RBC Canadian Open results: Tim Clark catches Jim Furyk to win at Royal Montreal

The diminutive South African pulls off a three-shot chasedown, but we'll all be talking about another Jim Furyk giveaway on Sunday.

Tim Clark, a world-class player for several years now, won his second PGA Tour event on Sunday afternoon at the RBC Canadian Open, but the larger story is probably who didn't win. Jim Furyk held a multi-shot lead for almost the entire weekend at Royal Montreal, but Clark caught him late on the back nine and then surged ahead by a shot with a birdie on the 15th hole.

Fair or not, the discussion will be all about Furyk's failure to close. The 44-year-old veteran has been one of the most consistent players in the world, but has not won since 2010 and has now gone 0 of 7 while holding the 54-hole lead (or co-lead) since his last victory. He keeps contending but can't snap that winless streak.

The final day failures have come on some of the bigger stages. There was that brutal pull-hook into the California trees at the 2012 U.S. Open, and then last year's grind playing with Jason Dufner at the PGA Championship. He became just the sixth member to join the "59 Club" last year with that miracle round at Conway Farms, but couldn't ride that to the win on Sunday at the BMW. The blown Ryder Cup match to Sergio Garcia at Medinah really amped up this narrative, and today's giveaway will only add to it with the next Ryder Cup just two months out. Furyk will be on the roster, qualifying on points, and he's playing some of the best golf in the world right now. But at a tournament that he's won twice, and where the pressure was considerably lower than any Ryder Cup match, he had to convert.

It's not as if Furyk imploded and leaked oil all over Royal Montreal, he just stalled out and Clark's roll on the back nine made sure that he wouldn't be able to sneak by with just a 1-under round of 69. Clark's 5-under 65 capped an 11-under weekend and bolt to the top of the leaderboard over the final 36 holes.

Clark opened his day with a bogey, and when he turned in ever-par 35, it looked like any shot at a chasedown was gone. But Furyk failed to move the number from 15-under, and then Clark got hot with that anchored putter. He poured in four birdies in a five-hole stretch from No. 11 to No. 15, pulling ahead with three to play. Then with all the momentum, he'd match a Furyk birdie on the par-3 17th to stay on top. Furyk had a good look at birdie on 18th green, but his putt from about 10 feet to force a playoff was well wide of the hole. Clark stepped up and drilled a par putt from five feet to seal his second career PGA Tour win.

The 2010 Players title will remain Clark's signature career win, but this was a much-needed victory for a player who's been through some nightmarish injury situations since that win at Sawgrass. Last fall's omission from the Presidents Cup roster by Nick Price was an added slight to a guy who had healed up and played so well at Muirfield throughout his career. This win, however, locks up a spot for Clark in the top 50 in the FedExCup and rockets him back up the world rankings.

But again, Clark's success will take a back seat to Furyk's failure. Not only was this his seventh straight Sunday shortcoming after holding a 54-hole lead, the three-shot margin was also the largest lead lost. Here are the final results from Royal Montreal:

Place	Player	Score	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4
1	Tim Clark	-17	67	67	64	65
2	Jim Furyk	-16	67	63	65	69
3	Justin Hicks	-13	66	67	70	64
T4	Matt Kuchar	-11	69	65	70	65
T4	Michael Putnam	-11	64	70	69	66
T4	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano	-11	67	67	69	66
T7	Dicky Pride	-10	66	71	70	63
T7	Graham Delaet	-10	69	63	70	68
T9	Kevin Kisner	-9	70	69	68	64
T9	Brad Fritsch	-9	72	68	67	64
T9	Graeme McDowell	-9	68	65	70	68
T12	Ben Curtis	-8	67	70	70	65
T12	Ernie Els	-8	70	67	69	66
T12	Nick Watney	-8	66	68	71	67
T12	Troy Matteson	-8	70	68	67	67
T12	Retief Goosen	-8	69	67	69	67
T12	Jamie Lovemark	-8	69	65	67	71
T12	Joe Durant	-8	69	66	67	70
T12	Kyle Stanley	-8	65	67	68	72
T20	Robert Allenby	-7	66	69	72	66
T20	Kevin Chappell	-7	72	67	68	66
T20	Andres Romero	-7	71	68	67	67
T20	Matt Bettencourt	-7	67	70	68	68
T20	Scott Brown	-7	67	66	69	71
T25	William McGirt	-6	69	70	69	66
T25	Scott Piercy	-6	72	65	71	66
T25	Will Wilcox	-6	68	68	69	69
T25	Brandt Snedeker	-6	69	69	67	69
T29	Martin Laird	-5	71	66	70	68
T29	Russell Knox	-5	72	66	69	68
T29	Steve Marino	-5	69	69	70	67
T29	Woody Austin	-5	68	70	71	66
T29	Charlie Wi	-5	66	73	66	70
T34	Eric Axley	-4	68	68	71	69
T34	Geoff Ogilvy	-4	70	68	70	68
T34	Tim Herron	-4	69	67	70	70
T34	Roberto Castro	-4	69	67	70	70
T34	Danny Lee	-4	69	65	72	70
T34	Stewart Cink	-4	68	69	71	68
T34	Johnson Wagner	-4	71	67	71	67
T34	Ken Duke	-4	67	71	72	66
T34	Ben Crane	-4	71	69	71	65
T43	J.J. Henry	-3	67	69	71	70
T43	James Hahn	-3	72	68	68	69
T43	Taylor Pendrith	-3	65	75	68	69
T43	Morgan Hoffmann	-3	69	69	70	69
T43	Vijay Singh	-3	69	69	70	69
T43	Charl Schwartzel	-3	66	72	70	69
T43	Jeff Overton	-3	69	71	69	68
T43	Ricky Barnes	-3	70	70	70	67
T43	Andrew Svoboda	-3	67	66	72	72
T43	Tim Petrovic	-3	64	66	72	75
T53	Nathan Green	-2	67	69	71	71
T53	David Hearn	-2	67	70	70	71
T53	D.H. Lee	-2	69	70	69	70
T53	D.A. Points	-2	71	68	69	70
T53	Adam Hadwin	-2	70	69	68	71
T53	Joel Dahmen	-2	66	72	68	72
T53	Troy Merritt	-2	66	74	70	68
T53	Tim Wilkinson	-2	67	68	75	68
T53	Edward Loar	-2	72	64	75	67
T62	Patrick Rodgers	E	71	66	70	73
T62	Sean O'Hair	E	69	70	69	72
T64	Charlie Beljan	1	67	72	71	71
T64	Greg Chalmers	1	66	68	76	71
T66	Josh Teater	2	70	69	68	75
T66	Jerry Kelly	2	67	71	72	72
T66	Mike Weir	2	70	70	71	71
T66	K.J. Choi	2	72	68	73	69
T70	Derek Ernst	4	70	69	73	72
T70	Ryuji Imada	4	68	72	75	69
72	Thomas Aiken	5	70	69	73	73
73	Jim Herman	8	70	70	75	73

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