{"id":169980,"date":"2025-06-09T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169980\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:16:16","slug":"canadian-open-star-was-tackled-to-the-ground-by-security-guard-golf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169980\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Open star was tackled to the ground by security guard | Golf | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Hadwin returned to the field at the RBC Canadian Open this week, with hopes of putting a memorable incident from the tournament two years ago behind him. The 37-year-old PGA Tour<\/a> pro from Moose Jaw secured a respectable T11 finish at Oakdale Golf and Country Club in 2023 alongside Harry Higgs, Jonathan Byrd, Harrison Endycott and Doug Ghim.<\/p>\n

Despite missing out on glory that year, Hadwin was eager to join the celebrations of close friend and compatriot Nick Taylor – as he became the first Canadian to win the event in 69 years. Emotions surged as Taylor drilled a miraculous 72-foot eagle putt on a play-off of the 18th hole, denying Tommy Fleetwood of his first win on the Tour. The drama didn’t stop there, though.<\/p>\n

In a comical case of mistaken identity, Hadwin experienced a rough encounter when a security guard took him to the ground as he approached Taylor. The antics were immortalised in a slow-motion viral video capturing Hadwin dousing Taylor with champagne – seconds before being floored.<\/p>\n

Taylor’s caddie, Dave Markle, was caught on film desperately shouting “hey” to alert the guard as he identified the over enthusiastic celebrator. Reflecting on the incident, Hadwin told the media: “The moment itself and what Nick accomplished was amazing. I definitely did not want to be a part of what transpired after that, but it has been a lot of fun reading through and seeing what people had to say.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Honestly, I don’t have any memory of what took place. I blacked out there for 15-20 seconds. At the time there was so much adrenaline running through, I don’t think I would feel anything. I’m glad everything worked out. We can have a good laugh about it now. Just a big misunderstanding.”<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Hadwin didn’t sustain significant injuries and displayed good humour by briefly using still images of the body check as his profile picture and banner on X (formerly Twitter). He also shared a photo of the incident with his feed, captioning it: “Put in the Louvre.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the security guard involved has since shared his account of the event. In an interview with TSN<\/a> last year, the guard, who wished to remain anonymous, explained: “I was on the other side of Nick and his caddie which meant I had to come around him.<\/p>\n

“There were a lot of people moving and I saw this person heading directly towards Nick. I saw it as if it was in slow motion, this guy coming towards Nick with a bottle and no credentials.”<\/p>\n

The guard also pointed out that it was a “soft takedown” and that Hadwin’s feet “never left the ground,” before revealing that Markle told him that he had just tackled one of Canada’s top golfers. He added: “Bryan Crawford [RBC Canadian Open tournament director] came over and it was over quickly. We got up and laughed, said sorry to each other, and it was all over.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Hadwin returned to the field at the RBC Canadian Open this week, with hopes of putting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[70865,2826,4365,64308,4298,68783,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-169980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-adam-hadwin","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-golf-section","11":"tag-nick-taylor","12":"tag-pga-tour","13":"tag-rbc-canadian-open","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114652891308923246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}