Winner: Belgium
Around the wider world of golf: Aaron Rai got his first ET/Asian Tour win at the Honma Hong Kong Open; Ho-Sung Choi won the Casio World Open on the Japan Golf Tour; and Anne Van Dam won the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España Femenino on the LET.
Many of you will be familiar with a musical group called the Talking Heads ("burning down the house"), who were huge during the late 1970s and the 1980s. What you may not know is that two members of that group, Tina Weymouth and her husband Chris Frantz, formed another group that found considerable success...
The Tom Tom Club. The group was created during a hiatus from the Heads in 1980, and has been playing together ever since. They saw a door of opportunity and walked through it.
Golf's very own Tom Tom Club -- Belgian golfers Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry -- had sizeable success in their very own this beyond week. Opportunity offered itself to the 2 highly younger golfers in their mid-20s, and they too walked through the door.
Boy, did they walk through it!
In my opinion, they received this occasion on Friday. Although they shot 63 the first day, nearly each crew went low; Pieters and Detry were not even the bottom. Then the climate grew to become on Friday, with simplest four groups underneath par, and the Belgians' seventy one become best one shot off the satisfactory.
Then Saturday they WERE the first-rate, shooting any other 63 to steer by means of 5. And after they struggled a piece on Sunday, their 68 became sufficient to win by using three, despite critical expenses from Team Australia and Team Mexico.
Pieters hasn't won in over years; Detry hasn't gained at all yet. But this victory intended loads to them and, at the same time as it got here at the cease of Pieter's season, it's difficult to accept as true with that a win like this may not depart each of them in a terrific body of thoughts over the holidays and have them geared up while 2019 receives underway.
Happy Holidays, boys! Enjoy this Limerick Summary. True, I failed to wrap it up actual excellent -- 'motive I'm no longer so right with the wrapping paper, you realize -- however it is the notion that counts.
When Pieters and Detry teamed up,
They opened a door none should close.
Ignoring the weather,
They stepped thru collectively
And walked away holding the Cup. The photo comes from this page at pga.com.
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