The Limerick Summary: 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Winner: Nick Taylor

Around the wider world of golf: At the ISPS Handa Vic Open dual event, Min Woo Lee won the men's (ET) trophy while Hee Young Park won the women's (LPGA) trophy; Mito Pereira won the Country Club de Bogotá Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour; Anton Karlsson won the RAM Cape Town Open on the Sunshine Tour; and Larry Fitzgerald teamed up with Kevin Streelman to win the team title at Pebble.

My Twofer Tuesday picks were clearly overcome by the beauty of Pebble Beach. I had Brandt Snedeker (MC) and Kurt Kitayama (T18) and neither made the Top10... although I admit Kurt was a gamble (this was his first trip to Pebble) and he made an admirable showing. I don't know what happened to Sneds, given his record here.

• Top10s: 6 for 12 (2 Top5, 4 other Top10s)
• Winners: 0 for 6 events

As I mentioned earlier in the post, Kevin Streelman and Larry Fitzgerald teamed up to win the pro-am segment of the event. But Streelman unexpectedly found himself in contention for the main title when 40mph gusts began sweeping across Pebble Beach. His four-under 68 tied the second-best score of the day and moved him up the leaderboard into second place.

Granted, that was nevertheless four strokes at the back of wire-to-wire winner Nick Taylor. Beginning the day with a mere one-shot lead over Phil Mickelson, who became going for his sixth Pebble name and changed into really the fan favourite, the questions were whether or not Phil would make history and if one-time winner Taylor ought to get up to the strain of being teamed with Lefty.

As it turned out, Nick failed to seem to sense any strain at all. He advised pgatour.Com:

"I believed I should do it because I've done it earlier than. But to do it in that fashion, playing with Phil, offers me a lot of self belief going ahead."

And he told GC how relaxed the day had been, playing with Phil and their amateur partners. It must have been -- he had a five-shot lead by the turn and he never looked back, despite the wind. Phil ended up in solo third and Nick completed the rare wire-to-wire victory.

Unlike his first win on the 2014 Sanderson Farms Championship, this win receives Nick a price tag to Augusta. It additionally receives him a Limerick Summary -- some thing else he failed to get whilst the Sanderson became an exchange-discipline event, up towards the 2014 WGC-HSBC Champions. Well, let's restore that right now!

The crowd desired Lefty to win?

But 40-mile gusts did him in!

Nick had gained once before

And he desired one greater

So he went wire-to-wire with a grin. The photo came from this page at pgatour.com.