As summer winds down, Golf Canada’s Calgary Centre is enjoying a busy schedule on the facility’s newly recovered grounds. The centre has come a long way, fighting back from over $2.3 million in damages from the mass flooding of Alberta’s Bow River in June of 2013.

Recently, the team in Calgary hosted a junior shootout where 18 lucky qualifiers played for a chance to golf with a Champions Tour player and a local celebrity in the pro-am of the 2014 Shaw Charity Classic.

CBC and Global TV were on hand to cover the action of over 70 juniors vying for one of 18 spots into the Shaw Charity Classic.

Following that, the course played host to the Canadian Junior Golf Association (CJGA) Junior Linkster Tournament. Chad Rusnak, Director of Golf Operations, couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome of hosting a high-class junior tournament so soon into their recovery.

“The golf course is in fantastic shape, and we are receiving numerous compliments about the conditions,” said Rusnak. “We are hearing positive things on a daily basis, which is a great sign for the future and what’s to come.”

The Calgary Centre, also a Junior Golf Development Centre, has a few key events in the month of September.

The team hosted several of the top juniors in western Canada on Sept. 6^th & 7^th at this year’s Performance Trials powered by Under Armour. The trials are conducted much like a training camp, for talent identification purposes and coaching services provided by leading PGA of Canada professionals.

Following that, the team will be hosting its 6^th annual Golf Fore the Cure event on the 13^th, with a fully registered field of ladies.

To learn more about the Golf Canada Calgary Centre, click here.

LONDON, Ont. — Mike Gligic knows what’s on the line when he arrives in London this week for the PGA Tour Canada’s Tour Championship.

Two weeks ago the Burlington, Ont. golfer lost in a playoff to Nate McCoy at the Wildfire Invitational. Heading into that tournament, Gligic, 25, was having a mixed year, even poor by his standards. After all, Gligic was one of the bright lights on PGA Tour Canada in 2012 when he won and had three Top 10 finishes.

But this year through the first handful of PGA Tour Canada tournaments Gligic found himself on the outside looking in when it came to Tour Championship presented by Freedom 55 Financial. Revised this year, the Tour Championship, which kicks off at Sunningdale Golf and Country Club in London on Sept. 11, will be a tournament without a cut and only open to top 60 players on the order of merit.

A couple tournaments prior to the Wildfire event, Gligic was concerned he might miss out on qualifying for the Tour Championship. That situation was resolved with two Top 5 finishes, including the Wildfire tournament where he jumped 24 spots to 11^th on the order of merit. Players finishing one through five on the money list gain access to the Web.com Tour, while those sixth through 10 earn exemptions into the final stage of Web.com Tour qualifying school, and those players from 11 to 20 get into second stage. Needless to say there’s lots on the line for those hoping to one day play the PGA Tour.

“If you’d asked me about it a couple of weeks ago, I’d have told you I thought [the Tour Championship] was silly,” says Gligic, laughing. “But now that I’m in it, I think it is cool. There’s a good vibe around the tournament and this week [in Cape Breton]. I think everyone knows where they are heading on the money list and they know there’s so much on the line.”

Last year the Tour Championship didn’t have the same degree of prestige. The winner at Sunningdale’s inaugural event, Quebec’s Max Gilbert, came out of left field to win the tournament. Given his position on the money list last year, he wouldn’t even get into this year’s field. And there’s a chance that the winner of the event—who will receive $27,000 for first place—will vault into the top five and punch their ticket to the Web.com Tour.

Last year’s top player on PGA Tour Canada, two-time Canadian Amateur winner Mackenzie Hughes, remembers well what it was like at the top of the order of merit. However, he missed the cut at the Tour Championship last year and had to come back on Sunday in the rain to accept his award as the leader of the tour’s money list.

Hughes, who had mixed success on his rookie year on the Web.com Tour, says the changes to the Tour Championship are positive.

