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Sep 8, 2022

A look at the Fortinet Cup Championship field

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    KITCHENER, Ontario—Of the top-60 players in the Fortinet Cup standings who qualified to play in the Fortinet Cup Championship, 58 will be in action at Deer Ridge Golf Club on September 15-18. With an increased purse of $225,000 and additional Fortinet Cup points available—600 to the winner vs. the traditional 500—much remains on the line as the PGA TOUR Canada season comes to a conclusion. Here are thumbnail looks at all 60 players who qualified for the season-ending tournament.

    Jake Knapp
    Fortinet Cup Position: 1
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 7
    Best Finish: Won (CRMC Championship presented by Gertens)
    Season Highlight: At the CRMC Championship presented by Gertens, he made five eagles, tying a PGA TOUR Canada record for most in a single tournament. He went on to win the event in Minnesota for his third career title.

    Wil Bateman
    Fortinet Cup Position: 2
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 9
    Best Finish: Won (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He has the distinction of claiming wins on both PGA TOUR Latinoamérica (2015 Chile Open) and PGA TOUR Canada after capturing the ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton in his hometown.

    Noah Goodwin
    Fortinet Cup Position: 3
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: Won (Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open; GolfBC Championship)
    Season Highlight: With wins at the Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open and the GolfBC Championship, he is the only player with multiple wins in 2022.

    Scott Stevens
    Fortinet Cup Position: 4
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: Won (Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist)
    Season Highlight: He saved his best golf for British Columbia, winning the Royal Bank Victoria Open and finishing second at the GolfBC Championship in Kelowna.

    Ryan Gerard
    Fortinet Cup Position: 5
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: Won (Quebec Open)
    Season Highlight: After missing the cut at the Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open, he made four consecutive cuts leading into this event, including a win in Quebec and top-five finishes in Minnesota and Kelowna.

    Danny Walker
    Fortinet Cup Position: 6
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: Won (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: He won the 2018 Fortinet Cup Championship then picked up his second PGA TOUR Canada title, at this year’s Osprey Valley Open. The duration between Walker’s wins was 1,407 days, a PGA TOUR Canada record.

    Brian Carlson
    Fortinet Cup Position: 7
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 7
    Best Finish: Won (Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions)
    Season Highlight: He had a superb final-round scoring average. In his seven made cuts, he was always under-par Sunday, posting a 67.86 average—led by his closing 63 at the Royal Beach Victoria Open.

    Thomas Walsh
    Fortinet Cup Position: 8
    Tournaments Played: 5
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finishes: Second (Sotheby's International Realty Canada Ontario Open; Quebec Open)
    Season Highlight: In only five starts after playing on the Korn Ferry Tour earlier in the year, he made four cuts and posted a pair of runner-up finishes along with a tie for third.

    Ian Holt
    Fortinet Cup Position: 9
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 8
    Best Finish: Second (CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open)
    Season Highlight: His 156 birdies are second only to Wil Bateman’s 177 this season. He also played two less rounds than Bateman, averaging 4.58 birdies per round to Bateman’s 4.91 average.

    Joe Highsmith
    Fortinet Cup Position: 10
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 7
    Best Finish: T2 (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He led or tied for the lead in five PGA TOUR Canada statistical categories (Total Eagles, Top-10 Finishes, Eagles Per Hole, Par-5 Performance and Par-5 Scoring Average)

    Parker Coody
    Fortinet Cup Position: 11
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: Won (CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open)
    Season Highlight: With his victory at the CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open, he joined his twin brother, Pierceson (won the 2022 Live and Work in Maine Open), and his grandfather Charles (three career PGA TOUR wins) as a winner of a PGA TOUR-affiliated Tour event.

    Trent Phillips
    Fortinet Cup Position: 12
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T3 (CRMC Championship presented by Gertens)
    Season Highlight: His streak of eight consecutive birdies in the second round of the CRMC Championship is not only the longest such streak this season it established a PGA TOUR Canada record, breaking the old mark of seven consecutively set by Jeff Rein at the 2016 Niagara Championship.

    Jeffrey Kang
    Fortinet Cup Position: 13
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: Third (Quebec Open)
    Season Highlight: He made two eagles in one round three different times this season—at the Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantm Cimentos - CBM Aggregates, at the Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open and at the CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open.

