When taking “lateral relief” from a red penalty area, under a one-stroke penalty, estimate the point on the edge of the penalty area where your ball last crossed as it went in.

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PITTSBURGH, Penn. – Michael Gligic emerged victorious in a playoff for the ages on Wednesday, winning the Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational at Pittsburgh Field Club.

It took eight playoff holes, but the Burlington, Ont. product outlasted the competition to win the PGA Tri-State Section event.

Gligic started the final day eight shots back of the leader, but made a breathless charge up the leaderboard. Gligic sunk two eagles to shoot a 3-under par 67, putting him at 1 under on the tournament and forcing a three-way playoff with Steve Wheatcroft and Ryan Lenahan.

The three players began a three-hole aggregate playoff (holes No. 16, 17 and 18) which eliminated Lenahan. Gligic and Wheatcroft then went head-to-head in a sudden death playoff, playing the par-3 18th.

The duo went stroke-for-stroke on the 215-yard No. 18, playing the hole five times before a winner was crowned. Wheatcroft, an American who competes on the Korn Ferry Tour, missed an 8-footer to give Gligic the victory.

This is the second year in a row Gligic has participated in a playoff at the Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational. He lost to David Bradshaw last year, and it was Bradshaw who was leading heading into the final round on Wednesday.

Gligic, 29, competes on the Korn Ferry Tour, and won the Panama Championship in February 2019.

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It was another windy and wild day at Whistle Bear Golf Club for the second round of the PGA Championship of Canada.

The 72-player field was whittled down to the top 16 advancing to the match play portion of the championship, which begins bright and early Thursday morning in Cambridge, Ont. However, it wasn’t so cut and dry Wednesday afternoon as a six-for-five playoff was needed to determine the final spots in the match play.

The PGA of Canada’s No. 1-ranked player Marc-Etienne Bussières, Thomas Keddy, Brad Kerfoot, Kent Fukushima and James Skrypec outlasted Mark Bicknell on the first playoff hole. It was the second-straight year Bussières survived extra-holes to squeak into the match play.

“I guess I just like the challenge of getting through to the match play via a playoff,” Bussières joked Wednesday afternoon at Whistle Bear. “But seriously, I feel like I found a little something out there today and we’ll see if I can keep that going for the next couple days.”

Thursday’s round-of-16 matches include:

• Kevin Stinson (1) vs. Fukushima (16)
• Jim Rutledge (2) vs. Kerfoot (15)
• Billy Walsh (3) vs.  Keddy (14)
• Oliver Tubb (4) vs. Skrypec (13)
• Nick Kenney (5) vs. Bussières (12)
• Wes Heffernan (6) vs. Brian Hadley (11)
• Dustin Risdon (7) vs. Danny King (10)
• Bryn Parry (8) vs. Billy Houle (9)

For the full leaderboard and match play bracket, CLICK HERE.

Of the remaining 16; Rutledge, Parry, King and Bussières are all past PGA Championship of Canada winners. Furthermore, Kerfoot and Risdon are past PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada winners.

The winners of the morning matches Thursday qualify for the afternoon quarterfinal matches. The eventual champion will win four match play rounds, adding his name to the historic P.D. Ross trophy.

Re-launched in 2011, the PGA Championship of Canada was contested strictly as a match play event through 2014 with players from the four brackets—Stan Leonard, George Knudson, Al Balding and Moe Norman—looking to advance through the six rounds to capture the historic P.D. Ross trophy. However, the 2015 championship at Cabot Links saw a format change, with top-ranked players from the PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC playing two rounds of stroke play. The top-16 players from the 36-hole stroke play portion of the event filled out the four match-play brackets with the eventual champion winning four match play rounds. This year’s championship follows the same format.

Built on more than 230 acres, Whistle Bear is regarded as one of southern Ontario’s most distinctive golf destinations. Host of the 2004 and 2005 PGA Championship of Canada (as part of the Korn Ferry Tour schedule), the links-style venue features more than 100 bunkers, as well as water on more than half of the holes.

PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC points are also up for grabs at Whistle Bear. The eventual winner will take home 60 points, with the runner up gaining 50 points. The player who earns the most ranking points (in national and zone events) in 2019 will be awarded the Mike Weir Player of the Year crown at next year’s Canada Night.

Attendance to the PGA Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend during championship play.

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., learned Wednesday that he will be playing The Open Championship next month at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland.

The Canadian earned an exemption into the final major of the season based on his position in the World Golf Ranking (No. 82).

Conners will join Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., as the Canadians who will tee off at the 148th playing of the storied tournament. Hadwin qualified for The Open with his strong performance at the RBC Canadian Open.

Conners shot into the spotlight with his win at the Valero Texas Open in April. The 27-year-old has never competed at The Open Championship.

This will be Conners’ fifth major championship appearance. He made the cut at both majors he’s played this season, finishing in a tie for 46th at The Masters and in a tie for 64th at the PGA Championship. He also played the 2015 Masters and the 2017 U.S. Open, missing the cut on both occasions.

