Live leaderboard: Moving day at Houston Open

Yealimi Noh fell into a three-way tie atop the Volunteers of America Classic on Saturday after she double-bogeyed the par-4 18th.

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Oh Canada! It is time for the national championship of those living under the Maple Leaf, where the locals are hoping to end a significant title drought, but several of those from other parts of the world have other ideas as the race for the FedExCup Playoffs gets super serious. The RBC Canadian Open has been played since 1904, but Pat Fletcher was the last Canadian winner of the tournament in 1954, but he was born in England. Karl Keffer is the only Canadian-born champion, winning in 1909 and 1914. English-born Canadian brothers Charlie Murray (1906) and Albert Murray (1908 and 1913) also captured the title. This week’s PGA TOUR LIVE coverage gives us a look at some Canadian hopefuls but also FedExCup No. 2 and world No. 1 Dustin Johnson, plus the in-form Matt Kuchar, who wants to quickly get over his Open Championship loss. PGA TOUR LIVE will broadcast between 7 a.m. Eastern and 6:00 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday. The coverage will switch to Featured Holes at 3:00 p.m. Featured Hole Coverage consists of the 15th (Par-3) and 17th (Par-4) on Thursday and Friday. PGA TOUR LIVE also will be available on Twitter for approximately 90 minutes, beginning at 7 a.m. Here’s a look at this week’s Featured Groups. Click here to subscribe to PGA TOUR LIVE. (Note: FedExCup rankings in parentheses) THURSDAY Mackenzie Hughes (26), Scott Piercy (76), Ernie Els (210): Hughes will be flying the Canadian hopes as a TOUR winner this season. He’s proven he can win, now can he do it at home? Scott Piercy showed how to win the Canadian Open in 2012 and now he’s chasing a fourth TOUR win while Els is looking to capture the old magic as one of the Team RBC ambassadors. Tee time: 8:00 a.m. Eastern off 10th tee. Bubba Watson (117), Graeme McDowell (119), Matt Kuchar (17): Some big-name star power here with Kuchar coming off his runner up finish to Jordan Spieth at the Open Championship. He’s likely to want to put the memory aside with a dominant display. Watson and McDowell, both major winners sitting just inside the top 125 in the race for the FedExCup. They need some results to make sure of their place in the post season. Tee time: 8:10 a.m. Eastern off 10th tee. FRIDAY Grayson Murray (60), Adam Hadwin (13), Nick Taylor (78): Murray kept the trend of young winners running with his breakthrough at the Barbasol Championship last week and now gets the chance to back it up in a full-field event. He will be playing in front of some vocal locals as Hadwin and Taylor fly the Canadian flag. Hadwin, a winner earlier this season, is looking to consolidate a place in the International Presidents Cup team and Taylor wants a breakthrough result of his own. Tee time: 8:00 a.m. Eastern off 10th tee. Dustin Johnson (2), Jhonattan Vegas (87), Jim Furyk (147): Johnson lost the top spot on the FedExCup list with Spieth’s win in England but he can get it back if he wins in Canada. He’s burning after a slide on Sunday and will now look for win no.4 on the season with a chip on his shoulder. Vegas claimed the win at Glen Abbey last season and with hopes of making a run towards the International team in the Presidents Cup this week comes at an opportune time for the Venezuelan. Furyk, an RBC man, needs something big to make the FedExCup Playoffs. This could be the week he makes his move. Tee time: 8:10 a.m. Eastern off 10th tee.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Patrick Reed says a much-needed visit to the eye doctor and his first pair of corrective lenses may have been the secret to his breakthrough Masters victory last month. The doctor’s visit led to Reed getting a new pair of contact lenses the Monday of Houston Open week, and less than two weeks later he was wearing the Green Jacket. “You know, it was just something (where) I was able to make a lot of putts,â€� Reed said Wednesday at Quail Hollow Club, home of this week’s Wells Fargo Championship. “Honestly, that has to be credit to not only the work that we put in the week before, but also the work my wife (Justine) had to do to drag me to Vision Source to get my eyes checked. “First week ever wearing contacts,â€� Reed added, “and I go ahead and make every putt I look at and win a golf tournament.â€� A year ago, when the Wells Fargo Championship was at temporary home Eagle Point Golf Club in nearby Wilmington, Reed had a chance to win but came unglued with a final-round 75 to finish well back. He came to Quail Hollow for the PGA Championship in August, and finished second. What no one knew then was that he was competing with less-than-perfect vision. Anything outside 30 yards, he says now, was blurry, and he was constantly asking his caddie, Kessler Karain, where the ball went. The situation finally came to a head when Reed was watching TV with his wife and in-laws 10 days before the start of the Masters. “I’m sitting at the kitchen table in our kitchen, and we have a pretty big TV in the den, and kind of flipped through channels and I cannot read the guide,â€� Reed said. “I’m just moving slowly. Justine goes, ‘You can’t read that?’ I’m like, ‘No, can you?’â€� As it turned out, everyone in the house could read the words on the TV screen, except Reed. He could, however, make out the disbelieving looks from all of them, even his father-in-law, who wears thick glasses and still had no trouble deciphering the words. How could Reed not be able to read the screen? “He’s like, ‘Maybe that’s the reason why we haven’t been making putts for a year,’â€� Reed said. You could say the trip to the eye doctor has paid off. Reed had to learn how to put contacts in his eyes, but they’ve proven surprisingly effective. Before picking up his sixth TOUR title at the Masters, where he held off Rickie Fowler by one and a hard-charging Jordan Spieth by two, Reed, 27, hadn’t won since THE NORTHERN TRUST in August 2016. To his father-in-law’s point, part of the problem was his putting. He came into the Masters ranked 75th in strokes gained: putting, but was third best in the field at Augusta. “I got a prescription for contacts, put them in, and all of a sudden I’m just looking out like, ‘Wow, I can see everything,’â€� Reed said. “Now all of a sudden I’m not having to ask Kessler where that ball goes. … Now all of a sudden I can read greens pretty well, and it worked at Augusta.â€�

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