Nick Taylor
is one of Canada’s top golfers and the winner of the 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the most prestigious celebrity tournament in the world, He won the 2007 Canadian Amateur Championship, and in 2008 qualified for the U.S. Open and the RBC Canadian Open. In the 2009 U.S. Open, he shot 65 in the second round, the record for lowest by an amateur in major’s history. He also became the number one world amateur golfer by the R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking. In September 2009, he won the Mark H. McCormack Medal for being on top of the World Amateur Golf Ranking after the U.S. Amateur. Nick turned professional in late 2010, playing on the Canadian PGA Tour from 2011 to 2013, compiling 10 top-10 finishes in 25 starts. In 2013, he finished 7th on the Order of Merit and, in November 2014, won his first PGA Tour event at the Sanderson Farms Championship, which was the first on the PGA Tour for a Canadian-born player in seven years. In February 2020, Taylor entered the final round of the AT&T with a one shot lead over Phil Mickelson. He shot a final round 70 in windy conditions and won the tournament by four strokes over Kevin Streelman, qualifying him for his first Masters Tournament.