Hearns Schedule and Results from Farmers Insurance Open

I have been following David Hearn and Graham DeLaet on Twitter. I asked Hearn if he would be able to give me the dates he would be playing in. Thankfully he did so! The next tournaments that he will competing at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona and then the Northern Trust Open in California. These tournaments will be over the next couple weeks.

TORREY PINES RESULTS ARE IN!!!

Going into this past weekend David Hearn felt good with his play, @HearnDavid tweeted “Golf is humbling game. I felt better in my prep and warmup this week than I have all season". Obviously Hearn felt well with how he was hitting the ball but also he is appreciative of the game of golf. He is calling the game "humbling" which is great to see that he has a great opportunity in life to be a professional golfer and know that and be able to let other people know he is blessed with the skill and happy for those skills. Great qualities to see in a Canadian Sport Leader. With DeLaet leading into the weekend, he did not tweet anything with how he felt or how his performance would turn out.

Weekend Results:

Hearn started off the weekend a little rough with 3 bogeys leading to a +4 (40) on the front 9 holes. After the turn he started off decent but finished with a +2 (38) on the back 9 to finish Friday with a 78. To start off Saturday Hearn knew he had to turn it up in order to make the cut. He did exactly that, Hearn started the day with 4 birdies in the first 5 holes to finish the front 9 holes with a -4 (32). On the back 9 holes Hearn continued to shot subpar to finish his 2nd round at Torrey Pines with an impressive -6 (66). This left him with a score of even par. Regardless of scoring a great score of 66 on day 2, he was unable to make the cut to play on the weekend. Nevertheless, he tweeted "better luck next at the Waste Management Open"....continued to be humble.....my opinion: great attitude David! :)

DeLaet started the weekend well shooting a -2 (34) on the front 9 holes. On the back 9 holes he shot +3 (39) to finish off Thursday at +1 (73). It was a decent start to the weekend but well back from the top of the leaderboard he would need to shoot well on Friday in order to secure a spot for the weekend play. Again on Friday, he started off decent with -1 (35) on the front but finished with a +1 (37) to finished at even par. This left DeLaet at +1 after Friday which did not allow him to proceed into the weekend. After finishing the round he tweeted "rough day on the greens would be an understatement" and "well, I lost a ball in a tree for the first time. #double". Which would have been hole13 on Friday. Even though he didn’t shoot well he still tweeted and didn’t seem all that upset about his performance because he knows he is going back out there next weekend and going to try and tear it up at the Waste Management Open.

Regardless of this weekend’s past tournament results, sounds like the Canadian Boys had a good time and have forgot the poor shots and have moved on and refocused on next weekend’s tournament.

Stay tuned for this weekend’s pre-tournament and post tournament results and info!

Humana Challenge 2012

Welcome Back Sports Fans!

Today will cover an update of David Hearn, future tournaments he will be playing and the tournaments that Graham DeLaet will be playing in as well.

David Hearn teed off Thursday January 19th, 2012 at PGA West (Palmer Course) in La Quinta, California to start his first round at the "Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation" Tournament. This is Hearn's second tournament of the year. Hearn and fellow Canadian Golfer Stephen Ames are the only Canadians in the Tournament. Hearn started the weekend with a great start at a score of 69 (-3). This put him in a good position behind PGA Star Camilo Villegas who shot a great -9, 63 to start the weekend. The next day Hearn came out feeling strong and shot a respectable 68 (-2). That would leave him at -5 going into the weekend. Knowing that the players are scoring well this weekend with the leading score after two round was -16; he knew that he needed to step up his game on Saturday. Unfortunately Hearn came out flat and shot a disappointing 76 (+4). With that score he remained at -1 and was cut from Sunday. Therefore, Hearn left the weekend disappointed and empty handed. I have been following Hearn on Twitter and he had no news about the weekend (good or bad) to tweet about. I will take that as he is not overly upset or happy about the weekend performance.

Hearn and DeLaet will resume play at the Farmers Insurance Open in La Jolla, California on Thursday January 26th, 2012. Leading up to the Tournament I will be following the on Twitter: @DavidHearn and @Graham DeLaet. As well, I will keep my eye on TSN, ESPN, and PGA Tour websites along with their own personal websites: www.grahamdelaet.com and www.davidhearn.ca for any updates, tweets, or interesting news.

To finish off today, I have located the list of Tournaments that Graham will be playing in for the start of the season. The list follows:

· Farmers Insurance Open

· Waste Management Phoenix Open

· AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

· Northern Trust Open

David Hearn has not yet released a list of tournaments he will be playing in but I have asked if he would release a schedule.

Stay Tuned!!!

Welcome!

Dear Fellow Canadian Sports (Golf) Fans!

My name is Shawn McDonald and this is my new blog surrounding the performance of up and coming Canadian Golf stars David Hearn and Graham DeLaet.  Throughout the next couple of months I will be blogging about their performance within the PGA Tour Tournaments.  Since these two Canadian boys are not "superstars" in the golf world just yet, they have to participate in more tournaments than the best of best in order to gain more FedEx points and to win more money.  Therefore, I will be following (and watching) most of the PGA Tournaments that these two golfers are competing in to see how well they preform and will rely the information here. Also, if there is any media following them I will post that information as well.  Since social media has become such a huge aspect in today's "modern" society, I have decided to follow both of these players on Twitter.  If they tweet anything that I think would be worth blogging about I will do so.  After starting to follow these two players I have come to know that they are actually friends as well and often have dinner together while on tour (tweet from both of them).  Finally, I have attached a photo of each player at the bottom of this page.  David is on the left and Graham is on the right. As well, at the bottom of the page there is a link to the PGA Tour website where you can find information about each player, up coming tournaments and tournament results.

For my first blog I am going to introduce each player with a brief background and their results from their first PGA Tournament this year.  I am going to start with David Hearn. David is a Brampton, Ontario native who was born June 17th, 1979. He is 6 foot 1 inch and weighs about 170 pounds. After high school, David went south to University of Wyoming to studying Psychology.  He turned pro in 2001 and graduated from the University of Wyoming in 2008. Between 2001 and 2004 David mainly competed at the Canadian Open and a couple other events. However, in 2004 David earn his tour card by shooting an impressive -8 at the PGA TOUR Qualifier. The next year in 2005 he had busy year competing 24 events and making the cut 10 times. From 2006 to 2010 he then just played in the Canadian Open and regained his TOUR card in 2010. In 2011 he played in 26 events, making the cut 19 times with his highest finish at tied for 5th. That brings us to 2012; so far he has just competed in one event which was Sony Open in Hawaii from January 12th to the 15th. All and all his started off on a positive note by finishing tied for the 10th spot taking home a respectable $137,500 US Dollars.

Next is Graham DeLaet. He is a native of Weyburn, Saskatchewan who was born January 22nd, 1982. He is 5 foot 11 inches and weighs about 165 pounds.  Graham went to Boise State University in Boise, Idaho to study Physical Education and graduate in 2006. On top of graduating University in 2006, Graham also turned pro. For the first couple of years Graham only competed in the Canadian Open and the World cup but in 2009 he competed in the PGA TOUR Qualifier and shot an amazing -15 which then granted him his Tour card for the next season. In 2010 he competed in 28 events making the cut 15 times with his highest finish tied for 3rd at the Shell Houston Open. In 2011 he only competed in a couple events. Now with a new season schedule for 2012, he competed in the Sony Open in Hawaii (same as Hearn) and finished tied for 29th.

Overall, both of these players have had a good start to the 2012 season and I look forward to following their progress and success while relaying the information and my own thoughts to you as well.