Ewart ties for 10th on PGA Tour Americas; Svensson cracks top 15 at 3M; Zalli wins Golden Ears Open at Pitt Meadows GC
COURSE RECORD: Surrey’s Adam Svensson opened and closed strong to finish tied for 14th at the PGA Tour’s 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Minnesota. Svensson set a course record with an 11-under 60 in the first round, but followed that up with a four-over 75 in the second round. He closed with rounds of 68 and 65 to finish the event at 16-under par, seven shots behind winner Kurt Kitayama. Svensson climbed eight spots on the FedEx Cup points list to 162nd. Abbotsford’s Adam Hadwin tied for 44th at 11-under par. He remains 134th on the points list. Svensson and Hadwin are both in the field for this week Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., which is the final regular-season event before the FedEx Cup playoffs begin the following week. Hadwin and Svensson would need to win the Wyndham to sneak into the top 70 and qualify for the playoffs.
TOP 10 FOR EWART: It was a birdie-fest at the Commissionaires Ottawa Open on the PGA Tour Americas circuit. Coquitlam’s A.J. Ewart finished 20-under par and that was only good for a tie for 10th place. Winner Brett White of Grand Rapids, Mich., eagled his final hole to shoot a 13-under 59 and tie the lead at 26-under. He then beat Danny Fisher of Lake Forest, Ill., and Nathan Franks of Roebuck, S.C., on the second-hole of a sudden death playoff.
Richmond’s Chris Crisologo tied for 38th at 16-under par. Ewart, Crisologo and Kimberley’s Jared du Toit, who missed the cut in Ottawa, are all in the field for this week’s Osprey Valley Open at TPC Toronto’s Heathlands course. Ewart’s top 10 moved him up three spots to 16th on the tour’s Fortinet Cup points list. The top 10 players on the points list following the season-ending Fortinet Cup Championship at Morgan Creek Golf Course in Surrey in late September earn full Korn Ferry Tour status in 2026.
KORN ON THE COURSE: Vancouver’s Stuart Macdonald closed with a five-under 66 and tied for 30th at the Korn Ferry tour’s NV5 Invitational in Glenview, Ill. Macdonald finished at 17-under par and moved up two spots to sit 37th on the tour’s points list. Merritt’s Roger Sloan tied for 41st at 16-under and now stands 123rd on the points list. Johnny Keefer of San Antonio, Tex., finished 26-under par to win the event.
MAKING PROGRESS: Vancouver’s Leah John recorded her second straight top-30 finish on the Epson Tour. The two-time B.C. Women’s Amateur champion tied for 27th at the Greater Toledo Classic in Sylvania, Oh. John finished the 54-hole event at three-under par, nine shots behind the winner, 17-year-old amateur Mia Hammond of New Albany, Oh.
ALL EARS: Vancouver’s Ilirain Zalli showed some of the form he displayed last year in winning the Vancouver Golf Tour’s Golden Ears Open at Pitt Meadows Golf Club. Zalli shot rounds of 65 and 67 and his 12-under total was three shots better than Coquitlam’s Henry Lee. Justin Towill of Kelowna was third at eight-under. Zalli earned $5,000 for the win.
TEAM TITLE: The British Columbia team of Langley’s Amy Lee, Angela Arora of Surrey and Jenny Kwon of Vancouver won the inter-provincial team title at the Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship in Rothesay, N.B. Team B.C. completed the 36-hole competition at nine-over par, six shots clear of second-place Ontario. Michelle Xing of Richmond Hill, Ont., won the individual competition with a two-under total. Macy Pate of Winston Salem, N.C. and EunSeo Choi of New Zealand tied for second at two-over par. Vancouver’s Vanessa Zhang tied for seventh at six-over and was the low British Columbian. Langley’s Clairey Lin (T15) and Lauren Kim of Surrey (T19) posted top-20 finishes.
TOUGH FINISH: Kelowna’s Cooper Humphreys contended through three rounds, but a poor final day dropped the two-time B.C. Amateur champion into a tie for 18th at the Pacific Coast Amateur Championship at Eugene Country Club in Oregon. Humphreys shared the lead through two rounds and was tied for third heading into the final round. He closed with a six-over 77 and finished the event at three-over par. That was nine shots behind winner Jaden Dumdumaya of Benicia, Calif. The British Columbia team of Humpheys, Manpreet Lahl of Nanaimo and Richmond’s Mackenzie Bickell tied for fourth in the 36-hole Morse Cup team competition that was won by the Arizona Golf Association. Bickell tied for 47th in the individual competition, while Lahl missed the 54-hole cut.
CUP DEFENCE: Christina Lake’s Austin Krahn, Maxim Mckenzie of Chilliwack and Dustin Franko of Delta will represent British Columbia in its defence of the Willingdon Cup inter-provincial team competition at this week’s 120th playing of the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship in Ottawa. Krahn is coming off three straight wins at the B.C. Junior Boys, B.C. Amateur and B.C. Indigenous Championships.
BEAR MARKET: The two courses at the Bear Mountain resort in Victoria are officially up for sale. The development has been in receivership since last fall. The B.C. Supreme Court recently granted a request of the receiver to put the property up for sale. Brandon Selina, a senior vice president with listing agent Colliers Victoria, told the Victoria Times Colonist that marketing efforts are aimed at finding a master developer who wants to, “continue the dream, build it out and run the golf course operations at the same time."
CHIP SHOTS: The B.C. Bantam (U15) Boys and Girls Championships go Tuesday and Wednesday at Burnaby Mountain Golf Course. . .Richmond’s Alex Zhang advanced to match play at the U.S. Junior Amateur in Dallas, but was eliminated in the Round of 64. Zhang, who tied for 50th in the 36-hole stroke play competition, lost that match 2-down to China’s Liangliang Gu.