SASKATOON, Sask. – Kansas City, Missouri’s Michael Letzig defeated Newport Beach, California’s J.J. Spaun and Grand Rapids, Michigan’s Clark Klaasen in a playoff on Sunday to capture the SIGA Dakota Dunes Open presented by SaskTel, his first career Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada victory.

Letzig, a veteran of 114 starts on the PGA TOUR with more than $3.3 million in career earnings on the Web.com Tour and PGA TOUR, carded a final round 3-under 69 to finish at 16-under total, then birdied the second hole of a sudden-victory playoff to earn the victory, his first win in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event.

The win moves Letzig to fourth on the Order of Merit through four of 12 events, in position to earn status on the Web.com Tour for the 2016 season.

“I was a long way back starting the day, so I really didn’t watch the leaderboard today. I knew I played really good yesterday and my score didn’t show that, so I knew if I came out and played my game I could put a good number in,” said Letzig, who made a 15-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole, then watched as Spaun and Klaasen couldn’t match with shorter putts, giving him the win. “I had just had that putt on the first playoff hole, and I knew it was mine to win because you don’t often get second chances and those guys gave me a second chance.”

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Letzig, who owns nine top-10 finishes on the PGA TOUR, said he felt relieved to play at the level he showed in five seasons at the game’s highest level.

“If you look at the stats, I’ve had the most success of anybody out here, so I feel like that’s a lot of pressure I’ve put on myself. I feel like I should be winning every one of these and I haven’t played well up until this week, so it was nice to get out of my own way and play my own game. It was good to play the way I believe I can play,” said Letzig.

Letzig started the day six shots behind 54-hole leader Eric Onesi, but matched Spaun’s earlier clubhouse lead of 16-under on the strength of a birdie at the 17^th hole and a par at the last.

“I hit the best shot of the week on 17. I just hooked a 6-iron in there and didn’t think there was any way to get it close to the hole without hooking one in there and just hit it perfect. I made birdie there and saw the leaderboard and knew I had a chance,” said Letzig.

Klaasen, a second year Mackenzie Tour member, looked to be in control of the tournament after reaching 18-under with a birdie on the 15^th, but bogeyed his final two holes to fall back into a tie with Letzig and Spaun. Onesi, who appeared to be out of the tournament after making a triple bogey at the par-3 6^th, came back to tie the lead with a birdie at 16, but couldn’t get up-and-down for par from a plugged lie in a greenside bunker at 18 and missed the playoff by a shot.

After three pars on the first playoff hole, the trio headed back to the 18^th. The second time around, Letzig played the par-5 more aggressively, knocking a pair of drivers just short of the green in two.

“I think the more experience you get, the more comfortable you are under pressure. I hit driver off the deck back there because I knew I wasn’t going to play up. You gotta put pressure on yourself to hit a shot if you want to win a golf tournament,” said Letzig.

Though Spaun and Klaasen both had shorter birdie putts, Letzig put the pressure on with a 15-footer and watched as neither of his competitors could match, giving him the title.

“To pull that shot off and finish it with a birdie was awesome,” Letzig added.

The win comes at an exciting time for the Letzig family, with wife Holly expected to give birth to the couple’s second child in the next two weeks. Though the baby’s due date isn’t for two weeks, Letzig had his family on standby to call PGA TOUR Tournament Director Jamie Wiles to bring Letzig home in case she went into labour.

“Every time I saw him in the cart out there, I was kind of afraid he was coming to get me. To get the whole tournament in and be here all week is awesome, but I can’t wait to get home,” said Letzig.

Top Canadian in the field was Ben Silverman with a final round 1-under 71 to finish T4. Team Canada Young Pro Mackenzie Hughes also had a 71 on the day to finish T11. Fellow teammate Corey Conners had a 1-over round of 73 on Sunday. Albin Choi had a score of 74.

STANWOOD, Mich. – Daniela Iacobelli birdied the final two holes Sunday for a one-stroke victory in the Symetra Tour’s Tullymore Classic.

The 27-year-old former Florida Tech player closed with a 6-under 66 to finish at 16-under 200 at Tullymore Golf Club. She was born in Detroit and lived in Michigan until she was a teenager.

