US Women's Open at Riviera... 4 Canadians..Live scoreboard / TEE TIMES

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The fairly recent decision to have the professional women golfers play their majors on the same iconic courses as the men continues this week at the Riviera GC in Los Angeles.

All of the top International players from around the world along with the top Americans and a handful of amateurs are playing for the National Championship of the USA. 

There are 4 Canadians (tee times PST)

4.03 10th  Aphrodite Deng (a)

4.25 1st    Brooke Henderson  (Now 28 and down to owgr 28th, cousin is caddy this week)

4.47 10th  Anna Huang

4.58 1st    Lauren Kim (a)

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"Memorial Tournament" reduced field, 4 Canadians, signature event. Live scoreboard/ TEE TIMES....

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This is Jack's place in Dublin, Ohio, he is enormously proud of his course, a green parkland gem, 72 players with a cut playing for $20,000,000.

The weather here is often hot and muggy, and it is again with high's near 30*c. The wind picks up SW Friday and Saturday 25kph, there is a chance of TStorms on Saturday afternoon.

Aaron Rai with the Wannamaker trophy

1.35  Scott Scheffler loves it, twice the winner he is expected (odds on favourite) by the bookies/ American media to at least compete to make it 3 in a row. He is paired with Aaron Rai who is being rewarded for his recent sensational win at the PGA Championship at Aronimink.

10.25  Rory is back although Jack's course does not fit his eye as much as others, his best finish here T4, he and Justin Thomas are paired, Thomas has not won here either.

There are 4 Canadians in the field. 

8.45  Nick Taylor / Nico Echavarria

8.55  Corey Conners /Keegan Bradley

1115 Sudarshan Yellamaraju / Johnattan Vegas

1125 Taylor Pendrith /Tony Finau

There are 23 players from the DP World Tour now also playing this tour, and two old dogs, Matt Kuchar and Brandt Snedeker are still alive and winning !

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Aaron Cockerill out for the year, KLM Open underway.... Live leaderboard

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For those of you wondering why Canadian Aaron Cockerill has been missing from this week's KLM Open and last week in Austria, news arrived yesterday from his home in Winnipeg that his 2026 season is over, after a long standing injury to his left shoulder has required surgery.

"I've been playing with a torn labrum in my left shoulder for roughly 2 years and it had gotten to the point something had to be done about it. I had a successful operation on it at the Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg and will be away from golf for a while. 

This is the first significant injury of my career, but I am excited to spend some more time at home with the girls while I rehab my shoulder. 

I look forward to coming back healthier and stronger next year"

He leaves the Tour owgr #513 and R2DR #151 turned pro 2015, 0 wins, Category 18 exemption.

This injury may in part explain his struggles over the last 12 months.

SEASON STORY 

After his 2025 DP World Tour season when he lost his card finishing just outside the top 120, he was spectacular at Final Q school finishing T2 with his best week of the year to regain his card, however with Category 18 status as opposed to Category 10 for those who finished 2004 in the top 100.

He immediately started this season in Australia in in late  November with MC at their PGA Championship, then a credible T23 at the Aussie Open T23 -5.

He was a 3rd round cut T78 at the Alfred Dunhill RSA, but MC in Mauritius and Qatar before T18th in Kenya, then T62 in China.

At the Hero Open in India in monsoon conditions her retired after an opening 81, then T45 at the Volvo, back in China, before another MC in Turkey.

In Spain at the Catalunya Championship he was in contention with 67 69 but his 75 76 weekend had him T64, before what was to be his last event, MC in Belgium Soudal Open.

He will play 2027 under a medical exemption, with his playing status maintained due to injury. 

Back at this week's KLM Open,  Calum Hill from Scotland and American Jordan Gumberg have the early clubhouse lead -3 68.

Play has been suspended due to high winds and the threat of lightning passing through

more to follow...

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This week "Inside the KLM Open" in Holland.... TEE TIMES

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The European Swing continues as the DP World Tour hosts a national open for the third consecutive week in the Netherlands.

Syme defends

Connor Syme won his maiden DP World Tour title as he saw off playing partner Joakim Lagergren by two shots 12 months ago. The 29-year-old Scot was always in control on Sunday as he closed out a breakthrough win in his 182nd appearance. 

"Unbelievable," he said. "It was so, so difficult the last few days. I just felt so much better this week, I felt really ready to do it, and I'm so, so happy I managed to do it." 

