PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – Russell Knox and Graeme McDowell each had six birdies and were tied for the lead before the final round was stopped Sunday in the rain-delayed OHL Classic at Mayakoba, setting up a sprint to the finish Monday in Mexico.

The fourth round was delayed 3 1/2 hours by thunderstorms that left pools of water across El Camaleon Golf Club.

McDowell elected to finish the par-5 13th when the horn sounded to suspend play because of darkness. He made birdie to join Knox at 19-under par.

Knox was still on the 13th hole.

Jason Bohn, who chipped in for eagle on the fifth hole for an early lead, dropped two shots and was at 17 under through 12 holes. Bohn won his first PGA Tour event in 2005 and his next one in 2010. This is his final event of 2015.

The final round was to resume at 8 a.m. Monday.

This will be the first time in 10 years that back-to-back PGA Tour events finished on Monday because of rain. The Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi had a marathon finish last Monday because of the weather.

With soft conditions, there figures to be little room for error when Mayakoba ends on Monday.

Scott Brown (through 14 holes) and Derek Fathauer (12 holes) were four shots behind. Fathauer, trying to make it six straight PGA Tour events with a first-time winner, had a one-shot lead starting the final round but had only one birdie against two bogeys to fall back.

Knox is coming off his first win last week in Shanghai at the HSBC Champions, and he was so exhausted that he considered pulling out this week. Instead, he continued his around-the world journey to Mexico. He can become the first player since Camilo Villegas in 2008 to win his first two PGA Tour titles in successive weeks.

The 30-year-old from Scotland ran off four straight birdies starting at No. 3, and then stuffed his approach just short of the pin on the par-3 eighth and went out in 31. He picked up his sixth birdie on the 11th hole.

McDowell has not had a top 10 since the Dubai Desert Classic in February. He chose to end his European Tour season earlier than usual because of a mediocre season, and because he has never fared well on the course for the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai next week.

Along with his three straight birdies on the front nine was a par on the opening hole at El Camaleon. McDowell had played that hole in 5 over through three rounds – two double bogeys and a bogey. This time, he hit 3-wood off the tee.

PGA Tour rookie Harold Varner III, Justin Leonard, Patrick Rodgers and Freddie Jacobson were at 13 under, six shots behind.

Canada’s David Hearn played 13 holes Sunday before play was suspended. He’s 1 under on the round and 1 under overall.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – Derek Fathauer played bogey-free Saturday on his way to another 6-under 66 that gave him a one-shot lead in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba and a chance to extend an unusual streak on the PGA Tour.

First-time winners have captured all five of the PGA Tour events at the start of the wraparound season.

Fathauer would love to make it six in a row.

“I’ve just got to have fun, play golf, play my game, and whatever happens will happen,” he said.

Fathauer was at 16-under 197 and led by one shot over Jason Bohn, who missed a 5-foot par putt on the final hole at El Camaleon Golf Club. Bohn took the lead on the par-5 13th hole with a 25-foot eagle putt right before the third round was halted for nearly 90 minutes because of storms in the area. Bohn had to scramble for pars late in his round and couldn’t save the last one. He shot a 65.

Russell Knox, coming off his first win last week in Shanghai at the HSBC Champions, also made bogey on the last hole for a 65. He was at 13-under 200, along with Justin Leonard (67), Graeme McDowell (70) and PGA Tour rookie Harold Varner III, who made an 18-foot par putt on the last hole for a 68.

Bohn was the 54-hole leader at Mayakoba a year ago until closing with a 74.

“I don’t want to do what I did last year on Sunday,” Bohn said. “The only thing I can draw on is how I’ve been playing. I’ve got to embrace it, have fun and realize where I am. If I give myself enough chances, I’m going to win one.”

He already has come close twice this year. Bohn finished one shot out of a playoff in the season-opening Frys.com Open, courtesy for a flubbed pitch. A week later in Las Vegas, he finished one shot out of the lead.

McDowell was the 36-hole leader, except that didn’t last long. He took another double bogey on the par-4 opening hole, and now has played it at 5 over for the week. McDowell followed with a bogey and spent the rest of the round trying to catch up. A 12-foot birdie on the 17th allowed him to salvage a 70.

“I’ve got to get past that first hole, which is kind of killing me,” McDowell said. “The game is in really good shape. Apart from two driver swings, I’m really happy with the general progress.”

He also hit a drive well right on the par-5 13th that led to a bogey.

