Canadian tour -- but a whole lot wiser.

Swan missed the cut here yesterday at the Xerox B.C. Open after a series of disastrous gambles on the back nine left him with a 10-over-par 81. His two-day total of 155 was 11 shots off the 36-hole cut of 144.

The 34-year-old St. George's GC pro was two over for the day, and five over for the tournament, when he missed a seven-foot attempt for birdie on the ninth hole after hitting a fine five-wood to the green on the 460-yard par-four.

That missed putt would lead to Swan's undoing. Feeling he had to make to make birdie on the next hole if he was to have any chance of making the cut, Swan took his driver out of the bag on the 10th -- and promptly hit into the trees lining the right side of the fairway.

Swan tried to hit a low driver out of the trouble, but got the ball up and hit another tree. Two more shots, and two more trees later, Swan hit a wedge to the green, two-putted for a double-bogey seven and was suddenly four over for the day and seven over for the tourney.

Bogeys on the next hole and on the 16th, and double-bogeys on the 15th and 17th completed a miserable back nine of 44.

"Coming in, the clubhouse looked a long way away,'' he chuckled later. "I just never recovered after hitting that bad tee shot on number 10. I got into trouble and just never got myself out. That hole killed me. It took me from five over and needing to get to two over to make the cut, to seven over and having no chance.

"I just felt I had to be aggressive on that hole and on the par five two holes later. Normally when I hit driver off the fairway, it goes screaming low for the first 20 yards. Maybe because I put a little cut on it, it jumped up.

One-iron may have been the better shot, in hindsight, but I thought it was set up to hit driver.'' Swan says he will work on his putting and his driving before catching up with the tour again at the CPGA Championship in Regina, Saskatchewan, from July 2-5.

"I had six or seven birdie putts on the front nine today that never had a chance of going in,'' he said. "They had the right weight, but they were never on line. I wouldn't mind taking 33 putts, like I did today, if I was burning the hole all day. But I wasn't giving them a chance to drop.'' Swan said he realises he must score better when he rejoins the tour. Counting the Pro-Am at the Payless Open and the qualifying round here at Point Grey GC, he averaged 74.17 strokes per round.

"Now that I know what the level of competition is up here, I know I'll need to shoot par or close to par the first couple of rounds if I hope to make the cut,'' he said. "At this level, you've got to make pars consistently from around the green, even if it takes a real good shot to do it.

"Overall, I'm glad I came up and did it. After these two weeks I know what I need to do if I'm to do well on the tour.'' 1990 Bermuda Open champion Tim Balmer made the cut at 70-70--140, two under par.

KIM SWAN -- Driving and putting woes.