With Syme starting the day two shots ahead of Lagergren with the rest of the field a further four back, it came down to almost a match play battle between the pair. Syme birdied the first and still led by three at the turn, with Lagergren essentially handing him the title with bogeys on the 15th and 17th. Syme signed for a closing 70 to finish at 11 under, while a Lagergren eagle on the last saw him also card a 70.

A fond farewell to The International

The International will be our host for the third consecutive year this week and fourth time overall but in 2027 we will head to Kennemer Golf & Country Club in Zandvoort. 

The Amsterdam venue has been the perfect venue for the event and in the past two years has seen victories for Syme and Guido Migliozzi. It also hosted in 2019 when Sergio Garcia lifted the trophy and the 2017 Masters champion is not the only Major champion to have tasted KLM Open glory. 

First played in 1912 and an ever-present on the DP World Tour schedule since 1972 with the exception of Covid disruptions, the event has been won by the likes of Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, José María Olazábal, Payne Stewart, Darren Clarke and Martin Kaymer. 

As one of the great national opens, it is a jewel in the crown of the DP World Tour schedule and The International has played a big role in its storied history.

Luiten takes centre stage

Joost Luiten will bid for a hat-trick of wins at his home open when he tees it up, with the local hero set to take bumper crowds with him. Luiten has been the main attraction at his home open for more than a decade but he will not be alone in putting on a stellar show for the Dutch fans. 

Major Champions Francesco Molinari and Danny Willett tee it up this week as does 18-year-old rising star and U.S. Amateur champion Mason Howell. 

Double victors in 2026 Jayden Schaper and Casey Jarvis will be looking to enhance their Race to Dubai credentials and they are joined by six other winners from the current season and six previous winners of this event on top of Syme, Migliozzi and Luiten. Add in more home favourites such as Wil Besseling and Daan Huizing and we are in for a thrilling week.

Gullit returns in off-course role

Football great Ruud Gullit will return as tournament director this week and he is bringing some famous friends with him. 

Gullit, one of the greatest Dutch footballers of all time and a former Ballon d’Or winner, has been appointed tournament director for the second consecutive year. “I see myself more as a director of atmosphere than a tournament director," he said. "The KLM Open should offer top-level sport, but also energy, enjoyment and connection. Golf at the highest level, all with a smile.” 

Gullit will also be joined by Oranje greats Patrick Kluivert and Marco van Basten for the pro-am, with Ronald de Boer hitting the ceremonial opening tee shot on Thursday. Daan Slooter will remain responsible as sports tournament director for the international player field and the sporting execution of the event

Ten years of Beat the Pro

Beat the Pro may now be a fairly common sight across the world of golf but it was at this event in 2016 that it launched, giving amateur players a chance to win a prize if they could get inside the professionals shots on a par three. 

It has produced many memorable and fun moments down the years but perhaps none more so than in 2019 when 100-year-old Susan Hosang took on Patrick Reed, Thomas Pieters and Matt Wallace. She may not have won but she produced one of the moments of the week and the season.

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T10 Mac Hughes, Henley birdies his way to the Charles Schwab Challenge... Final results

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Canadians: It was a much needed good week for Canadian veteran Mac Hughes whose well documented form has been a struggle to date.

Four solid rounds on what was an increasingly stern test on the venerable Colonial GC, 66 67 69 69 -9 T10 should do the 35 year old Hamilton native the world of good.

Just 3 shots off the winning score, in fact at -10 in the middle of the 14th fairway he looked odds on to challenge for the outright lead. However his approach from 168yds fell short resulting in his lone bogey.

He moves up from owgr #152 to #136, and his Fed Ex standings improves from #135 to #116

AJ Ewart had another good week T17 70 63 71 70 -6  Fed Ex standings #85 to #83.

Russell Henley reacts after sinking a putt on the 18th hole during the final round of the Charles Schwab Challenge

Winner : The storyline is this. Russell Henley went out and grabbed this Charles Schwab Challenge with  3 straight birdies 16, 17, 18 to tie Eric Cole, then a winning 4th birdie on the playoff hole when Cole missed his. 

