogey-free, 6-under 64 to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the 2012 RBC Canadian Open. This is Garrigus’ second 54-hole lead on TOUR. His only previous third round lead came at the 2010 FedEx St. Jude Classic, a tournament he lost in a playoff.
Garrigus is ranked seventh in driving distance this week and fourth for the season.
Garrigus has made 12 of 19 cuts this season, with four top-ten finishes, including a loss in a playoff at the Transitions Championship.
In three previous RBC Canadian Open starts, Robert Garrigus’ best finish is a tie for 34th in 2007. He also tied for 44th in 2006 and 2008.
In his last PGA TOUR start, at the John Deere Classic, Robert Garrigus had a strong start, shooting rounds of 65-66 at TPC Deere Run and was tied for fourth at the halfway point. He shot even-par 71s on the weekend to tie for 25th. Garrigus has two runner-up finishes in 2012—at the Humana Challenge (two strokes behind winner Mark Wilson) and the Transitions Championship, where he lost a playoff to Luke Donald, an extra session that also included Jim Furyk and Sang-Moon Bae.
Garrigus is currently ranked 32nd in the FedExCup with three events he can still play remaining before the Playoffs begin. The $1,621,656 he’s already won this season represents a career-high, surpassing the $1,503,923 he won a year ago.
William McGirt (63-66-66—195, 15-under)
William McGirt, just one shot back, is looking to become the seventh first-time winner on the PGA TOUR this season. McGirt, a Wofford Terrier, is looking to earn his first win in just his 57th start on TOUR.
McGirt is playing in the RBC Canadian Open this week after he qualified with his tie-for-fifth performance at last week’s True South Classic in Mississippi. That was his best PGA TOUR finish in 56 previous TOUR starts. After enjoying four under-par rounds at Annandale Golf Club in Madison last week, McGirt added his seventh consecutive under-par round, with his 66 on Saturday at Hamilton Golf and Country Club.
McGirt is making his third straight start in Canada. He tied for 59th at the RBC Canadian Open at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club a year ago and missed the cut at the Web.com Tour’s Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic in 2010.
For the second straight day, McGirt birdied holes 4-6.
He is currently ranked 118th in the FedExCup standings. A win Sunday would move him into the top 40 in the season- long points race.
Scott Piercy (62-67-67—196, 14-under)
Scott Piercy shot his third consecutive round in the 60s at Hamilton Golf and Country Club with a 67 on Saturday.
After missing both the U.S. Open and AT&T National cuts in June and earlier this month, Piercy has reeled off 12 consecutive rounds in the 60s and is 42-under during that period. He tied for 12th at The Greenbrier Classic (66-68-68-68), was solo third at the John Deere Classic (65-69-67-65) and begins Sunday’s final round two shots back.
Scott Piercy’s best streak of sub-70 rounds prior to his current run came in 2009, when he played the last two rounds of the Humana Challenge in Partnership with the Clinton Foundation and the first three rounds of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in the 60s.
Scott Piercy is making his third start in the RBC Canadian Open. He tied for sixth in 2011 at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, and tied for 40th in 2009, at Glen Abbey Golf Club. With 10 rounds under his belt in this event, Piercy has yet to post a score worse than par—his even-par 72 he shot in the final round in 2009 his worst performance.
In addition to his three starts at the RBC Canadian Open, Scott Piercy also has a tie-for-24th finish at the 2008 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic on theWeb.com Tour. Piercy shot a final-round 64 at The Georgian Bay Club in Collingwood.
Piercy is ranked 39th in the FedExCup standings.
Third-Round Leader Stats
The third-round leader/co-leader has gone on to win 10 of the PGA TOUR’s 31 stroke-play events in 2012. The last to do so was Scott Stallings, at last week’s True South Classic.
The last third-round leader of the RBC Canadian Open to hold on for the win was Chez Reavie in 2008. In the last two Opens held at Hamilton Golf and Country Club, 2006 champ Jim Furyk was a stroke back of the 36 hole leaders. In 2003, Bob Tway was five behind the leader at the halfway point.
Miscellaneous
Chris Kirk shot a third-round 63, tying his lowest round on TOUR. This is Kirk’s first appearance at the RBC Canadian Open. Kirk has made 11 of 18 cuts so far in 2012 with three top-ten finishes. Kirk earned his PGA TOUR victory last year at the True South Classic.
Last week’s winner, Scott Stallings, shot a third-round 63 to move into a T4 at the RBC Canadian Open. Stalling’s win at the True South Classic was his first top-ten finish on the PGA TOUR since he won the 2011 Greenbrier Classic. Stallings’ 63 is his career low round on the PGA TOUR, beating his previous low of 64.
En route to his 7-under 63, Stallings holed his approach shot from 103 yards on the par-4 10th for an eagle-two. Should he win this week, Stallings would become the first player to win in successive starts since Tiger Woods won the 2009 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational a week after winning the Buick Open.
Retief Goosen (T11) shot a 63 Saturday, his lowest round on the PGA TOUR in 42 starts dating back to the 2010 season. Goosen has made six of nine cuts on TOUR this season with one top-ten at the U.S. Open.