    Cameron Sisk
    Fortinet Cup Position: 14
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T2 (Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open)
    Season Highlight: Going into the season-ending Fortinet Cup Championship, he is working on a streak of 10 consecutive par-or-better rounds, with nine of those under-par.

    Cooper Musselman
    Fortinet Cup Position: 15
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: Second (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: He had a remarkably consistent season, with the following scoring averages for each round he played this year: 69.44, 69.56, 69.83, 69.00.

    Cooper Dossey
    Fortinet Cup Position: 16
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 7
    Best Finish: Third (Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist)
    Season Highlight: He began the season with 12 consecutive under-par rounds, and for 18 consecutive rounds at par or better. The streak ended with a 4-over 75 at the Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open.

    Lee Detmer
    Fortinet Cup Position: 17
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T2 (Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open)
    Season Highlight: Over his final 19 rounds, he was over-par only once (1-over in the first round at the Quebec Open). Of those 19 scores he posted, 17 of them were under-par, including back-to-back 64s to close the CRMC Championship.

    Gavin Hall
    Fortinet Cup Position: 18
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T3 (CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open)
    Season Highlight: He twice turned in front-nine 29s this year, 6-under performances at the Royal Beach Victoria Open and the CRMC Championship.

    Chris R. Wilson
    Fortinet Cup Position: 19
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: Second (Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions)
    Season Highlight: His bid to become the second Canadian (along with Wil Bateman) to win this season came up short when he finished second, falling by a stroke to Brian Carlson at the Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP solutions.

    Joey Savoie
    Fortinet Cup Position: 20
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 7
    Best Finish: Fourth (Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist)
    Season Highlight: He began his year with a fourth-place finish in Victoria and never fell outside the top 30 in the Fortinet Cup standings for the rest of the year.

    Harrison Ott
    Fortinet Cup Position: 21
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T3 (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: Of his 22 official rounds, nine of those were 68s, a score he turned in four consecutive times—in the final round of the Prince Edward Island presented by IMB Solutions Open and the first three rounds at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.

    Myles Creighton
    Fortinet Cup Position: 22
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T4 (Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions)
    Season Highlight: He is one of four players this season to birdie four consecutive par-3s (David Sanders, Ryan Gerard and Davis Shore).

    Thomas Longbella
    Fortinet Cup Position: 23
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T3 (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: Although he has missed two of his last four cuts, his last 12 rounds have all been under-par, with 17 of his last 18 at par or better.

    Dalton Ward
    Fortinet Cup Position: 24
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 8
    Best Finish: Sixth (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He has shot a 59 and a 61 as a PGA TOUR Canada player, recording his 59 last year in Indiana on the Forme Tour and shooting a 61 earlier this season, at the GolfBC Championship.

    Luke Schniederjans
    Fortinet Cup Position: 25
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 8
    Best Finish: Sixth (GolfBC Championship)
    Season Highlight: He used four rounds in the 60s at Gallagher’s Canyon Golf Club in Kelowna, British Columbia, to finish alone in sixth for his first top-10 of the season.

    Eric Lilleboe
    Fortinet Cup Position: 26
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 8
    Best Finish: T12 (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He made it to the weekend eight times out of the nine tournaments he played. Of those eight made cuts, he recorded five top-25 finishes.

    Jorge Villar
    Best Finish: Fortinet Cup Position: 27
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T2 (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He came close to winning in mid-June, losing in a playoff to Wil Bateman in Edmonton, an extra session that also included Joe Highsmith. In his last full-field tournament of the year, he reeled off three consecutive 66s.

    Étienne Papineau
    Fortinet Cup Position: 28
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T5 (Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist)
    Season Highlight: He enjoyed a 5-under streak in the first round at the CRMC Championship, starting at No. 16 by going birdie-birdie-birdie-eagle.

    Rhett Rasmussen
    Fortinet Cup Position: 29
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T4 (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He played his final 20 holes at the Edmonton Petroleum Golf and Country Club bogey-free, firing a Sunday 66 to finish at 16-under, good for a tie for fourth.

    Kieran Vincent
    Fortinet Cup Position: 30
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 8
    Best Finish: T8 (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: His 159 birdies are the sixth-most this season. His tournament-best birdie output came in Minnesota and Prince Edward Island, where he had 21 each in both events.

