PGA TOUR player Adam Hadwin tackled. Image: Twitter
PGA TOUR golfer tackled to the ground cheering friend’s win
Easily a new Hall of Fame moment in golf occurred when PGA TOUR player Adam Hadwin was floored by a security guard for the wrong reasons.
PGA TOUR player Adam Hadwin tackled. Image: Twitter
Easily a new Hall of Fame moment in golf occurred when PGA TOUR player Adam Hadwin was floored by a security guard for the wrong reasons.
Even Hadwin’s wife made fun of the incident. Presumably after checking he didn’t break a rib in the fall.
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“Omg I can’t handle these different angles. The security guard’s laser focus on his target. Adam’s commitment to the giant bottle of champagne. So many things to take in with every new POV” she tweeted.
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Taylor wins top event
When Jordan Klein, a long-time member at Oakdale Golf and Country Club, thought about his course hosting the RBC Canadian Open, there was an inkling, that, well, something like this could happen. There’s always a chance with golf.
And then, after a 72-foot eagle on the fourth playoff hole Sunday in Toronto, it did happen. History. A seminal moment. Something that no Canadian will ever forget.
Nick Taylor won the RBC Canadian Open, becoming the event’s first Canadian winner since Pat Fletcher in 1954. The drought is no longer, extinguished at 69 years.
He did it. He really did it.
“It’s everything,” Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum said of what Taylor’s win means for Canadian golf. “It’s that other bookend to (Brooke Henderson’s CPKC Women’s Open) win. Brooke and Nick Taylor are going to be connected together now, having Canadian Open wins together over the last five years. It’s a moment we’ve been waiting for (for) so long.
Applebaum was on the receiving end of the LinkedIn message from Klein when the club – which celebrates its centennial in 1926 and is hoping to have the RBC Canadian Open again – decided it wanted to try to bring the PGA TOUR there. It became the 37th venue in the 117-year tournament history when the balls hit the air Thursday morning.
But it’s one venue that has delivered in the biggest of ways for Canadian sport.
“Definitely taking nothing away from Mike Weir’s 2003 Masters victory here, but this is right up there with the greatest Canadian golf accomplishments. Brooke Henderson winning in Regina, yes. But honestly it’s up there, truly, with some of the greatest accomplishments in Canadian athlete history,” Adam Hadwin said.
Hadwin, who grew up in Abbotsford, B.C. along with Taylor, playing the same golf course – Ledgeview – was among the trio of countrymen who followed the entirety of the playoff. Corey Conners and Mike Weir (who had left the property and came back) watched each of the four extra holes in person.
They were in the locker room peeking at the coverage on the TV with Taylor’s brother, Josh, as Tommy Fleetwood finished at 17 under, tied with Taylor in regulation. The TOUR winners had all changed into leisurewear – Hadwin and Conners were waiting on the charter to the U.S. Open. Beers were cold and open, from Sleeman – a brewery in Guelph, Ontario. They weren’t going to miss this one.
Josh Taylor said the win showed the determination of his brother. There are so many young, amazing players in Canada, he explained, and this shows they’ll be able to do it, too.
Taylor, to his credit, hung in there in the biggest of moments as the playoff continued.
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