March was a good month for 29 year-old Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin from Abbotsford who after winning the previous championship gets to relax, well not really but you might call it one of his two honeymoon’s, but this one’s in Georgia. This is following his marriage to his now-wife, Jessica, which would undoubtedly have been an extravagant occasion, given his success in the sport and the winnings that this entails. Images of spectacular venues and elegant dresses (like these – HTTPS://WWW.WINNIECOUTURE.COM/) spring to mind when one thinks how it must have been.

Hadwin won the Valspar Championship (March 12th) and the hearts of many Canadians on his first ever career PGA Tour win and between this win and now he managed get married.

Call it a short two weeks of bliss with his new bride Jessica, but contrary to what you might think they aren’t jumping the gun just yet for some romantic honeymoon destination, but rather they are headed to Augusta, where Hadwin get’s to play in his first Masters at the famed Augusta National Golf Club.

He told the media on a conference call when asked about how his wife is reacting to the whirlwind wedding and what followed and he mentioned “She’s probably not as excited as I am and I think she would’ve rather been in Bora Bora right now.

He continued “We’re both excited, it’s going to be a great week for us and no doubt will be one to remember considering it’s the first one.”

Hadwin booked his ticket to the Masters with the Valspar Championship victory, along with the $1.134-million US cheque and let’s not forget that he managed to earn $1.067 million last season.

To date in 2017 he (Hadwin) has pulled in just over $2.5 million which is by no means “chump change” for the average joe.

He managed to card a third-round 59 which was good enough for a second-place finish at the CareerBuilder Challenge a short four months ago – January 2017.

He (Hadwin) currently ranks fifth in the FedEX Cup standings with 1,140 points while managing an impressive four top-10 finishes in 11 – yet 11 events this year.

It’s a long road from Abbotsford to Augusta and the respected Masters but how does one actually begin to prepare in such a short time for a first-ever appearance at the Masters?

“If I can’t get up and get ready for that I don’t know what event I’ll be able to do that for,” Hadwin said. “I think now everything is settled … and I can really start to focus my energy on next week.”

Hadwin and wife leave for Augusta Sunday (April 2nd) and has scheduled a practice round for Tuesday April 4th with PGA Tour veteran Mike Weir of Bright’s Grove, Ont.

Let’s not forget that dating back to 2003, he (Weir) became the first ever Canadian to win golf’s most prestigious major – The Masters and one needs not ask where you were when he won.

No doubt Hadwin will have a lot of questions for Mike Weir but as of yet he mentions “I haven’t started picking Mike’s brain yet, and I don’t want to wear him out before we actually play.”

Hadwin’s first memory of the Masters as he recalls it was 1997 when he was only 10 as he watched Tiger Woods capture his first major. Woods was a young 21 and as you might think he literally controlled the entire field managing an 18-under, 270 total for an impressive 12-stroke victory pulling off the Championship.

Hadwin mentioned to the media via conference call “This was Tiger in general for many, many years and just the way he, to not put it lightly, just destroyed the field making the game look so easy for a long time, it wasn’t just ’97.”

Hadwin mentioned about how he viewed the event in the following statement “The way I view it is to get into the Masters you’ve had to do something special and you have to be a top-50 player in the world, have finished the previous year in the top-30 in the Fed-Ex Cup or you have to win.

“So it has this winners only, great players only type feel to it. I’m not downplaying the other majors by any stretch … I think it (Masters) has just a little bit of a heightened prestige around it.”

“I’m going there with confidence. I’ve had success against great fields. It’s just a matter of preparing the best I can and seeing where my game stacks up against the best players.”

Hadwin said “he’ll have butterflies when he tees it up for real next week but expects it to be a good nervousness.”

He continued “Otherwise, I just lay up and my wedges have been so good that I’ve got full confidence I can do either and that course can be scored on by doing both.”

He continued “I don’t set a game plan at the start of the week saying I’m going to lay up on all par-5’s or I’m going to do this in all the tee boxes. It’s strictly on a hole-by-hole, day-by-day basis.”

Here’s hoping for a win – Canada’s watching and probably all of BC!!