CALEDON, Ont. — Not for the first time on the back nine on Sunday, Matthew Anderson found himself in a pickle. 

His drive on the 504-yard par-4 16th went right. Well right. He knew it as soon as he finished his follow-through, and as he watched his ball treat the fairway like a no-fly zone, he doubled over as if he’d just been punched in the gut. 

In some ways, he had been. Although, to be fair, it wasn’t anything the North Course at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley had out for him personally during the final round of the RBC Canadian Open. 

The rules for success over the past two years at Osprey Valley are fairly simple to follow: keep your tee shot on short grass, and you have a good chance to score at the 7,389-yard par 70 layout, which was hosting the Open for the second consecutive year and will again in 2027. 

There were 10 Canadian entrants who solved the riddle well enough to play through the weekend. 

The most successful among them was Sudarshan Yellamaraju, who continued his impressive rookie season on the PGA Tour by firing a final-round 68 that earned him low Canadian honours and, more significantly, a tie for eighth place at 12-under, five shots behind winner Bud Cauley. It’s the self-taught Mississauga golfer’s third top-10 finish of the season. 

The most surprising was one of Anderson’s playing partners, Justin Matthews, the 22-year-old amateur from Little Britain, Ont., about 125 kilometres east. The lone amateur to make the cut, the senior at the University of North Carolina Charlotte found himself tied for fifth at 12-under after making birdie on the 15th hole. 

A triple bogey on the 17th and a bogey on the 18th dropped him to 29th place at 8-under, tied with fellow Canadians and PGA Tour regulars Taylor........

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