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This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports’ daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what’s happening in sports by subscribing here. Here’s a look at the top moments from the past couple days, including some impressive Canadians results. Golf: Rory gets his green jacket, Conners fades to eighth In one of the most dramatic finishes imaginable, fan favourite Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland recovered from another late meltdown to defeat England’s Justin Rose in a playoff and win the Masters to complete the rare career Grand Slam. McIlroy entered the final round at Augusta with a…

Golf Americans will be paid to play in the Ryder Cup for the first time under a PGA of America program that gives each player a $200,000 US stipend and $300,000 to distribute to charity. Each player will get $200K for themselves, $300K to donate to charity The Associated Press · Posted: Dec 16, 2024 10:24 AM EST | Last Updated: December 16, 2024 American captain Keegan Bradley previously said he would give his full allocation of $500,000 US from the Ryder Cup to charity. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Americans will be paid to play in the Ryder Cup for…

Golf continued to be on the upswing in Canada in 2024, and Brooke Henderson expects even more in the new year. Calgary hosted the CPKC Women’s Open, Hamilton welcomed the RBC Canadian Open, and Montreal held the biennial Presidents Cup, an elite PGA Tour event where the 12 best American golfers face the 12 best players from around the world excluding Europe. Henderson said that seeing the best golfers in the world come to Canada for three different tournaments was her highlight of 2024. “All the energy and atmosphere that surrounds the Presidents Cup and holding it in Canada, I…

Hideki Matsuyama got the new season off to a smashing start Sunday when he broke the PGA Tour record to par for 72 holes by closing with an 8-under 65 for a three-shot victory over Collin Morikawa in The Sentry. Matsuyama made an 8-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th hole at Kapalua, lightly pumping his fist in about the only emotion he showed all week. That put him at 35-under 257, breaking by one the 34-under par by Cameron Smith set at Kapalua in 2022. Matsuyama set another PGA Tour record with that final birdie, his 35th hole at…

Ludvig Aberg will be the answer to a trivia question: He made the first birdie in TGL history. And with that, the indoor golf competition that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy had envisioned for years was finally underway. TGL had its debut match Tuesday night, with Rickie Fowler, Matt Fitzpatrick and Xander Schauffele of New York Golf Club taking on Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark and Aberg of The Bay Golf Club in the opener at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The 15-hole match took just under two hours, which is exactly how TGL envisioned this to work.…

It’s not often Corey Conners is excited with a PGA Tour result where he finished 11 shots back of the eventual winner. But at The Sentry, the Tour’s season-opening event, no one was going to beat Hideki Matsuyama — who set an all-time, 72-hole PGA Tour scoring record at 35-under 257 — and Conners’s tie for fifth still marked his best result since his win at the Valero Texas Open in 2023. Conners, from Listowel, Ont., ranked first in putting in Maui, a big improvement in an area he’s worked hard to improve. “It was nowhere near winning with how…

Nick Taylor never looked more clutch than when he birdied the 18th hole three times in the WM Phoenix Open, first to force a playoff and the last to win it. And then he went 23 starts over 11 months without a top 10. Who can forget that 70-foot eagle putt to win the Canadian Open before a delirious home crowd? During the next seven months and 12 tournaments, he had only one top 10. The tradeoff for the 36-year-old Canadian are the trophies — one in each of the last three years and five overall. The latest came Sunday…

Of the many congratulatory messages Nick Taylor received after his fifth PGA Tour win, there was one from Canadian golf legend Mike Weir. Weir was the Presidents Cup captain who omitted Taylor from the International Team last September, instead picking fellow Canadians Corey Conners, Mackenzie Hughes and Taylor Pendrith to play at Royal Montreal Golf Club. “There’s certainly no ill will there,” Taylor said in a media conference on Tuesday after winning the Sony Open in dramatic fashion on the weekend. “I’m sure there are people saying things about it, but no. Mike’s always has been great, and it was…

Sudarshan Yellamaraju, of Mississauga, Ont., took a major step toward his PGA Tour dream on Wednesday by winning the second event of the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour, golf’s premier feeder circuit. The 23-year-old won The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club by five shots over runners-up Russell Knox and Kensei Hirata. Yellamaraju fired a final-round 64, the lowest score of the day, and shattered the tournament scoring record by seven shots. He became the third Canadian to win the event, following Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., in 2018 and Ben Silverman of Thornhill, Ont., in 2023. Starting the final round…