Canadian PGA Tour contingent grows as Sloan, Silverman win cards for 2024..

 PGA Tour  : Shriners Children's Open Leaderboard

Tom Kim the sensational South Korean 21 year old star grabbed all the headlines with his successful -20 defense at the Shriners Children's Open over the weekend, also becoming the 4th youngest to win 3 times on the PGA Tour. 

However from my perspective it was a terrific event for the Canadian contingent, made even better by the addition of Roger Sloan and Ben Silverman, swelling the ranks to 8 for 2024. 

First to Las Vegas where Adam Hadwin  who was 8th last year was one of 16 players within 2 shots of the lead at the Shriners heading into the back nine, eventually finishing 2nd by a shot at -19

Four Canadians were in the top 20

2nd  Adam Hadwin 67 68 63 67 -19  $915,600

T3rd Taylor Pendrith 69 65 65 67 -18  $410,025

T13  Nick Taylor 65 67 69 67 -16  $154,98

T18 Adam Svensson 7 65 65 69 -15  $ 111,300

Fed Ex Cup standings heading into 2024..

25th Nick Taylor

26th Corey Conners

37th Adam Svensson

45th Adam Hadwin 

51st Mac Hughes

114th  Taylor Pendrith

207  Michael Gligic

234 Mike Weir

With the top 125 getting their cards Roger Sloan who holed an 8 footer on his last hole of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship to finish 29th, and Ben Silverman who finished 5th after 2 wins will join what has become Canada's strongest contingent.

Consider this:  Mac Hughes won the 2022 Sanderson Farms, Adam Svensson won the RSM Classic, Corey Conners won the Valero Texas and Nick Taylor with a career year made that playoff 70 footer to edge Tommy Fleetwood to win our RBC Canadian Open.

Those 4 wins are the most ever by Canadians in a PGA Tour season. 

Roger Sloan : " It isn't just six or seven rookies on the PGA Tour it's been a steadfast group of guys out there, it's fun to watch all the Canadians play really well and it's only going to continue. Its not a strike of lightning, we have some good solid Canadians and you're going to see those guys continue to rack up wins.

My goal is to win on the PGA Tour and join those  guys, so hopefully we can continue to work hard and get the job done as soon as possible.

The 2024 season gets under way in January in Hawaii as usual with the invitational TOC for all 2023 winners but the season starts for real the next week on Oahu for the first full field at the Sony Open.

They are going to have to make room on the bench for all the Canadians....

Bryan Angus