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Revision as of 14:46, 29 July 2012
| Adam Hadwin | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Born | 2 November 1987 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Weight | 155 lb (70 kg; 11.1 st) |
| Sporting nationality |  Canada |
| Residence | Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada |
| Career | |
| College | University of Louisville |
| Turned professional | 2009 |
| Current tour(s) | Canadian Tour Nationwide Tour |
| Professional wins | 9 |
| Highest ranking | 35 (June 9, 2024)[1] (as of November 24, 2024) |
| Best results in major championships | |
| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| PGA Championship | DNP |
| U.S. Open | T39: 2011 |
| The Open Championship | DNP |
Adam Hadwin (born 2 November 1987) is a Canadian professional golfer. He has won two events on the Canadian Tour.
Early life
Hadwin was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan[2] and lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia.[3] He grew up playing golf at the Ledgeview Golf Club there; one clubmate was another top young player, Nick Taylor.[4] 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.[5] He attended the University of Louisville on golf scholarship, studying business, and earned All-America Honorable Mention for 2009.[3]
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.[3]
2010
Hadwin joined the Canadian Tour in 2010, earning exempt status in the 2010 California Winter Qualifying School.[3] 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.[6] 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.[8] He had six top-10 finishes on the Canadian Tour in 2010, and was the circuit's Canadian Rookie of the Year.[3]
2011
Hadwin spent time during the winter of 2010-11 playing on the South African Sunshine Tour.[3] 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.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] 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.[11][4] His position in the Official World Golf Rankings advanced from 332 to a career high of 214.[12] 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.[13] He won the 2011 Vancouver Open on the Vancouver Golf Tour, scoring 65-65-73 and then winning a playoff over Brad Clapp.[14] 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 has conditional Nationwide Tour status for 2012.
Professional wins (9)
Canadian Tour wins (2)
Vancouver Golf Tour (6)
- 2009 Ledgeview Open, Golden Ear's Open, Johnston Meier Insurance Open, RBC Invitational Pro-am
- 2010 Vancouver City Open
- 2011 Vancouver City Open
Other wins (1)
- 2009 Desert Winter Sponsorship Event (Gateway Tour)
Results in major championships
| Tournament | 2011 |
|---|---|
| The Masters | DNP |
| U.S. Open | T39 |
| The Open Championship | DNP |
| PGA Championship | DNP |
DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10
References
- ^ "Week 23 2024 Ending 9 Jun 2024" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ^ Gateway Tour profile
- ^ a b c d e f Canadian Tour profile
- ^ a b CBS Sports television broadcast of 2011 RBC Canadian Open, 24 July 2011
- ^ rcga.ca, roster of National team members
- ^ pgatour.com, 2010 Canadian Open tournament data
- ^ pgatour.com, Nationwide Tour, 2010 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic tournament data
- ^ cantour.com, 2010 tournament data
- ^ cantour.com, 2011 Pacific Colombia Tour Championship tournament data
- ^ pgatour.com, 2011 U.S. Open tournament data
- ^ a b pgatour.com, 2011 Canadian Open tournament data
- ^ pgatour.com, Official World Golf Rankings for July 25, 2011
- ^ pgatour.com, 2011 Greenbrier Classic tournament data
- ^ www.vancouvergolftour.com, Sept. 4, 2011