{"id":876788,"date":"2026-10-09T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876788\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:18:09","slug":"needing-win-to-earn-pga-tour-card-adam-hadwin-docked-2-shots-for-relief-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876788\/","title":{"rendered":"Needing win to earn PGA Tour card, Adam Hadwin docked 2 shots for relief error"},"content":{"rendered":"

GLEN ALLEN, Virginia \u2013 Adam Hadwin needs to win this week\u2019s Korn Ferry Tour Championship if he wants to return to the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

However, the 38-year-old Canadian\u2019s chances of victory took a slight hit during Thursday\u2019s opening round at The Federal Club. Hadwin was assessed a two-stroke penalty on the par-3 second hole for playing from the wrong place.<\/p>\n

With preferred lies in effect, players are allowed one scorecard\u2019s length of relief per MLR E-3, but Hadwin, whose tee shot came up short of the green and in the fairway cut, instead took a full club-length of relief.<\/p>\n

Hadwin self-reported the infraction to rules official Adam Helmer, who is also Canadian, on the next hole after seeing one of his playing competitors taking the shorter relief. Part of the confusion could\u2019ve been that Hadwin played in the PGA Tour\u2019s Biltmore Championship a few weeks ago, when officials chose to extend the relief area back to a full club-length for the event.<\/p>\n

Hadwin\u2019s par was changed to a double bogey, and he eventually shot 1-under 70. A hot start on Friday, 5 under through 10 holes, then pushed Hadwin into contention. Had he not been docked two shots, he would\u2019ve been tied for the lead at the time.<\/p>\n

Hadwin, who played 11 straight seasons on the PGA Tour before losing full status after last season, entered this week ranked No. 54 in points. In 13 starts, he\u2019s made seven cuts and posted two top-10s, including a runner-up at the Panama Championship in February. He also has made a dozen PGA Tour starts this year, making only five cuts and tallying a single top-25 finish.<\/p>\n

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\"Nationwide<\/p>\n

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Seven PGA Tour cards are still up for grabs entering this week\u2019s Korn Ferry Tour Championship, which begins Thursday at The Federal Golf Club, a new addition to the KFT Finals rota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GLEN ALLEN, Virginia \u2013 Adam Hadwin needs to win this week\u2019s Korn Ferry Tour Championship if he wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-876788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876788","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=876788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}