Canada's Myles Creighton does it all in 1st win on Korn Ferry Tour

John Chidley-Hill · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 7:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Myles Creighton had specified a bully week helium astir forgot astir the hole-in-one.

Creighton, from Digby, N.S., had an ace connected a par-3 spread successful Friday's 2nd round, followed it up with an 11-under 59 successful the 3rd round, and past had a 2-under 68 connected Sunday to triumph the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open.

His archetypal triumph connected the Korn Ferry Tour and catapulted him 58 spots up to 16th connected the second-tier circuit's points list.

"Just benignant of processing it each still," said Creighton arsenic helium travelled to the Memorial Health Championship successful Springfield, Ill. "I deliberation it'll instrumentality a small portion to acceptable successful but we different tourney and each truthful it benignant of connected to the adjacent one, trying to prepare.

"But I am, you know, trying to bask this one, and we'll bash that for astatine slightest a mates weeks."

Creighton wasn't adjacent definite he'd beryllium capable to play the play astatine Crestview Country Club successful Wichita, but helium had 2 eagles connected Friday — the hole-in-one connected the par-3 12th and a spread retired connected the par-4 15th arsenic helium changeable 30 connected the backmost 9 — to marque the chopped with a circular of a 2-under 68.

That acceptable up Creighton's Saturday, wherever helium had 12 birdies and 1 bogey to determination to the apical of the leaderboard. He past held connected to that pb successful the last circular for the victory.

Creighton became conscionable the 3rd subordinate successful Korn Ferry Tour past to triumph an lawsuit aft carding a sub-60 circular the aforesaid week.

"It was conscionable specified a brainsick week," Creighton said with a chuckle. "All the things that happened, conscionable to springiness myself a accidental to play connected Saturday and past 59 connected Saturday and past triumph the play tournament."

He is the 2nd Canadian to triumph connected the Korn Ferry Tour aft Sudarshan Yellamaraju of Mississauga, Ont., was victorious astatine The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic connected Jan. 22.

Derek Ingram, the caput manager of Golf Canada's men's team, was astatine Crestview Country Club past week to enactment Creighton and the different Canadians successful the tract astatine the Wichita Open. He said Creighton's awesome week was a effect of accordant hard work.

"The connection with Myles for the past 2 oregon 3 months has been to beryllium patient, support moving the plan, and if you bash the close things agelong enough, we volition get rewarded," said Ingram connected Tuesday. "But it's pugnacious for a feline to beryllium diligent erstwhile they're not getting rewarded but we knew bully things were going to happen.

"I wasn't expecting, you know, a hole-in-one, a 30 connected the backmost 9 connected Friday to marque the cut, a 59, and past to triumph the tournament. We were conscionable expecting large results, whether it's the apical 5 oregon immoderate accordant results coming down the pipeline, but that was fantastic and a imagination travel existent for Myles."

Creighton and Yellamaraju are some successful the tract astatine this week's Memorial Health Championship. Yellamaraju is 18th connected the points list.

They'll beryllium joined astatine Panther Creek Country Club by Vancouver's Stuart Macdonald (34th), Matthew Anderson (55th) of Mississauga, Roger Sloan (130th) of Merritt, B.C., and Etienne Papineau (141st) of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.

PGA Tour

Amateur Ashton McCulloch of Kingston, Ont., volition beryllium successful the tract astatine this week's Rocket Classic connected a sponsors exemption. He'll beryllium joining regular PGA Tour players Adam Hadwin (ranked 112th connected the FedEx Cup standings) of Abbotsford, B.C., Ben Silverman (166th) of Thornhill, Ont., and Adam Svensson (167th) of Surrey, B.C., successful the tract astatine Detroit Golf Club.

DP World Tour

Aaron Cockerill of Stony Mountain, Man., is the lone Canadian teeing disconnected astatine the Italian Open this week. He's 116th connected the European-based tour's Race to Dubai points database heading into play astatine Argentario Golf Club successful Monte Argentario, Italy.

Champions Tour

Calgary's Stephen Ames, Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., and Dave Bunker of Richmond Hill, Ont., are successful this week's U.S. Senior Open Championship. Ames is 35th connected the Schwab Cup points database and Weir is 70th heading into play astatine Broadmoor Golf Club successful Colorado Springs, Colo. Bunker hasn't played connected the Champions Tour since 2016.

LPGA Tour

Savannah Grewal of Mississauga, Ont., leads the Canadian contingent into this week's Dow Championship. Grewal is 131st successful the Race to CME Globe standings heading into play astatine Midland Country Club successful Midland, Mich. Hamilton's Alena Sharp (141st) and Maude-Aimee Leblanc (156th) of Sherbrooke, Que., are besides successful the field.

Epson Tour

Maddie Szeryk of London, Ont., is the apical ranked Canadian connected the second-tier Epson Tour heading into the Otter Creek Championship connected Friday. She's 40th successful the Race for the Card standings heading into play astatine Otter Creek Golf Course successful Columbus, Ind. There are 9 Canadians successful the tract including Brooke Rivers (56th) of Brampton, Ont., Josee Doyon (63rd) of Saint-Georges, Que., Monet Chun (69th) of Richmond Hill, Ont., Mary Parsons (104th) of Delta, B.C., Yeji Kwon (126th) of Port Coquitlam, B.C., Vancouver's Leah John (138th), Brigitte Thibault (146th) of Rosemere, Que., and Toronto's Ashley Chow (unranked).