Winner: James Hahn
Around the wider world of golf: Ariya Jutanugarn got her first LPGA win at the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic; rookie Nuria Iturrios won the Lalla Meryem Cup on the LET in only her second pro start; Madelene Sagstrom won the Self Regional Healthcare Foundation Women’s Health Classic, her second win in the last three Symetra Tour events; Jeunghun Wang won the Trophée Hassan II on the ET; Jesper Parnevik got his first Champions Tour win at the Insperity Invitational; Sam Fidone won the Honduras Open on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; and Lexi Thompson won the World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup, the first major on the JLPGA (bangkokbobby has details).
It's been a long term because the Gangnam Style dance in Phoenix. It's been over a 12 months because the playoff win at Riviera. In fact, it is been 8 consecutive neglected cuts in view that James Hahn felt excellent about his golfing.
You positive couldn't inform it at Quail Hollow this week. And boy, did he pick an exciting location to locate his self belief.
For those of you who don't know in which the Green Mile call got here from, it is from a Stephen King novel (and film starring Tom Hanks). In the tale, the Green Mile is the final route criminals stroll from their Death Row prison cells to the electric chair. (The 'Green Mile' nickname comes from the colour of the ground's linoleum.) Perhaps sarcastically, water plays a huge element in the electrocutions inside the story.
Water performs a large component in the final 3-hole stretch of Quail Hollow as well, and I suppose you may draw some parallel in Hahn surviving largely due to the fact he avoided the water each in the course of the final spherical and within the playoff even as that lengthy meandering creek on 18 stuck Roberto Castro inside the playoff. Fortunately for each men, the best energy become within the crowd!
We frequently speak approximately how tough it's far to win a event, however how lots intellectual sturdiness does it take to win after 8 missed cuts? How hard is it to find that toughness on one of the toughest 3-hole stretches in expert golf? It's a measure of the person that James Hahn did it... And did so with obvious ease. There have been most effective eight rankings lower than his 70, and none of these players finished higher than T4.
So this week I salute James Hahn, who strolled down the Green Mile to victory. I'm positive Stephen King could be terribly careworn by using this turn of activities, which is why I write the Limerick Summaries and now not him:
The Green Mile leaves many dumbfounded.
Its fairways and vegetables are surrounded
With water and sand
That few pros can withstand?
But James Hahn’s mental strength was unbounded. The photo came from the tournament upshot page at PGATOUR.com.
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