Winner: Charl Schwartzel
Around the wider world of golf: Jung-Min Lee won the World Ladies Championship, as well as the team portion of the event with Jin-Young Ko, on the LET/KLPGA; and Scott Hend won the True Thailand Open on the ET.
'Snakebit' is an overused time period on the Valspar Championship, in particular in regard to the Snake Pit (holes 16-18), however most gamers might agree it's the precise one. The two gamers maximum oldsters idea could struggle it out for the identify -- Bill Haas and Graham DeLaet -- both felt its fangs in Sunday's very last spherical. Most of the alternative players with excessive finishes controlled to get via the Pit in even par. Nobody regarded capable of figure out the newly reseeded (and consequently lots slower) greens.
Except Charl Schwartzel, this is. He squirmed thru the Snake Pit at 1-underneath, finishing the spherical with an first rate 4-below 67 in hard windy situations, then parred 18 to overcome Haas in a unmarried-hole playoff.
Charl has been all however forgotten on the PGA Tour given that triumphing the 2011 Masters in dominating fashion, with 4 birdies on the final 4 holes. He persisted to win an occasional event around the arena however could not get again inside the PGA winner's circle.
Until Sunday. And it could not have come at a better time, with Augusta right across the corner once more.
In the last four months Charl has won the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the Tshwane Open on the ET, and now he adds the Valspar Championship on the PGA Tour. Three worldwide wins? That's enough to put him back on my RGWR radar and, for this week at least, knock Jason Day out and take over the fifth spot. That could change with a good Day next week, but this is this week. And who knows? Maybe Charl has turned a corner and is about to regain his past form.
At any rate, Charl deserves his first Limerick Summary considering that 2011 Masters win, to go together with his nearly $1.1mil payday:
The new greens made putts roll so gradual?
But Charl snaked some in, only for display!
When none ought to shoot decrease
Than his 4-below score,
A playoff won Charl all the dough. The photo came from the tournament upshot page at PGATOUR.com.
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