Ted Potter closed out the $9 million RBC Canadian Open yesterday with a 1-under-par round and cashed just his second check of the PGA Tour season. Ted's rounds of 73-67-70-71, 7 under par over the Oakdale Golf & County Club course in Toronto, were good enough to tie him for 25th place, 10 strokes behind Canadian hero Nick Taylor and Tommy Fleetwood.

    Unfortunately, Ted was one of nine players who finished at 25 under, a spot that normally would have been worth $79,650 if he had been alone, but was lowered to $64,850 as the nine split the money from 25th to 33rd places. Added to his lone previous check of $8,664 from the Puerto Rico Open and Ted now has $73,514 in the bank, moving him up from 234th on the PGA Tour money list to 215th. But he can still brag that he's two spots ahead of a guy named Tiger. 

   Taylor and Fleetwood engaged in a playoff that went four holes before Taylor, with the huge Canadian crowd going berserk, eagled the hole to become the first player from north of the border since Pat Fletcher to win the event since 1954. Fleetwood was sitting 11 feet from the hole for birdie when Taylor thrilled the crowd by holing out from 72 feet away. It was Fleetwood's fifth runner-up finish this season. 

    Brian Gay, the only Gator left after Friday's cut, wound up at 2-under-par 286 after a final-round 73 and tied for 52nd. 

    

    

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