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TORONTO, Ont. – Bobby Jones said that a great career was not complete without winning The Open at St. Andrews. Jones did it in 1927. Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and so many of the game’s greats have followed in his footsteps. Another player will have an opportunity this year as The 150th Open returns to St. Andrews after a one-year delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Record crowds will be on-site to witness history, and players can earn the opportunity to compete in this important championship in several upcoming PGA TOUR events. The Open Qualifying Series, which offers Open berths to top finishers in various events around the world, includes several upcoming PGA TOUR events, starting with this week’s RBC Canadian Open. Two Open spots are available this week to the two highest finishers who are not yet exempt to St. Andrews, as long as they also finish in the top eight on the leaderboard. The John Deere Classic, Barbasol Championship and Genesis Scottish Open also are part of the Open Qualifying Series. Three spots apiece will be available at both the Deere and Scottish Open, while the Barbasol will offer the final spot in The Open. Several big names are still vying for their spot in The Open, including former world No. 1 Jason Day, who finished a shot out of a playoff in the 2015 Open at St. Andrews, 2017 Open runner-up Matt Kuchar, Matthew Wolff, Maverick McNealy and Davis Riley. Among the players in the field this week who are looking to lock up a spot at St. Andrews are Jason Dufner, Sebastian Munoz, Cameron Champ and Luke List, winner of this season’s Farmers Insurance Open. Seventeen players who are teeing it up this week have already booked their spot to St Andrews. That group includes defending champion Rory McIlroy, winner of the 2014 Open Championship, and Justin Thomas, winner of this year’s PGA Championship. The top two players in the FedExCup, Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns, also have Open spots locked up, as do Canadians Corey Conners and Mackenzie Hughes. Adam Hadwin, who earned a berth in the 2019 Open via his finish at that year’s RBC Canadian Open, is again looking to punch his ticket to The Open. Past Canadian Open champions still seeking their spot at St. Andrews include Jhonattan Vegas, Brandt Snedeker, Scott Piercy, and Sean O’Hair. Harry Higgs, Carlos Ortiz, J.J. Spaun, Sahith Theegala and Keith Mitchell are among the other names seeking Open spots this week. Graeme McDowell and Adam Hadwin earned berths via their position on the leaderboard at the Canadian Open in 2019. “It’s always nice to have a chance to get into The Open Championship field,” says Hadwin, who is one of 20 Canadians in the field at St. George’s Golf and Country Club. Hadwin, who finished T57 at The Open that year, says earning a spot in the major is something that became a surprising reward as he was coming down the stretch that Sunday in Hamilton three years ago. There were two other Canadians – Mackenzie Hughes and Ben Silverman – who were in the mix to earn a spot in The Open, but also win the golf tournament. Thirteen golfers have won both the Canadian Open and Open Championship, McIlroy being the most recent addition to that list after his 2019 victory in Hamilton. Lee Trevino and Tiger Woods are the only golfers to have won the Canadian Open, The Open, and the U.S. Open in the same season – golf’s coveted Triple Crown. That feat is another on the table for 2022 with the U.S. Open and, of course, The Open Championship, yet to be contested. There are six more events to come as part of the Open Qualifying Series. Chris Kirk and Talor Gooch earned their spot at St. Andrews earlier this year at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, which also was part of the Open Qualifying Series.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Max Homa was unflappable on Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship. He continually holed important putts to stay atop a leaderboard that featured some of the game’s biggest names. He never made a mistake while conquering a course of major-championship caliber.  His steady play under Sunday pressure makes his performance two years ago that much more unfathomable. Homa is a PGA TOUR champion less than two years after he couldn’t find a fairway or make a cut. The former NCAA champion, a collegiate contemporary of Justin Thomas, was embarrassed to go into locker rooms. He wanted to spare his peers from playing practice rounds with him.  