Winner: Bubba Watson
Around the wider world of golf: Matt Wallace won the BMW International Open on the ET; Nasa Hataoka got her first LPGA win at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship on the LPGA; Kanyalak Preedasuttijit won the Ladies European Thailand Championship on the LET; Ruixin Lui won the Island Resort Championship on the Symetra Tour; Scott McCarron won the American Family Insurance Championship on the Champions Tour; Brady Schnell won the Wichita Open in a playoff on the Web.com Tour; T.T. Crouch won the Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open in a playoff on the Mackenzie Tour - PGA TOUR Canada; Shota Akiyoshi won the Dunlop SRIXON Fukushima Open on the Japan Golf Tour; Minchel Choi won the Kolon Korea Open Golf Championship on the Asian Tour; and Ernie Els's nephew Jovan Rebula won the British Amateur Championship, the first South African to do so since 1966.
After Paul Casey shot 62 on Saturday for a four-shot lead, most folks thought his second win of the season was a done deal. But big leads are notoriously hard to hold on the final day of an event, and perhaps Paul himself recognized that fact when he told the media before the round that he thought his game was in good enough shape to win once or twice more this season... even if he didn't win Sunday.
It actually appears that the preference to win were given in Casey's manner for the duration of the very last spherical. The clean rhythm of Saturday's round became long past, as was the putting stroke that has been working all season. Instead, it became Bubba Watson's careful mind-set going into the round -- announcing that it might take some thing certainly unique to even have a danger Sunday -- that won the day.
Was 63 unique enough? I think it become.
Bubba has constantly felt comfortable at the Travelers. He were given his first-ever PGA Tour win there in 2010; he picked up a 2nd one in 2015. His -under the front nine erupted right into a 5-underneath lower back nine as he sprinted to the end, capped by means of a skillful downwind shot to two ft at the 18th. The stress became simply too much for Casey, who completed three shots again in a tie for 2d.
Not best changed into this Bubba's 0.33 win of the season (one among them the WGC-Dell Match Play) but it was also his 1/3 Travelers trophy -- a feat topped most effective by way of 4-time winner Billy Casper. Bubba will debut in my Ruthless Golf World Rankings this week, likely at #four, simply ahead of Koepka. (Spieth will fall out this week.)
But in the meantime, Bubba & Company can relax with the trophy and his third Limerick Summary of the season. His THIRD! Is this the year of Bubba? Stay tuned! (Btw, read the date in the first line as 'two-thousand-ten' to get the correct rhythm.)
He won here in 2010;
In ‘15, he did it again.
Two times weren’t enough!
Sunday, Bubba got tough
And crushed Casey to get his third win. The photo came from this page at golfweek.com.
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