Winner: Brian Harman
Around the wider world of golf: The Danish Team (Thorbjorn Olesen and Lucas Bjerregaard) won the inaugural GolfSixes event on the ET; John Daly got his first Champions Tour win at the Insperity Invitational; Nate Lashley won the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, his first Web.com Tour win; Sei Young Kim beat Ariya Jutanugarn to win the Lorena Ochoa Match Play on the LPGA (Michelle Wie came in fourth, her best finish in a long time); and the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica's Essential Costa Rica Classic event was shortened to 54 holes but still won't be finished until later today.
We predicted the Wells Fargo event to be huge open this yr. After all, few (if any) gamers had been acquainted with Eagle Point Golf Club, which turned into standing in for Quail Hollow. (Quail Hollow might be web hosting the PGA Championship in a few months, in case you hadn't heard.) But did we surely expect this? Eagle Point held the entire field to single figures.
Okay, all but one participant. But did absolutely everyone suppose it might be Brian Harman? With all of the long hitters inside the subject, on a path where high ball hitters might have a bonus getting balls to forestall at the complicated greens?
Perhaps it was the wind that helped Brian. Swirly winds made it essential to preserve the ball low, under the tree line when feasible. Even that wasn't enough to keep Dustin Johnson and Pat Perez from posting at -nine, forcing Brian to combat just for a playoff spot.
But after every week of fantastic scrambling, Harmon came to the 18th at -9 and handiest wanted a scrambling up-and-down to win the occasion outright. It appeared like a achieved deal...
Until Harman fatted the chip and left a 30-footer at the problematic veggies. If he was lucky, maybe he'd -putt for the playoff...
And then he tired it for the outright win in any case, the second of his brief profession.
It would be clean to name this success, but DJ had the high-quality score of the day (sixty seven, along side Jonathan Randolph, who finished at -6) and he beat Harman through most effective one stroke. Harman lower back the want, besting him by means of handiest one stroke for the week.
So today the Limerick Summary is going to Brian Harman, who broke his 3-12 months winless drought in a maximum satisfying manner. I simply desire he celebrates this as a good deal as he celebrated the win...
At Eagle Point, scrambling turned into key?
So that fat chip at 18 could be
The unlikeliest way
To provide Harman the play
That stole DJ's (or Pat's) victory. The photo came from this page at skysports.com.
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