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Sunday 2 June 2024PGA TourYear in Review
MacIntyre wins RBC Canadian Open
Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada · Thursday 30 May to Sunday 2 June 2024 · Robert MacIntyre’s win no. 1 on the PGA Tour · purse $9,400,000 USD · RBC
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 01 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 69° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R119°/7°C · wind 15 km/h N, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R223°/4°C · wind 12 km/h W, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R324°/8°C · wind 11 km/h SSW, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/15°C · wind 11 km/h SSE, gusts 26 · 4.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Ben Griffin USA · 265playing partner; birdied 15, 16 and 17 for a 65 but parred the 18th and finished one back Scottish left-hander Robert MacIntyre wins RBC Canadian Open for his first PGA Tour title (AP via CBS Sports recap)
156 started · cut E, 69 made it
Same week
PGA Tour event
RBC Canadian Open
Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Robert MacIntyre
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
AP (via CBS Sports recap)
2 June 2024
Goose bumps. It’s incredible … It’s a dream of mine to play golf for a living. It’s been a dream of mine to win on the PGA Tour.
AP (via CBS Sports recap)
2 June 2024
If it didn’t go away, I was going to start throwing my clubs at it
AP (via CBS Sports recap)
2 June 2024
It felt like there was a lid on the cup for most of the day for me.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
2 June 2024
And then I started getting heckled a bit from the crowd, and I rolled that putt in on 11, I think I let my emotion go a bit too much, and I kind of lost the focus
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert MacIntyre | 64 · 66 · 66 · 68 | 264 | −16 |
| 2 | Ben Griffin | 70 · 65 · 65 · 65 | 265 | −15 |
| 3 | Victor Perez | 70 · 68 · 64 · 64 | 266 | −14 |
| T4 | Tom Kim | 70 · 68 · 65 · 64 | 267 | −13 |
| T4 | Rory McIlroy | 66 · 72 · 65 · 64 | 267 | −13 |
| 6 | Corey Conners | 69 · 67 · 67 · 65 | 268 | −12 |
| T7 | Maverick McNealy | 74 · 65 · 66 · 65 | 270 | −10 |
| T7 | Mackenzie Hughes | 69 · 64 · 67 · 70 | 270 | −10 |
| T7 | Ryan Fox | 66 · 64 · 70 · 70 | 270 | −10 |
| T10 | Chandler Phillips | 69 · 70 · 68 · 64 | 271 | −9 |
| T10 | Keith Mitchell | 69 · 67 · 68 · 67 | 271 | −9 |
| T10 | Sam Burns | 63 · 71 · 67 · 70 | 271 | −9 |
| T10 | Joel Dahmen | 67 · 65 · 69 · 70 | 271 | −9 |
The golfer
born 1996-08-03, Oban, Scotland; SCO; turned pro 2017; age 27 that week; tour wins to date: 1; majors to date: 0; world No. 76 that week (OWGR rankBefore for the RBC Canadian Open (2024 week 22), OWGR player profile API).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet