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National Post
3 days ago
- Sport
- National Post
Mackenzie Hughes in the hunt heading into final round at Canadian Open
CALEDON, Ont. — Mackenzie Hughes has dreamed of this moment. In fact, he's already been in this moment. This time, he has to believe, will be different. Article content For the second straight year, the Dundas, Ont. native heads to Sunday at the RBC Canadian Open with a chance to win his national Open. Article content Article content 'I've dreamt from a young age about doing something like this,' Hughes said after shooting a Saturday 64 to head into the final round at 12-under par, two shots back of the lead. 'I was standard-bearer back at Hamilton in '03 and volunteered at a young age and thought, 'Wow, this is really cool.' Now that I get to actually do it, I tell myself, 'Hey, you've got to lean into this. You've got to embrace it and enjoy it.'' Article content Article content He tried to embrace it last year at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. Whether it was the weight of the moment, the thought of accomplishment, or simply golf, he couldn't get it across the finish line, shooting a gut-wrenching 70 in the final round. Article content 'It was easy to kind of look forward and imagine what it would be like to win tournaments 10 minutes from my house and win the Canadian Open,' he recalled. 'It was difficult not to have that in your mind. I think it affected me.' Article content 'I think the hardest thing is to not want it too much, which is hard to turn off. It's hard to turn off something that you've thought about for years,' he said. Article content This year at TPC Toronto in Caledon, the 34-year-old Canadian will have plenty of crowd support as he tries to chase down co-leaders Ryan Fox and Matteo Manassero who head to Sunday at 14-under. Article content If Hughes is in the hunt when he reaches the rowdy par-3 Rink Hole 14th, they might be able to hear the cheers from Hamilton. Article content 'You've got to embrace it and enjoy it. A week like this, I can use them,' Hughes said of the fans. 'I can use them for energy. I can use them for momentum. We don't get that very often. If I go play anywhere else in the world and I'm playing the last round with anyone that's notable, I'm not the favourite. I'm not someone they're going to be rooting for. Here I have that going for me, and I think it's important to try and use it.' Article content Article content Article content The rather unheralded trio of Lee Hodges, Kevin Yu and Matt McCarty are tied for third, one shot back at 13-under. Hughes is tied for sixth at 12-under with Jake Knapp and Andew Putnam. Article content Article content There will be more than one Canadian trying to make history on Sunday. Canadian Open hero from two years ago Nick Taylor eagled the 18th hole on Saturday to join fellow Canucks Taylor Pendrith and Adam Hadwin at 10-under par. All three will be looking to take advantage of TPC Toronto's receptive greens and make a Sunday charge. Article content 'Certainly a low 60s is not out of the question around this place. We've seen it this week,' Hadwin said. 'I think at this point it's going to come down to whether I can get hot with the putter tomorrow.' Article content The condensed leaderboard has 15 players within three shots of the lead, and another nine players four back at 10-under, including the three Canadians, Irish star Shane Lowry, and American Sam Burns.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Mackenzie Hughes in the hunt heading into final round at Canadian Open
