COURTENAY, B.C. – Mackenzie Tour Q-School resumes this week with the fourth and final 2016 qualifying tournament taking place May 3-6 at Crown Isle Resort and Golf Community.

One hundred and thirty two players, including 39 Canadians, will compete at the fourth and final qualifying tournament for the 2016 Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada. The medalist will earn full exempt status, while players finishing second to 16th Exempt through the first four events and are subject to re-shuffle. Players finishing 17th to 40th earn conditional status.

Crown Isle, a 7,025-yard layout designed by Graham Cooke and Associates in 1992, has hosted Mackenzie Tour qualifying each of the last two years. Water-lined with 11 lakes and immaculately manicured, the course offers stunning vistas of the Comox Glacier and Beaufort Mountain Range.

Among the Canadians looking to earn status is five-time Stanley Cup champion goaltender Grant Fuhr. The Hockey Hall of Fame member and Spruce Grove, Alta., native has played Q-School on three occasions previously and was recently named the Honourary Tournament Chair of the Oil Country Championship. He competed at the Staal Foundation Open presented by Tbaytel last year on a sponsor exemption.

CANADIANS IN THE FIELD (39)

• Adam Cornelson (Langley, B.C.)
• Andrew Funk (Edmonton, Alberta)
• Grant Fuhr (Spruce Grove, Alberta)
• Turner Southey-Gordon (Toronto, Ontario)
• Josh Wytinck (Glenboro, Manitoba)
• Keith Martin (Kelowna, B.C.)
• Michael Belle (Burnaby, B.C.)
• Shawn Vanderwal (Kamloops, B.C.)
• Ryan Werre (Redcliff, Alberta)
• Mitch Sutton (London, Ontario)
• Braeden Cryderman (Hunstville, Ontario)
• Kevin Stinson (Mission, B.C.)
• J.J. Regan (Burlington, Ontario)
• Brendon Williams (Victoria, B.C.)
• Thomas Hay (Langley, B.C.)
• Ryan Curran (Thornton, Ontario)
• James Seymour (Aurora, Ontario)
• Brian Churchill-Smith (Oakville, Ontario)
• Charlie Boyechko (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
• Marko Viinikka (Victoria, B.C.)
• Scott Stiles (Calgary, Alberta)
• Mitchell Fox (Calgary, Alberta)
• Tyson Beaupre (Grande Prairie, Alberta)
• Scott Cameron (Langley, B.C.)
• Andrew Rasmussen (Delta, B.C.)
• Tony Mak (Vancouver, B.C.)
• Michael Powell (Surrey, B.C.)
• William Deck (Kelowna, B.C.)
• Matt Hoffman (Thornhill, Ontario)
• Gianfranco Guida (Maple, Ontario)
• Eric Hawerchuk (Barrie, Ontario)
• Aaron Cockerill (Gunton, Manitoba)
• Russell Budd (Toronto, Ontario)
• Matt Hamilton (Courtenay, B.C.)
• Ryan Crnac (Richmond, B.C.)
• Zejun Ni (Calgary, Alberta)
• Brendan Dillon (Port Moody, B.C.)
• Donghoon Oh (Coquitlam, B.C.)
• Jacob Vanderpas (Vancouver, B.C.)

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IRVING, Texas – Jenny Shin won the Volunteers of America Texas Shootout on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory, pulling away for a two-stroke victory at Las Colinas.

Making her 133rd tour start, Shin closed with a 4-under 67 to finish at 14-under 270. The 23-year-old South Korean player went to high school in Torrance, California, and won the 2006 U.S. Girls’ Junior.

“Still in awe. Nothing has registered yet,” Shin said. “I wanted to talk to my mum, but I was on the verge of tears, so I hung up without really her answering the phone. I think it will hit me as soon as I talk to my mum.”

Third-round leader Gerina Piller, the area resident seeking her first tour victory, birdied the final hole for a 73 to tie for second with South Koreans Amy Yang and Mi Jung Hur.

“I was proud of the way I finished. I’ll be back,” Piller said after her fourth straight top-six finish.

Yang and Hur each shot 71.

Shin birdied three of the first five holes and added another on the par-5 10th. She closed with eight pars, the last an up-and-down save from right of the green on the par-5 18th.

“I actually didn’t know I was in front of everybody, I thought Amy Yang was only one stroke behind, so I was really nervous on the last hole,” Shin said.

Other players showered her with beer after the victory.