“I think every single thought that a golfer can have,” Iacobelli said about what she was thinking standing over her birdie putt on the par-5 18th. “Straight back and straight through. Not too hard. Not too soft. Don’t peak and pray that it goes in.”

Former UCLA player Lee Lopez and Japan’s Haruka Morita-WanyaoLu and Chie Arimura tied for second. Lopez birdied six of the last seven holes for a 62, Morita-WanyaoLu had a 67, and Arimura a 68. Arimura missed a chance to force a playoff when she left her 6-foot birdie putt short on 18.

“I almost dropped to my knees,” Iacobelli said. “When I was in the tent, I was thinking how I would play in the playoff and when her putt didn’t drop it’s almost like you snap out of competition mode immediately. It took a second, but then I was doused with a lot of water so that helped.”

Iacobelli earned $15,000 to jump from 15th to second on the money list with $40,597. The final top 10 will earn 2016 LPGA Tour cards. Iacobelli also won the tour’s 2012 Daytona Beach Invitational.

“It’s one of the best feelings,” Iacobelli said. “I’ve done it in my two home states. I don’t think that I could have set up an off week any better.”

Top Canadian in the field was Sara-Maude Juneau with a final round of 4-under 68 to finish T5.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – Jason Bohn’s main goal after barely making the cut at The Greenbrier Classic was to get some extra rest before the final round.

Sweet dreams. And try not to think about being the co-leader heading into Sunday.

Bohn shot a 9-under 61 Saturday and was at 11-under 199, tied with Sean O’Hair, Sung Joon Park and Bryce Molder on the Old White TPC course. O’Hair and Park both shot 66. Molder had a 67.

Bohn started strong with six birdies on the first 10 holes. After a bogey at No. 11, he regrouped with four more birdies over the final five holes

It’s setting up to be another close finish at the tournament, which debuted in 2010. Two were decided in playoffs and the largest margin was two shots twice.

A crowded leaderboard has 27 players within four shots of the lead. Tiger Woods wasn’t among them.

Woods struggled on the back nine, shot 71 and was seven strokes back.

Bohn’s round was his best on the PGA Tour and included 14 one-putt greens. He shot 58 in a 2001 Canadian Tour event, the Bayer Championship.

A two-time winner on the PGA Tour, Bohn has two runner-up finishes this season. On Saturday, he was just hoping to play well enough to avoid an early tee time in the final round.

“I just wanted to sleep in to be honest, so now I don’t have to get up early in the morning,” Bohn said.

Bohn had birdied the final hole in the second round Friday to make the cut on the number at 2 under. He said he’ll need a similar round on Sunday to have a chance at winning.

“You’ve just got to play very aggressive and play smart when you’re out of position – and aggressive when you’re in position,” Bohn said.

O’Hair lost to Jordan Spieth in a playoff at the Valspar Championship in March, but had missed cuts in four of his last five events.

Seeking his fifth PGA Tour win and first since 2011, O’Hair had four back-nine birdies Saturday.

“I don’t feel any pressure,” O’Hair said. “I actually feel like a weight’s been lifted off a little bit. I’m just happy to be in this situation again. This definitely beats struggling, I can promise you.”

Molder reached 11 under with a birdie at No. 9 before stringing together nine straight pars.

“Somewhere midway through the back nine I just kind of lost rhythm,” Molder said. “But my short game hung in there and kept me in it.”

Molder’s lone tour win came in a playoff at the 2011 Frys.com Open.

Park scattered four birdies in his bogey-free round. The South Korean has a runner-up finish at the Humana Challenge in his rookie season.

He doesn’t expect to be nervous Sunday as he seeks his first tour victory.

“I’ve been in this situation before,” Park said. “It’s going to be the same – another round for me.”

Justin Thomas (66), David Hearn (68), Danny Lee (68) and Chad Collins (68) were at 10 under.

Woods hasn’t been the same since shooting 66 in the first round, his lowest score of the season and matching his best in relation to par.

Woods was within four shots of the lead at the start of Saturday’s round and kept pace with two front-nine birdies.

Then all parts of his game came unraveled. He surpassed 30 putts for the second straight day.