Ten players have shot all four rounds in the 60s at the RBC Canadian Open and gone on to win. The last to do so was Jim Furyk in 2007 at Angus Glen.
This week at the RBC Canadian Open, there have been eight rounds of 63, more than any other tournament on the 2012 PGA TOUR schedule. Two other players, Scott Piercy and Tim Clark, shot 62. Only the Humana Challenge in Partnership with the Clinton Foundation had more rounds at 63 and better in 2012. That week at the three-course event in the Palm Springs, CA, area, there were seven 63s, two 62s and two 61s. This week, there have been 10 63-or-better rounds at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. Here’s a look at the tournaments with the most 63-and-better rounds this season:
Tournament
63
62
61
Total
Humana Challenge
7
2
2
11
RBC Canadian Open
8
2
0
10
The Greenbrier Classic
0
2
1
3
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
2
0
1
3
Farmers Insurance Open
1
2
0
3
Travelers Championship
0
2
1
3
PGA TOUR 63-and-Better Rounds in 2012
Score
Total
61
7
62
15
63
27
Here’s the breakdown at the RBC Canadian Open:
Player
Score
Round
Tim Clark
62
Second
Scott Piercy
62
First
Bud Cauley
63
Second
Retief Goosen
63
Third
Brian Harman
63
Second
Chris Kirk
63
Third
William McGirt
63
First
Garth Mulroy
63
Second
Greg Owen
63
First
Scott Stallings
63
Third
It’s Ontario vs. Saskatchewan tomorrow for low Canadian as David Hearn (Brantford) and Graeme DeLaet sit at T50, tied for low-Canadian score at the RBC Canadian Open. The low Canadian earns the River Meade Cup.
In addition to David Hearn and Graeme DeLaet, there were 21 Canadians in this week’s field. Four made it to Sunday.
Position
Player
Score
T50
David Hearn
68-68-72-—208
T50
Graham DeLaet
69-69--70—208
T58
Albin Choi – a
69-68-72-—209
T62
Matt Hill
70-69-71-—210
78
Matt McQuillan
70-67-77-—214
Cut
Victor Ciesielski
74-66—140
Cut
Adam Hadwin
66-74—140
Cut
David Markle
69-71—140
Cut
Cory Renfrew
70-70—140
Cut
Stephen Ames
70-71—141
Cut
Brad Fritsch
68-73—141
Cut
Mackenzie Hughes – a
71-71—142
Cut
Greg Doherty
74-70—144
Cut
Michael Gligic
72-72—144
Cut
Andrew Parr
75-69—144
Cut
Mike Weir
72-72—144
Cut
Rob Couture – a
73-72—145
Cut
Jon Mills
77-69—146
Cut
Chris Ross
74-73—147
Cut
Ben Ferguson
78-69—147
Cut
Eugene Wong
76-71—147
Cut
Nick Taylor
75-74—149
Cut
Brian McCann
75-75—150
This marks the fifth time the RBC Canadian Open has been contested at Hamilton G&CC. Here are the previous winners.
Year
Winner
Score
2006
Jim Furyk
266 (-14)
2003
Bob Tway
272 (-8)
1930
Tommy Armour
277 (-3)
1919
J. Douglas Edgar
278 (-2)
There were six past RBC Canadian Open champions in the field this week, with three making the cut. They are 2004 winner Vijay Singh (T11), 2009 champ Nathan Green (T15) and 2008 winner Chez Reavie (T62). Defending champion Sean O’Hair, two-time champ Jim Furyk (2006-07) and 1998 winner Billy Andrade missed playing on the weekend.
Since its 1904 inception, only 15 players have won the RBC Canadian Open more than once, with Jim Furyk the most recent (2006-07). Furyk is also one of five players to win this event in back-to-back seasons, with Leo Diegel pulling off the feat twice (1924-25 and 1928-29). The first was J. Douglas Edgar (1919-20), and Sam Snead (1940-41) and Jim Ferrier (1950-51) also won consecutive tournaments.
Bogey-free rounds:
First Round: Robert Garrigus (64), Gavin Coles (65), Roland Thatcher (66), J.J. Henry (67), Josh Teater (67)
Second Round: Tim Clark (62), Ken Duke (65), Chris Kirk (66) and Cameron Tringale (69).
Third Round: Robert Garrigus (64), Chris Kirk (63), J.B. Holmes (64), Ryan Palmer (64), Retief Goosen (63), Brendan Todd (66), Nathan Green (65), Ken Duke (67), Bill Lunde (67), J.J. Henry (68)
In the third round, the par-4 eight hole ranked as the hardest with an average of 3.215, while the par-5 fourth played as the easiest, with a 4.620 scoring average. In 2003, the par-4 18th ranked as the toughest hole. The par-3 sixth was the most-difficult hole in 2006.
Scoring averages at the par-70 Hamilton Golf and Country Club
Front Nine
Back Nine
Total
Thursday
34.590
35.520
70.109
Friday
34.520
34.880
69.400
Saturday
34.532
34.937
69.468
Previous third-round scoring average at Hamilton Golf and Country Club
2003 – 70.926
2006 – 69.247
2012 – 69.697
