Canadian golfers are having a breakthrough year. It’s part of a plan.

And then Wayne Gretzky called while he was in the drive-through.

Taylor’s win in June was a record fourth by a Canadian on the PGA Tour over the past 12 months (although it was the only one to merit a celebratory phone call from the Great One), coming after he nailed a 72-foot eagle putt — the longest putt of his career — on the fourth playoff hole. Down it went as the trajectory of Canadian golf continued to move in the opposite direction.

“To think that I’m the person that people are thinking about,” Taylor said in disbelief, “is kind of breathtaking.”

It has been an all-time 12 months for Canadian golf. The four winners are the most on the PGA Tour this season from any country other than the United States. Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ontario, and Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., won in the fall, while Corey Conners of Listowel, Ontario, won in April. Svensson, Conners, Taylor and Adam Hadwin give Canada four players among the 50 still alive in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs; no country other than the United States has more. The second leg of the playoffs, the BMW Championship, starts Thursday, with the top 30 in the standings moving on to the Tour Championship. If more than one Canadian earns his way into that field, it would be a record during the FedEx Cup era, too.

It doesn’t stop there, either: There have been two Canadian winners on the minor league Korn Ferry Tour, another two on PGA Tour Canada, a winner on the Epson Tour (the women’s qualifying tour), and another on PGA Tour Latinoamérica, while Stephen Ames has won four times on the PGA Tour Champions circuit.

And we haven’t even mentioned Brooke Henderson yet.

The steely-eyed, blond-ponytailed, powerful-swinging small-town hero from Ontario already has 13 career wins on the LPGA Tour — a record for Canadians on either the LPGA or PGA Tour — including the Tournament of Champions to open the 2023 season.

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Next week at the Women’s Open in Vancouver, Henderson, who is just 25, will go for her second national open title after winning it in 2018. That year she broke a 45-year Canadian drought on the women’s side. Henderson has been a mainstay in the world’s top 10 for more than a half-decade, and there will be dozens of fans — girls and boys, young and old — making up the “Brooke Brigade” next week in Vancouver, T-shirts and all.

Golf in Canada is clearly experiencing a golden moment, with Henderson’s never-before-seen body of work leading the way and linchpin moments such as Taylor’s Canadian Open triumph — which…