    Travis Trace
    Fortinet Cup Position: 31
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T3 (Quebec Open)
    Season Highlight: His 14-stroke improvement from the first round to the second round at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (79-65) tied him for the best one-round improvement this season, along with Matt Echelmeier and Jeevan Sihota.

    Sudarshan Yellamaraju
    Fortinet Cup Position: 32
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T5 (CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open)
    Season Highlight: In a stretch of good form in the latter part of the season, he tied for fifth in Winnipeg and then shot his season-best 18-hole score, a final-round 63 at the GolfBC Championship, to tie for 11th.

    Austin Hitt
    Fortinet Cup Position: 33
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 3
    Best Finish: Third (Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions)
    Season Highlight: He will have dual status again in 2023, having already secured his PGA TOUR Latinoamérica card by finishing 14th in the Totalplay Cup standings.

    Derek Oland
    Fortinet Cup Position: 34
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T11 (Sotheby's International Realty Canada Ontario Open; GolfBC Championship)
    Season Highlight: He finished a cumulative 8-under on his par-3s this year to lead the Tour. His scoring average was 2.93 on those holes this season.

    Parker Gillam
    Fortinet Cup Position: 35
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T5 (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: He enjoyed a streak during the season where he turned in 13 consecutive under-par rounds, his two best finishes of the campaign—a tie for seventh in Prince Edward Island and a tie for fifth at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley.

    Jacob Solomon
    Fortinet Cup Position: 36
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T5 (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: His season-low, 8-under 63 came at the Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open, courtesy of a bogey-free card that included eight birdies.

    Jake Scott
    Fortinet Cup Position: 37
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 8
    Best Finish: T7 (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He was the picture of consistency, making eight cuts in nine starts and shooting under-par scores in every second round this season.

    David Kim
    Fortinet Cup Position: 38
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T3 (CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open)
    Season Highlight: He posted his first career PGA TOUR Canada top-10, a tie for third in Winnipeg. After opening 68-69-69, he fired a low-round-of-the-day-tying 64 to vault up the leaderboard. His next-best performance was a tie for 28th.

    Andrew Dorn
    Fortinet Cup Position: 39
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T14 (Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions)
    Season Highlight: His 10 eagles were the fourth most this season, behind Joe Highsmith and Scott Stevens’ 12 and Jake Knapp’s 11.

    J.T. Griffin
    Fortinet Cup Position: 40
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T5 (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: His second top-10 of the season came when he shot a final-round, 8-under 63 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in late-July to tie for fifth. It was his low round of the season.

    Justin Doeden
    Fortinet Cup Position: 41
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T11 (Sotheby's International Realty Canada Ontario Open)
    Season Highlight: He had two significant swings from round to round this season. In Prince Edward Island, he followed an opening 64 with a 76. Three weeks later, at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley, he opened with an 80 followed by a 67.

    Jared du Toit
    Fortinet Cup Position: 42
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T15 (ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: He had a streak of eight par-or-better rounds to start the season and is in the middle of a streak of nine consecutive under-par rounds heading into the Fortinet Cup Championship.

    Isaiah Salinda
    Fortinet Cup Position: 43
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finishes: T14 (CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open; CRMC Championship presented by Gertens)
    Season Highlight: His round-by-round, season scoring averages are all within .70 of each other (69.75, 69.13, 69.00 and 69.83).

    Yi Cao
    Fortinet Cup Position: 44
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T12 (CRMC Championship presented by Gertens)
    Season Highlight: In his 38th career start, he posted his career-best, 18-hole round, an 8-under 62 at the CRMC Championship presented by Gertens.

    Blake Hathcoat
    Fortinet Cup Position: 45
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T8 (Sotheby's International Realty Canada Ontario Open)
    Season Highlight: Until a second-round 75 at the GolfBC Championship, he had shot eight consecutive under-par rounds in the second round in 2022.

    Carter Jenkins
    Fortinet Cup Position: 46
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T5 (CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open)
    Season Highlight: He made three eagles at the CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open, all on different holes at Southwood Golf and Country Club, with two of them coming in the third round.

    Joey Vrzich
    Fortinet Cup Position: 47
    Tournaments Played: 7
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T7 (Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions)
    Season Highlight: His lone top-10, a tie for seventh, came at the Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions, thanks to a third-round 66, his low score of the year in relation to par.

