The Limerick Summary: 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions

Winner: Rory McIlroy

Around the wider world of golf: Several events besides the WGC ended in playoffs this weekend. Colin Montgomerie beat Bernhard Langer at the Champions Tour's Invesco QQQ Championship; and Nelly Korda beat Minjee Lee and Caroline Masson to defend at the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA. On the other tours, Jung-Gon Hwang won the Mynavi ABC Championship on the Japan Golf Tour; Alejandro Tosti won the inaugural Termas de Rio Hondo Invitational on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; Brendon Todd won the Bermuda Championship, the PGA Tour's alternate field event; and Muni He went under-par every round for a wire-to-wire win at the 2019 LPGA Q-Series.

I'm not feeling too bad about my Twofer Tuesday picks this week. I had Xander Schauffele (2) to win and Tony Finau (T53) to Top10. I don't know what happened to Tony but Xander forced the third playoff of the week despite being sick most of the time. It's hard to be too disappointed at a performance like that.

• Winners: 3 for 44
• Place well (Top10): 18 for 44 (10 Top5s, 8 more Top10s)
• Overall Top10s: 35 of 88 (20 Top5s, 15 more Top10s)

Of course, Rory got the win. It was impressive despite going to a playoff, because it enabled him to do something that only Tiger has ever done -- win the PLAYERS and a WGC in the same calendar year. For a player who has seemed to struggle with his game and his life both on and off the course over the last few years, Rory seemed very cool, calm and collected as he shot 67-67-67-68 (plus a birdie on the first playoff hole) with a less than perfect game.

It seems like Rory has located the peace he had to compete once more.

Perhaps even more superb, he has prepare a relatively quiet 12 months that resulted in four massive wins in less than 8 months -- a PLAYERS, which the WGHoF offers the same weight as a chief; the Canadian Open, a big tournament in its personal proper; the PGA TOUR Championship and the FedExCup; and now a WGC. Perhaps Brooks outplayed him within the majors, yet Brooks won only two times inside the same term, the PGA and a WGC of his very own.

It might be exciting to look how Rory finishes out his run for the Race to Dubai. Can he upload every other win on this calendar yr? I don't know, but I understand he's delivered yet another Limerick Summary to his 2019 haul... And possibly given another big name player some thing to bite on for some time.

Like Tiger, now Rory?S CV

Has a PLAYERS and WGC

In one calendar year.

Is the rival now right here

That Brooks Koepka claimed he didn’t see? The photo came from this page at europeantour.com.