“I think by the tour making these changes for the last event it’ll feel more important,” says Hughes. “I think the changes are great. But they are big changes. If they’d had them in place last year the guy who won wouldn’t have even been in the field. So it creates a really interesting dynamic.”

Jeff Monday, president of PGA Tour Canada, says that was the goal of the changes. The tour wanted to reward those players who played solidly throughout the year. Last year, there might not have been enough tournaments in the inaugural PGA Tour Canada schedule to warrant a no-cut tournament, but with 11 events this year leading into the Tour Championship, Monday says it makes sense.

“It is an elite field and it heightens the competitions and we wanted to reward the guys who had solid years,” says Monday. “And that’s not just guys battling for the top five, but for the spots between six and 10 and 11 and 20. The idea was to make this stand as a culmination of the year with a lot on the line.”

Monday says the Tour Championship also places more emphasis on the tournaments leading into it. For example, players will battle in Cape Breton at the Lakes or at Wildfire near Peterborough just to move up the leaderboard and gain access to the Top 60 on the money list that allows them to play the Tour Championship.

For Gligic, the runner-up finish at Wildfire moved him up the money list heading into the final tournaments, but there’s no guarantee. He’s battling for one of the top five spots on the order of merit that would offer him status on the Web.com Tour, a stepping stone to the PGA Tour. Gligic is pretty much assured of a spot in second stage qualifying, but has his sights set on something greater.

“I played well at Wildfire,” he says. “It was a good week and hopefully I can keep it up and move forward.”

And in Gligic’s case moving forward potentially means cracking the next barrier to the PGA Tour. And he’s not alone. He’s just one of 60 golfers who all know what the next step is towards fulfilling their dream, and figure it lies through the Tour Championship.

MAYETTA, Kan. – Olivia Jordan-Higgins won the Prairie Band Casino & Resort Charity Classic on Sunday for second career Symetra Tour title.

Jordan-Higgins, a former Charleston Southern player from Jersey, closed with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory over three players. She earned $15,000 to jump from 45th to 18th on the Symetra Tour money list with $29,277 with two events left in the race for 10 LPGA Tour cards.

“I don’t think it has truly sunk in, but I am definitely feeling over the moon excited,” Jordan-Higgins said. “I’ve been waiting all year for this and it has definitely been a long uphill battle.”

Last year, Jordan-Higgins finished 11th on the money list – missing a tour card by $114.

“I want it (LPGA) so bad and I have a tendency to try too hard,” Jordan-Higgins said. “I have to keep doing what I am doing. It’s working. I just have to stay patient and not worry about where I am on the money list.”

Jordan-Higgins finished at 12-under 204 at Firekeeper Golf Course.

Mallory Blackwelder, Canada’s Sara-Maude Juneau and Taiwan’s Min Lee tied for second. Lee had a 67, and Blackwelder and Juneau shot 68.

Blackwelder moved from ninth to eighth on the money list with $39,487, Lee from 13th to ninth with $38,487, and Juneau from 17th to 10th with $35,965.

“If someone would have asked me if I would take a tie for second coming into the week, I probably would have said yes,” Blackwelder said. “I still don’t think that this locks me (into the top 10), but it definitely helps take a little pressure off.”

BEON EOIN, NS – Savannah, Georgia’s Mark Silvers defeated Grand Rapids, Michigan’s Matt Harmon in a playoff to win the Cape Breton Celtic Classic presented by PC Financial, securing his first PGA Tour Canada victory.

Silvers, who began the week 89th on the Order of Merit, turned his season around with the win, carding a final round 6-under 66 at The Lakes Golf Club to reach 15-under par for the week and move all the way to the 10th spot on the season-long money list with one event to go.

“I can hardly put it into words. Coming into the end of the year, I wasn’t going to have Web.com Tour status for next year and had I not played well, I wouldn’t have had PGA Tour Canada status for next year,” said Silvers, who was previously most well-known for his Big Break Greenbrier win. “To come in and play well when I had to, and to now have a chance to skip some stages and definitely have status up here for next year is so big.”

