{"id":739656,"date":"2026-06-16T03:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739656\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T03:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:29:18","slug":"canadian-trio-headlines-memorable-week-at-rbcco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739656\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian trio headlines memorable week at RBCCO"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a moment on Sunday, Matthew Anderson was on top at the RBC Canadian Open.<\/p>\n

After six front-nine birdies for a score of 29, the 26-year-old Korn Ferry Tour <\/a>member, playing in his fourth PGA Tour event, headed to the 10th tee with a share of the lead at TPC Toronto.<\/p>\n

And then he made his first bad swing of the day.<\/p>\n

His tee shot on the par 4 flew left out of bounds, forcing him to hit again. The error led to a double-bogey six and dropped him from the lead. It was the start of a birdieless back nine for Anderson, which resulted in a round of 3-under 67. He ended up at 11 under par for the championship, good enough to finish solo-13th.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou definitely feel the juices. Thoughts come into your head, like, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s my national open, I\u2019m tied for the lead, that\u2019s awesome,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cThen we redirect the focus and try to make a good swing. Obviously, on 10 tee, I did not make a very good swing, but I was trying my best. It was raining, it was windy, sometimes stuff happens. Then you kind of just try and forget about it and move on. I thought I did a fairly good job of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

His over-par second nine opened the door for Sudarshan Yellamaraju<\/a> to pass him on the leaderboard and take home the Rivermead Cup as low Canadian. Still, it was the best week of Anderson\u2019s professional career and came after a streak of five missed cuts on the Korn Ferry Tour. The $218,050 PGA Tour paycheque will help make up for those Friday trunk slams and serves as proof that his game is good enough to hang on the top circuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, if I didn\u2019t believe it before, I absolutely know that I can win out here,\u201d said the Mississauga native. \u201cI proved that to myself. I mean, listen, I went out, I did my process, I did as best I could \u2026 I would rather be in there in the mix and not have it go my way than not have that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision to play at TPC Toronto meant skipping this week\u2019s Korn Ferry Tour event taking place in Texas. It may seem like a no-brainer to play in one\u2019s national open, but Anderson could\u2019ve used a good result on the Korn Ferry Tour to earn points. He currently sits 76th on that circuit\u2019s ledger, with only those in the top 20 at year\u2019s end earning PGA Tour cards.<\/p>\n

\"\"Matthew Anderson finished T13 at the 2026 RBC Canadian Open. (THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Nathan Denette)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think honestly, I believe in my game, no matter what. I\u2019m never going to turn down an opportunity to play in my national open,\u201d said the 26-year-old. \u201cIt\u2019s something that I grew up watching. Ultimately, missing a week on the Korn Ferry Tour, yes, there are points, but ultimately, if I believe in my game and I believe in my direction of where I\u2019m going. I\u2019m going to get to where I want anyway, regardless of whether I choose to play an event one week or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson was paired with fellow Canadian Justin Matthews, who was the lone amateur to make the cut at TPC Toronto. Like Anderson, it was a tale of two nines for the 21-year-old. He had it going on the front nine, putting four circles on his scorecard to sit inside the top 10. But a triple-bogey on No. 17, followed by a bogey on the closing hole, dropped him down the leaderboard to a tie for 29th at 8 under par.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly felt really comfortable out there. I had nothing to lose this week playing as an amateur,\u201d said Matthews, who hails from Little Britain, Ont. \u201cI can\u2019t earn any money. It\u2019s not as high stakes for me compared to some of the other guys. I was just really trying to enjoy the moment. I had nothing to lose today. I just had a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The week was extra special for Matthews, who trains at the TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley Academy Centre. He had his coach, TPC Toronto head pro Braeden Cryderman, on the bag for the tournament and was feeling the love from everyone on the grounds all week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis place has been a tremendous home for me,\u201d said Matthews, who will be entering his senior year at the University of Charlotte this fall. \u201cI played and practised here for the last three years. It really does feel like home. All the staff, Brayden, I love it here. It\u2019s phenomenal. Having it as a home game and having all the staff behind me, it\u2019s just been so special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yellamaraju\u2019s late charge came via birdies on Nos. 12, 15 and 17. A costly bogey on 18 got the 24-year-old in the house at 12 under. That was one shot ahead of Anderson, but also one behind fourth place. Hard Yellamaraju finished at 13 under par he would have claimed a world ranking tiebreaker to get into the Open Championship as one of the top-three finishers not otherwise exempt into the major next month. \u00a0
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\u201cObviously going into the week, you have that little bit of added pressure being at the Canadian Open and for me being pretty close to home,\u201d said Yellamaraju, who spent his adolescence in Mississauga. \u201cI just kind of tried to keep trying to tell myself to play the best that I could and just fight until the very end, which was pretty much what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The week was a successful one for Canadian men\u2019s golf, which saw 10 of the 21 Canadians make the cut at the RBC Canadian Open, the most since 1969.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to keep pushing ourselves to try to keep getting better and I think we keep cheering each other on even when we\u2019re maybe not there in person or watching kind of from afar,\u201d said Yellamaraju. \u201cIt was cool to see a lot of Canadians make the cut this week and then I saw on the leaderboard that Matthew and Justin were really playing some good golf and almost had a chance to win. That was cool to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a moment on Sunday, Matthew Anderson was on top at the RBC Canadian Open. After six front-nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,53521,265537,48159,82,246237],"class_list":["post-739656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-golf-canada","tag-matthew-anderson","tag-rbc-canadian-open","tag-sports","tag-sudarshan-yellamaraju"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739656","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=739656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}