Winner: Jim Herman
Around the wider world of golf: Lydia Ko outlasted everybody for her second major, the ANA Inspiration on the LPGA; Andrew Svoboda won the Brasil Champions on the Web.com Tour; Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic on the Champions Tour; and Ji-Hee Lee won the Yamaha Ladies Open on the JLPGA (bangkokbobby has details).
In a very real sense, Jim Herman wasn't even a nobody on Tour. His only pro victory came six years ago at a Web.com Tour event in Australia, and he was ranked 191 in the OWGR. He was, in the truest sense of the word, a journeyman. That means most people -- even fairly well-informed fans -- wouldn't have a clue who he is.
That all changed Sunday afternoon whilst Herman became the third player on the grounds that 2008 to apply the Shell Houston Open to get to the Masters... And the fourth player in that time to make the Houston Open his first PGA Tour win.
Herman had by no means had a fifty four-hole lead. He become surrounded by way of players like Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson -- demonstrated gamers -- and tied with every other participant trying to find his first win, Jamie Lovemark. Other massive names like Spieth, Reed, Schwartzel, Fowler and Mickelson made runs at him as nicely. The commentators brazenly wondered how Herman might preserve up below the pressure.
He held up simply first-rate, flippantly taking pictures a 4-under 68, which featured a bogey-unfastened three-below back9 punctuated with an sudden chip-in birdie at sixteen. To me, the maximum remarkable issue changed into his placing, as his stroke seemed totally unaffected by way of the scenario. Time after time he stepped up and swept putts into the cup with a positive, easy movement. He held it together quite well.
And whilst he teared up at some point of his interview, he additionally managed to keep all of it together there until they said, "See you subsequent week at the Masters," at which factor his voice absolutely left him. Everybody understood.
After all, Jim Herman isn't a no person anymore. He simply took down a number of the first-class in the sport. Not most effective that, he made the distinguished listing of first-time Limerick Summary topics:
Another new winner breaks through
And heads for Augusta. Who knew
Jim Herman was prepared,
His nerves may want to live steady
Enough that his putts would run true? The photo came from the tournament wrap-up page at PGATOUR.com.
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