Winner: Matt Jones
Around the wider world of golf: Charl Schwartzel became the first South African to win the same European Tour event four times at the Alfred Dunhill Championship; Jung-Gon Hwang won the Casio World Open on the Japan Golf Tour; Xi-Yu Lin successfully defended her title at the Sanya Ladies Open on the LAGT/LET; Haimeng Chao won the Nine Dragons Open on the PGA TOUR China; and Jiyai Shin won the JLPGA Tour Championship Ricoh Cup (bangkokbobby has details).
To paraphrase an antique business, Matt Jones earned his identify on the Emirates Australian Open the old-fashioned way...
He EARNED it. (You're speculated to sincerely stretch out the phrase EARNED but I don't have any concept how to make that readable.)
After coming in to the final spherical at -10, with a 3-stroke lead over his closest competitor, he proceeded to submit a bogey, a double AND a triple, all at the the front nine.
That gave wish to a number of the gamers who concept they have been out of the event. It started out while Rod Pampling went honestly nuts, capturing a course-document 10-under 61 to submit at -6. That got all people's interest!
Then Adam Scott shot a 6-beneath 65 to submit at -7 as Jones struggled just to get returned to par.
At least gambling companion and protecting champion Jordan Spieth cooperated with his golfing pal. Spieth had to work just to put up a par round himself -- although he did provide himself an eagle putt on 18 to pressure a birdie from Jones if he wanted to make a playoff.
Alas, it become no longer to be. Jordan should simplest make birdie himself, posting a par spherical which positioned him at -7 as properly.
But Matt Jones might now not be denied. Despite all his issues he controlled to birdie that very last hole for a 2-over round... And a final score of -eight. Oh yes, Matt earned it.
It's most effective Matt's 2nd global win -- he does have a PGA Tour win, the 2014 Shell Houston Open -- but that is by using far his largest, specially when you consider that it's his country wide Open. It got him a berth in subsequent year's Open Championship and could in all likelihood vault him into the OWGR Top50, which have to get him into the alternative majors. But undergo in thoughts that this event released its closing two winners -- Rory McIlroy in 2013 and Jordan remaining 12 months -- into years that had been thoughts-numbing of their dominance. Could it do the equal for Matt Jones?
I do not know, but it's gotten him one of the ultimate Limerick Summaries of 2015. Those are uncommon at this point!
Down under, Jones came out on top.
He beat Spieth and Pampling and Scott
With a four on the cease.
Spieth had was hoping to extend
The match just one more hole. (He could not.) The photo came from this tournament summary page at pga.org.au.
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