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Ben James tees off on the second hole during the third round at the Canadian Open golf tournament in Caledon, Ontario, Saturday, June 13, 2026. (Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press via AP)<\/p>\nBen James wound up taking a drastically different route through his third round at the RBC Canadian Open at Caledon, Ontario.<\/p>\n
The Milford, Conn., native had blistered the TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley through the first two days to lead his professional debut tournament at the midway point at 10-under par. But the same course turned on him on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old four-time All-American at Virginia struggled all day and came away with a disastrous round of 8-over-par 78 that left him at 2-under and in a tie for 59th, 11 shots off the pace set by Jackson Suber, who was at 13-under.<\/p>\n
After scrambling to make par on his first two holes while playing in the final group with Sam Burns, James had a run of five straight bogeys on Nos. 4-8. His back nine was not much better with four more bogeys to go with one birdie.<\/p>\n
Then, just when it appeared things couldn\u2019t get any worse, James\u2019 shot into the green on the par-5 18th landed on the putting surface only to slowly and oh so painfully roll off and down a slope toward a pond. Fortunately for James the ball stopped about a foot from the water and he was able to chip up and putt out for a par.<\/p>\n
Ben James tees off on the second hole during the third round at the Canadian Open golf tournament in Caledon, Ontario, Saturday, June 13, 2026. (Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press via AP)<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Meanwhile Suber backed up his opening rounds of his opening rounds of 66 and 65 with another 66 to maintain a one-shot lead over Bud Cauley, who was at 12-under.\u00a0But there is plenty of competition just below for the $9.8 million tournament, one of the oldest on Tour and considered\u00a0Canada\u2019s national championship.<\/p>\n
In a group of four players tied for third at 11-under were Wyndham Clark, Tommy Fleetwood, Brice Garnett and Jesper Svensson.<\/p>\n
Sudarshan Yellamaraju, the leading Canadian contender, was in a group of five, another shot back at 10-under. He was joined by Billy Horschel, Ryan Fox, Jimmy Stanger and Burns.<\/p>\n
Korda-Cowan struggle in team event: At Midland, Mich., Hyo Joo Kim and Hye-Jin Choi handled a swirling wind and made enough birdies to be among only six teams who broke par, posting a 1-under 69 in foursomes to build a one-shot lead in the Dow Championship.<\/p>\n
Double major winner Nelly Korda and Olivia Cowan will need another big showing in Sunday fourballs if they want a chance to catch them. They made only one birdie, had bogey on both par 5s at Midland Country Club and shot 76 to fall six shots behind.<\/p>\n
Korda and Cowan were tied for 13th. It will be only the second time this year on the LPGA that Korda is not in the final group.<\/p>\n
Kim and Choi, the South Korean duo who are both among the top 20 in the women\u2019s world ranking, were at 10-under 200.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wind was obviously very strong today so that was a big factor that was different than the first round,\u201d Kim said. They also shot 69 in foursomes in the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben James wound up taking a drastically different route through his third round at the RBC Canadian Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6054,7725,3232,1452,44,1454,899,1456,54,8654],"class_list":["post-20616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ben-james","tag-canadian-open","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-golf","tag-hartford-courant","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-news","tag-pga-tourn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}