When they’re not in their usual uniform – polo shirt, pants, logoed hat, sunglasses, etc. – just about any tour pro not named Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson can blend in anywhere, which is a good thing.
Adam Hadwin is likely wishing the opposite was true after he was mistaken for a law-breaking fan on Sunday at the RBC Canadian Open.
Taylor’s victory was the first by a Canadian in the Canadian Open since 1954, so you’ll have to forgive our friends up North for going as bats–t crazy as they did.
Among the chaos was Hadwin, who ran out onto the green spraying champagne in Taylor’s direction in celebration.
Apparently, security had no idea that Hadwin was a fellow tour pro, a fellow Canuck and a friend to Taylor, with one guard mistaking him for a law-breaking fan and FLATTENING him Terry Tate office linebacker style:
Here’s another angle:
All kidding aside, my goodness, what a scene. Hopefully, Hadwin is OK, so he (and we) can laugh it off. Because it’s one of the funnier situations we’ve ever witnessed.
Only in golf could a legit PGA Tour pro look so unathletic in plain clothes that he gets mixed up for a fan who got under the ropes and started to cause a scene. What an absolutely ridiculous sport.
