Adam Hadwin (born 2 November 1987) is a Canadian

professional golfer A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation. A person who earns money by teaching or playing golf is traditionally considered a "golf pr ...

who plays on the

PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...

. He has won once on the PGA Tour, twice on the Web.com Tour, and twice on the Canadian Tour.

Early life

Hadwin was born in

Moose Jaw Moose Jaw is the fourth largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. Lying on the Moose Jaw River in the south-central part of the province, it is situated on the Trans-Canada Highway, west of Regina. Residents of Moose Jaw are known as Moose Javians ...

, Saskatchewan and lives in

Abbotsford, British Columbia Abbotsford is a city located in British Columbia, adjacent to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver and the Fraser River. With an estimated population of 153,524 people it is the largest municipality in the province outside metro ...

.Canadian Tour profile
He grew up playing golf at the Ledgeview Golf Club there; one clubmate was another top young player, Nick Taylor.

CBS Sports CBS Sports is the sports division of the American television network CBS. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on W 52nd Street (Manhattan), 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS ...

television broadcast of 2011 RBC Canadian Open, 24 July 2011 In his early teens, Hadwin moved to Ontario and attended

Vaughan Secondary School Hodan Nalayeh Secondary School, formerly Vaughan Secondary School, is a public secondary school in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1989 by the York Region Board of Education and is currently overseen by the York Region District School Board ...

. 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. He attended the

University of Louisville The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public research university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of ...

on golf scholarship, studying business, and earned All-America Honorable Mention for 2009.

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 The Gateway Tour, title sponsored as the OnCore Gateway Tour, is a third-level men's professional golf tour headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona that runs tournaments in Arizona, California, and Florida. The top level of men's professional golf in t ...

Winter Series Sponsorship event.

2010

Hadwin joined the Canadian Tour in 2010, earning exempt status in the 2010 California Winter Qualifying School. 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

event, and he finished at 5-under-par 279, good for a tie for 37th place. Hadwin played in the 2010

Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic The Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic presented by Samsung was a golf tournament on the Nationwide Tour from 2008 to 2010. It was played at the Georgian Bay Club in Clarksburg and the Raven Golf Club at Lora Bay in Thornbury, Ontario, Canada. The 2010 ...

, a

Nationwide Tour The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental golf tour, tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at tha ...

event, finishing in a tie for 33rd place. 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 Palm Springs (Cahuilla: ''Séc-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley. The city covers approximately , making it the largest city in Riverside County by lan ...

area, in November. He had six top-10 finishes on the Canadian Tour in 2010, and was the circuit's Canadian Rookie of the Year.

2011

Hadwin spent time during the winter of 2010–11 playing on the South African Sunshine Tour. 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. 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. In the 2011 RBC Canadian Open at the

Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club is a private golf club in Canada, located on Southwest Marine Drive in Vancouver, British Columbia. History The Shaughnessy Heights Golf Course, today the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, had its beginning in 19 ...

in Vancouver, Hadwin entered the final round in second place, one stroke out of the lead, following rounds of 72-66-68. 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. His position in the Official World Golf Rankings advanced from 332 to a career high of 214. 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. He won the 2011 Vancouver Open on the Vancouver Golf Tour, scoring 65-65-73 and then winning a playoff over Brad Clapp. He was given a sponsor's exemption into the 2011

Fry's.com Open Frys.com Open was the name of two distinct PGA Tour golf tournaments sponsored by Fry's Electronics, both of which still exist under different names. * Shriners Children's Open, played in Las Vegas, known as the Frys.com Open from 2006 to 2007 *F ...

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 The Soboba Golf Classic was a golf tournament on the Web.com Tour. It was played at The Country Club at Soboba Springs ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, unde ...

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 The Small Business Connection Championship was a golf tournament on the Web.com Tour. It was played for the first time as the Chiquita Classic in July 2010 at TPC River's Bend in Cincinnati, Ohio.Web.com Tour Finals The Korn Ferry Tour Finals is a series of three golf tournaments that serve as a means of earning PGA Tour membership for the following season ("Tour cards"). The series, which until 2019 consisted of four tournaments, replaced the PGA Tour Qualif ...

money list.

2017

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. On 12 March 2017, Hadwin won his first career PGA Tour tournament at the

Valspar Championship The Valspar Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, played annually on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor, northwest of Tampa, Florida. History The tournament was founded in 2000 as ...

, earning a prize of $1,134,000.
At the end of the season, Hadwin played in the 2017 Presidents Cup.

2018

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

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 Bryson James Aldrich DeChambeau (born September 16, 1993) is an American professional golfer. He has won eight times on the PGA Tour including one major championship, the 2020 U.S. Open. As an amateur, DeChambeau became the fifth player in hi ...

2022

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

Professional wins (12)

PGA Tour wins (1)

Web.com Tour wins (2)

Canadian Tour wins (2)

¹Co-sanctioned by the Tour de las Américas

Vancouver Golf Tour wins (6)

*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)

*2009 Desert Winter Sponsorship Event

Results in major championships

''Results not in chronological order in 2020.'' CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 4 (2019 PGA – 2020 U.S. Open) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (once, current)

Results in The Players Championship

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

Results in World Golf Championships

¹Cancelled due to

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickl ...

pandemic
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

* ''As of the 2020 season''

Team appearances

Professional *

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...

(representing Canada): 2016,

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

* Presidents Cup (representing the International team):

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

References

External links

* * *
Adam Hadwin articles from Canadian Golfer
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadwin, Adam Canadian male golfers Louisville Cardinals men's golfers PGA Tour golfers Korn Ferry Tour graduates Golfing people from Saskatchewan Golfing people from British Columbia Sportspeople from Moose Jaw Sportspeople from Abbotsford, British Columbia 1987 births Living people