Rory defends Canadian Open; PGA TOUR puts on a premier show for fans across the world

Rory, Finau, JT, Rosey and newly-minted superstar Sam Burns emphatically earned their winnings on Sunday at St. George’s Golf & CC.

And the young man (still only 34) from Northern Ireland came out on top.

The top-5 finishers on Sunday in the Canadian Open shot 62, 64, 64, 60, and 65, respectively.

And each score was made by someone who didn’t play in the Saudi LIV Invitational 54-hole farce played in London over the weekend. But you know who did play in London? Current world-beater Andy Ogletree.

Andy pocketed $120k after shooting +24. I’m thinking about submitting my name for the Portland LIV Open to be played in July. I too can shoot +24.

That just isn’t close to good golf no matter what the conditions were, course set-up, nursing a well-earned hangover, whatever the excuses.

Back to St. Georges. Rory played spectacularly on the weekend. And during his post-victory interview with CBS’s Amanda Balionis on the 18th green, he talked about his rekindled motivations and effort to get back to winning more regularly on TOUR (PGA, not SAUDI).

He also threw shade at/mocked Greg Norman, referencing how he had just won his 21st PGA TOUR victory, one more than the Great White Shark.

You can tell that guys like Rory and JT are taking the PGA TOUR vs LIV TOUR debate personally. And the tension is only going to be more palpable this week at the US Open when 14 of the 48 LIV event players will be teeing it up at Brookline.

It’s a weird time right now for golf. But for Rory, he showed us the kind of champion he is while also swinging his verbal sword around like a swashbuckling Zoro out to spear himself a slimey Shark.

If you missed the action on Sunday, there was a lot of this:

Final results from Canada:

	POS	PLAYER	SCORE	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOT	EARNINGS	FEDEX PTS
	1	Rory McIlroy	-19	66	68	65	62	261	$1,566,000	500
	2	Tony Finau	-17	66	71	62	64	263	$948,300	300
	3	Justin Thomas	-15	69	69	63	64	265	$600,300	190
	T4	Justin Rose	-14	69	70	67	60	266	$391,500	123
	T4	Sam Burns	-14	67	69	65	65	266	$391,500	123
	6	Corey Conners	-12	71	69	66	62	268	$315,375	100
	T7	Keith Mitchell	-10	67	67	70	66	270	$273,325	85
	T7	Chris Kirk	-10	69	69	66	66	270	$273,325	85
	T7	Wyndham Clark	-10	63	70	68	69	270	$273,325	85
	T10	Danny Lee	-9	68	69	69	65	271	$219,675	70
	T10	Shane Lowry	-9	67	69	69	66	271	$219,675	70
	T10	Matt Fitzpatrick	-9	64	70	70	67	271	$219,675	70
	T13	Kelly Kraft	-8	69	69	70	64	272	$160,515	55
	T13	Brendon Todd	-8	69	69	68	66	272	$160,515	55
	T13	Aaron Rai	-8	69	70	67	66	272	$160,515	55
	T13	Harold Varner III	-8	65	72	68	67	272	$160,515	55
	T13	Austin Cook	-8	71	64	68	69	272	$160,515	55
	T18	Patrick Rodgers	-7	67	69	72	65	273	$123,975	47
	T18	Scottie Scheffler	-7	69	67	71	66	273	$123,975	47
	T18	Doug Ghim	-7	65	71	68	69	273	$123,975	47
	T21	Adam Svensson	-6	72	68	67	67	274	$94,830	40
	T21	Scott Piercy	-6	70	70	66	68	274	$94,830	40
	T21	Adam Long	-6	70	67	67	70	274	$94,830	40
	T21	Alex Smalley	-6	67	67	67	73	274	$94,830	40
	T25	John Huh	-5	69	69	72	65	275	$71,485	34
	T25	Jim Knous	-5	67	67	69	72	275	$71,485	34
	T25	Sebastián Muñoz	-5	69	70	65	71	275	$71,485	34
	T28	Mackenzie Hughes	-4	66	75	68	67	276	$57,047	27
	T28	Emiliano Grillo	-4	70	70	67	69	276	$57,047	27
	T28	Hank Lebioda	-4	69	70	71	66	276	$57,047	27
	T28	Chase Seiffert	-4	69	70	67	70	276	$57,047	27
	T28	Danny Willett	-4	71	68	72	65	276	$57,047	27
	T28	Jonas Blixt	-4	67	74	70	65	276	$57,047	27
	T28	Nick Taylor	-4	70	68	67	71	276	$57,047	27
	T35	Adam Hadwin	-3	69	70	69	69	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Justin Lower	-3	70	68	70	69	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Vince Whaley	-3	72	69	67	69	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Seung-Yul Noh	-3	69	70	68	70	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Charley Hoffman	-3	68	68	71	70	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Ryan Moore	-3	69	69	69	70	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Matt Wallace	-3	70	66	70	71	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Ryan Armour	-3	72	66	68	71	277	$39,730	17
	T35	Nick Hardy	-3	68	73	65	71	277	$39,730	17