Winner: Webb Simpson
Around the wider world of golf: Graeme McDowell reentered the OWGR Top50 with his win at the Saudi Invitational; Brett Quigley won the Morocco Champions in only his second Champions Tour start; Davis Riley won his first Korn Ferry Tour title at the Panamá Championship; and the Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in 50 years!
So often I think that players discover they are my Twofer Tuesday picks and are overcome by the magnitude of what is expected from them. I had Matt Kuchar (T16) and Jon Rahm (T9), two runaway favorites at this event... and both struggled to perform.
- Top10s: 6 for 10 (2 Top5, 4 other Top10s)
- Winners: 0 for 5 events
In Curtis's "Life of Lincoln," he tells the tale of Lincoln's answer to the query: "How lengthy have to a person's legs be in percentage to his frame?" He omits the names of other distinguished guys related with the tale. It become when Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and Owen Lovejoy have been visiting in a degree educate on their manner to wait Court at Bloomington, Illinois. Douglas had a very lengthy body and very brief legs, being only 5 toes excessive; Lovejoy had a quick frame, and long legs proportionately, and all realize Lincoln's build. Douglas "chaffed" Lovejoy about his lengthy legs and ''pot belly" and Lovejoy retorted as to his very short legs, and many others. One of them asked Lincoln: "How lengthy must a man's legs be in proportion to his body?" and Lincoln answered: "I have now not given the problem tons attention, but on first blush I need to decide they need to be long enough to attain from his frame to the floor."I thought about this because I kept hearing the announcers talk about how short Webb Simpson is off the tee and how hard it must be for him to compete, despite leading almost every statistical category except Driving Distance. And all I could think was "Apparently he's long enough to play these courses anyway." (See what I was doing there?)
This could not were made clearer than inside the battle among Webb and crusher Tony Finau, a participant who I take place to like a terrific deal and who I wish begins posting more wins soon. Nobody regarded able to grasp with Tony except Webb and, once they got here to the seventeenth hollow, all Webb did became move birdie-birdie to pressure a playoff and then birdie the primary playoff hole for the win.
And after that, it appeared that all the analysts should talk about was Webb's intellectual durability underneath the gun while it counts.
While it's proper that Webb is a virtually hard competitor -- just being one of the few to successfully learn a new placing stroke after the anchoring ban proved that -- the simple truth is that golfing isn't always approximately just one component of the sport, irrespective of how lengthy you are. Webb already qualifies for the World Golf Hall of Fame -- you want most effective 15 wins at the legit tours OR two majors (which incorporates THE PLAYERS), and even as Webb has handiest six wins after Sunday, he does have a US Open and a PLAYERS.
More importantly, he were given each of these wins gambling in opposition to lengthy hitters like Dustin Johnson. People seem to forget about that!
So while I look for Tony to start picking up more wins soon, I'm extremely happy to see Webb pick up this one mono a mono against a bomber. I'm also extremely happy to present him with a freshly-prepared Limerick Summary, which is -- appropriately enough for a limerick -- never all that long anyway.
Yeah, they are saying Webb is brief off the tee?
But his iron game?S like sweet potpourri!
And his contact on the green
Was the difference between
Runner-up and the winner?S marquee. The photograph got here from this web page at wmphoenixopen.Com.
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