Vince Dunn and Brandon Tanev win RBC Canadian Open Shootout
Jack Kellar
CALEDON, ON – Vince Dunn (Seattle Kraken) and Brandon Tanev (Utah Mammoth) finished the round with 39 Stableford points to win both the net and gross categories in the RBC Canadian Open Faceoff on Thursday, at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon, Ont.
The RBC Canadian Open Shootout format uses a Stableford point system which awards points as opposed to strokes based off their score related to par on each hole (Eagle 4-points, Birdie-3 points, Par 2-points, Bogey 1-point, Double Bogey or worse 0-points).
In addition to Dunn and Tanev, the field featured 12 NHL players including Jake McCabe (Toronto Maple Leafs) and Steven Lorentz (Toronto Maple Leafs), Taylor Raddysh (New York Rangers) and Darren Raddysh (Tampa Bay Lightning), Jordan Kyrou (St. Louis Blues) and Jake Wallman (Edmonton Oilers), and Johnathan Castagna (Calgary Flames) and Zayne Parekh (Calgary Flames). Dunn and Tanev secured the win finishing with 39 Stableford points and shooting a net score of 8-under 62. Along with winning the RBC Canadian Open Shootout, Dunn and Tanev have won a trip courtesy of Turkish Airlines to anywhere the airlines fly’s out of.
Tanev finished the round with two birdies shooting 1-over 70. “Vince and I played some great golf, was nice to see lots of guys coming out from the Toronto area getting to have a cool experience. Not often you get to play a great course like this, especially right before the RBC Canadian Open,” said Tanev. “We had a great day, lots of fun, and a lot of great people, glad we could all come out here and have a great experience. Vince and I played some good golf which was fun.”
“Didn’t have a great day out there, on 18 I put the drive a little bit to the right in the fescue which was honestly better than the rough a lot of times today, had a nice four iron and hit it to about a foot and a half and tapped it in for eagle,” said Lorentz after finishing his round on a high note.
McCabe had the longest drive on hole five hitting it 330 yards, and Parekh hit closest to the pin on the Rink Hole no. 14.
For the full leaderboard from today’s round click here.
The 115th playing of the RBC Canadian Open will take place June 10-14 at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (North Course) in Caledon, Ont. For more information on the RBC Canadian Open, including volunteer opportunities or to purchase tickets, please visit https://www.rbccanadianopen.com/
