Winner: Jason Day
Around the wider world of golf: Jeunghun Wang won the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open -- his second win in a row -- on the ET/Asian Tour; Trey Mullinax won the Rex Hospital Open on the Web.com Tour; Tim O’Neal won the Casa de Campo Dominican Republic Open on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica (way to go, Tim!); Zecheng Dou won the Henan Open on the PGA TOUR China; Shanshan Feng successfully defended her Buick Championship title on the LET; and Erica Popson won the Symetra Classic on the Symetra Tour.
I realize you've already heard approximately all of the records Jason Day set together with his win at THE PLAYERS, and you have heard all the comparisons with Tiger, and so forth. So I idea I'd take a barely exclusive tack these days and focus on some thing Jason stated to the media this past week -- particularly, that a win at THE PLAYERS should in the long run decide whether or not he were given into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
And within the system, I suppose I can remedy some of the talk over whether or not THE PLAYERS need to be referred to as a chief or now not.
What Jason has achieved during the last ten months is some thing we haven't visible on the grounds that Tiger become in full flight, having won 7 of his last 17 starts offevolved. (Granted, he's were given a protracted manner to go to seize Tiger, but that's a quite right begin!) He has ten PGA Tour wins, which consist of a PGA Championship, a PLAYERS and two WGCs, amongst other prestigious titles.
Now right here are some of the criteria for induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, as posted at their web page (I didn't encompass the age standards and such):
A participant ought to have a cumulative general of 15 or extra respectable victories on any of the authentic members of the International Federation of PGA Tours (PGA TOUR, European Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour, Asian Tour and PGA of Australasia) OR at least victories a few of the following events: The Masters, THE PLAYERS Championship, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship.Once Jason reaches the ripe old age of 50, this says he can be inducted if he has 15 or more valid victories OR -- and that OR is important -- two major wins. (As a side word, which means John Daly meets the match standards if the committee chooses to induct him.) Oh, wait... those two major wins can include THE PLAYERS! So, since he already has a PGA Championship and a PLAYERS, Jason Day has already met the match standards for induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame!
Is THE PLAYERS called a major? No, not yet... but "called" is the operative word here. Because the criteria on their website makes it clear that the World Golf Hall of Fame already thinks THE PLAYERS is equivalent to a major. And because of that, I think it's just a matter of time before THE PLAYERS officially becomes the fifth major.
That likely might not happen until the PGA Championship will become an international predominant and starts shifting around the planet to different continents, which is something the PGA of America is already speaking approximately, however I suspect each will occur ultimately. It will be part of the popularity procedure as soon as golf has honestly turn out to be international. It's just going to take time for the powers-that-be to alter to the changes as a way to ultimately come, particularly if Olympic golf is as successful as all of them wish.
Jason can rest smooth, knowing that his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame might be a lock -- particularly if he continues winning over 40% of his starts offevolved.
But in the interim he can sit back, relax, maintain Dash and Lucy in his fingers, and stare at his adorable new crystal trophy at the same time as Ellie reads his state-of-the-art Limerick Summary to him:
Next Tuesday they?Ll tear out the greens
But this week, Day tore out the desires
Of the relaxation of the sector.
His unshakeable will
Has him Hall of Fame-bound now, it seems. The photo came from this page at the CBC/Radio-Canada site.
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