CALEDON, Ont. — Mackenzie Hughes has dreamed of this moment. In fact, he's already been in this moment. This time, he has to believe, will be different. For the second straight year, the Dundas, Ont. native heads to Sunday at the RBC Canadian Open with a chance to win his national Open. 'I've dreamt from a young age about doing something like this,' Hughes said after shooting a Saturday 64 to head into the final round at 12-under par, two shots back of the lead. 'I was standard-bearer back at Hamilton in '03 and volunteered at a young age and thought, 'Wow, this is really cool.' Now that I get to actually do it, I tell myself, 'Hey, you've got to lean into this. You've got to embrace it and enjoy it.'' He tried to embrace it last year at Hamilton Golf and Country Club. Whether it was the weight of the moment, the thought of accomplishment, or simply golf, he couldn't get it across the finish line, shooting a gut-wrenching 70 in the final round. 'It was easy to kind of look forward and imagine what it would be like to win tournaments 10 minutes from my house and win the Canadian Open,' he recalled. 'It was difficult not to have that in your mind. I think it affected me.' 'I think the hardest thing is to not want it too much, which is hard to turn off. It's hard to turn off something that you've thought about for years,' he said. This year at TPC Toronto in Caledon, the 34-year-old Canadian will have plenty of crowd support as he tries to chase down co-leaders Ryan Fox and Matteo Manassero who head to Sunday at 14-under. If Hughes is in the hunt when he reaches the rowdy par-3 Rink Hole 14th, they might be able to hear the cheers from Hamilton. 'You've got to embrace it and enjoy it. A week like this, I can use them,' Hughes said of the fans. 'I can use them for energy. I can use them for momentum. We don't get that very often. If I go play anywhere else in the world and I'm playing the last round with anyone that's notable, I'm not the favourite. I'm not someone they're going to be rooting for. Here I have that going for me, and I think it's important to try and use it.' The rather unheralded trio of Lee Hodges, Kevin Yu and Matt McCarty are tied for third, one shot back at 13-under. Hughes is tied for sixth at 12-under with Jake Knapp and Andew Putnam. There will be more than one Canadian trying to make history on Sunday. Canadian Open hero from two years ago Nick Taylor eagled the 18th hole on Saturday to join fellow Canucks Taylor Pendrith and Adam Hadwin at 10-under par. All three will be looking to take advantage of TPC Toronto's receptive greens and make a Sunday charge. 'Certainly a low 60s is not out of the question around this place. We've seen it this week,' Hadwin said. 'I think at this point it's going to come down to whether I can get hot with the putter tomorrow.' The condensed leaderboard has 15 players within three shots of the lead, and another nine players four back at 10-under, including the three Canadians, Irish star Shane Lowry, and American Sam Burns. Hadwin expects the course could play tougher on Sunday if the expected winds kick up as the course continues to dry from a Wednesday rain storm. Adam Hadwin finally seeing hope in 'hardest period' of golf career Rory McIlroy makes brutal snowman at RBC Canadian Open, going home early 'Fairways have definitely dried out. Greens are still a little soft; they grab pretty quickly,' Hadwin said of the changing conditions. 'We're definitely starting to see some release at least downwind with mid-irons which we hadn't seen. I imagine by afternoon tomorrow, especially if the wind gets up at all, it will be a bit of a different golf course than we saw Thursday.' The 37-year-old from Abbotsford, B.C. has struggled mightily this season as he goes through a swing change, but has seen plenty of reason for optimism through 54 holes, and hopes to use this trip home to jumpstart a mid-season push back into the FedEx Cup Top-100, which is the new cut-off to retain a PGA Tour card for 2026. 'To be able to continue momentum from Thursday and on, it's been a great feeling,' he said. 'Just the fact that I can kind of set up and know where the shot is going and how it's going to come off is a great feeling, something that I felt like I've been missing for a while here.' The Canadian contenders begin action with Taylor playing with Lowry at 11:50 a.m. Hadwin is paired with Pendrith in an all-Canadian group at 12:10 p.m., and Hughes plays with Matt McCarty at 1:25 p.m. The final group of Fox and Manassero tees off at 1:45 p.m.