“It wasn’t something I pictured, for sure,” Shin said. “I wanted something like champagne, but now I’m stinking of beer. Then they were like, ‘Oh, you stink of beer.” Then they shower you more with water. But it’s still good. I’m so glad they stuck around and gave me a shower of beer.“

She’s projected to jump from 38th to 24th in the world ranking.

“Nothing’s easy, golf is not easy,” Shin said. “I worked my butt off out there. I didn’t have my ‘A’ game this week, surprisingly, and to know that I won with kind of a semi-goodish game, it makes me very happy.”

Piller lives in Plano, about 20 miles from Las Colinas. The long-hitting U.S. Solheim Cup hero grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, and played at the University Texas-El Paso. A number of high school and college friends joined her family _ led by her husband, PGA Tour player Martin Piller _ in the gallery.

“The thing that makes it more special is I don’t have to play good golf for them to continue to love me, so that’s pretty cool,” Piller said. “No matter what I shoot, no matter what I do, they’re behind me.”

Fifth-ranked Brooke Henderson closed with a 71 to tie for 19th at 3 under, ending the 18-year-old Canadian’s string of top-10 finishes at eight.

Cheyenne Knight, a 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman from nearby Aledo, had a 72 to tie for 30th at 1 under. Karah Sanford, a 14-year-old high school freshman from San Diego, tied for 51st at 6 over after a 77.

NEWBURGH, Ind. – Seamus Power took advantage of the other leaders’ late problems to win the United Leasing & Finance Championship on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title.

The 39-year-old Irish player closed with a bogey-free 5-under 67 at Victoria National to finish at 12-under 276. He birdied the par-4 17th and parred the par-4 18th.

Third-round leader Adam Schenk, Cody Gribble and Jonathan Randolph finished a stroke back. Schenk, from nearby Vincennes, made a double bogey on par-5 15th in a 70. Gribble bogeyed the final two holes for a 69. Randolph bogeyed the 17th in a 67.

Calgary’s Roger Sloan was fifth at 10 under. The Canadian made double bogeys on the final two holes for a 69.

AVONDALE, La. – Jhonattan Vegas birdied two of five holes he was able to play in the rain-delayed third round of the Zurich Classic on Sunday, giving him a share of the lead with Brian Stuard.

Tournament officials cut the event to 54 holes in an attempt to finish play Monday.

Vegas made birdie putts from beyond 7 feet on the first two holes to reach 13 under, then parred three straight before steady rain, accompanied by intermittent thunder, forced organizers to clear the water-logged TPC Louisiana after little more than two hours of play.

Stuard, who has not made a bogey in the tournament, had one birdie Sunday. Like Vegas, he’ll resume play on the sixth hole.

Top-ranked Jason Day was in a five-way tie for fifth at 10 under through 44 holes.

Rain, which also delayed play Thursday and Saturday, is again forecast Monday.

The Zurich Classic is the first PGA Tour event to be shortened to 54 holes since the 2013 Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua. The last Monday finish was the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in early February.

Play was suspended a just after 10 a.m. time and tournament officials waited hopefully through a delay of more than six hours before finally calling off play for the day and shortening the tournament.

“I’m just trying to stay awake right now. It’s been a really long day,” Vegas, a Venezuelan with one career PGA Tour triumph, said during the delay. “Just got to find a way to relax and keep the mind calm.”

He said he was focused on “doing things simple” in conditions that were sloppy but hardly unfamiliar to him.

“I grew up in a place that rained a lot,” Vegas said. “The big thing here (is) just being able to hit the ball clean, especially when it’s muddy and so wet.

“It should be a fun finish,” he added.

The 33-year-old Stuard is trying to win a PGA Tour event for the first time, and the delays have given him plenty of time to sit around and think about the high stakes he now faces in his final round, although he’s trying not to do that.

“Just try not to get ahead of yourself,” Stuard said. “We just got to keep that right mind frame and just worry about the next shot.”

Bobby Wyatt, who has an eagle and four birdies in his third round, climbed from 22nd after two rounds to third at 12 under with nine holes to play. Jamie Lovemark was fourth at 11 under with 13 holes left.

Day birdied his last two holes before play was stopped. He was tied with Charley Hoffman, Scott Stallings, Chris Kirk and Charles Howell III. Hoffman and Stallings each have just four holes left, while Kirk has nine and Howell 12.

“I’m only three shots back, but anything can happen on the back side,” Day said. “We always say golf is a marathon, not a sprint, (but) this is kind of a sprint now.”

