Winner: Francesco Molinari
Around the wider world of golf: Justin Harding got his first ET win at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters; in her professional debut, Alana Uriell won the first-ever SKYiGOLF Championship on the Symetra Tour; Kirk Triplett won the Hoag Classic on the Champions Tour; and Meghan MacLaren won the Women’s New South Wales Open on the LET.
First, my Tuesday Twofers replace: I picked Rory McIlroy (T6) to win and Jason Day (WD) to Top10. Not a great deal I can do approximately an unexpected WD, and Rory's putting woes surprised me as nicely. Still, even with all the problems, I did add another Top10 finish:
- Winners: 2 for 10
- Place well (Top10): 7 for 10 (4 Top5 finish, 3 more Top10s)
- Overall Top10s: 13 of 20 (6 Top5s, 7 more Top10s)
During the fourth round, whilst so a number of the huge hitters have been gambling from the rough, Francesco lightly hit 12/14 fairways. From there he hit 14/18 greens and got up-and-down 2/2 times, posting eight birdies and NO bogeys within the very last spherical. And it changed into his fourth very last spherical of 64 for the reason that 2016-17 season began; only Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and Gary Woodland have as many.
I became a Molinari fan and commenced writing about his potential years in the past. Now, along with his fourth worldwide win inside the closing three hundred and sixty five days, Francesco has introduced his reason to turn out to be a chief force in the game -- in addition to a first-rate collector of Limerick Summaries. And who am I to argue?
Francesco became quiet all week,
Then Sunday he started out to sneak
Through the field to the front.
From the difficult came the grunts
Of respect from the bombers he beat. The photo came from this page at pgatour.com.
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