Naas ace Jonathan Yates will tee it up in the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Q-School today.

The former West of Ireland champion and Alps Tour regular (27) tees it up in the U.S. East 2 qualifier — one of six qualifiers for what is the PGA Tour Canada — at Mission Inn Club and Resort’s El Campeón course in Howey-in-the-Hills, near Orlando in Florida.

Yates, who tees it up at 1340 Irish time with Canada’s Marc-Olivier Plasse and Grant Renegar, plans to return to Europe to play on the Alps Tour this spring as the Mackenzie Tour is not scheduled to begin until the summer.

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The Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada was unable to play any of its 2020 season because of complications at the Canada-U.S. border caused by COVID-19.

The Mackenzie Tour return to competition last week with the first of six qualifiers on US soil before the traditional Canada Q-School is held in British Columbia in late May.

Each qualifying tournament is 72-hole medal play contested over four days.

Six players came through the first Qualifying Tournament—U.S. East No. 1 Q-School—at Weston Florida last Friday with Colombia’s Camilo Aguado winning by three shots at The Club at Weston Hills.