{"id":420518,"date":"2020-06-11T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/?p=420518"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:37:51","slug":"adam-hadwin-charles-schwab-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/adam-hadwin-charles-schwab-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Hadwin Low Canadian with 5-Under First Round at Colonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">91 days ago, Adam Hadwin participated in the opening round of the PLAYERS Championship, shooting an opening-round 69.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">Then, professional golf shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">Three months later, Hadwin is back near the top of the leaderboard.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">His five-under 65 in the opening round of the Charles Schwab Challenge puts him within two shots of first-round leader Justin Rose (7-under).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u201cYou never quite know what&#8217;s going to happen,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/asaptxt.com\/orgs\/pgatour\/381\/transcripts\/46701.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0\">Hadwin said to reporters after his first round.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u201cI got off to just a great start for the week. It&#8217;s nice to be back playing again. Looking forward to the rest of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">For the majority of the hiatus, Hadwin spent time at his home in Wichita, Kansas. He didn\u2019t touch his clubs early on, keeping busy with the birth of his daughter, Maddux.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">It was only the past few weeks where he ramped up his practicing, so he can be ready for the return to golf at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0\u201cI didn&#8217;t get into it really until the last two, three weeks,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/asaptxt.com\/orgs\/pgatour\/381\/transcripts\/46701.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0\">Hadwin said.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u201cJust been working on trying to get the club a little bit more on plane going back. Other than that, not much. Just kind of back out here playing golf again, hitting some shots again, which I haven&#8217;t done for a while.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">Any rust from the layoff wasn\u2019t apparent on Thursday for Hadwin. The Abbotsford, B.C. native converted 71.4 percent of his fairways, 83.3 percent greens in regulation, and achieved strokes gained: putting of 2.09. Putting is an area of Hadwin\u2019s game that hindered him in the past, but has shown tangible improvement this season. Before the pandemic halted play, Hadwin\u2019s strokes gained: putting ranked 27th on the PGA Tour (0.505).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">His eight birdies on the card shot the Canadian up the leaderboard into a tie for fourth.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The crowd goes wild for a birdie on 5 by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahadwingolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ahadwingolf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pXGEsK7qjK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pXGEsK7qjK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Weeks (@BobWeeksTSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobWeeksTSN\/status\/1271100531331739649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">Hadwin isn\u2019t the only Canadian represented in the Charles Schwab Challenge field this week. Corey Conners (4-under) and Mackenzie Hughes (1-under) both shot under-par rounds. Hughes is coming off a runner-up finish at the Honda Classic, while Conners is eager to replicate his banner year from last season, where he won the Valero Texas Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">There may be no fans in the galleries but this isn\u2019t stopping Canada\u2019s top golfers from competing for a chance at a title.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;color: #0e101a\">\u201cThe level of competitor out here is so good you can expect some good play,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/corey-conners-set-for-pga-tour-s-restart-1.1484742\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #4a6ee0\">Conners said to TSN\u2019s Bob Weeks Wednesday.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u201cthere\u2019s going to be a winner on Sunday, people there or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91 days ago, Adam Hadwin participated in the opening round of the PLAYERS Championship, shooting an opening-round 69.\u00a0 \u00a0 Then, professional golf shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. \u00a0 Three months later, Hadwin is back near the top of the leaderboard.\u00a0 \u00a0 His five-under 65 in the opening round of the Charles Schwab Challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4860,"featured_media":420520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[67,111,16,64,21],"class_list":["post-420518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","tag-adam-hadwin","tag-corey-conners","tag-golf","tag-mackenzie-hughes","tag-pga-tour"],"modified_by":"yobodev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}