Monday qualifying for the PGA Tour is a dogfight, with only four places available in a field against the best aspiring Tour players and former winners. Perform at your maximum on the day, or you have no chance. Adler\u2019s seven-under was good enough to make it this time after a six-under round in pre-qualifying. Another time he shot eight-under-par and the cut-off mark was 10-under.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got to play well, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old American is an Irish citizen, with an Irish mother and plenty family from D\u00fan Laoghaire, Co Clare and Co Donegal.<\/p>\n
The Irish influence is strong enough that he follows the Clare hurlers and supports Europe in the Ryder Cup. Adler is an overseas member of Lahinch Golf Club, where his father has been a member since 1995.<\/p>\n
Adler missed the cut at the John Deere Classic, held at TPC Deere Run in his home state of Illinois, but performed well, finishing on one-under with the cut at three-under-par. He started with a bogey after being the \u201cmost nervous over a golf ball\u201d he had been in his life, but recovered with an eagle on the next hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the way the golf course is set up, you have got to find a good balance of playing aggressively, but also conservatively. I felt like I did that well, but I just wasn\u2019t able to get the putts to drop,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Adler had to pinch himself being on the putting green beside Chris Gotterup, or warming up beside Keegan Bradley and Rickie Fowler, but he made sure not to get caught up in hero worship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of surreal in the moment, but then you realise, I\u2019ve earned my way here. My performance was definitely a confidence booster, when you realise how thin the margin is out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adler\u2019s golf career took a different trajectory when he won the South of Ireland at Lahinch in 2024, following in the footsteps of winners like Graeme McDowell, Paul McGinley and Darren Clarke. After the victory, he had a strong final year in college, winning Big East Player of the Year on the US collegiate circuit when at Marquette.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe South is where it all started,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI didn\u2019t know if I wanted to even play professional golf, I didn\u2019t know if I had the game to.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Patrick Adler after winning the South of Ireland title at Lahinch Golf Course in 2024. Photograph: Niall O’Shea <\/p>\n
That week in Lahinch was a wild one, with cousin Ryan Taylor having lined out for Clare in the All-Ireland hurling final against Cork the week prior.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole week was just surreal, the party on Sunday night even more so. It was an unbelievable experience, having all my family there to see it too. <\/p>\n
\u201cAny time I\u2019ve been struggling in professional golf, I have so many videos from the South, and I find myself looking back on those for confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy ma brings it up all the time. There will be a random Tuesday afternoon and a picture will pop on her computer at home and she\u2019ll be like \u2018I really can\u2019t believe you\u2019ve done that\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Adler is not swinging, he is also a musician, singing and playing base in a band fittingly called The Adler Brothers, with his older brothers Connor and Aiden. With a busy schedule these days, finding the time to gig is difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was in high school and college, we tried to play as much as we could, but sometimes we were forcing it a bit too much. We\u2019ll play one gig a year, and then the occasional time when we\u2019re over in Ireland. I had an appearance at Kenny\u2019s [bar in Lahinch] when I was in my second year of college, that was a funny time.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a trip back to Ireland in the diary for later this year, when he\u2019ll catch a Waterboys concert and watch the Walker Cup in Lahinch, perhaps they\u2019ll manage to squeeze in another performance at Kenny\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Adler\u2019s dream is to get his card on the PGA Tour, to be there \u201cfor a long time\u201d and to play alongside Rory McIlroy, who he credits with inspiring his interest in golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cRory was my idol growing up, I would talk about him so much, almost to the point where some of the guys at my home course in Chicago still call me Rory to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years ago, Patrick Adler became the first Lahinch member to win the South of Ireland amateur title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,1747,85],"class_list":["post-788431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}