The FedEx Cup Playoffs begin this week and we have assessed the prospects of the five Canadians dreaming of walking away with an eye-watering $25 million.
Taylor Pendrith is the highest-ranked of the quintet of Canadian stars teeing it up this week at the St. Jude Championship, the first of three FedEx events.
But since the FedEx Cup began in 2007, no Canadian has ever won a playoff tournament or the FedEx Cup itself. Could this be the year when that changes?
FedEx Cup starting position: 27
FedEx St. Jude outright odds +14000
Top 5 odds +1800
Top 10 odds +650
Top 20 odds +220
World number 50 Taylor Pendrith might not be the highest-ranked Canadian in the world list, but at 27 he is leading the way in the FedEx Cup standings.
The 33-year-old big-hitter from Richmond Hill, Ontario nailed down his first PGA Tour win in May at the Byron Nelson, shrugging off five missed cuts in his previous seven events to beat Ben Kohles by a shot.
The Kent State University graduate has had three more top-10 finishes since, including last time out at the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities.
This is his first taste of the FedEx Cup but if he continues to putt as well as he has this year, he can reach the Tour Championship and at least give himself a shot at something incredible.
FedEx Cup starting position: 30
FedEx St. Jude outright odds +3000
Top 5 odds +475
Top 10 odds +210
Top 20 odds -125
Another Kent State old boy, Corey Conners, has qualified for the last three Tour Championships and that has to fill him with confidence heading to Memphis for the St. Jude.
The world number 37, the highest-ranked Canadian on that metric, has suddenly clicked into gear since his tied-sixth finish at the Canadian Open in June.
Since then he has reeled off a trio of top-10s, first at the US Open and latterly at the Olympics in France.
The two-time Valero Texas Open winner strikes the ball as clean as the very best but he needs his notoriously fickle flat stick to warm up if he is to make a run for the big prize at East Lake.
FedEx Cup starting position: 37
FedEx St. Jude outright odds +17500
Top 5 odds +2000
Top 10 odds +750
Top 20 odds +240
Adam Hadwin has been a FedEx Cup regular since 2015, only once going all the way to East Lake, that in 2017.
Without a win since the Valspar seven years ago, Hadwin has gone off the boil since a third-place finish at the Memorial in June, a tournament he led after round one.
Since then, he has recorded three missed cuts in six events and no top-20s, and there is nothing in the numbers or form to suggest the 36-year-old from Moose Jaw is going to make it to the Tour Championship.
FedEx Cup starting position: 48
FedEx St. Jude outright odds +17500
Top 5 odds +2000
Top 10 odds +750
Top 20 odds +240
Mackenzie Hughes is the third member of the Kent State crew and he is not showing the kind of form which suggests he can get to East Lake, never mind make a run at the big prize.
A last-round 70 which derailed his hopes of a Canadian Open triumph was the catalyst for a fairly indifferent summer which has seen two missed cuts and no top-10s.
He did manage a couple of rounds in the 60s and a T16 at a brutal Open Championship at Royal Troon and, with a play-off record of 2-0, he's a man you'd want on your side when the pressure is ratcheted up.
FedEx Cup starting position: 52
FedEx St. Jude outright odds +20000
Top 5 odds +2200
Top 10 odds +800
Top 20 odds +260
Nick Taylor defied the noise and dodged the beer cups to win the Phoenix Open earlier this year, but since then little has gone right for the world number 47.
Taylor has not had a top-25 since the Arnold Palmer and has missed five cuts in his last nine tournaments, showing his inconsistency by going 63-74 last time out at the Wyndham Championship where he was home for the weekend.
Taylor, a four-time PGA Tour winner who has missed his last nine cuts at Majors, wanted to throw his putter into the Clyde during The Open which hints at the issue that could hold him back.
Odds mentioned in this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.
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