Woods drove out-of-bounds on the par-4 11th and made double bogey. He three-putted the par-4 13th from 30 feet for bogey.

On the par-5 17th, where he had driven into water to the right in the first two rounds, his drive went 190 yards far to the left of the fairway and he made another bogey.

“I started pressing at the end trying to make some birdies and really got aggressive,” Woods said. “I hit a lot of shots close. I just need to convert on those and get some kind of string going in a positive way.”

Third round co-leaders Jhonattan Vegas (76) and Scott Langley (74) both shot 2 over on the front nine and were far back in the field.

Graham DeLaet came out of the gates running as he made five consecutive birdies to open the day and signed for a round of 67 on Saturday.

PARIS – Jaco Van Zyl will take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the French Open and a shot at a maiden European Tour title after carding a 7-under-par 64 on Saturday.

Van Zyl has won 13 times on the Sunshine Tour, and has 17 top-10 finishes on the European Tour, including two this season while playing on a medical exemption with a brace on his leg.

His bogey-free round included a tap-in seventh and final birdie on his last hole.

“Today was really a phenomenal round,” he said after reaching a 10-under total of 203.

Maximilian Kieffer of Germany, also chasing his first European Tour title, was two back after shooting a bogey-free 65 and rising seven places.

Bernd Wiesberger of Austria was alone in third at 7 under thanks to a 66.

In a three-way tie for fourth were 2009 champion Martin Kaymer (69), home favorite Victor Dubuisson (69), and Spanish Open champ James Morrison of England (68).

It was a mix of sun and clouds at Golf Château-Bromont located in Bromont, Que., for the second round of the CN Future Links Quebec Championship. Sarah-Eve Rhéaume and Annie Lacombe went low today to emerge as co-leaders in the Junior Girls division. Antoine Beaupré-Vachon took a one stroke lead in the Junior Boys division heading into Sunday’s final round.

Sarah-Eve Rhéaume carded a 3-under 69 to assume a share of the 36-hole lead. The Québec City, Que., native’s round was 10 strokes better than her first day performance and the only score in the 60s thus far in the Junior Girls division. She registered five birdies on the day, including a consecutive pair on holes 7 and 8.

Rhéaume was joined at the top of the leaderboard at 4-over 148 by Annie Lacombe of Laval, Que. The reigning Quebec Junior Girls Champion carded a 1-under 71 that included two sets of back-to-back birdies: on 13 and 14 and on the final two holes.

Sitting one stroke back in third place at 149 are opening round co-leaders Céleste Dao of Notre-Dame-de-L’Île-Perrot, Que., and Alexandra Naumovski of Hornby, Ont. They continued their identical play in round two, both signing for scores of 75. In a three-way tie for fifth at 6-over 150 are Brigitte Thibault from Rosemère, Que., and Alyssa Getty of Ruthven, Ont., – who both recorded rounds of 73 – alongside Noémie Paré of Victoriaville, Que., with a 74.

On the Junior Boys side, Antoine Beaupré-Vachon began the day one stroke back of the lead. The Montréal, Que. product quickly propelled himself to the top of the leaderboard with an impressive tally of seven birdies en route to his 5-under-par round of 67. Combined with an opening round of 70, Beaupré-Vachon now sits at 7-under 137 to hold a one shot lead.

Cullen Chung matched the leader’s 67 and also tallied seven birdies, including five on the back nine. The Westmount, Que., native currently sits in solo second place at 138. Occupying third place at 139 is Jason (Chan Young) Chung who went bogey-free across the back nine to post a 7-under-par 65 round. The Thornhill, Ont. native notched seven birdies and an eagle to tie Sam Meeks of Peterborough, Ont., for the low round of the day.

The top six CN Future Links Quebec Junior Boys competitors will earn entry into the 2015 Canadian Junior Boys Championship, to be hosted by Summerlea Golf and Country Club in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., from August 2-6.

The top six finishers in the Junior Girls division at the CN Future Links Quebec Championship will receive exemptions into the 2015 Canadian Junior Girls Championship to be contested from August 3-7 at Deer Park Golf Course in Yorkton, Sask. The CN Future Links Quebec Junior Girls champion will also receive an exemption into a 2016 Canadian Women’s Tour event of her choice.