Silvers began the day three shots behind 54-hole co-leaders Michael Gligic and Dan McCarthy, but moved up the leaderboard quickly with a 3-under 33 on his opening nine. Silvers, who was bogey-free on Sunday, carded three more birdies at 10, 13 and 14 to reach 15-under, then needed to convert a tricky 6-foot par putt at 18 to post the clubhouse lead at 15-under par.

“Getting it up-and-down for par on 18 was awesome, and I had no idea where I stood,” said Silvers, who insisted he didn’t look at a leaderboard all day until the 72nd hole. “I tried to just black out. I had been putting really, really well. I just tried to not let myself think about what it could possibly mean. I felt like I was going to be in good shape regardless, and I’m glad I didn’t look at a leaderboard, because it helped to just free me up to keep doing what I was doing.”

Harmon, the winner earlier this year at the SIGA Dakota Dunes Open presented by SaskTel, pulled even with Silvers with a birdie on 17, then gave himself a look for the outright win at the 18th with an 8-foot birdie putt. The putt hung on the lip, however, giving Silvers life in a sudden victory playoff.

“Luckily I was on the driving range, or I would have had a heart attack,” said Silvers. “Matt played great. We played together yesterday, and he had an awesome four days.”

At No. 10 on the Order of Merit, the win moves Silvers in position to earn an exemption into the final stage of Web.com Tour Q-School. The 27-year old University of South Carolina grad admitted he had a bleak outlook at the beginning with the week, faced with the prospect of losing his status on Tour for next year.

“This is where you want to be. PGA Tour Canada is huge now, with world ranking points and the opportunity to move up to the Web.com Tour or the PGA Tour. To get a win with such good players in the field really is amazing,” said Silvers.

Harmon’s second place check vaulted him over Brock Mackenzie into third on the Order of Merit, within $817 of No. 2 Tim Madigan with one event to go. Harmon, Madigan and Mackenzie are all within striking distance of leader Joel Dahmen’s $79,687 total should they be able to win the Tour Championship of Canada presented by Freedom 55 Financial next week.

Two shots back of the playoff were West Vancouver, BC’s Seann Harlingten, Montreal, Quebec’s Beon-Yeong Lee and McCarthy, a Syracuse, New York native, at 13-under.

With a final round 7-under 65 and a 13-under total, 25-year old Beon-Yeong Lee of Montreal, Quebec claimed Freedom 55 Financial Canadian Player of the Week honours on Sunday, along with a $1,500 prize.

Each week, Freedom 55 Financial honours the top Canadian on the leaderboard with the award. The top Canadian on the Order of Merit after next week’s Tour Championship of Canada presented by Freedom 55 Financial will be named Freedom 55 Financial Canadian Player of the Year and earn a $10,000 prize.

DAVIDSON, N.C. – Adam Hadwin won the Chiquita Classic on Sunday to jump from fourth to a tie for first on the money list after the second of four events in the Web.com Tour Finals.

The 26-year-old Canadian, the Chile Classic winner in March, closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-stroke victory over John Peterson. Hadwin finished at 18-under 270 at River Run.

Hadwin earned $180,000 to push his season total to $473,667. He wrapped a PGA Tour card with his fourth-place finish on the regular-season money list and is competing with the other top-25 players for PGA Tour priority, with the final leader getting a spot in The Players Championship.

Nos. 126-200 in the FedEx Cup standings and Nos. 26-75 from the Web.com Tour’s regular-season money list are playing for 25 PGA Tour cards based on their earnings in the four tournaments.

Peterson shot a 68. He earned $108,000 and has made $127,600 in the first two Web.com Tour Finals events, more than enough to regain his PGA Tour card after finishing 179th in the FedEx Cup standings.

