Winner: Patrick Reed
Around the wider world of golf: Stephanie Kyriacou won the Geoff King Motors Australian Ladies Classic Bonville on the LET; and Viktor Hovland won the Puerto Rico Open, the PGA Tour's alternate field event, becoming the first Norwegian winner on Tour.
Much like last week, Rory salvaged my Twofer Tuesday picks. I had Rory McIlroy (T5) and Adam Scott (T26), and once again Rory got me a T5. Perhaps Adam was just drained from his win at Riviera; perhaps the altitude got to him this year. But he got the week off to a poor start and never recovered. Such is life...
- Top10s: 8 for 16 (4 Top5, 4 other Top10s)
- Winners: 0 for 8 events
Except Patrick Reed, that is. Dogged by murmuring rumors and a wayward driver, he nevertheless used his top notch short game and an exceedingly hot putter -- did I pay attention effectively that he had forty five one-putts at the tricky vegetables at Club de Golf Chapultepec? --to place up a particularly warm again nine and step up to the 18th tee with a -shot lead.
From there he right away misplaced his tee shot right within the bushes, become pressured to chip out, and after a so-so 1/3 shot left himself an exceedingly long and elaborate -putt to win the tournament. He did so with no apparent trouble at all!
It's easy to make Patrick the villain. (He seems to get pleasure from the position, after all.) I still do not accept as true with he tried to cheat at the Hero -- whatever you watched of him, Reed isn't stupid enough to cheat while he is aware of a digital camera is only a few ft at the back of him, catching it all. I nevertheless trust it changed into a brain fart and, being a bit of a control freak, he honestly refuses to confess he did some thing he can not give an explanation for. (Personally, I assume you could chalk lots of his 'social blunders' up to that; he absolutely has to have some thing responsible except himself, some thing that turned into out of his manipulate however that he can really call.) He's a polarizing man or woman, to say the least.
But like him or not, you can't deny his toughness or his skill. And now he is got a 2d WGC, wins in his last ten starts, has moved to seventh in the OWGR and is on the verge of creating the Olympic group! Like him or no longer, he's earned this Limerick Summary:
For some, adulation?S a need?
But reputedly not for Pat Reed!
He?Ll put on that black hat
Like a badge, say ?Take THAT!?
To the field, and fight on—guaranteed! The photo came from this page on pgatour.com.
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