    Chris Crisologo
    Fortinet Cup Position: 48
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T7 ( ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton)
    Season Highlight: His only two top-10s came in his first two starts of the season—at the Royal Beach Victoria Open and the ATB Classic presented by Volvo Edmonton—where he had eight par-or-better rounds and never shot a score worse than 70.

    Brendan MacDougall
    Fortinet Cup Position: 49
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T11 (Sotheby's International Realty Canada Ontario Open)
    Season Highlight: In his third-round 63 in Prince Edward Island, he closed his day by making eight birdies and three pars over his final 11 holes.

    Brett Bennett
    Fortinet Cup Position: 50
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T7 (Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist)
    Season Highlight: In his lone top-10 of the season, he shot four scores in the 60s at the Royal Beach Victoria Open to tie for seventh.

    Blake Maum
    Fortinet Cup Position: 51
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: 12 (Osprey Valley Open presented by Votorantim Cimentos - CBM Aggregates)
    Season Highlight: His low score of the year, a final-round 65 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley, came after he played his final 15 holes in 6-under—four birdies and an eagle.

    James Hervol
    Fortinet Cup Position: 52
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 3
    Best Finish: T4 (GolfBC Championship)
    Season Highlight: He tied for fourth in the final full-field event of the year, moving from No. 120 in the Fortinet Cup standings into the 52nd position, earning his invitation to the Fortinet Cup Championship.

    Nolan Ray
    Fortinet Cup Position: 53
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 2
    Best Finish: T5 (Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist)
    Season Highlight: He played bogey-free golf for the first 23 holes of the season, recording six birdies on his way to an opening-round 66 and an eventual tie for fifth, his best performance of the campaign.

    Conner Godsey*
    Fortinet Cup Position: 54
    Tournaments Played: 2
    Cuts Made: 2
    Best Finish: T3 (CRMC Championship presented by Gertens)
    Season Highlight: After playing on the Korn Ferry Tour earlier in the year, he arrived on PGA TOUR Canada and played two tournaments. He tied for third in his 2022 debut, in Minnesota, and enjoyed eight consecutive sub-par scores in his eight rounds.

    Guillaume Fanonnel
    Fortinet Cup Position: 55
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 6
    Best Finish: T8 (CRMC Championship presented by Gertens)
    Season Highlight: He completed the regular season with nine consecutive under-par rounds, all of them in the 60s, including a final-round 63 at the CRMC Championship that led to his lone top-10 of the season, a tie for eighth.

    Davis Shore*
    Fortinet Cup Position: 56
    Tournaments Played: 8
    Cuts Made: 3
    Best Finishes: T13 (Royal Beach Victoria Open presented by Times Colonist; Quebec Open)
    Season Highlight: Despite playing nine of his final 10 rounds at par or better, he only made one cut during that stretch—a tie for 13th at the Quebec Open.

    Easton Paxton
    Fortinet Cup Position: 57
    Tournaments Played: 5
    Cuts Made: 3
    Best Finish: T8 (Sotheby's International Realty Canada Ontario Open)
    Season Highlight: He only made five starts during the season, but of his 16 rounds, only two were over par, with 11 of his scores under-par.

    Taylor Funk
    Fortinet Cup Position: 58
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T11 (GolfBC Championship)
    Season Highlight: In making his final four cuts of the season, going from 127th in the Fortinet Cup standings to 58th, to earn a spot in the season-ending event, he played his final 15 rounds of the season at par or better, with only an even-par 72 slowing his streak of under-par scores.

    Tyler Strafaci
    Fortinet Cup Position: 59
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 4
    Best Finish: T11 (GolfBC Championship)
    Season Highlight: By virtue of his tie for 11th, after a 65-66-67 final 54 holes, he moved from 86th in the Fortinet Cup standings to snag the second-to-last playing spot in the Fortinet Cup Championship.

    Joseph Harrison
    Fortinet Cup Position: 60
    Tournaments Played: 9
    Cuts Made: 5
    Best Finish: T18 (Prince Edward Island Open presented by IMP Solutions)
    Season Highlight: When he tees it up at the season-ending Fortinet Cup Championship, he will play his 75th career tournament as a PGA TOUR Canada player.


    *Will not play in the Fortinet Cup Championship

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