Two more spots in The Open Championship are up for grabs at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Mich. this week. Seven Canadians are in the field, including Conners.

The 148th Open Championship will take place from July 18-21.

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – Jim Rutledge turned back the clock Tuesday at Whistle Bear Golf Club for the first round of the PGA Championship of Canada.

The championship’s second-oldest player—who turns 60-years-old later this summer—torched a windswept Whistle Bear in Cambridge, Ont., posting an opening round 6-under-par 66.

Rutledge’s sizzler of an opener included seven birdies and just a single bogey on the second hole of the day.

“I got off to a bit of a shaky start with that bogey on No. 2, but got rolling after birdies on Nos. 4, 5 and 9 and then made some simple birdies on the back-nine to finish it off,” Rutledge said. “It’s not really a secret, but you’ve got to put yourself in the fairway out here because the rough is so unforgiving.”

A five-time PGA Seniors’ Championship of Canada winner and champion of the 1984 PGA Championship of Canada, Rutledge is clearly an artful veteran of the game of golf. The former Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour player says his love for the game and his fellow competitors keeps him motivated to keep playing well in tournaments.

“I really just enjoy coming out to these events and catching up with the fellas who I’ve known for a lot of years,” he says. “And, of course, I enjoy competing against them too.”

Rutledge is one of eight past PGA Championship of Canada winners in the field this week at Whistle Bear.

The National Golf Club of Canada’s Nick Kenney sits just three shots back of Rutledge after an opening-round of 3-under-par 69. Mark Bicknell (Victoria Golf Club); last year’s runner-up Gordon Burns; Riley Fleming (National Golf Academy Dome); Brian Hadley (Thames Valley Golf Club); past PGA Assistants’ Championship of Canada winner Dustin Risdon; and Oliver Tubb (University Golf Club) are all T3 at 2-under-par.

The 72-player field will be whittled down to the top-16 players following tomorrow’s second round. The final 16 will fill out the match play brackets with the eventual champion winning four match play rounds.

For the full leaderboard and second-round tee times, CLICK HERE.

This week’s field features 43 of the top 50-ranked players from the PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC are in the field, including the entire top 10.

Built on more than 230 acres, Whistle Bear is regarded as one of southern Ontario’s most distinctive golf destinations. Host of the 2004 and 2005 PGA Championship of Canada (as part of the Korn Ferry Tour schedule), the links-style venue features more than 100 bunkers throughout the 18 holes, as well as water on more than half of the holes.

PGA of Canada Player Rankings presented by RBC points are also up for grabs at Whistle Bear. The eventual winner will take home 60 points, with the runner up gaining 50 points. The player who earns the most ranking points (in national and zone events) in 2019 will be awarded the Mike Weir Player of the Year crown at next year’s Canada Night.

Attendance to the PGA Championship of Canada is free and spectators are encouraged to attend during championship play.

Barrington, R.I. – Brooke Henderson’s winning form continued Monday, as she won the CVS Health Charity Classic along with teammates Keegan Bradley and Billy Andrade. The trio won the event for the third straight year.

Six teams of golfers, each featuring a PGA TOUR member, an LPGA Tour member and a PGA Tour Champions member competed at the CVS Health Charity Classic. The two lowest scores on each hole counted toward the team’s score.

The trio of Henderson, Bradley and Andrade competed alongside teams that included Billy Horschel, Lydia Ko, Lexi Thompson and Brad Faxon.

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— Brooke Henderson (@BrookeHenderson) June 24, 2019

Bradley, of Woodstock, Vt., competes on the PGA TOUR, and teed off at the 2019 RBC Canadian Open, leading the field after the opening round at Hamilton Golf & Country Club. This was Bradley’s fifth-straight win at the CVS Health Charity Classic.

Andrade, A Bristol, R.I. native, competes on the PGA TOUR Champions, and won the 1998 RBC Canadian Open.

While not an official LPGA Tour victory, the win at Rhode Island Country Club comes two weeks after Henderson’s triumphant, record-setting win at the Meijer LPGA Classic.

The CVS Health Charity Classic has raised more than $22 million for Rhode Island-area organizations in its 20-year history.

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HARRIS, Mich. – Maddie Szeryk of London, Ont. fired three rounds in the 60s, finishing in a tie for fourth place at the Island Resort Championship on Sunday.

The Team Canada Young Pro Squad member was the only competitor at the event to shoot all three of her rounds in the 60s at Sweetgrass Golf Club, finishing two strokes back of champion Daniela Iacobelli. It was Szeryk’s third top-five finish in his last four starts on the Symetra Tour.

It took 55 holes, but Iacobelli captured her third career Symetra Tour victory with a birdie in the first frame of a sudden-death playoff against Cindy Ha.

Each of Iacobelli’s three wins have come after she missed the cut the week prior.

“It feels good, there are a lot of memories here and this will just add to the list,” said Iacobelli, who also captured the 2012 Symetra Tour Championship and 2015 Tullymore Classic titles. “I think I just get a little upset with myself and come into the next tournament guns blazing.”

