Adam Hadwin

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Adam Hadwin
Personal information
Full nameAdam Jerald Hadwin
Born (1987-11-02) 2 November 1987 (age 36)
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1]
Weight160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)[1]
Sporting nationality Canada
ResidenceAbbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Career
CollegeUniversity of Louisville
Turned professional2009
Current tour(s)PGA Tour
Former tour(s)Web.com Tour
Canadian Tour
Professional wins12
Highest ranking41 (April 8, 2018)[2]
(as of March 24, 2024)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour1
Korn Ferry Tour2
Other9
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT24: 2018
PGA ChampionshipT29: 2019
U.S. OpenT7: 2022
The Open ChampionshipT35: 2018

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

Early life[edit]

Hadwin was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan[3] and lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia.[4] He grew up playing golf at the Ledgeview Golf Club there; one clubmate was another top young player, Nick Taylor.[5] His father Gerry 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.[6] He attended the University of Louisville on a golf scholarship, studying business, and earned All-America Honorable Mention honors for 2009.[4]

Professional career[edit]

2009[edit]

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.[4]

2010[edit]

Hadwin joined the Canadian Tour in 2010, earning exempt status in the 2010 California Winter Qualifying School.[4] 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.[7] Hadwin played in the 2010 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic, a Nationwide Tour event, finishing in a tie for 33rd place.[7] 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.[4]

2011[edit]

Hadwin spent time during the winter of 2010–11 playing on the South African Sunshine Tour.[4] 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.[7] 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.[7] 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.[5][7] His position in the Official World Golf Rankings advanced from 332 to a career high of 214.[9] 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.[7] He won the 2011 Vancouver Open on the Vancouver Golf Tour, scoring 65-65-73 and then winning a playoff over Brad Clapp.[10] 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[edit]

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[edit]

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

2014[edit]

Hadwin in 2015.

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.

2017[edit]

On 21 January 2017, Hadwin shot a 59 (−13) in the third round of the CareerBuilder Challenge at La Quinta Country Club in La Quinta, California. He finished as the runner-up, and was the last player (as of the end of 2018) to shoot a round of 13-under, which is regarded as the lowest score in relation to par on the PGA Tour.[11] On 12 March 2017, Hadwin won his first career PGA Tour tournament at the Valspar Championship, earning a prize of $1,134,000.[12]
At the end of the season, Hadwin played in the 2017 Presidents Cup.

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Par 4 4 3 4 5 5 3 4 4 36 4 5 3 5 4 3 4 4 4 36 72
Score 4 3 2 3 4 4 2 4 3 29 4 4 2 4 3 2 4 3 4 30 59

2018[edit]

Hadwin had three top-10 finishes at the start of the year: T-3 at the CareerBuilder Challenge, T-6 at the Genesis Open, and T-9 at the WGC-Mexico Championship.

2019[edit]

In December 2019, Hadwin played on the International team at the 2019 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia. The U.S. team won 16–14. Hadwin went 1–1–1 including a half in his Sunday singles match against Bryson DeChambeau.[13]

2022[edit]

In June 2022, Hadwin led the U.S. Open after the first round and finished T-7.

2023[edit]

On 11 June, Hadwin went viral when he was tackled by security at the RBC Canadian Open. Hadwin was not recognized as he entered the green and attempted to spray champagne on fellow Canadian golfer Nick Taylor after Taylor became the first Canadian to win the Canadian Open since Pat Fletcher in 1954.[14]

In July, Hadwin was tied for the lead of the Rocket Mortgage Classic after 72 holes. Rickie Fowler ultimately won the tournament in a playoff over Collin Morikawa and Hadwin.[15]

Professional wins (12)[edit]

PGA Tour wins (1)[edit]

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory
Runner-up
1 12 Mar 2017 Valspar Championship 68-64-67-71=270 −14 1 stroke United States Patrick Cantlay

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponents Result
1 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic United States Rickie Fowler, United States Collin Morikawa Fowler won with birdie on first extra hole

Web.com Tour wins (2)[edit]

Legend
Finals events (1)
Other Web.com Tour (1)
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)[edit]

