Being a PGA Tour pro is one of the few professions where weekends off aren’t a good thing. If you learned anything from Netflix’s “Full Swing”, it’s that you don’t get paid if you don’t make the cut.
But as if that’s not motivation enough to play well, Adam Hadwin it seems has come up with another way to punish his own poor play: house repairs. We’ve seen the handy – at least, he seems pretty handy to me – Canadian go to work putting together IKEA furniture last year and cleaning carpets when he didn’t make it into the Masters earlier this year. After failing to make it to the weekend at last week’s Wells Fargo Championship, though, it looks like Hadwin really put himself through the ringer.
Of course, his wife, Jessica, was there to document her husband’s struggles, this time trying to teach himself some DIY repair through YouTube. Have a look:
How Willis punishes himself after a missed cut. Straight to house repairs via YouTube academy. 😍 pic.twitter.com/y01tjkm4Ri
— Jessica Hadwin (@jessicahadwin) May 7, 2023
Not sure where the “Willis” nickname comes from, but kudos to Adam. Here’s a PGA Tour winner on the ground trying to do, well, whatever the heck he’s trying to do there. Again, I’m not handy so I wouldn’t even attempt anything nearly that ambitious.
When someone asked why a guy with nearly $US20 million in career earnings is doing this stuff himself, Jessica had the perfect response:
Why pay some one when you can do it yourself first and fail and then pay someone
— Jessica Hadwin (@jessicahadwin) May 7, 2023
And it sounds like Adam had a busy Sunday involving birds while his colleagues battled it out at Quail Hollow:
Todays projects are all him. Now he’s headed for the roof to try and find where some birds are nesting 🤷♀️😂
— Jessica Hadwin (@jessicahadwin) May 7, 2023
The moral of the story for Adam? Play better so you don’t find yourself in awkward spots on the weekend. But don’t worry, Adam, your effort certainly isn’t going unnoticed:
— Jessica Hadwin (@jessicahadwin) May 7, 2023
Yep, we’re impressed as well.