The Limerick Summary: 2019 Travelers Championship

Winner: Chez Reavie

Around the wider world of golf: Hannah Green made the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship her first LPGA win; Jerry Kelly won the American Family Insurance Championship on the Champions Tour; Daniela Iacobelli won the Island Resort Championship on the Symetra Tour; Alex Chiarella won the Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open on the Mackenzie Tour; Zhengkai “Bobby” Bai won the Huangshan Championship on the PGA TOUR China; Andrea Pavan won the European Tour's BMW International Open; Jazz Janewattananond won the Kolon Korea Open Golf Championship on the Asian Tour; and Thai amateur Atthaya Thitikul won the Ladies European Thailand Championship for a second time. The Korn Ferry Tour's Wichita Open continues their playoff today. [UPDATE: I forgot to include James Sugrue, winner of the 2019 Amateur. And Henrik Norlander won the Wichita Open playoff. So much golf this past week! ]

My Tuesday Twofer picks were both new pros so I admit I didn't have terribly high hopes. I picked Viktor Hovland (T54) to win and Matthew Wolff (MDF) to Top10. But at least I was correct that Hovland played the better of the two.

• Winners: 2 for 25
• Place well (Top10): 11 for 25 (6 Top5 finish, 5 more Top10s)
• Overall Top10s: 22 of 50 (11 Top5s, 11 more Top10s)

But just like last week, it's hard to believe that anybody would have picked this week's winner. It's true that Chez Reavie has been playing pretty well -- he finished T3 in Pebble last week -- but he hasn't had a PGA Tour win since his original win back in the 2008 RBC Canadian Open. (That was almost exactly 11 years ago!)

It's no longer that Reavie is a bad player. Far from it! He's won on the Web.Com Tour (now the Korn Ferry Tour) due to the fact his first PGA Tour win. It's simply that, like so many different players, his career has been plagued by way of injury. It's tough to build any consistency that manner, even though he nearly gained twice in that point.

But Chez never gave up. And now his paintings has in the end paid off.

He went into Sunday's very last spherical with a six-shot lead. And whilst he only shot a one-underneath 69, that become enough to face up to the runs placed up via Zack Sucher and Keegan Bradley and supply him a 4-shot win. That ought to be enough to push him up above #48 inside the OWGR, that is wherein ultimate week's performance on the US Open positioned him.

And it is proper enough to provide him his first-ever Limerick Summary. (My blog didn't exist back in 2008.) And with any luck for him, it might not be his remaining.

Chez won returned in 2008.

His fitness at times hasn?T been wonderful

Though he almost won two times

On the Tour. Ain?T it best

That his work paid off after that wait? The photo came from this page at pgatour.com.