Adam Hadwin

Adam Hadwin
— Golfer —
Personal information
Born (1987-11-02) 2 November 1987
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight 157 lb (71 kg; 11.2 st)
Nationality  Canada
Residence Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Career
College University of Louisville
Turned professional 2009
Current tour(s) PGA Tour
Former tour(s) Canadian Tour
Web.com Tour
Professional wins 11
Number of wins by tour
Web.com Tour 2
Other 9
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
U.S. Open T39: 2011
The Open Championship DNP
PGA Championship DNP
Achievements and awards
Web.com Tour
leading money winner		 2014

Adam Hadwin (born 2 November 1987) is a Canadian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won twice on the Web.com Tour, and twice on the Canadian Tour.

Early life

Hadwin was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan[1] and lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia.[2] He grew up playing golf at the Ledgeview Golf Club there; one clubmate was another top young player, Nick Taylor.[3] His father Jerry is a golf club professional who joined the Canadian PGA in 1979. Hadwin was a member of the RCGA's 2008 Canadian men's amateur team.[4] He attended the University of Louisville on golf scholarship, studying business, and earned All-America Honorable Mention for 2009.[2]

Professional career

2009

Hadwin turned professional shortly after leaving college. His first professional win came at the Ledgeview Open on the Vancouver Golf Tour (VGT). He went on to win a total of four VGT events in 2009, including the Golden Ear's Open, the Johnston Meier Insurance Open and the RBC Invitational Pro-am, asserting himself against the top professionals in Western Canada. Hadwin won a 2009 Gateway Tour Winter Series Sponsorship event.[2]

2010

Hadwin joined the Canadian Tour in 2010, earning exempt status in the 2010 California Winter Qualifying School.[2] He won the Rivermead Cup as the top Canadian finisher in the 2010 RBC Canadian Open at St. George's Golf and Country Club in Toronto. This was his first PGA Tour event, and he finished at 5-under-par 279, good for a tie for 37th place.[5] Hadwin played in the 2010 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic, a Nationwide Tour event, finishing in a tie for 33rd place.[6] Hadwin returned home in September and won the Vancouver Golf Tour's Vancouver City Open with a score of 204 (−10). Hadwin won the Canadian Tour's 2010 Desert Dunes Classic in the Palm Springs area, in November.[7] He had six top-10 finishes on the Canadian Tour in 2010, and was the circuit's Canadian Rookie of the Year.[2]

2011

Hadwin spent time during the winter of 2010–11 playing on the South African Sunshine Tour.[2] He won a second Canadian Tour event in March 2011, the Pacific Colombia Tour Championship, in Bogota, Colombia, taking home US$23,400 for scoring 66-66-62-69 to win by six strokes.[8] Hadwin finished as the top Canadian, and tied for 39th place, in the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club near Washington, D.C.. He won $41,154. This was his first major championship.[9] In the 2011 RBC Canadian Open at the Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver, Hadwin entered the final round in second place, one stroke out of the lead, following rounds of 72-66-68.[10] Hadwin shot 72 in the final round, finished in a tie for fourth place, won $228,800 for the biggest prize of his career, and captured the Rivermead Cup for the second straight year.[3][10] His position in the Official World Golf Rankings advanced from 332 to a career high of 214.[11] By finishing in the top-10 of the RBC Canadian Open, Hadwin earned a place in the next Tour event, the Greenbrier Classic, and continued his good play there with rounds of 70-71-68-68, good for a tie for 32nd place, winning $32,485.71.[12] He won the 2011 Vancouver Open on the Vancouver Golf Tour, scoring 65-65-73 and then winning a playoff over Brad Clapp.[13] He was given a sponsor's exemption into the 2011 Fry's.com Open where he took home $130,312 for a T-7th finish after shooting rounds of 71-68-64-70. Hadwin attempted to qualify for the PGA Tour through Q School. He finished tied for 100th.

2012

Hadwin earned conditional Nationwide Tour status for 2012 based on his Q school finish. After a slow start to the year, he had a T-5 finish at the Soboba Golf Classic in April. After only making four of his next eight cuts, he finished with 63-66 over the weekend of the Cox Classic in August to secure a T-3 finish. Overall, for the year, he made 13 of 25 cuts, with four top-10 finishes with two third-place finishes, but only finished 30th on the money list, not earning a PGA Tour card.

2013

Hadwin is playing a full season on the Web.com Tour based on his 2012 season.

2014

On 9 March 2014, Hadwin won his first career Web.com Tour event at the Chile Classic. The win earned him US$117,000 and moved him to first place on the money list. He became the 13th Canadian to win on the Web.com Tour. On 7 September 2014, Hadwin won for a second time on the Web.com Tour, when he took home a playoff win at the Chiquita Classic. Hadwin earned his PGA Tour card for the 2014–15 season by topping the combined regular season and Web.com Tour Finals money list.

Professional wins (11)

Web.com Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 9 Mar 2014 Chile Classic 67-69-67-69=272 −16 1 stroke Australia Alistair Presnell
2 7 Sep 2014 Chiquita Classic 63-72-67-68=270 −18 2 strokes United States John Peterson

Canadian Tour wins (2)

Vancouver Golf Tour wins (6)

Other wins (1)

Results in major championships

Tournament 2011 2012 2013
Masters Tournament DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open T39 DNP CUT
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gateway Tour profile
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Canadian Tour profile
  3. 1 2 CBS Sports television broadcast of 2011 RBC Canadian Open, 24 July 2011
  4. ↑ rcga.ca, roster of National team members
  5. ↑ pgatour.com, 2010 Canadian Open tournament data
  6. ↑ pgatour.com, Nationwide Tour, 2010 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic tournament data
  7. ↑ cantour.com, 2010 tournament data
  8. ↑ cantour.com, 2011 Pacific Colombia Tour Championship tournament data
  9. ↑ pgatour.com, 2011 U.S. Open tournament data
  10. 1 2 pgatour.com, 2011 Canadian Open tournament data
  11. ↑ pgatour.com, Official World Golf Rankings for 25 July 2011
  12. ↑ pgatour.com, 2011 Greenbrier Classic tournament data
  13. ↑ http://www.vancouvergolftour.com, 4 September 2011

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