Winner: Kevin Tway
Around the wider world of golf: Team Korea got their first UL International Crown victory on the LPGA; Lucas Bjerregaard won his second European Tour title at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship; Ruixin Liu won for the third time this season at the Symetra Tour Championship; Nicolás Echavarría won the San Luis Championship on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; Kevin Techakanokboon (an American!) won the Zhuhai Championship on the PGA TOUR China; John Catlin (another American!) won the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship on the Asian Tour; and Takumi Kanaya won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
Alright, I confess: I was far more interested in seeing the new Doctor Who episode than in the final round of the Safeway Open. (For those of you unfamiliar with Doctor Who, it's a British science-fiction show that has been around for over 50 years, the Doctor is an alien who regenerates into a new body any time they need to change actors, and this is the first time the Doctor has been a woman although they've been hinting that this was coming for around three or four years.) And in my opinion, the new Doctor did not disappoint.
Fortunately, given that BBC America chose to do a global simulcast of the show, I did not ought to omit any of the Safeway's final round. Sometimes cable is a extraordinary thing!
I don't know if Kevin Tway is a Doctor Who fan (aka a "Whovian") or not, but he certainly debuted a new episode in his own career Sunday. (Wasn't that a smooth transition? I'm proud of that one.) Tway is yet another of those "can't miss kids" who has learned the Tour is a tough place to win -- even if your dad is a major winner.
But like his dad Bob Tway, who won his first occasion in a playoff towards a proven player (the 1986 Andy Williams Open against Bernhard Langer), Kevin claimed his first win in a playoff towards verified winners, Brandt Snedeker (nine PGA Tour wins) and Ryan Moore (5 PGA Tour wins). While Brandt struggled to preserve directly to his third round lead and Ryan tied the first-rate spherical of the day (-five), Kevin lightly shot -1 within the windy situations to make a 3-manner playoff.
And then all he did become birdie all 3 playoff holes to grab his first win.
I notion the maximum telling thing Kevin said after the spherical become that his dad had been telling him he changed into exact sufficient to win... But he failed to actually believe it until he honestly did it Sunday. I don't consider inside the vintage "floodgates" idea, but I cannot assist thinking that his playoff overall performance -- three birdies beneath strain -- may be the begin of some in reality properly performances the relaxation of this yr.
And if I can assist kick that streak off with his first actual Limerick Summary? Well, I'm glad to help.
The seventy-5 holes it took
For Kevin to get his first look
At a victory weren?T horrific.
The birdies he had
Could be signs that good fortune’s afoot. The photo came from this page at pgatour.com.
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