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When Corey Conners won the PGA Tour’s Valero Texas Open just a week before the Masters, Team Canada was there at his side to celebrate.

As Malory Conners’ emotional roller-coaster became the star of the Sunday telecast, Canadian golf fans noticed golfers Mackenzie Hughes and Nick Taylor by her side. After the victory hug Corey and wife Malory had been dreaming about for years ended, Hughes was right there, offering his old buddy — and new PGA Tour winner — a beer.

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“He would do the same for me,” Hughes, 28, said this week from the RBC Heritage Classic at Hilton Head, S.C.

“I for sure was going to be there, and having a cold one for him was pretty fitting. I thought about dumping it on him for a second, but I thought better of it.”

That win at TPC San Antonio was a great Canadian success story authored by the 27-year-old Conners, but the impromptu party on the edge of the 18th green was also a Golf Canada success story. All three players — Conners, Hughes and Taylor — are graduates of the Golf Canada system, all three of them, now, PGA Tour winners.