PGA Tour: Waste Management Phoenix Open leaderboard here.
Adam Hadwin began his year at his happy hunting ground at the old "Bob Hope" in La Quinta, now sponsored by American Express. He fired his career low 59 there in 2017 and is always amongst the leaders, this year 68 72 68 68 -12 T25, solid if not spectacular.
A missed cut in San Diego at the Farmers Insurance, then after an opening 72 at Pebble Beach last week he lowered his sights with more solid golf, 68 68 69 T16.
Now in the desert sunshine outside Phoenix, he was plodding along in what he would describe "a good solid round" for the first 12 holes, "I just didn't get anything to drop, lots of fairways and greens, giving myself lots of chances, just burning the edges"
It's been like that for a couple of weeks now, so it was nice to see a couple drop at the end there, 16,17 some longer putts, 16's always a nice one to birdie, so yeah, just a good solid round of golf"
Adam, from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan is 34 now, ranked 159th in the world, and 62nd in the Fed Ex Cup standings. A look through his stats reveal he doesn't really excel at anything on his 13th year since he turned pro in 2009. His scoring average of 70.86 ranks 73rd or about middle of the pack. He has 1 PGA Tour title in 200 tournaments, but has banked $13,418,737 in the process.
So thanks to that back nine, he's off to a great start this week, of course it takes four great week's to win in this company, so a long way to go.
Some who have followed Adam's career thinks he's found a nice spot on tour, middle of the pack, good money, solid sponsorship, well respected, great wife and kids, a good life all in all.
I can't speak to that but I'm sure the desire to win burns with his own flame inside, you can't be this good for so long without it.
Other Canadians are off to sluggish starts, in fact 4 are T88th. Corey Connors, Roger Sloan and Nick Taylor all shot +1 72 while Monday qualifier Etienne Papineau is +1 thru 16 holes and is one who will return early this morning as play was suspended due to darkness.
Ben Silverman the other Monday qualifier who has been playing local 1 day events in and around Florida, is -1 T44 thru 16.
The leader at -7 thru 16 is a guy called Sahith Theegala and to be honest I had to look him up. He's American, 24, from Orange, California, of Indian origins. He is 318th owgr. T25th at the Farmers, T33 at American Express, He was ranked as high a #3 as an Amateur and won the 2020 Haskins award while at Pepperdine, when he swept college golf's awards as the best player.
He secured his card for this year through the 2021 Korn Ferry Tour playoffs.
All the other scores are available by clicking on my customized link here.
Bryan Angus.
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