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For many aspiring golfers, the road to the PGA Tour begins on the Mackenzie Tour, a 13-stop run of events in Canada that kicks off at the end of May with the Freedom 55 Financial Open at Point Grey Golf & Country Club in Vancouver.

Just as young hopefuls in hockey and baseball work their way through minor league seasons and build towards prolonged runs playing with and against the best in the world, the same holds true for golfers at the highest level and the Mackenzie Tour has graduated well over a dozen competitors to the PGA Tour over the years.

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Included in that list are top Canadians Graham DeLaet, who earned a trio of wins and topped the Order of Merit in 2009, Mackenzie Hughes, who won the Cape Breton Celtic Classic and sat atop the Order of Merit in 2013, and Abbotsford native Adam Hadwin, who earned tour victories in 2010 and 2011, as well as Tony Finau, who recently gain worldwide attention after dislocating his ankle while celebrating a hole-in-one during the annual Masters par 3 tournament on the Wednesday before the famed tournament in Augusta, Georgia.