Leonard appeared to be the one most affected by the storm delay. He was tied for the lead at 15 under after a birdie on the par-5 13th. When play resumed, he came up short of the green at the 14th, hit a nice chip-and-run to just outside 4 feet and missed the putt. On the par-3 15th, Leonard went left of the pin and down a slope and failed to save par. He was solid the rest of the way and still has a good chance Sunday.

Leonard hasn’t had a top 10 in nearly two years and has said he is trimming is schedule this year to spend more time with his wife and four children. He moved to Colorado in August, and the courses closed Nov. 1. So he went to Arizona for a few days of practice and showed up fresh. He said the mental hurdle in cutting back his schedule was to realize “I’m not going to forget how to swing a club, I’m not going to forget how to play the game.”

Johnson Wagner had a third straight 67 and was four shots behind. The group at 11-under 202 included Patrick Rodgers (69) and Freddie Jacobson, whose 63 was the low score of the third round. Arizona State senior Jon Rahm of Spain had a 66 and was six shots behind. Rahm tied for fifth in the Phoenix Open last season.

 Canada’s David Hearn shot a 75 Saturday and is alone in 78th.

MEXICO CITY – Inbee Park made two late birdies and shot 5-under 67 to open a three-stroke lead Saturday in the LPGA Tour’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

The second-ranked South Korean star hit a 7-iron to 3 feet to set up a birdie on the par-3 16th, and made a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th. She had a 10-under 206 total at tree-lined Club de Golf Mexico.

Park is making her first start since withdrawing in China two weeks ago because of a cyst on her left middle finger. She has four victories this season, winning two of the five majors.

Sei Young Kim, also from South Korea, was second after a 70. She won the event two weeks ago in China for her third victory of the season and has wrapped up the tour’s rookie of the year award.

 Canada’s Alena Sharp shot 72 Saturday and is 28th.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Team Canada’s duo of Eric Banks and Tony Gil continued their effort to defend Canada’s Tailhade Cup title on Saturday, carding a collective 3-under 139 to sit in fourth place heading into Sunday’s final round.

Overall, the Canucks sit at 4-over par and trail a trio of leading teams by three strokes—Australia, Brazil and host Argentina.

Truro, N.S., native and National Amateur Squad member Eric Banks shared the lowest round of the day with a 3-under 68, placing him in second place individually, two strokes back of Argentina’s Simaski Matias.

17-year-old Development Squad member Tony Gil of Vaughan, Ont., bounced back on Saturday’s second round at the Los Lagartos Country Club, shooting an even-par 71 to sit T33 individually.

The final round of rain-shortened event will commence Sunday.

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SHANGHAI – Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee shot a 6-under 66 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the BMW Masters.

Thongchai had started the day three shots behind Lucas Bjerregaard of Denmark, but made five birdies on the front nine to move into a share of the lead and then two more on the back nine to card a 15-under 201 through 54 holes.

“I think today I miss about three greens. That’s why the key, I think, is I play my irons really well,” the 46-year-old veteran said. “Tomorrow is a very big day. If I play well like this, keep performing like this, I’m going to have a good chance.”

The Thai golfer, seeking his second European Tour title of the season, is one stroke ahead of Bjerregaard (70), Sergio Garcia of Spain (67) and An Byeong-hun of South Korea (66).

Players wore black ribbons on their hats to remember the victims of the attacks in Paris on Friday night and took to Twitter to share their condolences.

France’s Benjamin Hebert, who shot a 71 on Saturday, posted a picture of himself wearing a white hat and glove with the words “Pray for Paris” written across them, as well as black pants and a green shirt. His tweet read, “Black for mourning, green for hope, white for peace.”

After breaking a BMW Masters record with a 29 on his back nine, Australia’s Marcus Fraser tweeted: “Days like today make you realize even more how insignificant golf really is.”

Fraser ended his round by holing a 231-yard shot for eagle on the par-4 18th hole to become the first player at the tournament to break 30 on either the front or back nine, according to the European Tour. He shot a 65 to move into a tie for 11th place, four strokes behind the leader.

Fraser said he thought his second shot on 18 was “perfect” when he hit it. “All of a sudden, there’s a lot of carrying on up here (at the pin) and I walk up there and I’d torn the front out of the hole and the ball was sitting in the bottom,” he said.

Garcia also finished strongly with three birdies on his last four holes to stay close to the lead. He’s aiming to win his first European Tour title in nearly two years.

“I played the last four holes really well, I think. It was nice to be able to finish like that and give myself a shot tomorrow because I was getting a little bit far behind,” he said.

An, the BMW PGA Championship winner earlier this year, carded six birdies in a blemish-free round, while Bjerregaard had three birdies to go with one bogey.

