The Limerick Summary: 2019 Desert Classic

Winner: Adam Long

Around the wider world of golf: Zecheng Dou won the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic on the Web.com Tour; Tom Lehman won the Mitsubishi Electric Championship on the Champions Tour; Eun-Hee Ji won the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions on the LPGA; Jazz Janewattananond won the SMBC Singapore Open on the Asian Tour; Shane Lowry won the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on the ET; and Alvaro Ortiz won the Latin America Amateur Championship.

First, let me get my strolling score of PGA choices up to date. I had Justin Rose (T34) to win and Jon Rahm (6) to vicinity nicely. That puts my totals for 2019 so far at:

• Winners: 1 for 3
• Place well (Top10): 3 for 3 (1 Top5 finish, 2 more Top10s)
• Overall Top10s: 5 of 6 (2 Top5s, 3 more Top10s)

But at least give me credit for this prediction from my "pick post" for this event:

The Desert Classic moves me as the first real "wild card" of the season for the reason that form of courses, combined with the "run and gun" component of the occasion (you generally need to head very low to win), tends to desire the participant who throws warning to the win and simply attempts to put up the maximum birdies... Hence any try to predict form is probably doomed to fail.

Adam Long definitely fits that description. This was his 6th PGA Tour start and the only cut he'd made was a T63 at the Safeway Open, which made him $13,000 and 4 FedExCup points. He did way better than that this week!

Despite Phil's dominance for the first three rounds and Adam Hadwin grabbing a three-stroke lead halfway through the remaining spherical, Long didn't flinch. He went to the 18th hole tied with both players, then hit an superb shot from a sidehill lie inside the difficult with the ball one foot decrease than his two toes, and flippantly sank the putt for birdie and his first PGA Tour win.

And no extra concerns about getting into occasions or retaining his card. Good instances, proper?

But of direction Adam has done a ways greater. The 31-yr-old has gotten off to a fast begin, snagging his first Limerick Summary so quickly in his PGA Tour profession. Enjoy it, my friend -- you handiest get your first Limerick Summary once!

It commenced with Phil being Phil.

For 3 days he gave fanatics a thrill

But the final day got tough.

That?S whilst Adam stepped up?

And on eighteen, he pulled off the scouse borrow! The picture got here from this page at newsday.Com.