Golf World Monday - July 25, 2011

�winner sean o’hair bogeyed the first hole of a sudden-death playoff deciding the rbc canadian open, but it was good enough for victory when kris blanks made double-bogey 6 after his approach found a greenside bunker on the 472-yard 18th hole at shaughnessy g&cc.

�turnaround week o’hair’s victory, the fourth of his career, ended a baffling run of futility: in 17 starts in 2011 prior to the rbc, o’hair had missed

10 cuts, finished in the top 20 just twice (players, colonial) and earned just

$327,731, putting him 143rd on the pga tour money list.

�local hero it has now been 57 years since a canadian won the canadian open (pat fletcher in 1954), but unheralded adam hadwin gave a noble effort last week. hadwin, a canadian tour player given a sponsor’s exemption into the event, shot two-under 278 to miss the playoff by two shots.

o’hair ends frustrating run with rbc win
Pga tour // rbc canadian oPen

�noteworthy John daly was t- 9 at 280, his first top- 10 since the 2005 wgc-american express championship, when he lost a playoff to tiger woods. ... also t- 9 was ucla rising sophomore patrick cantlay, whose remarkable pga tour summer continued with his fourth top-25 finish in four starts.

�toP five shaughnessy g&cc, Vancouver, British Columbia

1. Sean O’Hair 69-73-66-68—276 $936,000 2. Kris Blanks 67-71-69-69—276 561,600 3. Andres Romero 72-68-67-70—277 353,600 4. Adam Hadwin 72-66-68-72—278 228,800