The Limerick Summary: 2019 Genesis Open

Winner: J.B. Holmes

Around the wider world of golf: Nelly Korda won the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open on the LPGA; Ryan Fox won the ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth on the ET; Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Chubb Classic on the Champions Tour; and Mark Hubbard won his first Web.com Tour title at the LECOM Suncoast Classic.

Let's begin with my consequences from closing week: I picked Bubba Watson (T15) to win and Justin Thomas (2) to Top10. So my totals for 2019 to this point appear to be this:

• Winners: 2 for 7
• Place well (Top10): 5 for 7 (3 Top5 finish, 2 more Top10s)
• Overall Top10s: 9 of 14 (5 Top5s, 4 more Top10s)

If you remember my pick post from last week, I noted that if I went with my gut I'd choose JT to win and Tiger to Top10. For a while on Sunday it looked as if that might just happen and I was afraid I had overthought things again, but fortunately (for me, anyway) that didn't happen.

And it changed into also fortunate for J.B. Holmes, whose good play early within the week become obscured by way of the bizarre tee instances created with the aid of all the horrific climate. J.B. Definitely shot sixty three inside the first spherical -- the fine of each person -- but it became difficult to inform how excellent it became at the time, given how a good deal conditions continued to change before the cut turned into made. And JT's beautiful play for most of the primary three-and-a-half rounds made him the favorite, regardless.

But the converting climate and staggered tee times and long days and lack of sleep and, on the quit, the freezing winds became Riviera into... Properly, whilst you think about, say, the French Riviera, you have a tendency to think about heat beaches and relaxation. This turned into NOT that type of Riviera! In the give up, it become all determined by way of whose putting turned into the least terrible.

And when the final putt fell, Holmes was the ultimate man status.

J.B. hasn't won in around four years, but surviving two brain surgeries nearly a decade back has given him the kind of perspective that allows him to keep on working on his game despite the lack of wins. It's a pleasure to give him a new Limerick Summary -- especially as he'll have time to enjoy it while on family vacation this week.  Congrats, J.B.!

For days nobody gave Holmes a risk

But he shot low, and made his strengthen

Through the sector unimpeded.

In the quit, he succeeded

Despite freezing winds and wet pants. The photo came from this page at pgatour.com.