The Limerick Summary: 2020 Sentry Tournament of Champions

Winner: Justin Thomas

Around the wider world of golf: So far as I know, none of the other major tours played this week.

My first Twofer Tuesday of 2020 went pretty well. As I said last week, this year I'm just picking two Top10ers (since I was keeping track of that anyway) and I'll simply make a note if one of them wins. This week I had Xander Schauffele (T2) and Dustin Johnson (T7) as my picks.

• Top10s: 2 for 2
• Winners: 0 for 1 event

Early on in the final round both of my picks made runs at the top, but only Xander made it to the playoff. He was joined by Patrick Reed, who made his living off one-putts this week, and Justin Thomas -- all three of whom are previous winners of this event. Patrick finished early and probably thought he had no chance until the other two stumbled down 18 during regulation and could only manage to tie him.

But JT persevered to stumble his manner through the playoff. He did control to birdie the primary playoff hole and tie Patrick (Xander 3-putted and changed into eliminated), however he should do no better than par on the second one playoff hollow (once more tying Patrick) and barely included the chasm that fronted the 18th on his 1/3 trip down. Still, he controlled to stuff his wedge close to the hole and it changed into Patrick who subsequently blinked.

Justin could not agree with he'd gained after such a lot of terrible photographs down the stretch, but it's the way golfing is. Sometimes you just must dangle in there... And JT did. It wasn't the most direct path to victory but a win's a win.

This win moves JT into that rarified air of having 12 wins before his twenty seventh birthday... And he is still were given time to feature a few more. He's also were given time to feature a few greater Limerick Summaries like this one, the first of 2020:

Three champs from the past fought it out;

Three playoff holes, each one unsure.

But Justin hung on

Till the others had been long past?

Though he took a circuitous route. The photo came from this page at golfweek.com.