Korn Ferry Tour Finals begin for Macdonald, Sloan; Osland ties for second at Annika Tour Championship; Stinson leads Canada to Four Nations Cup win; British Columbians chase DP World Tour status at Q school; Stouffer wins again in Squamish
This week’s Procore Championship in Napa, Calif. has a field full of players fighting for their PGA Tour lives. Guys like Surrey’s Adam Svensson and Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford.
You can only imagine how happy they are to see world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and most of the rest of the U.S. Ryder Cup team in the field as well.
It’s going to make playing catch-up difficult at what is the first event of the PGA TOUR’s fall season. Svensson and Hadwin both have some serious catching up to do if they are to avoid a demotion to the Korn Ferry Tour in 2026.
Hadwin enters the Procore tourney 136th on the FedEx Cup points list, while Svensson is 162nd. They need to move inside the top 100 by the end of the seven-event fall schedule to remain fully exempt on the PGA Tour for 2026. Players finishing 101st to 125th retain conditional status for 2026.
It’s a tall order, one that has been made much more difficult this week with Scheffler and friends spending the week in California’s wine country as a Ryder Cup tune-up. Ten of the 12 members of the U.S. Ryder Cup team are playing in Napa. The two who won’t be there are Bryson Dechambeau and Xander Schauffele.
Hadwin enters the Procore at Silverado Resort’s North Course having missed the cut in four of his last five PGA TOUR starts. He does have one good memory of Silverado. He finished solo second there in 2019, one shot behind winner Cameron Champ, when the tournament was called the Safeway Open.
Svensson has also played well at Silverado. He tied for 13th there last year and tied for 12th in 2022.
FINAL FOUR: The four-event Korn Ferry Tour Finals begin this week in Franklin, Tenn., at the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation. Vancouver’s Stuart Macdonald and Roger Sloan of Merritt are both in the field. Macdonald enters the event 46th on the points list, while Sloan is 124th. Tournament field sizes are reduced as the KFT Finals proceed.
A field of 156 players are in the Franklin field this week. The top 144 then move on to the second event. The top 120 players qualify for the third Finals event, with the top 75 then qualifying to play in the season-ending Tour Championship. The top 20 players on the points list following the Tour Championship receive 2026 PGA Tour cards.
STRONG SEASON: Kelowna’s Megan Osland tied for second in the season-ending Heritage Classic Tour Championship on the Annika Women’s All Pro Tour. Osland completed the 72-hole event in Wichita, Kan., at nine-under par, two shots behind winner Mal Fobes of East Bend, N.C. Osland made $7,250 and finished the season second on the tour’s Callaway Race to Qualifying points list. That earns her a pass to the second stage of LPGA Tour school this fall and a bonus to help cover Q school expenses.
SCHOOL DAYS: The first stage of DP World Tour qualifying school is underway and four British Columbians are preparing to tee it up. Kimberley’s Jared du Toit is playing at a site this week at Northumberland Golf Club in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Vancouver’s Scott Kerr and Jackson Jacob of Langley are scheduled to play Sept. 16-19 at a first-stage site at Arlandastad Golf Club in Roserberg, Sweden.
Vancouver’s Stephen Thomas is playing Oct. 7-10 at Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil in France. Port Alberni’s Callum Davison missed advancing at a site last week in Huddersfield, England. Second stage qualifying goes Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at four sites in Spain, with the final qualifying stage scheduled for Nov. 7-12 at Infintum Golf in Tarragona, Spain.
SUCCESS IN SQUAMISH: A week after winning her third Canadian Senior Women’s Championship, Nanoose Bay’s Shelly Stouffer collected her third PNGA Senior Women’s Amateur title. Stouffer beat the field by 11 shots last week at Squamish Valley Golf Club. She closed with a two-under 70 to finish the 54-hole event at one-under par.
Sandra Turbide of Maple Ridge was second at 10-over, three shots ahead of Rosie Cook of Redmond, Ore. Stouffer now heads to Hot Springs, Va., for the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, which goes Sept. 13-18 at the Omni Homestead Resort. Stouffer won the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur in 2022 and was a finalist last year at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle.
STINSON SHINES: Mission’s Kevin Stinson went undefeated in his six matches to help the PGA of Canada win the Four Nations Cup in Caledon. Ont. Stinson, the lead instructor at Cheam Mountain Golf Course in Chilliwack, captained Canada’s four-man team in the competition that also featured teams from South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Stinson went 4-0-2 in his six matches.
Canada finished the competition with 13 points, New Zealand was second with 10.5, South Africa third with 7.5 and Australia fourth with 5 points. Yohann Benson of Quebec, Craig Stefureak of Ontario and Mitchell Fox of Alberta were the other members of Canada’s team. Stinson was also on the Canadian team that won the Four Nations Cup in South Africa in 2022.
NEW VENUE: There has been a change of venue for next month’s Canada West Golf Championships. The Oct. 20-21 event was originally scheduled to be played at Olympic View Golf Club in Victoria. But due to renovations at Olympic View, the tournament has been moved to Chilliwack Golf Club. UBC won both the men’s and women’s team competitions at last year’s Canada West tourney, which was held at Okanagan Golf Club’s Bear Course in Kelowna.
STRETCH RUN: The PGA Tour Americas circuit begins its stretch run at this week’s ATB Classic at Northern Bear Golf Club near Edmonton. Coquitlam’s A.J. Ewart, Chris Crisologo of Richmond and Jake Lane of Vancouver are in the field. This week’s event will be followed by the final two tournaments of the season, the Times Colonist Victoria Open at Uplands Golf Club and the Fortinet Cup Championship at Morgan Creek Golf Course in Surrey.
CHIP SHOT: Vancouver’s Anna Huang tied for 53rd at the Ladies European Tour’s Aramco Houston Championship in Texas. Huang completed the 54-hole event at even-par, 13 shots behind winner Nuria Iturrioz of Spain. Huang earned 4,860 Euros.