Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin is set to postpone his honeymoon after earning a start in next month's Masters with victory in the US PGA Tour's Valspar Championship.
Hadwin overcame a late double-bogey to clinch his first victory on the tour, winning by one shot from American Patrick Cantlay at Innisbrook Resort in Florida on Sunday.
The 29-year-old from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan shot a 13-under-par 59 round in January at the US tour event in La Quinta, California.
He put his name in headlines again on Sunday as he closed with a 71 to win at 14-under from Cantlay, who finished fast with a 68.
The 14th Canadian to win on the PGA Tour, Hadwin had planned his honeymoon for Masters week, not expecting to be at Augusta National.
The win also made him eligible for the World Golf Championships-Match Play from March 22-26 but he will miss that as he gets married to fiancee Jessica then.
Hadwin had fallen back into a tie with Cantlay at the par-four 16th, carving his drive into a water hazard and dropping two shots.
But he made a one-foot tap-in par for the victory after Cantlay bogeyed the par-four 18th, failing to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker.
"I certainly didn't knock myself out of the tournament but made it a lot closer than I was liking it to be," Hadwin said,
"That (bad shot) came out of nowhere. I had striped it all day and all week."
Cantlay, a former top-ranked amateur, was downbeat after making a mess of the last, where a poor approach shot followed by a mediocre bunker shot left him with a 15-footer for par, which he missed.
Playing on a medical extension on the PGA Tour after battling a stress fracture in his back, the prize money he earned for second place was enough to gain his card as a full playing member.
"I guess it's the one positive from this week but I was just trying to go out and win the golf tournament," said Cantlay. "Overall I played really good golf."
Cantlay, 24, experienced a tragedy last February when his caddie Chris Roth was struck and killed by a car as the pair were crossing a road in California.
Rod Pampling was the highest-placed Australian finishing at even-par for a tie for 41st while Cameron Smith finished a shot further back for joint 49th.
