Winner: Rickie Fowler
Around the wider world of golf: Amy Yang won the Honda LPGA Thailand on the LPGA; Darren Fichardt won the Joburg Open on the ET; and Trent Phillips and Skylar Thompson won their respective categories at the Dustin Johnson World Junior event.
It wasn't Rickie's first win with a fifty four-hollow lead. It became simply his first PGA Tour win with a fifty four-hollow lead.
But it wasn't Rickie's prettiest win both, and I suspect there will remain criticism of him because of this. All the paintings with the driver over the primary 3 days will possibly be forgotten since it deserted him on Sunday. He in the end closed out a PGA Tour 54-hole lead but he still shot over par. There may be folks that say that this win changed into passed to him.
Let me speak out for Rickie in modern-day publish.
To folks that say he failed to play nicely on Sunday, I say that NOBODY played well overdue on Sunday. True, Jhonattan Vegas shot a 64. But he shot it early, before the primary winds came, and that blistering spherical got him all the manner as much as T4. In different words, he hadn't played properly enough to be a element in the first region.
One day of suitable play doesn't offset 3 days of terrible play for every person. Rickie played nicely sufficient that he received by four shots with an over-par very last spherical, and no person else did. Rickie earned this win.
Fans and media often criticize Rickie for not winning enough, as if it were easy to win an event. They say he just doesn't try hard enough, because you can do anything if you just set your mind to it. So if everybody just set their minds to it, we would have 156 winners each week, right?
Obviously no longer. If winning was as clean as a few would like to consider, we wouldn't waste our time celebrating victories. Winning is hard and it would not show up very frequently.
And I do not care how lots you try and compartmentalize things, emotions affect each person at some time or different. Rickie's learning a way to handle them, however; we can see it inside the expanded variety of victories he has published in the previous few seasons. And this is his earliest US win in a season to this point.
So maybe Rickie isn't always setting the sector on fire proper now. But he is steadily learning to come back via on the quit, and he's maintaining his wits (and nerves) approximately him sufficient to make fifty seven of 57 putts inside 7 ft. In my book, this is well really worth a Limerick Summary!
On Sunday, the Bear Trap changed into sprung!
And Rickie's composure, undone
By erroneous drives,
Somehow saved hope alive
Till his putter may want to get the process executed. The photograph got here from this page at usatoday.Com.
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