{"id":453402,"date":"2026-02-06T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453402\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:36:11","slug":"football-helmet-on-the-golf-course-joel-dahmen-shows-seahawks-pride-at-wm-phoenix-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/453402\/","title":{"rendered":"Football helmet on the golf course? Joel Dahmen shows Seahawks pride at WM Phoenix Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shirt off, helmet on. <\/p>\n

Joel Dahmen is a special kind of player \u2014 and entertainer.<\/p>\n

Fresh off a T-7 at Torrey Pines last week<\/a>, Dahmen brought the energy to the WM Phoenix Open<\/a> on Thursday afternoon by wearing a Seattle Seahawks helmet inside the tournament\u2019s famous \u201cColiseum.\u201d <\/p>\n

He took off the football helmet and replaced it with his bucket hat before a chip-in attempt on the 16th hole. When the chip went in for birdie, Dahmen raised both hands and soaked in the cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were trying to figure out what to do to be subtle but still for the Seahawks, so my caddie, Ben Hulka, he used to be the equipment manager for the Seahawks,\u201d Dahmen told reporters after the round. <\/p>\n

Hulka was able to get an official helmet for Dahmen, thanks to that connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was debatable about throwing it on after such a bad shot in there, but, yeah, hit an unbelievable pitch shot that rolled in like a putt and the environment is really special after that,\u201d Dahmen added.<\/p>\n

Dahmen was born and raised in Clarkston, Washington, and played golf at the University of Washington for a year. To nobody\u2019s surprise after the Round 1 helmet display at TPC Scottsdale, Dahmen is pulling for his hometown Seahawks over the New England Patriots in Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl. <\/p>\n

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\"WM<\/p>\n

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Dahmen will compete via sponsor invite in this week\u2019s WM Phoenix Open in his hometown Scottsdale, Arizona, after writing tournament organizers a letter and attaching it to a green golf polo.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s competing via sponsor invite in this week \u2014 in his new hometown, Scottsdale, Arizona. His pitch to tournament organizers was a letter with an attached green polo.<\/p>\n

That was a nod to when Dahmen and fellow competitor Harry Higgs took their shirts off while playing the par-3 16th hole four years ago. Dahmen and Higgs were both reprimanded by the PGA Tour, though they weren\u2019t fined for their viral moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a sponsor invite this week, you try to embrace it,\u201d Dahmen said. \u201cIt\u2019s my hometown so I love being here, love the event. Whether you\u2019re in first place or last place, you\u2019re still amped up on 16.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dahmen was asked about his prediction for Sunday\u2019s game, which is being played in Santa Clara, California.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why the line is only four and a half, we\u2019re going to win by two touchdowns,\u201d Dahmen predicted. \u201cThere is no way \u2014 there is nothing on their team that\u2019s scary for us right now. Unless Drake Maye runs for 150 yards, but I don\u2019t see that happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shirt off, helmet on. Joel Dahmen is a special kind of player \u2014 and entertainer. Fresh off a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-453402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}