Joel Dahmen was in a somber temper after a tough Saturday end, however he rallied on Sunday to (barely) maintain his PGA Tour card.
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On Saturday evening, not lengthy after a disastrous double-bogey 7 had basically derailed his likelihood of staying a full-time PGA Tour member in 2025, Joel Dahmen mentioned the temper was somber.
“Funeral-effect,” he clarified.
Dahmen — the humorous, fun-loving, self-deprecating 37-year-old professional — has became one of the standard gamers on the PGA Tour during the last handful of years, however on Sunday he was in excessive hazard of staying inside the highest 125 on the season-ending RSM Traditional, which is what he wanted to do to carry onto a full membership for 2025.
Dahmen entered the week No. 124 within the FedEx Cup Fall standings, however after his late double on Saturday, through which he shot 70, Dahmen was projected to complete 128th within the standings.
Which means he wanted to do one thing particular on Sunday — and his run began with one fairly spectacular shot.
Dahmen fired a six-under 64, a spherical that included no bogeys and a hole-out eagle from 110 yards on the par-4 thirteenth, which was his fourth gap of the day. That ended a string of three straight pars and led to 3 straight birdies on 15, 16 and 17.
After a rollercoaster week — and season — Dahmen tied for thirty fifth on the RSM Traditional and claimed that 124th spot within the FedEx Cup standings. His Tour card for subsequent yr is secured.
“Whenever you’re behind the 8-ball like this, it virtually provides you a bit of little bit of freedom that you need to go do one thing nice, you may’t simply dangle on on the market,” Dahmen mentioned. “It’s virtually more durable generally to hold on. Prefer it’s more durable to carry a lead, a giant lead, an enormous lead than it’s to sort of be a chaser. I feel that in some way labored in my favor.”
Dahmen mentioned the low second on Saturday got here after his spherical, when he and his spouse, Lona, had been driving to get their son at daycare. Dahmen began to consider what he loves about being on Tour. Not just a few good paychecks, however the competitors and the folks and the neighborhood they’ve develop into part of. He talked in regards to the mates they’ve made on Tour, and the way they love elevating their children collectively whereas doing this loopy job. He didn’t need any of that to return to an finish simply but.
“[Our son] was taking part in and Lona and I had been simply sort of sitting there and I used to be simply staring off into the wall,” Dahmen mentioned. “She was like, ‘Are you OK?’ I’m like, no, I’m not OK. She’s like, ‘Properly, you may nonetheless play golf tomorrow, proper? It’s not over.’ And that was sort of a kind of issues, just like the swap flipped. It was about two hours after the spherical in all probability when the swap flipped for me to have the ability to sort of pull myself again up for right this moment.”
