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

On Saturday night time, not lengthy after a disastrous double-bogey 7 had primarily derailed his probability of staying a full-time PGA Tour member in 2025, Joel Dahmen mentioned the temper was somber.

“Funeral-effect,” he clarified.

Dahmen — the humorous, fun-loving, self-deprecating 37-year-old professional — has changed into one of the crucial in style 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 Traditional, 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.

Which means 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 a few straight birdies on 15, 16 and 17.

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

“Whenever you’re behind the 8-ball like this, it nearly offers you just a little little bit of freedom that you need to go do one thing nice, you’ll be able to’t simply cling on on the market,” Dahmen mentioned. “It’s nearly more durable typically to hold on. Prefer it’s more durable to carry a lead, an enormous lead, an enormous lead than it’s to form of be a chaser. I believe that in some way labored in my favor.”

Dahmen mentioned the low second on Saturday got here after his spherical, when he and his spouse, Lona, had 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 group 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 contented embrace. Being a Tour spouse is just not all glitz and glamour,” Dahmen mentioned. “It’s onerous. She takes care of our child a ton after I’m on the street 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 means of this a lot stress. She jogged my memory final night time, that is what I signed up for. I’m like, no, you signed up for like a very 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 unhappiness and the way it can form of change our life going ahead and I’ve considered it the opposite aspect. So I’m very comfortable it was tears of pleasure.”