Now he’s a winner at Quail Hollow Club, where the list of champions includes Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day. Homa started Sunday with a share of the lead, then went out and shot the low round of the day. RELATED: Final leaderboard | Winner’s bag | Updated FedExCup standings That’s not what you usually see from players pursuing their first PGA TOUR title. Especially when their last season went the way Homa’s did. He missed 15 of 17 cuts and made less than $20,000. He won’t have to worry about money anymore. He earned his first winner’s check by shooting 67 to finish at 15-under 269 (69-63-70-67). Joel Dahmen, who also was seeking his first PGA TOUR win, finished alone in second. The victory moved Homa to 35th in the FedExCup standings and earned him a two-year exemption. Homa finished 163rd and 244th in the FedExCup in his first two PGA TOUR seasons. “The only goal I had this year was to make it to the TOUR Championship, so that’s obviously a big boost there,â€� Homa said. “Moving up that FedExCup’s sweet. The job security’s probably a little sweeter. I know it’s been tough on my family.â€� The reigning FedExCup champion, Justin Rose, finished four back. Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler, Paul Casey and Jason Dufner all tied for fourth. Rory McIlroy was two shots back at the start of the day, but faded to eighth place with a 73 on Sunday. “I told (caddie Joe Greiner) on one of the holes that I felt like I was going to throw up, but my hands felt unbelievable on the club,â€� Homa said. He couldn’t say the same in 2017, when he shot a cumulative 61-over-par in 17 starts on the PGA TOUR. But ‘resilient’ is a word that multiple people used to describe Homa. He has a similar word, ‘RELENTLESS’ tattooed on his wrist. “I refuse to give in and I believe that hard work will pay off,â€� he said. He’s just the fourth player in the last 25 years to win on the PGA TOUR after enduring a season in which they made less than $20,000 in 15-plus events. His toughness showed in Sunday’s performance. He made two birdies and no bogeys on the front nine to take a one-shot lead at the turn. He pulled away by holing putts of 14 and 13 feet to birdie 10 and 11. On Sunday, he missed just one of his five attempts from 10-15 feet. He also went 4 for 5 on putts from 5-7 feet. He led the field with 4.1 strokes gained on the greens Sunday. After pulling ahead with those two birdies to start the back nine, he holed three consecutive 5-footers for par on Nos. 12-14. The last one came after a rain delay of more than an hour. A bogey at 14 would have been especially costly. He laid up on the drivable par-4, then pulled a wedge that bounced into the rough left of the green. His chip shot skidded past the hole just before a heavy downpour hit the course. After marking the ball, Homa took one last look at the line before getting into a van. When the rain subsided, he practiced a similar putt on the practice green. “I knew in the back of my mind that if I make that putt, I win this golf tournament,â€� Homa said. Making that putt gave him a three-shot lead as he walked to the tee of the reachable 15th hole. A two-putt birdie there gave him a four-shot lead with only the infamous Green Mile remaining. He made his only bogey of the day at 16, but followed with an 11-footer for par on 17. With a three-shot lead, he was able to emulate his idol, Tiger Woods, and twirl his club after his tee shot on 18 found the fairway. Homa’s struggles started when he fell for the lie that he had to improve exponentially after turning pro. He won both the Pac-12 and NCAA titles in 2013 as a senior at Cal, winning the conference championship with a course-record 61 at Los Angeles Country Club, a future U.S. Open venue.  “He has this calm resiliency,â€� said fellow PGA TOUR player Brandon Hagy, who played with Homa at Cal. “You just see it time and time again in big tournaments. Winning the Pac-12s, winning NCAAs. In the bigger events he would step up at the right moments.â€� Homa was Walker Cup teammates with Justin Thomas, and they both made their pro debut on the PGA TOUR at the 2013 Safeway Open. Thomas finished 72nd. Homa was ninth. They both graduated to the PGA TOUR in 2014 after one season on the Web.com Tour. But while Thomas thrived, Homa’s game went into a nosedive. “He got too far in his own head,â€� said Homa’s swing coach, Les Johnson. “He’s so darn smart, so when he gets in his head he can get going in too many directions.â€� Homa returned to Johnson in 2017, seeking to become the player who left college as a can’t miss prospect. “When he came back to me, he was low,â€� Johnson said. “The first thing I told him is that you just have to get your game back in order. Once you do that, you can work back toward being the Max Homa that we know that you are.â€� Homa’s road to the winner’s circle started with another performance that proved the resiliency that his friends describe. At the WinCo Foods Portland Open, the final event of the Web.com Tour’s regular season, Homa birdied his final four holes Friday to make the cut on the number. If he had not made the cut, he would have fallen $96 short of the Web.com Tour Finals and would have needed to go to Q-School. He could have even been without Web.com Tour status this year. He doesn’t have to worry about that anymore. “It was embarrassing at times,â€� he said. “But it ain’t embarrassing anymore. It’s a cool story now.â€�

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