Canada’s David Hearn was 8-under thru 13-holes of his 3rd round.

AVONDALE, La. – Brian Stuard completed his second straight bogey-free round to take a one-shot lead in the waterlogged Zurich Classic.

Stuard played just six holes Saturday, completing his second round with a 4-under 68 to reach 12 under at TPC Louisiana. Jamie Landmark and Jhonattan Vegas were tied for second. They finished the second round Friday.

The 33-year-old Stuard, winless on the PGA Tour, continued his steady play with two birdies Some players were able to begin the third round on Saturday before thunderstorms swept through the area, but the leaders haven’t teed off.

Top-ranked Day was five strokes behind Stuard after shooting a 68 in the second round.

Rain delays have interrupted two out of three days of the tournament. More rain is forecast for Sunday.

David Hearn, of Brantford, Ont., was the top Canadian at 5 under. Hearn was 1 under through four holes in his third round.

Fellow Canadian Adam Hadwin, of Abbotsford, B.C., made it through just two holes and is currently 4 under for the tournament. Nick Taylor, also from Abbotsford, had yet to tee off his third round.

IRVING, Texas – Gerina Piller took a two-stroke lead Saturday in the LPGA Tour’s Volunteers of America Texas Shootout, putting her in position for a breakthrough victory in her home event.

Winless in 123 career starts, the 31-year-old Piller shot a bogey-free 4-under 67 to reach 14-under 199 at Las Colinas Country Club.

The long-hitting U.S. Solheim Cup hero lives in Plano, about 20 miles from Las Colinas. She grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, and played at the University Texas-El Paso.

Piller is married to PGA Tour player Martin Piller. He watched her play Saturday after missing the cut in the Zurich Classic in Louisiana.

Piller hit to 4 feet to set up a birdie on the par-4 second, then birdied three straight par 5s _ two-putting No. 3 and making a 5-footer on No. 7 and a 10-footer on No. 10. She parred the final eight holes.

Piller has hit 52 of 54 greens in regulation, with the two misses coming in the first round Thursday.

South Korean players held the next four spots on the leaderboard. Amy Yang (65) and Mi Jung Hur (66) were tied for second at 12 under, and Jenny Shin (65) and Sei Young Kim (68) were 10 under. Hur lives in the area in McKinney.

Fifth-ranked Brooke Henderson had a 73 to drop into a tie for 19th at 3 under. The 18-year-old Canadian has eight straight top-10 finishes.

Amateurs Cheyenne Knight and Karah Sanford were among the 53 players to advance to the final round in the event that features two cuts.

Knight, a 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman from nearby Aledo, was tied for 26th at 2 under after a 72. The 14-year-old Sanford, a high school freshman from San Diego, was tied for 46th at even par after a 71.

IRVING, Texas – Gerina Piller made herself right at home Friday in the LPGA Tour’shooting a 6-under 65 to take the lead in the suspended second round.

The long-hitting U.S. Solheim Cup player lives in Plano, about 20 miles from Las Colinas Country Club. She birdied three of the final five holes in her bogey-free round to reach 10-under 132.

“I don’t get to have my family out a lot, so having them out definitely takes my mind off of it because I just love spending time with them,” Piller said. “But it’s hard to get in your tournament routine when you go back home and you might have laundry to do or dishes to put away, something that you don’t normally do on the road. Tuesday trash day. So you’ve kind of got to remind yourself that it’s a tournament and just stick to your routine.”

Play was suspended because of rain just after 4 p.m. and called for the day because of lighting a little after 6 p.m. None of the afternoon starters were unable to finish. The field will be cut to the low 70 and ties after the completion of the round Saturday morning, then trimmed again to the low 50 and ties after the third round.

Winless on the LPGA Tour, Piller tied for third last week in California in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic for her third straight top-six finish. She hit her approach to 2 feet on the par-5 18th to set up her final birdie.

“The course is actually in soft conditions so that always helps to get the ball to stop,” Piller said. “These greens are pretty tricky. So getting it close is definitely huge out here because the greens, some of them are pretty big, and some of the breaks you can get pretty fast putts going downhill down grain, and you can also get really slow putts going the opposite way. It definitely helps to be hitting it really well.”

She’s married to Martin Piller, the PGA Tour player who tied for fourth last week in San Antonio in the Texas Open. They crossed paths early Monday at the airport.

