1. What he hasn’t done is shoot a 60 yet. Dalton Ward, though, has both a 59 and a 61 on his professional resume, the latter coming last week. On his way to a seventh-place finish at the GolfBC Championship, Ward was 10-under in the second round, a 29-32 split that included an eagle, nine birdies and a bogey. A year earlier, as a PGA TOUR Canada player playing on the U.S.-based Forme Tour, Ward fired a 59 in the final round of the Fuzzy Zoeller Classic at Covered Bridge in Indiana, making eight birdies and two eagles—his final eagle coming on his 72nd hole.

2. Wil Bateman has played a lot of golf, making the most of every opportunity. The Edmonton native is the only player who played in every tournament this season to also make every cut. In addition, Bateman has completely dominated the par-4s in 2022. Going into next week’s Fortinet Cup Championship, he is a cumulative 56-under on PGA TOUR Canada courses’ par-4s. The next-best player is Joe Highsmith, who is only a combined 35-under.

3. While four players jumped inside the top 60 in the Fortinet Cup standings after last week’s GolfBC Championship, James Hervol’s performance was perhaps the most surprising. His timing was impeccable. Starting the week 120th in the Fortinet Cup standings, Hervol, a native of Pittsburgh and a University of Connecticut alum, missed six consecutive cuts to start the season, then posted a 60th-place finish in Winnipeg and a tie for 29th in Minnesota. In his last chance to continue his season, in Kelowna, Hervol shot rounds of 66-63-67-69 to tie for fourth, moving to 52nd in the standings and an invite to next week’s Fortinet Cup Championship. The other three players who moved into the top 60 were Easton Paxton (57th), Taylor Funk (58th) and Tyler Strafaci (59th). Unfortunately, for every player getting in, that meant four fell out. They were Drew Nesbitt, Lukas Euler, Van Holmgren and Benjamin Shipp. They all saw their seasons come to an end.

4. For three weeks, it’s been nothing but rounds in the 60s for Joe Highsmith. The rookie out of Pepperdine shot a third-round, 2-over 73 at the Sotheby’s International Realty Canada Ontario Open in late-July then fired a 3-under 68 to close the tournament. Including that 68, Highsmith’s scorecards have looked like this for the better part of a month: 68-69-69-66-63-62-69-63-68-68-68-65, his last 13 rounds all of the sub-70 variety. Highsmith is a cumulative 56-under during the stretch, with a stout scoring average of 66.69.

5. This is the first PGA TOUR Canada season where points will decide the Player of the Year, but a tight race going into the final event of the season is nothing new. With one 2022 tournament remaining, only 40 points separate Wil Bateman and Noah Goodwin, tied for second, as they hope to chase down overall points leader Jake Knapp. Bateman and Goodwin are at 1,054 points, while Knapp has amassed 1,094. In 2019, the last season PGA TOUR Canada conducted a season, Paul Barjon entered the final tournament of the campaign with a slim, $5,479 lead over Taylor Pendrith, and a $6,118 cushion over Knapp. Barjon hung on to win the money title by a mere $2,746 over Pendrith.