The final round of the CN Future Links Quebec Championship will commence tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. ET.

For full second round results from the CN Future Links Quebec Championship and final round tee times, please visit the tournament website here.

HALIFAX, N.S. – Texan Bronson Burgoon matched the Ashburn Golf Course record with an 8-under 63 in the third round of the Nova Scotia Open and was within one shot of the lead when he posted his 10-under 203 total. The strange part was that Burgoon teed off nearly four and a half hours before the final pairing that included 36-hole leader Andrew Landry. By the time dust settled many hours later, Burgoon’s name was the first one on the board as a Web.com Tour-record six players suddenly shared the 54-hole lead.

The unpredictability of the game came to the forefront late Saturday afternoon as several players challenged for the lead, some took it outright, several shared it, others took it back and then gave it away at the end.

“I didn’t check the leaderboard until the 10th hole and I was reinvigorated. I was one-over for the day and really felt like I had thrown shots away left and right,” said Jamie Lovemark. “It was good to see. I really couldn’t believe it. I don’t know why exactly and I’m not sure anybody does.”

Lovemark managed only two bogeys and posted a 1-under par 70 that still gave him a share of the lead.

Abraham Ancer birdied seven of his final 14 holes and posted a bogey-free 64 shortly after Burgoon finished, which put him near the top of the board.

Harold Varner III closed bogey-birdie-birdie-bogey and fell into the first-place pit when he three-putted the final hole, a treacherous, uphill par-4 that measures 469 yards. Lovemark followed a few minutes later and added his 6-4 frame to the pile.

Landry held the outright lead after the first two days and surrendered it with a bogey at the first and three in his first eight holes. The 27-year-old Texan rallied with three birdies on the back, including one to close his round on 18 and move into a tie for the lead.

Korea’s D.H. Lee dropped off the pace and then took the outright lead at 11-under par with three consecutive birdies starting at No. 12 but played the final four holes in one-over and became the sixth, and final, entry in the record book.

The previous mark of five players sharing the 54-hole lead came at the 1994 New Mexico Charity Classic.

Following the leader are five more players who are tied for seventh place, just one shot back. Leading that group is 47-year-old Mark Walker, who also owned the outright lead as he played the difficult 18th hole.

Walker, who has no status on Tour this year, couldn’t hold it.

“I got the hard part out of the way – I drove it right down the middle,” said Walker, who lives in the Dallas area. “The main thing for me is to get that ball in play, and I did, perfectly. I couldn’t hit it any better.”

Walker trap-hooked his 3-iron into the trees left of the green and chipped onto the green, 40 feet from the pin.

“I played solid all day,” said Walker, who was mistake-free to that point and finished with a 2-under 69. “That being said, I don’t mind making bogey. I made a bad swing, that’s okay. I compounded my problems by three-putting. That was unacceptable.”

Joining Walker at 9-under are Travis Bertoni (67), Canada’s Ryan Yip (68), Australian Oliver Goss (68), and Alabama’s Hunter Hamrick (68).

As for Sunday’s mad dash to the finish, Lovemark summed it up best.

“Anybody can win,” he said. “If you get out there early with no wind and perfect greens, you can post a score just like those guys did today. I think everybody’s in it, which is crazy.”

Team Canada Young Pro Adam Svensson posted a 5-under 66 to climb into a tie for 12th. Fellow Canadian Eugene Wong shot 72 today. 

SASKATOON, Sask. – Bear, Delaware’s Eric Onesi shot a 5-under 67 on Saturday at Dakota Dunes Golf Links to build a four stroke lead heading into the final round of the SIGA Dakota Dunes Open presented by SaskTel, the fourth event of the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada season.

The 27-year old reached 19-under through 54 holes to lead by four over Pitt Meadows, British Columbia’s Justin Shin and by five over five other players and will look for his first Mackenzie Tour win on Sunday.

“It gives me a lot of confidence,” said Onesi of his 67 on a windy Saturday, where gusts in excess of 25 km/h made for tricky scoring conditions. “I didn’t try to go after anything and used a little more club here and there. I made some nice smooth swings and the ball reacted great most of the time.”

