Patrick Sheehan (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) made an albatross and eight birdies against one bogey en route to 10-under 62 to take the first-round lead at the Commissionaires Ottawa Open presented by L\u00e9pine Apartments in Ottawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n
Sheehan made the turn at 5-under, then holed a 9-iron from 224 yards for an albatross on the par-5 first. He would go on to make three more birdies on his back nine, dropping his lone shot of the round on the par-5 fifth. His 10-under 62 marks the lowest round of his career in what is his 19th start on Tour.<\/p>\n
A second-year member on PGA TOUR Americas, Sheehan owns four top-25 finishes and two top-10s this season, including a runner-up at the 94 Abierto del Centro Zurich presentado por Personal in Cordoba, Argentina. Sheehan medaled at his PGA TOUR Americas Q-School site in Dothan, Alabama to regain membership for the 2026 season, following a No. 100 finish on the 2025 PGA TOUR Americas Points List.<\/p>\n
Paul Chang (Tianjin, People\u2019s Republic of China) opened with a bogey-free 7-under 65 in his third start as a professional. Chang earned membership this summer by finishing No. 13 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2026. He\u2019s made the cut in both of his previous starts, highlighted by a T17 in his pro debut at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open presented by Syndeo.<\/p>\n
Peyton Callens (Langton, Ontario), who began his round on No. 10, made the turn at 2-under before playing his next five holes at 6-under off the strength of two eagles on the par-5 first and fifth. Callens holds his best first-round position on PGA TOUR Americas in what is his 19th start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Sheehan (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) made an albatross and eight birdies against one bogey en route to 10-under 62…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[712,49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-806825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806825","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=806825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}