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Canadian PGA Tour veteran David Hearn has his golf game going in the right direction in his quest to regain full status. Last week in Texas, Hearn finished T16 and earned nearly $100,000. This week in the Big Easy for the Zurich Classic team event, Hearn is paired with Ireland’s Seamus Power. A big finish for Hearn will go a long way to make his case for full status. If not for a Saturday round of 73 last week, Hearn would have enjoyed a bigger payday. There is an all-Canadian team in New Orleans — Mac Hughes and Corey Conners. Canadian Ben Silverman is teamed with American Matt Atkins.

You might want to keep your eye on Canadian Austin Connelly this spring on the European Tour. He finished last week with a T13 in the Trophee Hassan II event in Morocco and vaulted into 141st place in the Race to Dubai standings. He’s made four of six cuts in events thus far on the European tour. Connelly, a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, is scheduled to play this week’s event in China.