The Limerick Summary: 2019 Shriners Hospitals Open

Winner: Kevin Na

Around the wider world of golf: Jon Rahm destroyed the field at the ET's Mutuactivos Open de España; Christine Wolf won the Hero Women’s Indian Open on the LET; Cheyenne Knight won the Volunteers of America Classic on the LPGA; Augusto Nunez won the Banco del Pacifico Open on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; Laura Wearn won the Symetra Tour Championship; Shaun Norris won the Top Cup Tokai Classic on the Japan Golf Tour; and Suradit Yongcharoenchai won the Mercuries Taiwan Masters on the Asian Tour.

After a long dry spell, my Twofer Tuesday picks finally paid off. I had Adam Hadwin (T4) to win and Patrick Cantlay (2) to Top10. Although Adam didn't win, I'm not going to complain about two Top5 finishers!

• Winners: 2 for40
• Place well (Top10): 18 for 40 (10 Top5s, 8 more Top10s)
• Overall Top10s: 33 of 80 (18 Top5s, 15 more Top10s)

That's not to say that my boys didn't make a good run at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open -- especially Cantlay. And if Kevin Na hadn't brought his magic putter, forged by angels in the same fires as the legendary Excalibur, somebody else might have won.

I said might have. The way Na played, I can't say for sure. But that putter allowed him to break all the records for most feet of putts made during a single tournament, and not even a triple-bogey on ten and a bogey in the pond at sixteen could derail his march toward the trophy.

It's a measure of the way well he putted that Cantlay made a unmarried blunders in the previous couple of holes -- a bogey on 17 -- and yet, regardless of a barrage of birdies coming in, should simplest control to force a playoff.

Which Kevin Na and his angel-touched putter received with relative ease.

I don't suppose I'll ever root against Kevin Na. He's fought a variety of very public battles with his sport -- battles that derail many a player's career -- and has come out on top. This became his second win of 2019 and 1/3 win in years, both of that are new territory for him. And the truth that he appreciates what is going on a lot makes it clean to root for him.

Tiger likes him too, you understand, and I'd be amazed if he is not rooting for Kevin as properly. You can be sure he's watching him closely, what with the Presidents Cup proper around the corner.

But whilst Kevin waits for the Big Cat's telephone call, here's any other Limerick Summary (his second this 12 months!) to preserve him occupied:

On ten, Kevin carded a triple;

Soon after, his ball determined a ripple.

They left eighteen tied

But Pat?S playoff hopes died

When Kev’s putter proved it wasn’t fickle. The photo came from this page at pgatour.com.