Adam Hadwin (born 2 November 1987) is a Canadian

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who plays on the

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. He has won once on the PGA Tour, twice on the

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, and twice on the

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Early life

Hadwin was born in

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, Saskatchewan and lives in

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

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

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. 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

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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

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Winter Series Sponsorship event.

2010

Hadwin joined the

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

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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, a Nationwide Tour 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

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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,

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, 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

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near Washington, D.C.. He won $41,154. This was his first major championship. In the 2011

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. 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

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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

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, 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 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

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in April. After only making four of his next eight cuts, he finished with 63–66 over the weekend of the

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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

event at the

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. 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

On 21 January 2017, Hadwin shot a 59 (−13) in the third round of the

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at La Quinta Country Club in

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. 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

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, 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

, T-6 at the

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, and T-9 at the

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2019

In December 2019, Hadwin played on the International team at the

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in Australia. The U.S. team won 16–14. Hadwin went 1–1–1 including a half in his Sunday singles match against

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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

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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

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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

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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 *

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(representing Canada):

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

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 ...

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(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

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Adam Hadwin articles from Canadian Golfer
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