Joel Dahmen was reduced to tears at the RSM Classic on Friday after the Washington native made the cut on the number with his 2025 PGA Tour card at stake.

Dahmen is one of a number of players in Georgia battling for their future, having entered the event 126th in the FedEx Cup standings, with the top 125 earning playing rights for next season. Dahmen knew he needed to make the weekend to have a chance of returning in 2025.

He did exactly that in Friday’s second round with a two-under-par 68, but it was not without drama after he was required to drain a six-foot putt to make par at the final hole of the day.

Having kicked off his week with a disappointing, three-over 73 on Thursday, Dahmen knew he had work to do on Friday, but ensured he did do enough with three birdies and one bogey on day two. It means the 37-year-old will be competing over the weekend, where much-needed FedEx Cup points are at stake.

In the aftermath of his dramatic par putt at the last on Friday, Dahmen explained what it meant to make it to the weekend with his future, and his emotions were clear. “I have a lot of great people around me and so it’s hard on them,” he said in his post-round interview.

“But it’s just because they love me and they care about me. Yeah, I mean, the job’s not done. I know that it feels kind of like it was there a minute to get it done, but hat was step two of — we have two more steps to go.” Dahmen’s only win on the PGA Tour came at the Corales Puntacana Championship in 2021, where he fended off Rafael Campos and Sam Ryder by a single shot.

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On Friday, he admitted that his putt to make the cut this week was a lot more stressful than trying to become a winner three years ago. “I think it’s by far got to be the most,” Dahmen responded when asked by a reporter if it was the most stressful putt of his career.

“My putt to win in Puntacana was pretty short. I’ve had other stressful situations, but knowing that that’s all on the line for the year was tough. To hit my lag putt to five or six feet was not great, I was hoping just to walk up and tap that one in. Just made it more stressful.

“But I think the culmination of everything, this is a long year and hasn’t been the way I wanted it to go, but knowing not having your best stuff you’re still kind of hanging around and to be able to grind it out today was really great.” Dahmen will be hoping to build on this over the weekend, and he will play alongside Taylor Moore and Lucas Glover in Saturday’s third round.