Golfer impressing at U.S. Open this week as soon as swung his golf equipment on Canadian Tour – Edmonton

The Edmonton Petroleum Golf and Nation Membership is taking part in host to a PGA Tour Canada occasion this week: the ATB Traditional.

How good are the golfers and the way shut are they to the PGA tour? There isn’t a have to look additional than Joel Dahmen, who’s in rivalry heading into the ultimate two rounds of the U.S. Open this weekend at Brookline, Mass.

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After 36 holes, Dahmen was tied with two-time main winner Collin Morikawa at 5 below.

Dahmen performed on the Canadian Tour eight years in the past. However golf has not been his greatest battle: Dahmen beat testicular most cancers over a decade in the past. International Sports activities’ Kevin Karius reported on Dahmen on the Syncrude Boreal Traditional in Fort McMurray in 2014.

Click on on the video under to observe Karius’ 2014 story from our archives.

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