Second-Round Notes – Friday, June 6, 2025

 Weather: Mostly cloudy, hazy. High of 74. Wind ENE 6-12 mph.

Cut: 67 professionals and one amateur at 3-under 137 from a field of 152 professionals and four amateurs.

Second-Round Leaderboard

 Cameron Champ (1^st/-12)

• Bogey-free through 36 holes for the first time in his 159^th start on TOUR and the only player bogey-free through 36 holes
• 128 marks his lowest 36-hole total on TOUR (previous 130/2023 Shriners Children’s Open)
• Tied career low round score in first round (62/R2/2018 World Wide Technology Championship).
• Holds third 36-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR, 1-for-2 converting to victory (T18/2023 Shriners Children’s Open, Won/2018 Sanderson Farms Championship).
• Three-time TOUR winner, looking to secure first victory since 2021 3M Open.
• Best finish in five starts on TOUR this season: T15/THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson.
• Marks first made cut in fifth appearance at the RBC Canadian Open.
• Was the eighth alternate when commitments closed on the Friday deadline and joined the field Tuesday after RBC Ambassador Sahith Theegala withdrew due to injury

 Additional Notes

• Andrew Putnam (2^nd/-10) cards low round of the day (62); ties career low round (five times: R4/2023 World Wide Technology Championship, R3/2023 Sony Open in Hawaii, R2/2022 ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP, R1/2019 Sony Open in Hawaii)
• 18-hole co-leader Thorbjørn Olesen (T3/-9) cards even par 70; looks to become first player from Denmark to win on the PGA TOUR
• Canadian Richard Lee (T3/-9) makes the cut for the first time at this event in his fourth appearance (MC/2024, 2019, 2009); carded bogey-free second round 64 in his first start on TOUR since the 2021 Open Championship
• 2023 champion Nick Taylor (T3/-9) seeks his second TOUR title this season (Won/Sony Open in Hawaii); looks to become the second multiple winner of this event since Rory McIlroy
• Victor Perez (T3/-9) sets career low 36-hole total (131) after carding second round 65 (previous best: 133/2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches).
• Three qualifying spots are available for the 153^rd Open at Royal Portrush through the Open Qualifying Series; the leading three finishers, not otherwise exempt, from the RBC Canadian Open will earns spots in the field; through 36 holes the leading non-exempt players are Cameron Champ (1^st/-12), Andrew Putnam (2^nd/-10), with Richard Lee and Victor Perez tied for third at 9 under.
• Luke Clanton, David Ford and Gordon Sargent all finish at 1 under 139 to miss the cut in their first starts as PGA TOUR members after gaining access via the PGA TOUR University program.

“I think there’s still learnings that you have to take from a day like today.”

Rory reflects on missing his first cut since @TheOpen in 2024. pic.twitter.com/R7WEo8achO

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 6, 2025

• Rory McIlroy, the 2019 and 2022 RBC Canadian Open winner, horribly missed the cut for the first time since the 2024 Open Championship and cards his highest round in a non-major since the 2021 PLAYERS Championship (79/R1).
• Rory posts RBC scores of 71 and 78 for a nine-over tally and miss three-under cut-off mark.

With a new 44-inch driver in hand, McIlroy found just 13 of 28 fairways in Toronto and he made a quadruple-bogey eight on the par-four fifth hole after a disastrous tee-off.

“Of course it concerns me,” said McIlroy.

“You don’t want to shoot high scores like the one I did today. I felt like I came here, obviously with a new driver, thinking that sort of was going to be good and solve some of the problems off the tee, but it didn’t.

“Obviously going to Oakmont next week, what you need to do more than anything else there is hit fairways. I’m still sort of searching for the missing piece off the tee. Obviously for me, when I get that part of the game clicking, then everything falls into place for me. Right now that isn’t. Yeah, that’s a concern going into next week.”

So, with the weekend off McIlroy added:

“I’m going to have to do a lot of practice and a lot of work over the weekend at home and try to at least have a better idea of where my game is going into next week,” said McIlroy.

“I went back to a 44-inch driver this week to try to get something that was a little more in control and could try to get something a bit more in play. But if I’m going to miss fairways, I’d rather have the ball speed and miss the fairway than not.

“I’d say I’ll be testing quite a few drivers over the weekend.”

• Camilo Villegas withdrew before the second round and Isaiah Salinda withdrew during the second round