Joel Dahmen wanted one thing particular to retain PGA Tour card. It occurred

On Saturday evening, not lengthy after a disastrous double-bogey 7 had basically derailed his likelihood of staying a full-time PGA Tour member in 2025, Joel Dahmen stated the temper was somber.

“Funeral-effect,” he clarified.

Dahmen — the humorous, fun-loving, self-deprecating 37-year-old professional — has become one of the vital standard gamers on the PGA Tour over the past handful of years, however on Sunday he was in excessive hazard of staying inside the highest 125 on the season-ending RSM Basic, which is what he wanted to do to carry onto a full membership for 2025.

Dahmen entered the week No. 124 within the FedEx Cup Fall standings, however after his late double on Saturday, wherein he shot 70, Dahmen was projected to complete 128th within the standings.

Meaning he wanted to do one thing particular on Sunday — and his run began with one fairly spectacular shot.

Dahmen fired a six-under 64, a spherical that included no bogeys and a hole-out eagle from 110 yards on the par-4 thirteenth, which was his fourth gap of the day. That ended a string of three straight pars and led to 3 straight birdies on 15, 16 and 17.

After a rollercoaster week — and season — Dahmen tied for thirty fifth on the RSM Basic and claimed that 124th spot within the FedEx Cup standings. His Tour card for subsequent 12 months is secured.

“Once you’re behind the 8-ball like this, it virtually offers you just a little little bit of freedom that it’s important to go do one thing nice, you possibly can’t simply hold on on the market,” Dahmen stated. “It’s virtually tougher typically to hold on. Prefer it’s tougher to carry a lead, a giant lead, an enormous lead than it’s to type of be a chaser. I feel that in some way labored in my favor.”

Dahmen stated the low second on Saturday got here after his spherical, when he and his spouse, Lona, have been driving to get their son at daycare. Dahmen began to consider what he loves about being on Tour. Not just a few good paychecks, however the competitors and the individuals and the neighborhood they’ve turn into part of. He talked in regards to the mates they’ve made on Tour, and the way they love elevating their children collectively whereas doing this loopy job. He didn’t need any of that to return to an finish simply but.

As Dahmen put it, he made birdies early and held on late. He made par on his final seven holes, which included a protracted two-putt par on the 72nd and clutch 6-footer to get in at 64. Sam Ryder completed one hundred and twenty fifth to safe the ultimate spot, with Zac Blair ending 126 to be the odd-man out. Those that completed 126 to 150 have conditional standing for 2025.

After his spherical, Dahmen and his spouse hugged.

“I’m glad it was a cheerful embrace. Being a Tour spouse is just not all glitz and glamour,” Dahmen stated. “It’s arduous. She takes care of our child a ton once I’m on the highway with out them. It’s actually troublesome on her, and even the weeks like we’re gone all day, like all week with these tee occasions, she’s getting up with the child, getting herself prepared, getting the child prepared, all that stuff.

“I felt so unhealthy for placing her by way of this a lot stress. She jogged my memory final evening, that is what I signed up for. I’m like, no, you signed up for like a extremely crappy mini-tour participant on the time who was broke, you didn’t join this. Yeah, she’s like, ‘We’re going to be OK.’ However that embrace was, I considered it each methods. I considered the tears of disappointment and the way it can type of change our life going ahead and I’ve considered it the opposite aspect. So I’m very completely satisfied it was tears of pleasure.”