This slightly built 6' 170lbs 37 year old from Macon Georgia, constantly contradicts the bomb and gouge brigade with good driving, exceptional iron play and a reliable putter, all through his college career where he won the Haskins award, through the American ranks until now

He moves from 12th to 5th owgr and to 11th Fed Ex standings. $1,782,000

Eric Cole story: I wrote yesterday "he could be forgiven for finishing runner up" On his storied mother Laura Baugh's  71st birthday, we were reminded that in her 25 year LPGA career she had 71 top 10's, with 10 runner ups, and never a win..

Her son on his 120th PGA tour start did everything he could for his maiden win, Henley just beat him for another runner up finish.

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Japan's Kato Kaneko wins Austrian Alpine Open ....Final results.

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The sun is still shining in Austria at Kitzbuhel,  however the DP World Tour officials have been advised by the local weather bureau that there is electricity nearby in the mountains, and as such have suspended play at 1230pm local 

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Final Edit  >>>>26/05/31

Kato Kaneko claimed his maiden DP World Tour title in composed style following a two-shot victory at the 2026 Austrian Alpine Open presented by Kitzbühel Tirol.

The 23-year-old star, who has a unique swing, topped last season's Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit to earn exemption on the DP World Tour and he has not looked back since.

He has made ten cuts from 12 starts and arrived at Golfclub Kitzbühel-Schwarzsee-Reith on the back of a tied for second at last week's Soudal Open.

Kaneko was a picture of consistency with three successive 65s leading into the final round and showed nerves of steel to bounce back from a late hiccup and a 71-minute weather delay to prevail at -18, with Ricardo Gouveia and Davis Bryant finishing in a share of second.

"I just can't believe it, I didn't think I would win and I'm still very surprised," Kaneko said. "I knew I hit it hard, but it went in so I was lucky.

"I knew I hit the board but I knew it didn't go in the water, so I was just happy it didn't find the water.

"I'd like to thank all the fans this week, they've been a big support to help me win this tournament."

Despite finding the rough at the par-three 16th, Kaneko holed his chip shot to regain his one-shot advantage at -18.

Bryant bogeyed the last to gift the Japanese a two-shot lead, something he did not throw away.

Kaneko parred his way home, despite a scary finish when he hit the stands behind the green and his ball stopped in the thick rough by the water hazard, to claim his maiden DP World Tour title.

Bryant and Gouveia finished  at -16  with home favourite Wiesberger, Italian Gregorio De Leo and Spaniard Rafa Cabrera Bello a shot further back at -15

Steinlechner and Luiten were at -14  alongside Daniel Hillier, Manuel Elvira and Joel Girrbach.

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Legend, Laura Baugh's son Eric Cole 63, leads...Hughes T8 ..54 hole results at the Colonial GC.

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Eric Cole shot a season best 63 to lead the Charles Schwab Challenge on a 90*f, blistering hot Texas day in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, that has firmed up Colonial GC after all the rain earlier in the week had softened it.

Eric Cole  Denis Poroy/AP Photo)

In his 120th PGA Tour event, during which he has lead after 54 holes 6 times since 2021 when he debuted, he continues to vie for his first win..

You could forgive the 37 year old type 1 diabetic, whose life is complicated by his daily battle to control his blood sugar, from finishing a the runner up.

His famous mother Laura Baugh, played from 1973 to 2001 and had 71 to 10 finishes, 10 times the runner up, but never the winner.

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During that time, the stunningly beautiful woman who won the US Women's Amateur as a 16 year old in 1971, who's looks earned her the 1972 Golf Digest title " Most Beautiful Golfer" and  garnered her contracts off the course with major sponsors like Ford and Colgate Palmolive, was married 4 times, twice to the handsome South African golfer Bobby Cole who sired her 7 children including Eric.

Her career is legendary, her beauty and battle with the bottle made world headlines as she ended up in the Betty Ford Clinic in 1996 to finally get control, writing a book "Out of the Rough" about it in 1999.

She went on to broadcasting with the Golf Channel and eventually in 2016 landed in Ponte Verdra as a golf instructor at Sawgrass CC.

She turns 71 today, as her son tries to do the one thing she never did. 

Canadians

T8 Mac Hughes 66 67 69 -8 in his best outing of the year so far, a good result on Sunday will do wonders for his rankings, currently #135 FedEx , #152 owgr.

He has won twice 2016 RSM Classic and 2022 Sanderson Farms.

T19 AJ Ewart 70 63 71 -6

Sudarshan Yellamaraju and Adam Svensson MC..

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