Winner: Jason Dufner
Around the wider world of golf: Rickie Fowler continued prove he's not overrated with a win over both Jordan AND Rory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship on the ET; Duffy Waldorf won the Mitsubishi Electric Championship on the Champions Tour; and the team of Lonnie Nielsen and Josh Rackley won the PGA Senior-Junior Championship after rain washed out the final round.
Sunday become a hard day for fans of both golfing and football. The groups as a way to play in the Super Bowl weeks from now had been being determined in games played contrary the CareerBuilder Challenge. (For the ones of you who didn't hear, the Carolina Panthers will face the Denver Broncos.) For me, it supposed loads of flipping backward and forward between channels, hoping I would not pass over something important.
Fortunately I didn't... However if you were one of the unlucky few who did, here's the key shot you ignored, the shot that could have satisfied Jason Dufner that Sunday was his day to return to the winner's circle. On the par-3 17th hollow, an island green very similar to the only at TPC Sawgrass, Dufner pull-hooked an iron and barely stayed dry by means of touchdown within the rocks around the threshold. It did not seem like he might have a great deal of a shot.
Here's what he did:
Made it look smooth, failed to he? And with maximum of his opposition falling away -- Adam Hadwin made three bogeys down the stretch and Jamie Lovemark made three doubles during his round -- this shot kept Jason tied with David Lingmerth, who seemingly should do nothing incorrect. This shot allowed Jason to complete tied with Lingmerth and sooner or later beat him on the second one playoff hollow, when Lingmerth hit a pull-hook of his very own.
He didn't get as lucky as Dufner. Game over.
Of course, it wasn't a unmarried hollow that gave Dufner his fourth Tour win. It become his amazing play on the par-4s, which turned into in turn fueled by way of plenty improved setting. He became 14th in Strokes Gained-Putting and fifth in Putts consistent with GIR, and while you're as precise a ballstriker because the Duff, meaning you've got an excellent threat to win.
After a couple years coping with a divorce and various physical troubles, Jason Dufner is returned in the mix. And accurately sufficient, he is additionally lower back within the Limerick Summary membership:
When the Duff chipped from off seventeen,
His get away from the rocks appeared habitual.
He was down for see you later;
Now his sport?S searching strong?
But the key was new skills on the green. The photo came from this page at espn.com.
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