Joel Dahmen

BROOKLINE, Mass. – Joel Dahmen understands the archetype of a professional golfer. Head down. One shot at a time. Stick to the process.

“I’ve always just tried to be myself,” Dahmen said in the twilight Friday. “My rookie year out here, I was not myself. “It’s pretty cool to have people root for you.” During the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, he said he wouldn’t try it. There was the time he sported a Waffle House hat during a competitive Korn Ferry Tour round in Nashville. There was the time he removed his shirt after saving par on the famed 16th hole at the WM Phoenix Open, as did playing partner Harry Higgs, much to the crowd’s delight. The week before the qualifier, he told his wife Lona he wouldn’t try it. And he’s done it his way, remaining true to himself into his sixth TOUR season. He went back to his instincts, which meant waving to fans and being fully present in his environment. He lost his scholarship at the University of Washington after admittedly “partying his way out of school.” He had setbacks at Q-School and struggled with motivation. And while his results midway through the U.S. Open, his ninth career major appearance, suggest that he could be mistaken, he’s kept his sense of humor. Whatever he did, it certainly didn’t hurt him Friday. Dahmen made four birdies and two bogeys for a 68. He earned his first TOUR card in 2016. His mom died of cancer when he was in high school.

Dahmen opened the tournament at +6600 to win and there are still seven golfers with better odds ahead of Round 3.

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Joel Dahmen has found success in the professional golf world by not being a professional golfer. He explains.

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When Joel Dahmen got to the parking lot after his second round on Friday, his courtesy car was nowhere to be found.

The prevailing theory was that the valet must have given his courtesy car to some other mustachioed guy wearing a bucket hat. Making matters even more ridiculous was the fact that the Netflix cameras—filming for the forthcoming PGA Tour docu-series—were shadowing Dahmen as he stood in the parking lot, thumb in the air. When he got there, however, his car was nowhere to be found.

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Dahmen caught the left edge of the hole to save par from 9 feet on No. 12, then caught the right edge and the ball swirled the cup before dropping on an 11-footer for par on No. 16. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds. “I’m a pretty good salesman,” Dahmen responded in his typical entertaining, self-deprecating style, “but you don’t always have to believe in what you’re selling. For me to kind of be the guy out there on the back nine it was really cool.” He buried a 58-footer for birdie on No. 15 to join Morikawa, whose 66 matched first-round leader Adam Hadwin for the low round of the tournament, on top of the leaderboard. He birdied the par-5 eighth after his 10-foot eagle putt stopped an inch or two short of the cup. Former Community Colleges of Spokane standout Brady Calkins had three birdies and six bogies while shooting 73. “Today was typical U.S. Open, kind of scrapped it around a little bit.” They are among seven players to begin the U.S. Open with scores of 68 or better in each of the first two rounds since 2010. “It’ll be a big weekend. Additionally, 24 of the past 26 U.S. Open champions have been within two strokes of the lead entering the weekend. Dahmen was reminded after the round of his quote – “I’m never going to win a major” – by an interviewer, who followed by asking if Dahmen was buying what he was selling.

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"My coach, Rob Rashell, came out and things started to trend in the right direction. "Then I was tired at Memorial and said I wasn't going to do it. I'm getting recognized a little bit more off the golf course, which is -- my wife will look at me, like, what is happening? I was never really going to do it until I played -- sort of played better at Memorial and the game was there. I think this is my eighth or ninth major championship, and you think not long ago I would have done a lot of things to play in one, and to think that I have an opportunity just to skip one, kind of looking back, even this whole week, you don't appreciate really. I told my wife I wasn't going to do it," Dahmen explained.

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Joel Dahmen has had far better drives on the course than off of it this weekend.

Around him were Netflix cameras and crew filming for the a docu-series that follows players on the PGA Tour. “I’m not sure how that’s working right now.” After the Washington native’s first ever 36-hole lead on the PGA Tour, both he and Collin Morikawa sitting at 5-under, Dahmen and his wife attempted to leave The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. It turned out to be more difficult than expected.

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“A lot of people say, ‘Oh, if you’re good enough, you’ll always make it,’ ” Dahmen says. Then something clicked in 2013 ($22,528), and the real breakthrough came the next year when he won the tour’s Order of Merit to get his Web.com Tour card. He failed to break the $12,000 barrier again in 2012. And Uncle Bob watches happily from afar without having made a single penny in profit. The agreement was, I’ll give you the money you need, and hopefully you can do well enough to repay me. A year after he left UW, Dahmen was playing a practice round for the Washington State Amateur when he and fellow Washington Husky-turned-PGA Tour player Nick Taylor were paired in a practice round with Brad Yosaitis, whose father, Bob, was caddieing for his son that week. And if you don’t do well enough to repay me, I’ll have helped you out.” But then he noticed a lump on his scrotum. The doctor said there was no insurance to cover it. (Dahmen went on to win the tournament by six shots). Joel and Bob Yosaitis became fast friends, seeing each other at the hotel that week and keeping in touch as their paths diverged. Two years later, when Dahmen decided to turn pro with no money and no clue where to start, Yosaitis agreed to sponsor him. Dahmen flunked out of the University of Washington in 2006 after one year and began working at a local golf course.

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The first hole was indicative of what was to come as he three-putted from 40 feet. He trailed by four shots after a double bogey on No. 11 and three consecutive bogeys. Hit my wedges poor (and) that led to a couple bogeys and a couple three-putts, but I’m comfortable. The same thing happened on the par-4 seventh. He hit 10 of 14 fairways but struggled on the greens. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds. Dahmen avoided the big numbers that dropped playing partner Morikawa and Scheffler from the top spot. The busiest folks on the property were those in charge of updating leaderboards. His putt drifted just right of the cup. Dahmen, 34, found his footing late on the front nine. Defending champion Jon Rahm (71) made double bogey on No. 18 and slipped one shot behind the leaders. “I knew it was going to be hard.