Sweden’s Kristoffer Broberg was in fifth place at 13 under overall, two shots behind Thongchai, while Henrik Stenson, Patrick Reed, Ross Fisher, Paul Casey and Ian Poulter were another shot back in a tie for sixth.

France’s Alexander Levy and Belgium’s Thomas Pieters had the low round of the day with a 63.

Levy said the Paris attacks were on his mind when he started his round on Saturday morning.

“I was very disappointed this morning when I wake up because I watch what happened in France,” he said. “And I say, ‘Come on, today just have fun and enjoy your day’ because a lot of trouble in France.”

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico – Graeme McDowell made seven birdies in an eight-hole stretch Friday and shot an 8-under 63 to take a one-shot lead in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba.

McDowell closed out the back nine with three straight birdies, made a bogey on No. 1, and then bounced back with four straight birdies in the morning. He has played the first hole at El Camaleon Golf Club in 3 over for two days.

Derek Fathauer made four birdies over his last seven holes for a 66 to get within one shot of McDowell.

McDowell was at 12-under 130. He typically plays the European Tour as it concludes the Race to Dubai, but the 36-year-old from Northern Ireland had such a mediocre year that he chose to start the new PGA Tour season.

Canada’s David Hearn shot 70 Friday and heads into the weekend tied for 27th at 4 under. Fellow Canadian Adam Hadwin (72-75) was 4 over and did not make the 36-hole cut.

MEXICO CITY – Minjee Lee shot her second straight 3-under 69 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over four players in the LPGA Tour’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational.

The 19-year-old Australian player two-putted from 50 feet on the par-5 17th for the last of her six birdies at tree-lined Club de Golf Mexico. She won at Kingsmill in May for her first LPGA Tour title.

Second-ranked Inbee Park, defending champion Christina Kim, Angela Stanford and rookie of the year Sei Young Kim were tied for second in the 36-player event. Park, the first-round leader, had a 71. Christina Kim and Sei Young Kim each shot 66, and Stanford had a 70.

Park is making her first start since withdrawing in China two weeks ago because of a cyst on her left middle finger. The South Korean star has four victories this season, winning two of the five majors.

Sei Young Kim, also from South Korea, won the event in China for her third victory of the season.

Stanford is coming off playoff loss to Sun-Ju Ahn last week in the Asian Swing finale in Japan. The American won the inaugural tournament in 2008 in Guadalajara.

Last year, Christina Kim beat Shanshan Feng on the second hole off a playoff after losing a five-stroke lead in the final round.

Norway’s Suzann Pettersen was sixth at 4 under after a 71.

Canada’s Alena Sharp carded a 1 over 73 Friday and has a share of 31st at 5 over.

Top-ranked Lydia Ko is skipping the tournament to rest for her title defense next week in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in Naples, Florida.

Four Canadians finished inside the cut of T21 (plus ties) on Friday to advance to the final stage of Web.com Tour Qualifying School. The Canucks were in action at two separate 72-hole stroke-play events contested at different sites in the U.S.

Team Canada Young Pro Squad member Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., led the way at the Brocksville, Fla., event, closing at 17-under at the Southern Hills Plantation Club to finish as runner-up—four strokes back of medalist Doug Leston. Canadian Chris Ross—also of Dundas, Ont.—posted an 8-under to just squeeze inside the cut line with a T18 finish.

Across the way in Texas, Canadians Devin Carrey of Burnaby, B.C. and Cam Burke of New Hamburg, Ont., cracked the top-10 at the Clubs of Kingwood-Deerwood to punch their ticket to the final stage. Carrey came in at 8-under par to finish tied for fourth while Burke ended at 6-under to finish T10. American Anthony Broussard of Addison, Tex., took home medalist honours, finishing at 16-under, five-strokes clear of the runner-up.

There are two remaining stage II Qualifying events still to be conducted, both running next week from Nov. 17–20. There are 10 hopeful Canadians in the field at the remaining events, all looking for their chance to advance to the final stage contested from Dec. 10–13 at PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.—see the list below:

Nov 17–20
Oak Valley Golf Club, Beaumont, Calif.

• Max Gilbert (Montreal)
• Ryan Williams (Surrey, B.C.)
• Matt McQuillan (Kingston, Ont.)
• Seann Harlingten (Vancouver)
• Ryan Yip (Calgary)
• Brad Clapp (Chilliwack, B.C.)

Nov 17–20
Plantation Preserve Golf Club, Plantation, Fla.

• Lucas Kim (Toronto)
• Jon Mills (Belleville, Ont.)
• Ben Silverman (Thornhill, Ont.)
• Matt Hill (Brights Grove, Ont.)