Third-round leader Greg Chalmer had a 75 to drop into a tie for eighth at 12 under. The 40-year-old Australian finished 132nd in the FedEx Cup standings.

QUEBEC CITY -Wes Short Jr. made an 8-foot eagle putt on the final hole to win the Quebec Championship on Sunday for his first Champions Tour’s title.

The 51-year-old Short played the final 10 holes in 8 under for an 8-under 64 and a one-stroke victory over Scott Dunlap in the first PGA Tour-sanctioned event in the area since 1956.

“It was slow in coming, that’s for sure,” Short said. “The first eight holes I parred, and I get to No. 9 and I hit a hybrid in the sand trap and then hit it out to about 6 feet and I felt like that was a very important putt to make. I made it. Then it seemed to open the floodgates.”

Dunlap, the Boeing Classic winner two weeks ago, also eagled the par-5 18th for a 64.

“Thinking back a couple weeks ago in my comment after getting a win, you can play winning golf and not hoist the trophy,” Dunlap said. “In any given week there’s probably two or maybe three guys who play well enough to win, but sometimes you just get beat.”

Moments after Dunlap’s eagle putt, Short holed a 20-foot birdie putt at No. 17 to pull within one.

Short set up the winning putt with a hybrid from 251 yards on the par-5 closing hole.

“I didn’t really look at the leaderboard until the 18th hole,” Short said. “I looked over and actually I kind of thought I was going to be in the lead or tied with Scott going to the last hole. Then I looked over

there and he had made eagle, so now I’m one behind and I have to birdie the last hole to get into a playoff or he’s going to win. I hit a very nice hybrid in there, and it’s a nice situation to know even if I miss it I was going to have another chance to get in a playoff to win.”

Short finished at 15-under 201 at La Tempete and earned $240,000 to jump from 36th to 20th on the money list with $379,719. He won in Las Vegas in 2005 for his lone PGA Tour title.

“I was hitting it pretty good, so didn’t really make a lot the first two days,” Short said. “But I saved an awful lot for that last nine holes.”

Brad Faxon and Esteban Toledo, the winner last year at La Vallee du Richelieu in the then-Montreal Championship, shot 71 to tie for third at 11 under. They were tied for the second-round lead.

Jim Rutledge finished tied for 10th at 8-under 208 to top the Canadians in the field.

Two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen closed with a 72 to tie for 23rd at 7 under in his first Champions Tour event. He turned 50 last week.

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo. – The bad swing last week is a distant memory. The blown lead Sunday – that wasn’t enough to derail Billy Horschel, either.

Horschel let a three-shot lead drop to nothing early in the final round of the BMW Championship before rebounding for a two-stroke victory over Bubba Watson. Horschel shot a 1-under 69 and finished at 14-under 266 to put himself in prime position for the FedEx Cup title and its $10 million bonus at the Tour Championship next week.

Horschel heads into the final week of the playoff chase in second place in the points standings thanks to the victory and his tie for second a week ago – when he chunked a 6-iron well short on the final hole, squandering a chance to beat or force a playoff with playoff leader Chris Kirk.

This time, the 27-year-old from Grant, Florida, smoothed his approach into the middle of the 18th green and the only drama was whether he’d have time for a quick pit stop before he had to putt. He sprinted up the fairway, ducked under the ropes and was back in plenty of time to two-putt and close out the victory.

“Obviously, after last week, a lot of people on Twitter were calling me a choker,” Horschel said. “I didn’t choke. I made one bad swing at a bad time. To start with a three-shot lead today and hold on means a lot.”

About an hour earlier, it was another chunked shot that drastically altered the course of the tournament.

Ryan Palmer erased his three-shot deficit to Horschel and was tied after six holes, then again after 11.

Palmer was one behind as the final threesome walked down the 13th fairway, with Horschel buried in the right rough and Palmer buried in the left. Horschel hit his second shot safely on the green. Palmer nearly shanked his into a small creek that runs in front of the green. He made double bogey to fall three behind.

