Adam Hadwin holds onto the lead in the windy Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Adam Hadwin held onto the pb Friday successful the windy Butterfield Bermuda Championship successful a precocious bid to clasp afloat PGA Tour playing privileges, shooting a 5-under 66 astatine Port Royal to instrumentality a one-shot vantage into the weekend

SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda -- Adam Hadwin held onto the pb Friday successful the windy Butterfield Bermuda Championship successful a precocious bid to clasp afloat PGA Tour playing privileges, shooting a 5-under 66 astatine Port Royal to instrumentality a one-shot vantage into the weekend.

Hadwin is 147th successful the FedEx Cup standings, with the apical 100 adjacent week aft the RSM Classic keeping their circuit cards for adjacent year. The 38-year-old Canadian, a PGA Tour victor and two-time Presidents Cup player, missed the FedEx Cup playoffs for the archetypal clip successful his circuit career.

Hadwin had an 11-under 131 full aft opening with a 65 connected Thursday.

“A small spot much scrambly than yesterday, didn’t rather deed it arsenic well,” Hadwin said. “A small disconnected early. ... Just a small off. Didn’t rather person the aforesaid consciousness arsenic I did yesterday, but scrambled truly well. Short game, putting, made a clump of putts today.”

Chandler Phillips (64) and Braden Thornberry (65) were tied for second. Max McGreevy (64) and Noah Goodwin (67) were 9 under. Six players were incapable to decorativeness earlier dark.

McGreevy faced the toughest upwind conditions, playing successful precocious Thursday and aboriginal Friday.

“Being from Oklahoma and seeing a batch of upwind successful my life, I’ve seen just shares of bully and atrocious breaks benignant of thing," McGreevy said. “You’ve conscionable got to benignant of rotation with it.”

With upwind gusting to 26 mph, Hadwin rebounded from a treble bogey connected the par-3 13th — his 4th spread of the time — with an eagle from the unsmooth connected the abbreviated par-4 sixth.

“I thought conscionable propulsion it up determination and get wrong 50, 60 yards of the greenish and conscionable benignant of transportation backmost up to that pin,” Hadwin said. "I thought arsenic agelong arsenic you support it close of the bushes you’ve benignant of got 50, 60 yards to enactment with. It came disconnected perfectly, the transportation changeable did. You’re a small spot fortunate to benignant of marque it, but I did precisely what I wanted to do.:

He's making his 299th PGA Tour start. He won the 2017 Valspar Championship for his lone PGA Tour title.

Tyler Watts, an 18-year-old precocious schoolhouse elder from elder from Huntsville, Alabama, was tied for 35th astatine 2 nether aft a 69. The Tennessee-bound subordinate tied for 53rd successful the Procore Championship successful his lone different circuit start. He got a spot successful the tract this week connected a sponsor exemption arsenic the apical performer successful the Men’s Elite Amateur Cup.

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