With extra-hole victory, Drew Nesbitt earned almost $40,000 and moves to seventh on the tour\u2019s points list with one event remain next week near Vancouver<\/p>\n
Horseshoe Valley\u2019s Drew Nesbitt has returned to the winner\u2019s circle on PGA Tour Americas.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old sunk a birdie putt from the fringe on the third extra hole to defeat fellow Canadian A..J. Ewart in a playoff at the Times Colonist Open in Victoria, B.C.<\/p>\n
With the victory, Nesbitt earned almost $40,000 and moves to seventh on the tour\u2019s points list with one event remain next week near Vancouver.<\/p>\n
With the top 10 players at the of next week\u2019s Fortinet Cup in Surrey, B.C. advancing to the Korn Ferry Tour, Nesbitt is in good position to win promotion for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
PGA Tour Americas is the third-rung on North America\u2019s golf hierarchy below the Korn Ferry and PGA tours. PGA Tour Americas was borne out of the merger between the old Latinoamerica and Canadian tours at the beginning of last year.<\/p>\n
Though he\u2019s had a up-and-down journey, Nesbitt has been knocking at the door of golf\u2019s grand stage for close to a decade. In 2019, he won the Mexican Open on the Latinoamerica circuit, and he also broke the mythical 60 barrier when he shot 59 at another event in Mexico that year.<\/p>\n
To date, he has played in six PGA Tour events making the cut at the 2019 Honda Classic where he miraculously saved par on the 36th hole on Friday to survive for the weekend.<\/p>\n
Nesbitt last played in the Canadian Open in 2023, but missed the cut at Toronto\u2019s Oakdale.<\/p>\n
This season, Nesbitt has been in contention on multiple occasions including a pair of top-five finishes, one in New Brunswick and another in Brazil earlier in the year. In Calgary last week, he was in contention again heading into the final round, but slumped on Sunday to drop into a tie for 33rd.<\/p>\n
Moving to Victoria, Nesbitt shot five-under-par 65 to erase Ewart\u2019s four-shot advantage at the start of play on Sunday. Ewart, who was the last Canadian to win on the PGA Tour Americas made birdie on the second-to-last hole in regulation to force the playoff.<\/p>\n
Ewart also matched Nesbitt\u2019s birdie on the second playoff hole, but couldn\u2019t pull off another on the next hole, which handed Nesbitt the title.<\/p>\n
Both men finished the regulation at 20-under-par 260 over four rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With extra-hole victory, Drew Nesbitt earned almost $40,000 and moves to seventh on the tour\u2019s points list with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,84762,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-163607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-golfdrew-nesbittpga-tour-americas","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}