HAMILTON, Ontario – Mike “Fluff” Cowan was injured early in the final round of the RBC Canadian Open and was replaced by a fan on CT Pan’s bag.
Cowan fell on the third hole at Hamilton Golf & Country Club and was taken to the clubhouse for treatment of “non-serious” injuries, a PGA Tour official said. It is unclear whether Cowan will return to Pan’s bag on Sunday.
Paul Emerson (pictured above), a lawyer for an insurance company in Aurora, Ontario, came on for Cowan and was later replaced by Michael Campbell on the fifth hole. Alex Riddell, who normally caddies for Paul Barjon, took the bag from Pan on the back nine. Riddell, who lives in Hamilton, knows Pan from when he played on the PGA Tour Canada.
Last month, Cowan confirmed that he and Jim Furyk, whom he had worked with since 1999, had split. Cowan said the split was amicable and that the decision to end one of the longest-running player-caddie relationships in golf was Furyk’s.
