Top Canadian prospect sets his bar at the top

By: Tim Campbell Posted: 1:00 AM CDT Thursday, Jul. 14, 2011

HIS 2011 has not yet met expectations but the kind of standards Adam Hadwin is trying to keep likely tells you why he's viewed as one of Canada's top golf prospects.

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HIS 2011 has not yet met expectations but the kind of standards Adam Hadwin is trying to keep likely tells you why he's viewed as one of Canada's top golf prospects.

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HIS 2011 has not yet met expectations but the kind of standards Adam Hadwin is trying to keep likely tells you why he’s viewed as one of Canada’s top golf prospects.

When the 23-year-old from Abbotsford, B.C., burst onto the Canadian Tour in 2010 and promptly finished second on the money list with a win and six top-10s, eyes were caught.

“I haven’t had the year on the Canadian Tour that I would have liked,” Hadwin said Wednesday at Pine Ridge, where he’ll be in the field for this week’s Players Cup hosted by Jonathan Toews.

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Adam Hadwin says his exemption in the RBC Canadian Open lets him relax and tune up this week. — John Woods/Winnipeg Free Press John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press Adam Hadwin says his exemption in the RBC Canadian Open lets him relax and tune up this week.

Not many would call it struggling, but Hadwin’s currently ninth on the money list. He won early in the year in Colombia but has actually missed the cut in two of the last three Canadian events he’s played.

There’s far more to the story than that.

In early June, Hadwin made it through a 36-hole qualifying day for the U.S. Open and later in the month, not only made the cut at Congressional, but finished tied for 39th with a chart of 75-71-73-68.

The body of his work has also caught the eye of Golf Canada, which last week extended him an exemption to next week’s RBC Canadian Open in Vancouver.

That makes him one of four players in the field in Winnipeg this week (also Joe Panzeri, Matt Hill, Nick Taylor) who isn’t sweating over the Players Cup first-prize perk of an exemption to our open.

“It takes a lot of pressure off,” Hadwin admitted Wednesday. “Without that exemption, it would have put me into a position where I probably would have to win, bare minimum to finish second alone to have a chance, then hope some other guys throw up on themselves.