After competing at the Players Championship, Joel Dahmen is back in the grind of a Monday qualifier, hoping to earn a spot in the Valspar Championship as conditional PGA Tour status tightens in 2026.
Whether there should be more to winning the PGA Tour’s flagship event – whether or not they are playing in a “major” championship – has been revived as a topic of debate, initiated by the tour and its tournament promotional campaign proclaiming “March is going to be Major”.
Dahmen’s idea is a great way to get your kid invested in golf without emptying your wallet and getting them in stressful situations earlier than they need to be.
It’s been a rough month for Joel Dahmen. After bricking a three-foot par putt on the 71st hole to choke away a certain victory at the Corales Puntacana Championship in April, Dahmen has missed three straight cuts.
Wherever the PGA Tour’s season finale is held, it tends to produce moments steeped in drama and at least a little bit of weirdness. This year was no exception.
While all eight episodes of Netflix’s “Full Swing” series were good in their own right, it’s become quite clear that the Joel Dahmen episode is a favorite among golf diehards and casuals alike. And if everyone had to pick a favorite moment from the episode, it would obviously be Dahmen slugging down a few White Claws in between 18s at U.S. Open Sectional Qualifying, then qualifying for the U.S. Open and eventually tying for 10th.
Making mistakes is an inherent part of golf: attempting to hit a hero shot instead of punching out, misreading putts, even white belts, for pity’s sake. However, the biggest danger facing modern golfers is Twitter.
An 18-hole experiment with Joel Dahmen and our 11-handicap Golf Digest colleague confirms that playing a tour pro’s drives solves a lot of problems. Just not all of them.
Let’s take an end-of-year detour now and tip our caps to the moments that we’ve almost already forgotten, giving them one last moment in the sun before the calendar flips and they become even more distant in time’s rearview.
You remember the old saw about the tree falling in the woods? Well, how about this one: If a hole-in-one falls on the PGA Tour, and nobody reacts, did it actually happen?
Australian Golf Digest
