John Chidley-Hill/ Canadian Press
Issues simply didn’t really feel proper for Adam Hadwin when he missed the lower on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open on Oct. 18, so he went again to the drafting board.
Hadwin, from Abbotsford, B.C., spent the following month engaged on his swing, making delicate adjustments to enhance his mechanics, and entered on this week’s RSM Traditional — the finale of the PGA Tour’s Fall Ball season — to check out his new swing in a aggressive surroundings. He mentioned on Wednesday all of it traced again to his disappointing efficiency at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas and that missed lower.
“It simply form of left a bitter style in my mouth, taking part in as poorly as I did there,” mentioned Hadwin. “So I’ve been working arduous the final two weeks, three weeks or so on, on some issues and wished to finish the yr on a greater be aware.
“This was form of the final occasion remaining. It’s pretty simple to get to (from his dwelling in Wichita, Kan.) and the event itself is nice.”
Hadwin completed the PGA Tour’s common season forty seventh on the FedEx Cup standings, guaranteeing him a spot in all of subsequent season’s signature occasions, beginning with The Sentry at Plantation Course in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii, on Jan. 2. It additionally meant that he didn’t must play within the Shriners Youngsters’s Open, the RSM Traditional or any of the occasions on the Fall Ball calendar.
He selected to play in these occasions, nevertheless, to remain sharp.
“Winters in Wichita are most likely not best for golf,” laughed Hadwin of making ready for the 2025 season. “I’ll simply be working away on the technical aspect of issues, ensuring that I’m doing the best issues main into Hawaii.
“Positionally, the issues that we wished to perform had been completed and I’m simply placing that work in, making swings time and again.”
The RSM Traditional has been good to Canadian golfers prior to now decade.
Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., received the occasion in a five-player playoff in 2016 and Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., was the victor in 2022. Hughes was additionally the runner-up in 2021 and final yr.
Hughes and Svensson will be a part of Hadwin within the subject on Thursday, as will Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C. The occasion has gamers compete on Sea Island Golf Membership’s Seaside Course and Plantation Course. Hadwin, Svensson and Sloan will begin on the Seaside Course and Hughes will tee off on the Plantation Course.
“It’s two good golf programs on the island,” mentioned Hadwin. “(St. Simons Island, Ga.,) could be very laid again and I’ve loved coming right here the years that I’ve needed to.
“This yr it’s extra so simply to check out to see the place I’m at, the place the golf swing’s at, the photographs that I’m hitting. Perhaps some issues to work on subsequent six or seven weeks earlier than going to Hawaii.”
Across the Excursions
CME Group Tour Championship — Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., is the lone Canadian within the CME Group Tour Championship, the season finale for the LPGA Tour. It’s her tenth look on the elite occasion. She completed the common season 14th on the tour’s factors checklist.