Globe and Mail
3 days ago
- Sport
- Globe and Mail
Canada's Hughes in contention after third round of Canadian Open
For a second straight year, Mackenzie Hughes has played his way into contention ahead of Sunday's final round at the RBC Canadian Open. The native of nearby Dundas, Ont. carded a 6-under 64 on Saturday and improved to 12-under for the tournament, just two shots back of the leaders at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. Matteo Manassero of Italy and New Zealand's Ryan Fox share the lead at 14-under. Every day, a different Canadian golfer has thrust himself into the mix toward the top of the leaderboard in Caledon, Ont. this week. On Saturday Hughes did the surging, a 34-year-old with two PGA Tour titles already to his name. Canadian pair right in the running as McIlroy crashes out of Canadian Open However, Hughes learned at last year's Canadian Open not to get ahead of himself. He was in second place entering Sunday at the 2024 tournament held in Hamilton. He even held a share of the lead briefly early in that final round, but it slipped away and he finished tied for seventh. 'I think the hardest thing is to not want it too much, which is hard to turn off. It's hard to turn off something that you've thought about for years,' said Hughes. 'I think last year I got off to that great start. It was easy to kind of look forward and imagine what it would be like to win [a] tournament ten minutes from my house and win the Canadian Open. It was difficult not to have that in your mind. I think it affected me.' While Hughes is the low Canadian, a few of his countrymen aren't far behind him. Nick Taylor leads trio of Canadians playing together at RBC Open Nick Taylor, the 2023 champ had a rough round on Saturday, but is 10-under par after carding a 1-under 69. Taylor didn't find any birdies in his third round, but he did rebound with an eagle on the 18th hole to inch himself back in it. The 2023 Canadian Open champ scooped up both of his kids into his arms after the round. Taylor is four shots back and tied with some other Canadians. Pendrith is also 10-under after carding a 67 on Saturday. Adam Hadwin is also 10-under after shooting a 65 in Round 3. Hadwin was left regretting his last two holes. 'That finish was a bit of a slap in the face. I had an opportunity to kind of post a number and have a chance tomorrow and kind of faltered there on the last two,' said Hadwin. 'I don't want to say I shot myself out of it on those two holes, but we'll see how far [the leaders] get ahead. Certainly low 60s is not out of the question around this place. We've seen it this week.'
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
L.A. council members were told a vote could violate public meeting law. They voted anyway
When Los Angeles City Council members took up a plan to hike the wages of tourism workers this week, they received some carefully worded advice from city lawyers: Don't vote on this yet. Senior Assistant City Atty. Michael J. Dundas advised them on Wednesday — deep into their meeting — that his office had not yet conducted a final legal review of the flurry of last-minute changes they requested earlier in the day. Dundas recommended that the council delay its vote for two days to comply with the Ralph M. Brown Act, the state's open meeting law. "We advise that the posted agenda for today's meeting provides insufficient notice under the Brown Act for first consideration and adoption of an ordinance to increase the wages and health benefits for hotel and airport workers," Dundas wrote. The council pressed ahead anyway, voting 12-3 to increase the minimum wage of those workers to $30 per hour by 2028, despite objections from business groups, hotel owners and airport businesses. Read more: L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for hotels, despite warnings from tourism industry Then, on Friday, the council conducted a do-over vote, taking up the rewritten wage measure at a special noon meeting — one called only the day before. The result was the same, with the measure passing again, 12-3. Some in the hotel industry questioned why Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who runs the meetings, insisted on moving forward Wednesday, even after the lawyers' warning. Jackie Filla, president and chief executive of the Hotel Assn. of Los Angeles, said the decision to proceed Wednesday gave a political boost to Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel workers. The union had already scheduled an election for Thursday for its members to vote on whether to increase their dues. By approving the $30 per hour minimum wage on Wednesday, the council gave the union a potent selling point for the proposed dues increase, Filla said. "It looks like it was in Unite Here's financial interest to have that timing," she said. Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who opposed the wage increases, was more blunt. "It was clear that Marqueece intended to be as helpful as possible" to Unite Here Local 11, "even if it meant violating the Brown Act," she said. Harris-Dawson spokesperson Rhonda Mitchell declined to say why her boss pushed for a wage vote on Wednesday after receiving the legal advice about the Brown Act. That law requires local governments to take additional public comment if a legislative proposal has changed substantially during a meeting. Mitchell, in a text message, said Harris-Dawson scheduled the new wage vote for Friday because of a mistake by city lawyers. "The item was re-agendized because of a clerical error on the City Attorney's part — and this is the correction," she said. Mitchell did not provide details on the error. However, the wording on the two meeting agendas is indeed different. Read more: Faced with a $30 minimum wage, hotel investors start looking outside L.A. Wednesday's agenda called for the council