That left Sergio Garcia, who cut a seven-shot deficit to two, as the last true threat, but his chance imploded on the par-5 17th – when he cooked his third shot over the green, then chipped back over the green and into the water. He made triple-bogey 8 – sullying a round of 3-under 67. He finished at 9 under, tied for fourth with Palmer (71), Rickie Fowler (68) and Jim Furyk (66).

Watson shot 66 to finish second, his small chance at victory essentially ending when his ball landed up against a divot on the 18th fairway that he couldn’t move, lest the ball roll downhill. He closed the day third in the standings, joining Kirk, Rory McIlroy and Hunter Mahan among the top five, all of whom control their destiny next week – meaning a win will give them the playoff title, as well.

Palmer’s fourth-place finish moved him from 37th to 23rd.

But outside of Horschel, Sunday’s biggest winner was third-place finisher Morgan Hoffman, who turned the old-school, mile-high layout at Cherry Hills into his personal pitch and putt over the weekend. He shot 7-under 63 on Sunday to go with his course-record 62 on Saturday and vaulted from 68th to 21st in the standings. He started the playoffs 124th.

Hoffman made a 16-foot putt for eagle on 17 to move into the top 30, then hit a 153-yard uphill shot from the rough to 10 feet on 18 for a stress-free par to close the weekend.

“That’s the perfect way of putting it – `nothing to lose,'” Hoffman said. “Carefree and just go out and fire at pins.”

McIlroy finished tied for eighth after a 66 that included a replay of the worst kind – a four-putt on the 12th green for the second straight day. Still, he’s comfortably in the mix for next week.

Also making it were Hideki Matsuyama, who was 28th in the standings after finishing at 4 under and Gary Woodland, who held onto the 29th spot.

In 30th place is Dustin Johnson, whose season is over. Stuart Appleby missed an 18-foot birdie try on his last hole to end up in 31st and Keegan Bradley’s decision to withdraw Saturday because of a question over a drop he took in the opening round left him in 33rd, a five-spot drop.

Graham DeLaet did not advance to the Tour Championship. A costly triple bogey on the par-3 15th hole would seal his fate, leading to a 11th place finish at 7-under 273. DeLaet – the last Canadian remaining in the PGA Tour playoffs – finished 37th in the FedEx standings to miss by seven spots.

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland – David Lipsky won the European Masters on Sunday to put himself atop the Asian Tour money list.

Lipsky’s unorthodox par-4 on the first extra hole to beat Englishman Graeme Storm was an appropriate way for the 26-year-old Korean speaker from Los Angeles to earn a career-best (EURO)383,330 ($497,000) payday in the sunbathed Swiss Alps.

With the event co-sanctioned by the European and Asian tours since 2008, the winner’s prize lifted Lipsky clear in the money list.

“It feels great,” said Lipsky, the first winner here from Asia’s tour and the first American winner since Craig Stadler in 1985. “I’ve played well the last couple of weeks and to put it all together is really something special.”

His difficult route to the 18th green went via a fairway bunker and thick rough well short of the putting surface. An exceptional chip shot left a 2-foot putt for victory.

That strategy came after Storm, the overnight leader, sliced his tee shot wide right and could only chip out sideways before making a bogey-5.

“I was just playing percentages,” said Lipsky of his cautious second shot. “I didn’t mean to hit it in the rough. I overshot my mark by a little bit.”

Still, Lipsky had already played the 18th perfectly in regulation to earn the playoff chance.

His wedge approach shot left a tap-in to complete a final-round 65, playing in the second-last group.

Storm missed a 30-foot putt for victory on the final hole and carded 68. Both had 18-under totals of 262 on the 6,848-yard (6,262-meter) Severiano Ballesteros course

Ballesteros would surely have approved of Lipsky’s adventurous 65 that included an eagle-2, six birdies and three bogeys, with a couple of 3-putts thrown in the mix.

