Winner: Hideki Matsuyama
Around the wider world of golf: Mukesh Kumar won the Panasonic Open India on the Asian Tour; Sang-Hyun Park won the Golf Nippon Series JT Cup; one of my fellow North Carolina boys, Harold Varner III, won the Australian PGA Championship on the Australasian Tour/ET; Brandon Stone won the Alfred Dunhill Championship on the ET; Nathan Lashley won the Shell Championship (by 10 shots!) on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; and you can get all the info on the LPGA Q-School at this link. Jaye Marie Green was the Medalist (for the second time!), while Sedena Parks, Mariah Stackhouse and Mel Reid all got full cards for 2017, as did Katherine Perry, one of my NC girls. Aditi Ashok and Bronte Law got partial status.
It appears that when a few gamers get a Limerick Summary, they just get greedy! Such is the case with Hideki Matsuyama, who picks up his third LS of 2016.
Of path, the big news this week turned into the reemergence of Tiger Woods. While the analysts might not agree on how properly Tiger is playing -- and I plan to publish my own feelings the next day -- the players themselves, who have to have a very good idea of what he did, made it clean that they had been inspired.
For our functions today, what matters is that Tiger didn't win.
Neither did Henrik Stenson, despite the fact that the Big Swede virtually attempted. He made a critical run at Hideki, who entered the final spherical with a 7-stroke lead. Conditions have been hard sufficient that only Bubba managed to attain better than Henrik, with the aid of a unmarried shot. But even though Henrik become 5 shots better than Hideki inside the very last round... Nicely, seven strokes is more than five.
Hideki had not anything to be embarrassed approximately, even though. I do not suppose he'd ever had a solo 54-hollow lead earlier than, so it's a brand new strategy to research. He did well enough to take the trophy, and I suspect he's going to be happy with that for now.
In the meantime, he can head back to Japan and spend the holidays with his family, secure in the knowledge that he has moved up to #2 in my RGWR and gotten his 3rd Limerick Summary of the year. Merī Kurisumasu, Hideki!
Though Tiger became causing the stir,
Both he and the field might concur
That Hideki's assault
Left the sphere to this point returned
That his grip on the lead was secure. The photo came from the front page at PGATOUR.com.
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