David Skinns (1st/-8) has his first career 18-hole lead/co-lead on the PGA TOUR at the RBC Canadian Open; his previous-best 18-hole position: T3/2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches (finished T4).
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Two top-10s this season (T4/Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, T7/Texas Children’s Houston Open).
Held the 54-hole lead/co-lead en route to both top-10s this season; only the top-two players in the FedExCup standings and Official World Golf Ranking, Scottie Scheffler (4) and Xander Schauffele (3), have more 54-hole leads/co-leads this season.
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In his second season on the PGA TOUR (at age 42) after finishing No. 12 in the Korn Ferry Tour Points List in 2023; joined the PGA TOUR as a rookie at the start of the 2021-22 season.
Is a three-time winner on the Korn Ferry Tour (most recent: 2023 Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club).
Played 29 events over three seasons on PGA TOUR Canada (2013, 2015 and 2016) with his best result coming at the 2015 Wildfire Invitational (2nd).
2011 RBC Canadian Open winner Sean O’Hair tied his career-low round on the PGA TOUR with a 63 (third 63 in 1,322 stroke-play rounds on the PGA TOUR); O’Hair finished solo-third at the 2006 RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf & Country Club.
O’Hair is the last player in the field, getting in on Tuesday when Davis Riley WD; O’Hair was the sixth alternate when the field was first published on Friday and second alternate on Monday morning.
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RBC ambassador Sam Burns records a 63, his lowest first-round score on the PGA TOUR; Burns is making his third start at the RBC Canadian Open (T4/2022, MC/2023).
2019 and 2022 RBC Canadian Open winner Rory McIlroy, who won the last time the event was played at Hamilton G&CC (2019), cards a first-round 66 and stands T6.
The low Canadian on the leaderboard is David Hearn (T12/-3), who is making his 20th start in the event (best result: 3rd/2015); defending champion Nick Taylor, who became the first Canadian to win the event since 1954, is T95 (+2).
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