Lipsky has taken a path less traveled in his own career, via Northwestern University, Illinois, to the Asian tour where he first won in 2012 in the Cambodian Classic.

“I have a little bit of east meets west,” said Lipsky, whose father is American and mother is from Seoul, South Korea. “I speak a little bit of Korean. It definitely helped the transition to Asia and made me feel comfortable.”

His $645,770 winnings this season are more than double those of the next player on the Asian Tour money list – Anirban Lahiri of India, who tied for 13th, seven shots back.

Victory also took Lipsky into the top 150 of the world rankings, from No. 369, and earned a European Tour exemption through 2016.

“It has really developed me as a player,” Lipsky said of the Asian circuit. “Now, with European Tour status, I’ll have to think about different scheduling.”

Another young American, Brooks Koepka, and Tyrrell Hatton of England tied for third trailing by one shot after shooting 67 and 65, respectively.

The 24-year-old Koepka, who plays on the European Tour, shared the lead until making bogey-5 at the 17th, after his tee shot found a bunker.

On another low-scoring day in the thin mountain air, a 67 from European Ryder Cup player Jamie Donaldson of Wales was only enough to place seventh, three shots back.

Two other members of Europe’s team to face the United States at Gleneagles, Scotland, were never in contention Sunday. Victor Dubuisson of France shot 72 to finish 10 shots back, and defending champion Thomas Bjorn of Denmark had a 68 to be 12 shots out.

Frenchman Romain Wattel had a hole-in-one at the 11th, one day after Storm claimed the $186,000 hybrid sports car on offer there.

Storm, seeking his first victory since 2007, stayed in front alone until the seventh hole when briefly caught in a three-way tie at 17 under with Lipsky and Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, playing in the final group with Storm and Koepka.

Koepka made his move around the turn, easily making birdie at the 633-yard (579-meter) ninth, then picking up another shot on the 10th.

A shootout between Koepka and Storm loomed when both made birdie-4s at the 16th, but the American faltered at the next hole and Lipsky’s exceptional birdie on the last forced the playoff.

DAVIDSON, N.C. – Greg Chalmers birdied two of the last four holes for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke lead Saturday in the Chiquita Classic, the second of four events in the Web.com Tour Finals.

Chalmers, the 40-year-old Australian who finished 132nd in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings, had a 15-under 201 total at River Run. He had eight birdies and three bogeys in the third round.

“It’s kind of new to me, I guess,” Chalmers said. “To be honest, I can’t tell you the last time I led going into Sunday and I’ve been playing as a pro for 20 years. … I just want to experience it and do it. I think if you want to eventually be successful on the PGA Tour you’ve got to get used to dealing with these kinds of things and being in the fishbowl of the last group or the guy that’s leading the tournament. Every experience is new and we’re going to find out a couple of things about me tomorrow.”

Nos. 126-200 in the FedEx Cup standings and Nos. 26-75 from the Web.com Tour’s regular-season money list playing for 25 PGA Tour cards based on their earnings in the four tournaments.

The top 25 players on the Web.com money list have already earned PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for PGA Tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals and the final leader getting a spot in The Players Championship.

Canada’s Adam Hadwin, the first-round leader after a course-record 63, was second after a 67. He finished fourth on Web.com Tour money list to wrap up a PGA Tour card.

“It was a great round,” said Hadwin, the Chile Classic winner in March. “One bogey on a Saturday on moving day to put myself in good position. I got a little out of rhythm on the back. I had two real good looks at birdie there on 14 and 16, but I just didn’t hit them hard enough.”

John Peterson was another stroke back after a 68. He was 179th in the FedEx Cup standings.

Derek Fathauer, the second-round leader, had a 75 to drop into a tie for 15th at 9 under. He was 12th on the Web.com money list.

