He finished tied for 36th, being the lowest amateur of the championship.
1988
Nicholas Alexander Taylor (born April 14, 1988) is a Canadian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
2007
Taylor had strong junior, collegiate, and amateur careers, winning the 2007 Canadian Amateur Championship at the age of 19, the top 8 of the 2007 U.S. Amateur, and finishing as a runner-up in the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship.
He was a two-time All American and Pac-10 Golfer of the Year for the University of Washington Huskies.
In 2007, at the age of 19, Taylor won the Canadian Amateur Championship at the Riverside Country Club in Saskatoon, defeating Michael Knight in two playoff holes.
At the 2007 U.S. Amateur at the Olympic Club, Taylor won the 51st seed and advanced through three rounds of the tournament, including defeating future PGA golfer Jamie Lovemark.
Taylor was defeated in the quarter-finals by eventual champion Colt Knost.
2008
In the May 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Taylor finished tied for second in the individual competition with Jorge Campillo, three strokes back of champion Kevin Chappell.
Taylor's Washington Husky's team finished in seventh place.
He was named an Honorable Mention for the GCAA Division I PING All-America Team.
In 2008, Taylor qualified for the U.S. Open, in which he missed the cut by three strokes.
He also finished T53 at the 2008 RBC Canadian Open with a final score of −1.
In the 2008 Canadian Amateur, Taylor finished in ninth place with a final score of −2.
2009
As an amateur in the 2009 U.S. Open, Taylor carded the lowest amateur round in U.S. Open history with a second round 65, finishing tied for 36th with the honour of the low amateur of the major.
He was awarded the 2009 Mark H. McCormack Medal as the leading player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, and the 2010 Ben Hogan Award as the best college golf player in the United States.
In the July 2009 U.S. Amateur Public Links, Taylor finished as the runner-up to Brad Benjamin.
In the May 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Taylor finished the individual competition tied for ninth place, while his Washington Husky's team finished tied for third place.
He was named on the Division I GCAA All-America Team with future PGA golfers Rickie Fowler and Billy Horschel.
He qualified for the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, where he made the cut, carding a 65 in the second round, the record for lowest by an amateur in major's history.
Taylor won the July 2009 Sahalee Players Championship.
In the 2009 Canadian Amateur at Blainvillier Golf Club, he finished tied for 3rd with a final score of −5.
He also became the number one world amateur golfer according to the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
In September 2009, he won the Mark H. McCormack Medal for being on top of the World Amateur Golf Ranking after the U.S. Amateur.
2010
After turning professional in 2010, Taylor has won on the PGA Tour four times, including becoming the first Canadian to win the Canadian Open since 1954, which he did in 2023 at the Oakdale Golf & Country Club.
In his final amateur year in 2010, Taylor finished 41st at the May 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, while his Washington Husky's team finished in fourth place.
He was named a Ping First-Team All-American for the second season in a row, along with Washington teammates Chris Williams and Richard H. Lee.
Taylor was eliminated from the U.S. Amateur in the first round by Chan Kim.
In the 2010 Canadian Amateur, Taylor finished tied for 33rd at +3.
He won the 2010 Ben Hogan Award for the top men's collegiate golfer, and also won his second consecutive Pac-10 Golfer of the Year award.
Taylor turned professional in late 2010, making his professional debut at the October Russell Brewing VGT Tour Championship on the Vancouver Golf Tour.
2011
Taylor played on PGA Tour Canada from 2011 to 2013, and on the Web.com Tour before graduating to the PGA Tour in 2014.
He played on PGA Tour Canada from 2011 to 2013, compiling 10 top-10 finishes in 25 starts.
2013
In 2013, he finished 7th on the Order of Merit and earned an exemption into the final stage of the Web.com Tour qualifying school, where he finished 11th to earn status for the 2014 season.
2014
In his inaugural PGA Tour season he won the 2014 Sanderson Farms Championship, and picked up his second win in the 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Taylor was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and moved to Abbotsford, British Columbia when he was three.
His home golf course is Ledgeview Golf and Country Club where he started golfing at the age of 10.
Taylor attended Yale Secondary School, where he and his teammates won back to back provincial championships.
Afterwards he attended the University of Washington on a golf scholarship where he graduated with a degree in economics.
He finished 69th in the 2014 Web.com Tour regular season, then 23rd in the Web.com Tour Finals to earn his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season.
Taylor made his first start in the 2014–15 PGA Tour season at the January Hyundai Tournament of Champions at the Kapalua Resort.
