John Chidley-Hill/ Canadian Press
Canada’s Joey Savoie had a easy plan heading into the Bupa Championship: hold the motive force in his bag.
The technique paid off for Savoie, from La Prairie, Que., as he tied for fourth on Sunday within the first occasion of the PGA Tour Americas season. Savoie stated that the conservative method was needed on the crowded fairways of PGA Riviera Maya in Tulum, Mexico.
“Jungle on each side on each gap, water on each gap, just about, powerful greens, quick greens, and windy,” stated Savoie. “So it’s a psychological take a look at and a golf take a look at second.
“I feel it’s an total take a look at of endurance so I feel my recreation plan is rather well fitted to that golf course.”
Clay Feagler received the occasion after bogeying the fourth playoff gap when fellow American Davis Shore double bogeyed it. Savoie tied for fourth at 2-under total and, naturally, is tied for fourth within the Fortinet Cup standings after the one occasion.
Savoie isn’t precisely certain how the top-five end early within the season will play out for him.
“I suppose I’ll let you know after remainder of the 12 months,” stated Savoie with a chuckle. “I’ve some good begins to the season, I’ve had some unhealthy ones.
“For me, the aim is to construct on it, not let myself chill out after that begin. I wish to hold my foot on the gasoline.”
Savoie can have an opportunity to flooring it on the Totalplay Championship on Thursday at Atlas Nation Membership in Guadalajara, Mexico. He’s certainly one of 14 Canadians within the discipline on the second of six occasions within the Latin American swing of the PGA Tour Americas.
It’s technically the inaugural season of the PGA Tour’s third-tier circuit after the Latinoamerica Tour merged with the Canadian Tour within the winter to kind one lengthy season with a break between the 2 phases.
“Schedule sensible, it is perhaps somewhat simpler,” stated Savoie as he waited for his flight to Guadalajara. “It may be simpler to plan the 12 months perhaps however the massive distinction is the quantity occasions in Latino nations.
“The overlapping was solely two or three occasions a 12 months, so it wasn’t that massive of a deal. There’s simply no extra overlapping.”
PGA TOUR — Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., is the very best ranked Canadian within the discipline on the Texas Youngsters’s Houston Open. He moved as much as forty sixth within the FedEx Cup standings due to a tie for third on the Valspar Championship on Sunday. He’ll be joined at Memorial Park Golf Course by Adam Svensson (seventy fifth) of Surrey, B.C., Ben Silverman (96th) of Thornhill, Ont., Taylor Pendrith (99th) of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Roger Sloan (192nd) of Merritt, B.C.
CHAMPIONS TOUR — Calgary’s Stephen Ames is ranked second within the Schwab Cup factors checklist heading into The Galleri Classc this week. Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., is forty second on the factors checklist. The occasion at Mission Hills Nation Membership in Rancho Mirage, Calif., tees on Friday.
DP WORLD TOUR — Aaron Cockerill of Stony Mountain, Man., will tee it up on Thursday on the Hero Indian Open in New Delhi. He’s the one Canadian at DLF Golf and Nation Membership.
LPGA TOUR — Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., is fifth within the Race to CME Globe standings heading into the inaugural Ford Championship. Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., is thirty eighth and Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., is tied for 128th. Hamilton’s Alena Sharp was a event invite as she’s a member at Seville Golf and Nation Membership in Gilbert, Ariz., the occasion’s host course.