“It’s always fun to see him and just makes those times that we have together much sweeter,” Piller said. “We definitely don’t take our time that we spend together for granted. I’ll see him probably in two weeks, so it was nice to be able to see him for at least a couple hours.

South Korea’s Eun-Hee Ji was a stroke back at 9 under after a 66.

“I feel pretty good with my swing,” Ji said. “That’s why I made a lot of putts because so close to the pin. I just keep working on my swing.”

First-round leader Mi Jung Hur was 8 under with six holes left. The South Korean player lives in the area in McKinney.

Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn was 7 under after a 66, and South Korea’s Amy Yang was 6 under with seven holes left.

Fifth-ranked Brooke Henderson topped the group at 5 under after a 68. The 18-year-old from Smiths Falls, Ont., has eight straight top-10 finishes.

“It was a little bit softer after the rain last night and the greens were holding and you were able to be aggressive,” Henderson said. “I didn’t really take advantage as much as I would have liked, but 3 under is a solid round. I’ll have to be better on the weekend.”

Cheyenne Knight, a 19-year-old University of Alabama freshman from nearby Aledo, and South Korea’s Sei Young Kim also were 5 under. Knight, one of four amateurs who earned spots in the field March 16, had four holes left. Kim had seven holes remaining.

Fourth-ranked Stacy Lewis was a stroke over the cut line at 2 over with seven holes left. The 2014 winner in her home-state event, Lewis is winless in 47 events.

Third-ranked Lexi Thompson was 4 over with eight holes to play.

Michelle Wie will miss the cut after following her opening 76 with a 72. Last week, she withdrew during the final round of the Swinging Skirts because of neck spasms. She’s winless since the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open and hasn’t had a top-10 finish in 34 events.

Second-ranked Inbee Park, the 2013 and 2015 champion, is sidelined by a left thumb injury.

Santee, Calif. – California’s John Chin shot a final round 2-under 70 on Friday Carlton Oaks Country Club to earn victory and medalist honours at the Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada’s USA West Qualifying Tournament.

Chin finished the week 14-under, one stroke ahead of Rancho Santa Fe, California’s Colin Featherstone, earning him fully exempt status on the Mackenzie Tour for 2016.

“It was a lot of fun out there. My goal was just to try and limit my mistakes and not make any bogeys. Colin’s putter got hot at the end there and made things interesting, but it was a lot of fun,” said Chin.

The win comes on comfortable territory for Chin, who was victorious at Carlton Oaks for the second time in as many weeks, having claimed a Golden State Tour event last week in a warm-up for Q-School.

“I had a lot of confidence coming into this week, so I was just saying ‘why can’t I do it again?” To see the results on top of the hard work, it feels good,” said Chin.

A former Web.com Tour member, Chin said he entered 2016 with renewed focus after missing out at the second stage of Web.com Tour Q-School last fall, and that his offseason preparation paid off over the course of the week.

“The last two days, my ballstriking was a little shaky, but that’s what I practice for – my misses didn’t hurt me too much. Anyone can hit it well, but it’s about when you’re grinding that really counts,” said Chin.

For the week, 40 players in total earned status for the 2016 Mackenzie Tour season.

AVONDALE, La. – Jamie Lovemark and Jhonattan Vegas shared the Zurich Classic lead at 11 under Friday when second-round play was suspended because of darkness.

Lovemark had a 27-hole day at hot and humid TPC Louisiana, completing a 5-under 67 in the first round and adding a 66 in the second in the event that fell behind schedule Thursday with a long rain delay.

“Just happy to be alive,” said Lovemark, winless on the PGA Tour. “It was hot, humid. It’s a tough walk, just soft, so ate a ton, walked slow. Not too bad. …

“I’m going to go sleep, man, find some AC, chill a little bit. I’m staying in town, so get some good food and just kind of relax, watch some basketball.”

Vegas, from Venezuela, shot 64-69.

“Long day,” Vegas said. “I played 30 1/2 holes today. I knew it was going to be an extremely long day, so I just kind of kept the mentality and hit one shot at a time and just played as hard as I can. The course was a little easier this morning with the greens being soft, but the wind picked up in the afternoon, and this course was really hard.”

None of the players in the afternoon wave finished the round, with top-ranked Jason Day at 5 under and facing a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 11th when play resumes. The Australian is the first No. 1 player to play in the event since David Duval in 1999.

Brian Stuard, the overnight leader after a 64 on Thursday, was a stroke behind the leaders at 10 under with six holes left.