All players who make it to the Final Stage of the Web.com Tour Q-School will earn at least conditional status on the Web.com Tour in 2016.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Team Canada’s duo of Eric Banks and Tony Gil posted a 7-over 149 in Friday’s first round of action at the Tailhade Cup to sit in a tie for seventh.

After play was suspended on Thursday due to thunderstorms, Nova Scotia’s Banks led the Canadian pair with an opening even-par 71—good for the day’s third-best score overall. Gil, a 17-year-old Vaughan, Ont., native, struggled on the day with a 7-over par 78.

Collectively, the Australians hold the outright lead after Friday’s first round, carding a 1-over 143. They are closely followed by host Argentina, who sit two-back at 145.

The second round of action will resume tomorrow at the Los Lagartos Country Club, with the final round to commence on Sunday.

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When Jocelyne Bourassa arrived for the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony, she thought she was in Hollywood.

There was a red carpet entrance, all the spotlights and a who’s who of Canadian sport attended the glitzy shindig.

“Gosh, I felt like I was outside a Hollywood premier,” the 68-year-old Bourassa stated. “I didn’t know how big a deal this was.

“Most of my fellow inductees were past Olympians. They talked about their paths to success, the injuries they suffered and overcame. Now golf is part of the Olympics again.”

Bourassa’s story easily could be made into a Hollywood film. She went into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame as a builder, but her diligence in making sure young women professionals had a place to play in Canada is only part of her fascinating narrative.

She was the Brooke Henderson of the time. The Shawinigan, Quebec-raised dynamo reeled off amateur win after amateur win in Quebec, nationally and internationally.

The highlights were consecutive Quebec junior titles in 1963, 1964 and 1965, backed up by Canadian Women Amateur Championship titles in 1965 and 1971. She turned pro and promptly was named the 1972 LPGA rookie of the year.

But knee problems plagued Bourassa’s success, so much so that she was once called the Bobby Orr of women’s golf because of how many knee surgeries she required.

However, she battled through the pain for a week back in June of 1973. The LPGA finally had come to Canada at Montreal Municipal to contest La Canadienne, which became the du Maurier Classic, now known as the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open.

Bourassa was 26 and wondered how many good rounds she had left in her. A doctor had told her caddy, Mario Brisebois, that if she was a horse she would have been put out to pasture.

But Bourassa battled that week. She scrambled and made several clutch putts. On the 72nd hole, Bourassa walked over to the spectators and found her brother Gilles.

“I asked him what I needed to get into the playoff and he told me a birdie,” she recalled. “I went back inside the ropes and knew I was going to do it.

“I had a very long putt [30 feet] to make for birdie. People tell me I took forever to make the putt, but I knew the line. I knew the putt was going to go in.’’

It did go in and gave her a spot in the playoff against Judy Rankin and Sandra Haynie. Bourassa was extremely nervous beginning that playoff. She duck-hooked her drive on the opening hole, only to make a miraculous recovery shot from under a tree to the green. She outlasted Rankin and then, finally, Haynie.

“Sandra duck-hooked her drive into the water on the last hole,” Bourassa said. “The fans cheered, just like at a hockey game. I was embarrassed. I had to apologize to Sandra.

“But I still had work to do. I needed to make a two-foot putt to win. But I couldn’t draw the putter back. So I took a deep breath and hit it through. It just snuggled in.’’

Quebec went crazy. They had a new sporting hero. But Brisebois put some perspective on the massive win. The win inspired a generation of elite-level athletes in Quebec like diver Sylvie Bernier, biathlete Myriam Bedard and short-track speed skater Nathalie Lambert.

But not everyone was doing cartwheels after Bourassa’s win. Brisebois recalled that Bourassa was a guest on a popular sports radio show and that the host told her a woman should be home in the kitchen, raising kids and taking care of her husband.

“Jocelyne proved there was room for women in sports,” said Brisebois, who went on to become one of Canada’s top golf writers and still is going strong.

Bourassa retired a few years later from competitive golf and in 1979 became the executive director of the du Maurier. She dedicated her life to grow women’s professional golf in Canada.

She helped promising Canadian juniors find golf scholarships. Later, she would help them begin professional careers with a series of events across Canada, now known as the Canadian Women’s (golf) Tour.

She played a big part in why Canada had LPGA Tour winners like Dawn Coe, Lisa Walters, Jennifer Wyatt, Lorie Kane and now Henderson.

“Jocelyne has so many good qualities,” Brisebois said. “But if I had to pick one it would be her generosity. She’s very generous. She’s so likeable. You cannot find anyone who dislikes this lady.

“She deserves a lot of respect.”