Some of the world’s high gamers are teeing off on the RBC Canadian Open right this moment amid the hotly debated LIV Golf-PGA Tour controversy that shook the golf world this week.
Four-time main championship winner Rory McIlroy is searching for his third straight Canadian Open title because the event will get underway on the Oakdale Golf & Country Club in Toronto.
McIlroy was the PGA Tour’s most outspoken golfer towards LIV Golf over the previous yr. Now the PGA Tour, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which owns LIV Golf, and the European tour are banding collectively to create a worldwide males’s golf tour.
It’s the second straight yr LIV Golf controversy is on the centre of Canada’s lone cease on the PGA Tour. The 34-year-old McIlroy beat the sphere by two strokes final yr on the identical weekend LIV Golf held its first occasion.
Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., and Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., are among the many 19 Canadians seeking to finish an almost 70-year drought of a Canadian successful the Open on house soil.
Conners, a two-time PGA Tour winner, is the highest-ranked participant from Canada.