Harold Varner III was 8 under after a 67. He and Tiger Woods are the only players of black heritage with PGA Tour status this season.

“I just think I’m obviously putting better,” Varner said. “You get out of a few jams when you chip it bad and you hole a few putts you’re supposed to hole, it just makes it a lot easier.”

Patton Kizzire, Thomas Aiken, Daniel Bergerand Patrick Rodgers were 7 under. Kizzire (67-70) and Aiken (68-69) finished, while Bergerhad five holes left, and Rodgers 11 to play.

Canadians Adam Hadwin and David Hearn are both 3 under. Hadwin, of Abbotsford, B.C., finished his round with a 69. Hearn, of Brantford, Ont., is through seven holes and is currently even.

Nick Taylor, of Abbotsford, B.C., is even through 11 holes while Mike Weir of Bright’s Grove, Ont., shot a 3-over 75 in his second round and is currently slated to miss the cut.

Vegas won the 2011 Bob Hope Classic for his lone tour title. He made a double bogey on the par-5 11th – his second hole of the second round – after losing a ball on his second shot.

“I just hit a bad shot,” Vegas said. “I shouldn’t have really gone that close to that tree, but it’s part of the game. I was proud to kind of get my head on the next shot and the next hole and bounce back with birdies after that.”

IRVING, Texas – Mi Jung Hur topped the Thursday in the Volunteers of America Texas Shootout, opening with a 5-under 66 in breezy conditions.

Hur made five straight birdies on the 15th to the first hole. The two-time LPGA Tour winner bogeyed the par-4 fifth and rebounded with a birdie on the par-4 eighth.

“My putting just was everything on the course today,” Hur said. “My shot wasn’t that good and my address wasn’t that comfortable, but my putting did really well.”

She lives in the area in McKinney.

“I used to live in Orlando, Florida, for seven, eight years,” Hur said. “Then we had a tournament here three years ago and I look around, it looks pretty nice to live. So I just asked my parents, ‘Can we move to Texas?’ We love it because there’s two big Korean towns nearby. We just moved right away.”

South Korean players held six of the top eight positions. So Yeon Ryu and Eun-Hee Ji were tied for second with American Gerina Piller at 67, and Sei Young Kim, Amy Yang, Jenny Shin and Scotland’s Catriona Matthew shot 68.

Piller, the U.S. Solheim Cup star who lives in nearby Plano, birdied four of her last seven holes.

“It’s a little tougher this week being a home game and having family in town and just staying at home,” Piller said. “It’s hard to go home and go to bed. You want to do the dishes or stuff like that. Definitely. have to be more conscious with your time and how you prepare just like any other week because you’re at home and it’s kind of pulling you opposite directions.”

She tied for third Sunday in California in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic for her third straight top-six finish.

“I know that I’m playing really well and I’ve had some really good finishes, so that’s golf, you’ve just kind of got to ride that and just keep pressing on,” Piller said.

Ryu hit 17 greens in regulation.

“Even when I missed, I was still able to putt it. I was just off the green,” Ryu said. “I think today my shot was really great, I just comfortable with everything and like driver, iron, wood, everything was great. Even putting was really great.”

Ji had five birdies in an eight-hole stretch and dropped her only stroke on the par-5 18th.

“I’m really struggling with my allergies, so I’m trying to focus more,” Ji said. “I think flower seeds, something like that. I took all this medicine, but it doesn’t work at all.”

The event features two cuts. The field will be trimmed to the low 70 and ties after 36 holes and the low 50 and ties after 54 holes.

Fifth-ranked Brooke Henderson had a 69. The 18-year-old of Smiths Falls, Ont., has eight straight top-10 finishes.

“Not as windy as some of the weeks we’ve been playing in, but it was windy out there today,” Henderson said. “The course is in great shape, but as the day got going it got a little bit firmer and you kind of had to adjust your numbers a little bit.”

Hamilton’s Alena Sharp shot a 71. Team Canada Amateur Team member Maddie Szeryk – a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S. – had a 73.

Fourth-ranked Stacy Lewis opened with a 74, and third-ranked Lexi Thompson had a 75. Lewis, the 2014 winner in her home-state event, is winless in 47 events.

Michelle Wie shot a 76, four days after withdraw during the final round of the Swinging Skirts because of neck spasms. She’s winless since the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open and hasn’t had a top-10 finish in 33 events.

Second-ranked Inbee Park, the 2013 and 2015 champion, is sidelined by a left thumb injury.