Still struggling, Joel Dahmen gets a pick-me-up with first PGA Tour ace at Charles Schwab
Still struggling, Joel Dahmen gets a pick-me-up with first PGA Tour ace at Charles Schwab
FORT WORTH, Texas — After missing the cut in four of his last PGA Tour starts, Joel Dahmen was in need of a pick-me-up at this week's Charles Schwab Challenge.
He got just that during the first round of play at Colonial Country Club, when his 7-iron on the 186-yard 13th hole came screaming back to the cup. it marked his first hole-in-one on the PGA Tour.
Dahmen, 37, was the breakout star of the first two seasons of the Netflix documentary 'Full Swing.' He struggled last season, recording just one top-10 finish in 30 starts. He needed to make two 6-foot putts at the RSM Classic – one to make the 36-hole cut and the other to wrap up a final-round 64 – to finish No. 124 on the season-long FedEx Cup standings and retain his fully-exempt Tour card for this season by the narrowest of margins.
And although he posted two top-10 finishes before March 1, Dahmen has fallen back into hard times, missing the cut at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in early May and then the alternate-field ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic two weeks ago.
Despite making the ace on his fourth hole of the day (he started on the back nine), Dahmen posted three bogeys and made the turn at an even-par 36.
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