The 27-year old, who earned medalist honours at the British Columbia Qualifying Tournament earlier this year, added one more birdie for good measure at the 18^th hole on Saturday by knocking an 8-iron from 165 yards inside 10 feet and rolling in the putt.

“I picked a nice line and it was a little closer than I thought it would be,” said Onesi of his approach. “To make that putt, especially in front of a whole lot of people, that gives me a lot of confidence.”

With one round to go, the Old Dominion University grad knows the field will be chasing him on Sunday, but said he felt comfortable with a simple approach to the final round.

“I don’t even know what the lead is, but I know I can only control myself and I know I control my own destiny,” said Onesi, who added that he has drawn confidence from his Q-School this week at Dakota Dunes. “I did it at Q-School, so I always tell myself ‘you’ve done it, just keep sticking to your gameplan.’ There are great players out here and they’re going to make birdies, but if I can make some birdies too, I’ll be a couple of shots better.”

Shin, who is making his first Mackenzie Tour start of the year on a sponsor’s exemption, fired a bogey-free 66 to hold solo second through three rounds. The 23-year old earned his first professional win earlier this year on the PGA TOUR China Series at the UI Real Estate Wuhan Open and currently ranks fourth on that Tour’s money list.

One shot back of Shin at 14-under were Chris Williams, Ross Beal, Ryan Brehm and Ben Silverman, who lost in a playoff at last week’s Syncrude Boreal Open presented by AECON.

Team Canada Young Pro Mackenzie Hughes signed for a round of 68 to get to 12-under for the tournament and tied for 15th place. Fellow teammate Corey Conners also shot 68 today while Albin Choi posted a round of 71.

CANADIAN LAKES, Mich. – Giulia Molinaro (Treviso, Italy) and Chie Arimura (Kumamoto, Japan) will share the lead at 11-under par heading into the final round of the Tullymore Classic.

“I played very well,” Molinaro said. “The back nine especially I started really hitting at pins and really getting it close and making some good putts, especially on the last hole I made a really long one. Generally the game this week has been very good especially today on the back nine.”

Molinaro, the Volvik Race for the Card No. 1, made the turn in two under and then had a colorful back nine with six birdies and two bogeys to post a 6-under, 66. Ariamura was able to bounce back from three bogeys in her first six holes to shoot a 68.

“I had a very tough start but I made seven birdies after that so I’m very statisfied with it,” Arimura said of her round today.

The duo will be joined in the final group tomorrow by Haruka Morita-WanyaoLu (Takamatsu, Japan) who captured the Symetra Classic earlier this season. Carleigh Silvers (Greeley, Colo.), Daniela Iacobelli (Melbourne, Fla.) and Sara-Maude Juneau (Quebec, Canada) will make up the penultimate pariing.

“I’d like to say that you learn how to be on the lead and try to play to win but I don’t think that I’m yet to the point to say that I’m relaxed or I’m comfortable,” Molinaro explained. “Obviously, I’ll go out there and try to do my best, and everyone else is in the same position as me so everyone has to go and try to play their best golf, but it’s never an easy situation and whoever is the strongest mentally tomorrow will make it.”

“I’m not nervous,” Molinaro continued. “Those are the nerves that every golfer or athlete wants to have because that means that you are right up there so it’s good. I’m welcoming the nerves. I’m welcoming the stress, whatever you can call it. I’m excited. I’m obviously happy to give myself a chance and if I play the way I play today I probably have a pretty good chance to win the tournament so it’s just go shot-by-shot and try to stay mentally strong and never be happy with the score that you’re at. Always try to do better.”

79 players made the cut at 144 (E),

The remaining field is competing for a share of a $100,000 purse with a top prize of $15,000. The top-10 on the year-end Volvik Race for the Card money list will receive their LPGA Tour cards for the 2016 season.

Final round play will begin off the first at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.

14-year old caddie helping Sara-Maude Juneau: When Canadian Sara-Maude Juneau went to meet her caddie prior to Friday’s first round she didn’t know what to expect as she had signed up through the volunteer caddie system. Who she was paired with was 14-year-old Pierce.

“He’s been great honestly,” Juneau said. “He’s really fun. He’s really chill. He reminds me of my little brother a bit back when he was that age.”

