Joel Dahmen withdraws from Shriners after penalty

Joel Dahmen withdrew earlier than the beginning of the second spherical on the Shriners Kids’s Open on Friday, at some point after absorbing a four-stroke penalty for carrying an additional membership.

Dahmen, 36, was sitting in 131st place out of 132 gamers at 5-over-par getting into the wind-delayed second spherical at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.

The state of affairs may impression Dahmen’s taking part in standing for subsequent yr. He’s presently No. 124 within the FedEx Cup Fall standings, and the highest 125 gamers on the finish of the autumn circuit will retain full standing on tour for 2025.

He self-reported having 15 golf equipment in his bag, yet one more than allowed, throughout his opening spherical Thursday. Dahmen stated most mavens journey with 15 or 16 golf equipment however he one way or the other forgot to scale back the full to 14 earlier than the beginning of play.

“I might prefer to blame (caddie) Geno (Bonnalie). That will be the simple factor to do. It is not his fault both,” Dahmen stated. “I performed Tuesday and Wednesday out right here. We did not see it in there. It was an additional 4-iron, so I had two 4-irons within the bag.

“Why, I do not know. I do not know the way it received there. It sucks. It sucks on the spot I am in as properly. Yeah, we received to (No.) 4 tee and I grabbed a water and I walked over to my bag and I noticed a 4-iron that was within the flawed spot, and our stuff is all the time in the proper spot. It wasn’t in the proper spot.”

Dahmen, who was featured on the Netflix documentary collection “Full Swing,” owns one profession PGA Tour win, on the 2021 Corales Puntacana Resort and Membership Championship. He’s presently No. 229 within the Official World Golf Rating.