Mike Weir’s triumph at the 2003 Masters is the biggest success in the history of Canadian golf and he, along with three of his fellow countrymen, will be hoping to emulate that success at Augusta National this week.
Here we look at each of the four Canadians heading to the world’s most famous tournament and take a look at their chances of success.
Corey Connors
Corey Conners will be seen as the Canadian player most likely to threaten the top of the leaderboard this week, mainly because he has an impressive record at Augusta.
Conners missed the cut last year, but before that he had posted three solid efforts, finishing tenth when the 2020 tournament was played in November, eighth the previous year when Hideki Matsuyama won and then sixth in 2022.
It has been a year since he last tasted PGA Tour success at the Valero Texas Open and he claimed four further top-ten finishes in 2023, but his performances since have been disappointing, with just two top-20s this year.
There is much to improve upon, but he will hope a return to one of his favourite venues will lift him.
Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor’s only Masters appearance came in the delayed 2020 tournament when he finished 29th and that remains his best performance in ten Major outings, which have seen him fail to make the cut in each of the last four.
However, there have still been highlights, not least his victory in last year’s Canadian Open when he became the first home-grown player to claim the trophy since 1954.
And more recently he came out on top of a play-off against Charley Hoffman in a win the Waste Management Phoenix Open in February and 12th at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, so there seems a strong chance he could perhaps produce what would be a personal-best Major performance.
Adam Hadwin
Adam Hadwin has had three Masters appearances, finishing 36th in 2017, 24th in 2018 and missing the cut on his last showing in 2020.
His one top-ten in a Major came at the 2022 US Open at Brookline, when he was seventh the year that Matthew Fitzpatrick took the big prize.
So his record in the big tournaments is not much to shout about, but he has posted some decent results this year, finishing sixth at the American Express in January and then tying for fourth in a strong field at the Genesis Invitational.
He will hope his confidence has been further boosted by the fifth place he posted in his last outing at the Valspar Championship.
Mike Weir
Mike Weir is now 53 and will enjoy his status as a former winner this week, even though he was one of the shortest hitters to claim a Green Jacket and is likely to find the Augusta task a taxing one.
The lefty has claimed two top-20 finishes in five Champions Tour events this year, but while he posted four top-20 finishes after he beat Len Mattiace in that famous play-off, he has made just two of the last 13 Masters weekends and the last of those was back in 2020.
