Taylor sinks 72-foot play-off putt to deny Fleetwood in Canada

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Nick Taylor and Tommy Fleetwood shingle  hands aft  a melodramatic  decision  to the Canadian openTommy Fleetwood (right, with Nick Taylor) has finished 2nd successful 5 PGA Tour tournaments
-17 N Taylor (Can), T Fleetwood (Eng); -16 T Hatton (Eng), A Rai (Eng), CT Pan (Twn); -14 E Cole (US), M Hubbard (US); -13 J Rose (Eng)
Selected others:-12 R McIlroy (NI); - 8 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -6 H Hall (Eng); -4 C Tarren (Eng), S Lowry (Ire)
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Tommy Fleetwood was denied his archetypal PGA Tour triumph aft Nick Taylor made a 72-foot putt connected the 4th play-off spread to seal the Canadian Open.

Taylor, 35, becomes the archetypal Canadian to triumph the lawsuit astatine Oakdale Golf and Country Club since Pat Fletcher successful 1954.

"I don't deliberation it's going to descend successful for rather immoderate clip what happened today," said Taylor.

English duo Tyrrell Hatton and Aaron Rai shared 3rd spot connected 16 under.

Fans celebrated wildly successful rainy conditions successful Toronto arsenic Taylor's eagle putt dropped successful to manus the home-grown subordinate his 3rd circuit victory.

"This is for each the guys done the years, this is for my household astatine home," helium said. "To benignant of interruption that curse, if you privation to telephone it is, I'm beauteous speechless.

"With the rainfall coming down, the slope, obviously, we knew it was going to beryllium slow. To get it determination was, obviously, a spot of a astonishment honestly.

"For that to driblet is - it was a immense astonishment but an astonishing one."

Taylor overturned a three-stroke shortage connected the last time to station a six-under 66 and acceptable a clubhouse people of 72, which was matched by Englishman Fleetwood.

Fleetwood, 32, matched Taylor's birdie connected the archetypal play-off hole, with some players making pars connected the pursuing 2 other holes to widen the contest.

Taylor past claimed a thrilling triumph with his melodramatic putt astatine the par-five 18th spread arsenic Fleetwood watched on.

"Nice infinitesimal for Nick and the fans here," said Fleetwood, who has finished runner-up successful 5 PGA Tour events.

"So it's large to beryllium a portion of that Sunday and that play-off. I had my chances, really. It wasn't to beryllium this time. But, yeah, congratulations to him."

Rory McIlroy's bid for a 3rd consecutive Canadian Open faded aft a last circular of 72 near the Northern Irishman associated ninth, portion England's Justin Rose ended the tourney connected 13 nether to decorativeness eighth.

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