When the final round started at Sweetgrass Golf Club, Iacobelli was tied for 13th and looking at a six-stroke deficit. A bogey-free, 7-under par 65 moved the Florida Institute of Technology alumna quickly up the leaderboard.

“Started quick with birdie on the first three and made the turn in 5-under,” said Iacobelli, who finished at 11-under par overall. “I was like, ‘Ok, let’s step on the gas pedal,’ but the wind picked up a little bit and just tried not to make mistakes. The putter was hot this week, which is crazy since I switched grips on Wednesday. The 18th hole, I’m glad the wind was blowing the way it was because I only know how to play it as a two-shot hole. That was a bit advantageous.”

Her finish in Harris, Mich. earns exemption into The Evian Championship next month, the fourth major on the LPGA Tour schedule this year. A 2012 and 2015 Symetra Tour graduate, Iacobelli has spent three years on the LPGA Tour. However, she has never played in The Evian Championship.

“I’m excited, never been to France and looking forward to it,” Iacobelli said. “Get to experience another moment of my career, I can’t wait. That is for sure the crazier part of all this.”

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When you decide your ball in a bunker is unplayable, under the 2019 Rules you have an extra option that lets you drop “back-on-the-line” outside the bunker for total penalty of two strokes.

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CROMWELL, Conn. – Chez Reavie is a PGA Tour winner again after 11 years and 250 events.

Reavie won the Travelers Championship on Sunday, closing with a 1-under 69 for a four-stroke victory over Keegan Bradley and Zack Sucher.

The 37-year-old Reavie, whose first title came as a rookie at the 2008 Canadian Open, finished at 17-under 263 at TPC River Highlands a week after tying for third in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.

“It means everything,” he said. “I went through some injuries, had some long years there in the middle. But it was great, because it gave good perseverance and good perspective of what life is and what golf is.”

The former Arizona State player took a six-stroke lead over Bradley and Sucher into the round after a shooting a 63 on Saturday. He had an understated celebration, pulling his ball out of the hole at 18 and saluting the crowd with it clenched in his fist.

It was the same calm he showed throughout the day, even as, Bradley, a New England native from nearby Vermont, chipped away to the cheers of the large galleries.

Bradley made back-to-back birdies on 10 and 11 to get within three shots, just missed a 13-foot birdie putt on the 12th, then made a 9-footer on 13 to get within two strokes. His 22 foot-birdie attempt at 14 stopped just at the hole.

He got within a stroke on the par-4 15th when he made a 7 1/2-foot birdie putt after Reavie missed an 11-footer.

“The crowd was just so behind me and so loud and so, it felt like a Ryder Cup to me,” Bradley said. “Man, I’ve dreamt of this ever since I’ve come here at 10 years old. It lived up to the hype – it was awesome.”

But Reavie put the tournament away on the par-4 17th, making a 14-foot birdie putt, while Bradley three-putted for a double bogey. Bradley and Sucher each shot 67, with Sucher playing the back nine in 5-under 30.

Sucher, coming of an injury that kept him away from golf for 13 months after the 2017 Travelers, had his best ever finish in a PGA Tour event.

“The back nine was unbelievable,” Sucher said. “I mean the whole thing was unbelievable with the huge crowds, it was quite an experience.”

He came into his fourth of six medical extension start needing to earn 347 FexEx Cup points to retain his Tour card. He came in with 25 points and picked up 245 with the second-place tie.

“It’s amazing, it’s life-changing to be honest,” Sucher said. “It changes the rest of our year, it changes our plans and we have a lot of work to do to figure what else we have to do now.”

Vaughn Taylor, who started nine strokes back, made a run of five birdies to finish his final-round of 65, shooting a 29 on the back nine. His 15-foot birdie putt on 18 put him at 12 under.

“I’ve never birdied the last five holes of a tournament that’s for sure,” Taylor said

Paul Casey, who blew a four-stroke lead during last year’s final round, started the day 10 strokes behind Reavie, his former college teammate. But he hit his tee shot on the par-4 15th inside 7 feet and made eagle, then finished with a birdie to go 11 under.

The Englishman said he was hoping to match the 28 Reavie put up on the back nine Saturday to put some pressure on him. But he couldn’t do it and spent the rest of the day rooting for his friend.

Reavie, who took home just under $1.3 million, has finished in the top 20 in five of his last six starts.

Defending champion Bubba Watson, who was hoping for a fourth title in Connecticut, shot a 71 to finish at 1 under, but said he wasn’t disappointed with his week.

“I know sometimes I look like I’m angry out there,” he said. “But most of the time, I’m pretty happy.”

Brooks Koepka made quick work of his final round, also shooting a 71 to finish the tournament at an even par. He and Russell Knox needed just under three hours to play their 18 holes in the first group of the day. Koepka says he has a couple of appearances in the next two days and then will get some much-needed rest.

“I’m not going to practice and take some time away from the game and just try to realize what’s going on,” he said. “”I don’t think I’m still over Bethpage, and with these majors they are so tightly bunched, it’s difficult. I didn’t really have a chance to soak that one in and then we are playing again, it’s just a continuation that keeps rolling on.“