to ask city lawyers to "prepare and present" amendments to the wage laws. Friday's agenda called for the council to "present and adopt" the proposed changes. Maria Hernandez, a spokesperson for Unite Here Local 11, said in an email that her union does not control the City Council's schedule. The union's vote on higher dues involved not just its L.A. members but also thousands of workers in Orange County and Arizona, Hernandez said. "The timing of LA City Council votes is not up to us (sadly!) — in fact we were expecting a vote more than a year ago — nor would the precise timing be salient to our members," she said. Hernandez said Unite Here Local 11 members voted "overwhelmingly" on Thursday to increase their dues, allowing the union to double the size of its strike fund and pay for "an army of organizers" for the next round of labor talks. She did not disclose the size of the dues increase. Dundas' memo, written on behalf of City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto, was submitted late in Wednesday's deliberations, after council members requested a number of changes to the minimum wage ordinance. At one point, they took a recess so their lawyers could work on the changes. By the time the lawyers emerged with the new language, Dundas' memo was pinned to the public bulletin board in the council chamber, where spectators quickly snapped screenshots. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
16-05-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
L.A. council members were told a vote could violate public meeting law. They voted anyway
When Los Angeles City Council members took up a plan to hike the wages of tourism workers this week, they received some carefully worded advice from city lawyers: Don't vote on this yet. Senior Assistant City Atty. Michael J. Dundas advised them on Wednesday — deep into their meeting — that his office had not yet conducted a final legal review of the flurry of last-minute changes they requested earlier in the day. Dundas recommended that the council delay its vote for two days to comply with the Ralph M. Brown Act, the state's open meeting law. 'We advise that the posted agenda for today's meeting provides insufficient notice under the Brown Act for first consideration and adoption of an ordinance to increase the wages and health benefits for hotel and airport workers,' Dundas wrote. The council pressed ahead anyway, voting 12-3 to increase the minimum wage of those workers to $30 per hour by 2028, despite objections from business groups, hotel owners and airport businesses. Then, on Friday, the council conducted a do-over vote, taking up the rewritten wage measure at a special noon meeting — one called only the day before. The result was the same, with the measure passing again, 12-3. Some in the hotel industry questioned why Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who runs the meetings, insisted on moving forward Wednesday, even after the lawyers' warning. Jackie Filla, president and chief executive of the Hotel Assn. of Los Angeles, said the decision to proceed Wednesday gave a political boost to Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel workers. The union had already scheduled an election for Thursday for its members to vote on whether to increase their dues. By approving the $30 per hour minimum wage on Wednesday, the council gave the union a potent selling point for the proposed dues increase, Filla said. 'It looks like it was in Unite Here's financial interest to have that timing,' she said. Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who opposed the wage increases, was more blunt. 'It was clear that Marqueece intended to be as helpful as possible' to Unite Here Local 11, 'even if it meant violating the Brown Act,' she said. Harris-Dawson spokesperson Rhonda Mitchell declined to say why her boss pushed for a wage vote on Wednesday after receiving the legal advice about the Brown Act. That law requires local governments to take additional public comment if a legislative proposal has changed substantially during a meeting. Mitchell, in a text message, said Harris-Dawson scheduled the new wage vote for Friday because of a mistake by city lawyers. 'The item was re-agendized because of a clerical error on the City Attorney's part — and this is the correction,' she said. Mitchell did not provide details on the error. However, the wording on the two meeting agendas is indeed different. Wednesday's agenda called for the council to ask city lawyers to 'prepare and present' amendments to the wage laws. Friday's agenda called for the council to 'present and adopt' the proposed changes. Maria Hernandez, a spokesperson for Unite Here Local 11, said in an email that her union does not control the City Council's schedule. The union's vote on higher dues involved not just its L.A. members but also thousands of workers in Orange County and Arizona, Hernandez said. 'The timing of LA City Council votes is not up to us (sadly!) — in fact we were expecting a vote more than a year ago — nor would the precise timing be salient to our members,' she said. Hernandez said Unite Here Local 11 members voted 'overwhelmingly' on Thursday to increase their dues, allowing the union to double the size of its strike fund and pay for 'an army of organizers' for the next round of labor talks. She did not disclose the size of the dues increase. Dundas' memo, written on behalf of City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto, was submitted late in Wednesday's deliberations, after council members requested a number of changes to the minimum wage ordinance. At one point, they took a recess so their lawyers could work on the changes. By the time the lawyers emerged with the new language, Dundas' memo was pinned to the public bulletin board in the council chamber, where spectators quickly snapped screenshots.