The duo have made quite the team this week as Juneau currently sits in a tie for sixth at 9-under par, two strokes back of the leaders.

“It’s great,” Juneau said. “He’s done exactly what I’ve asked him to do and he’s really enjoying himself and is very positive. It’s impressive because I’ve had older caddies who weren’t nearly as good as him.”

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – Jhonattan Vegas hasn’t had much success since winning his second PGA Tour event as a rookie in 2011. The Greenbrier Classic could give him that needed boost.

Vegas shot a 5-under-par 65 to tie Scott Langley for the lead after the second round Friday. They were at 9-under 131 on the Old White TPC course in West Virginia.

Twenty-three golfers were within three shots of the lead, including seven at 8 under.

Vegas doesn’t have a top 10 finish this season, but he’s looking to change that. He made five birdies during a bogey-free round Friday, including two of his final three holes.

“I feel like I’m playing great, I just haven’t been able to put it all together,” the Venezuelan said. “But I’m staying patient and working really hard to make it happen, and it’s coming together.”

Langley didn’t have the same birdie explosion as he enjoyed in the first round, when he shot 62 to take the lead.

Starting his round on the back nine, Langley made back-to-back birdies on Nos. 6 and 7 and shot 69.

“Following up a round of 62 is never super easy,” Langley said. “I left a lot of putts within 6 inches of the hole, just right in the heart. I need to be a little more assertive (Saturday) on the greens.”

Langley and Vegas had a chance to make noise last week at the Travelers Championship. Langley was four strokes behind eventual winner Bubba Watson entering weekend play, while Vegas was six shots back.

Both faded in the final two rounds.

The top four finishers at The Greenbrier not previously eligible for the British Open will earn spots next week at St. Andrews, provided they are among the top 12 and ties.

“That’s one of the goals for the week,” Vegas said. “So we’re going to try to go get it.”

Tiger Woods made little progress after a solid first round but avoided missing consecutive cuts for the first time as a pro. Woods shot 69 Friday and was at 5 under, four shots back.

Woods had more trouble reaching fairways on Friday. He found the water to the right on the par-5 17th for the second straight day, hit his golf bag with his driver in disgust, then nearly holed his 97-yard fourth shot and made par.

He salvaged his under-par round with a short birdie putt on the par-3 18th. He declined interviews afterward.

Langley is looking to become the third person to become a first-time PGA Tour winner by winning The Greenbrier in the tournament’s six-year history.

So, too, is David Hearn, who was among those in the group at 8 under. The Canadian is still looking for his first PGA Tour win in his 164th event. His best finish was second at the 2013 John Deere Classic.

“This would be a great place for me to win one, but I’ve got 36 holes of golf (left),” Hearn said. “I’m playing great right now and I look forward to the weekend.”

Hearn birdied six of his first eight holes and shot 64. He and Jonathan Byrd were tied for the lead on the back nine before late bogeys slowed their momentum. Byrd shot 69 and also was at 8 under.

Sixty-seven golfers made the cut at 2 under. Michael Putnam had an eagle and four birdies on the back nine to make the cut on the number.

Steve Stricker missed only his third cut since 2010.

Heavy rains stopped play for 18 minutes in the morning. Occasional thunderstorms are forecast through the weekend.

Graham DeLaet posted a round of 70 to make it to the weekend. 

Nick Taylor and Roger Sloan narrowly missed the cut by two strokes. Adam Hadwin was one shot back of the pair.

PARIS – Home favorite Victor Dubuisson was in a three-way tie for the lead after the second round of the French Open on Friday, while Ryder Cup teammate Graeme McDowell’s bid for a third successive title came to an early end.

Dubuisson and Spain’s Rafa Cabrera-Bello had been part of a four-way tie for the lead after the weather-delayed opening round was completed in the morning and they both carded a 1-under 70 in the second to finish the day level with Martin Kaymer (69). They had a 4-under 138 total.

Kaymer made four birdies to go with a double bogey on the 15th.

McDowell missed the cut on 8 over after a round of 78 that contained two double bogeys, three bogeys and no birdies. It was his worst score in 32 rounds at Le Golf National.