It wasn’t even 8 a.m. before Corey Conners sent a jolt through the crowd at the RBC Canadian Open.
The Listowel, Ont., native’s first approach shot of the day (he began on the 10th hole) landed on the fringe to the right of the flag. Slowly, the ball trickled toward the hole, and for a moment it was like each member of the crowd had just taken a shot of espresso in unison.
The ball stopped a couple of feet short. If you’d hit that shot, your putter would have stayed in your bag. Conners, the 31-year-old two-time PGA Tour winner, calmly walked up to