Canada's Myles Creighton does it all in 1st win on Korn Ferry Tour

Myles Creighton had such a good week he almost forgot about the hole-in-one.

Creighton, from Digby, N.S., had an ace on a par-3 hole in Friday's second round, followed it up with an 11-under 59 in the third round, and then had a 2-under 68 on Sunday to win the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open.

His first victory on the Korn Ferry Tour and catapulted him 58 spots up to 16th on the second-tier circuit's points list.

"Just kind of processing it all still," said Creighton as he travelled to the Memorial Health Championship in Springfield, Ill. "I think it'll take a little while to set in but we another tournament and all so it kind of on to the next one, trying to prepare.

"But I am, you know, trying to enjoy this one, and we'll do that for at least a couple weeks."

Creighton wasn't even sure he'd be able to play the weekend at Crestview Country Club in Wichita, but he had two eagles on Friday — the hole-in-one on the par-3 12th and a hole out on the par-4 15th as he shot 30 on the back nine — to make the cut with a round of a 2-under 68.

That set up Creighton's Saturday, where he had 12 birdies and one bogey to move to the top of the leaderboard. He then held on to that lead in the final round for the victory.

Creighton became just the third player in Korn Ferry Tour history to win an event after carding a sub-60 round the same week.

"It was just such a crazy week," Creighton said with a chuckle. "All the things that happened, just to give myself a chance to play on Saturday and then 59 on Saturday and then win the golf tournament."

He is the second Canadian to win on the Korn Ferry Tour after Sudarshan Yellamaraju of Mississauga, Ont., was victorious at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic on Jan. 22.

Derek