BEON EOIN, NS – Burlington, Ont.’s Michael Gligic and Syracuse, New York’s Daniel McCarthy will take a share of the lead heading into the final round of the 2014 Cape Breton Celtic Classic presented by PC Financial, both reaching 14-under par through 54 holes at The Lakes Golf Club.

Gligic, who owns top five finishes in each of his last two starts on PGA Tour Canada, carded a 6-under 66 on Saturday to match the lowest round of a very windy day in Nova Scotia, while McCarthy birdied three of his last six holes to shoot 69 and join him in a tie at the top.

“I feel good. I’ve just got to keep going and keep the pedal to the metal and try to make some more birdies tomorrow,” said Gligic, who is now 51-under par in his last three Tournaments dating back to the start of The Great Waterway Classic.

“I really was hitting it pretty good all day. I just missed a couple of putts that could have gone in, but that always happens, so I just tried to keep hitting good shots on the way in, which I ended up doing, and made a couple of birdies,” said the 29-year old McCarthy.

Gligic began the day three shots behind McCarthy, but caught up with a 4-under 32 on the front nine. After three more birdies and two bogeys on the back, the 24-year old struck a brilliant approach from the fairway bunker to three feet on the par-5 18th, but missed the short eagle putt and settled for a birdie and 14-under total through three rounds.

McCarthy, who started the day with a one shot advantage over Moscow, Idaho’s Chris Williams, converted a two-putt birdie of his own at the final hole to tie Gligic. The two will play in the final group on Sunday, a pairing McCarthy said would be comfortable for both players.

“I’ve known Mike for a long time,” said McCarthy. He and I were both rookies at the same time when this was the Canadian Tour back in 2009, so we should have a good time. We know each other pretty well.”

For Gligic, the final round presents another opportunity to capitalize on a stretch of great golf. Before his 4th place finish at The Great Waterway Classic and playoff loss at The Wildfire Invitational presented by PC Financial, he ranked 65th on the Order of Merit, but has jumped all the way to 11th with two events to go, currently the top Canadian on the season-long money ranking.

“The last couple of weeks have been great,” said Gligic, who owns one PGA Tour Canada win at the 2012 ATB Financial Classic. “I fell short a couple of times the last two weeks, but tomorrow’s a new day and hopefully I can get the job done. Hopefully I can overcome a few butterflies and just focus on my game and make a few putts.”

McCarthy, whose best finish on PGA Tour Canada is a solo 12th at this year’s Bayview Place Island Savings Open presented by Times Colonist, said the key to success on Sunday would be blocking out the rewards of a potential win and focusing on the round in front of him.

“You just have to try to calm yourself down, because you’re going to be on edge all day long,” McCarthy said. “There is quite a bit on the line, and we all know that, but it’s just golf. You have to try to turn it into a round with your buddies.”

Two shots back of Gligic and McCarthy was Order of Merit No. 4 Matt Harmon, who birdied the 18th for a 12-under total and solo third through three rounds, while West Vancouver, BC native Seann Harlingten carded a 67 to sit solo fourth at 11-under. Williams was one shot further back in fifth at 10-under following a third round 72.

While his fellow members of The Five have struggled this week – Order of Merit leader Joel Dahmen and No. 3 Brock Mackenzie missed the cut, while No. 2 Tim Madigan and No. 5 Josh Persons are T55 and T62, respectively – current No. 4 Matt Harmon has shone so far this week in Cape Breton, sitting in solo third through three rounds.

A strong performance on Sunday could have major implications for The Five.

Harmon, the winner earlier this year at the SIGA Dakota Dunes Open presented by SaskTel, could move as high as No. 2 with a win or No. 3 with a solo second on Sunday, while solidifying his lead over the players below him looking to chase him down in the race for Web.com Tour status.

“That was the best I’ve played all week,” said Harmon after a 3-under 69 in the windy conditions. “I hit the ball right in the middle of the clubface, which is key in the wind.”