No. Date Tournament Winning score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
1 7 Nov 2010 Desert Dunes Classic 63-67-69-70=269 −19 Playoff Canada Richard T. Lee
2 27 Mar 2011 Pacific Colombia Tour Championship1 66-66-62-69=263 −25 6 strokes Chile Benjamín Alvarado, Argentina Tomas Argonz

1Co-sanctioned by the Tour de las Américas

Vancouver Golf Tour wins (6)[edit]

  • 2009 Ledgeview Open, Golden Ear's Open, Johnston Meier Insurance Open, RBC Invitational Pro-am
  • 2010 Vancouver City Open
  • 2011 Vancouver City Open

Gateway Tour wins (1)[edit]

  • 2009 Desert Winter Sponsorship Event

Results in major championships[edit]

Results not in chronological order in 2020.

Tournament 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Masters Tournament T36 T24
U.S. Open T39 CUT T60 CUT
The Open Championship CUT T35
PGA Championship CUT CUT
Tournament 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Masters Tournament CUT
PGA Championship T29 T58 T64 T71 T40
U.S. Open 54 T40 T7 59
The Open Championship T57 NT CUT
  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

Summary[edit]

Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts made
Masters Tournament 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2
PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 5
U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 6
The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
Totals 0 0 0 0 1 2 22 15
  • Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (twice, current)
  • Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (once)

Results in The Players Championship[edit]

Tournament 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
The Players Championship CUT T39 T30 T57 CUT C T22 T9 T13 CUT
  Top 10

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
C = Canceled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results in World Golf Championships[edit]

Tournament 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Championship T9
Match Play T17 NT1 T31
Invitational T5 T72
Champions T65 T30 T46 NT1 NT1 NT1

1Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  Top 10
  Did not play

NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied
Note that the Championship and Invitational were discontinued from 2022. The Champions was discontinued from 2023.

PGA Tour career summary[edit]

Season Starts Cuts
made
Wins
(majors)
2nd 3rd Top-10 Top-25 Earnings
($)
Money
list rank[16]
2010 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 19,890 n/a
2011 5 5 0 0 0 2 2 440,752 n/a
2012 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 n/a
2013 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 n/a
2014 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 13,034 n/a
2015 30 18 0 0 0 3 7 937,611 110
2016 27 20 0 0 0 2 6 1,067,809 79
2017 28 21 1 1 0 5 10 3,455,012 19
2018 25 22 0 0 1 3 10 1,932,488 61
2019 24 19 0 1 0 5 7 2,039,012 53
2020 17 15 0 1 0 3 3 1,710,808 50
Career* 162 123 1 3 1 23 45 11,616,417 16[17]

* As of the 2020 season[7]

Team appearances[edit]

Professional

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "About Adam, Quick Facts". adamhadwin.com. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Week 14 2018 Ending 8 Apr 2018" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  3. ^ Gateway Tour profile
  4. ^ a b c d e f Canadian Tour profile Archived 27 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b CBS Sports television broadcast of 2011 RBC Canadian Open, 24 July 2011
  6. ^ rcga.ca, roster of National team members
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h "Adam Hadwin Profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  8. ^ cantour.com, 2011 Pacific Colombia Tour Championship tournament data
  9. ^ pgatour.com, Official World Golf Rankings for 25 July 2011
  10. ^ http://www.vancouvergolftour.com, 4 September 2011
  11. ^ "Adam Hadwin becomes 1st Canadian to join 59 club". CBC Sports. 21 January 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  12. ^ "Adam Hadwin's win books spot at Masters, to delay honeymoon". ESPN. Associated Press. 12 March 2017.
  13. ^ Dusek, David (15 December 2019). "Presidents Cup grades: Captains, Royal Melbourne score high marks". Golfweek.
  14. ^ Bantock, Jack (12 June 2023). "Golfer Adam Hadwin mistakenly leveled by security when celebrating Nick Taylor's fairytale Canadian Open win". CNN. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
  15. ^ Lage, Larry (2 July 2023). "Rickie Fowler wins Rocket Mortgage Classic in playoff over Morikawa and Hadwin, ends 4-year drought". Associated Press News. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Official Money". PGA Tour. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  17. ^ "Career Money Leaders". PGA Tour. Retrieved 2 October 2020.

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