Winner: Emiliano Grillo
Around the wider world of golf: Lexi Thompson won the LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship (her second win this season); Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong of Thailand won the Symetra Tour Championship; Bernhard Langer won the San Antonio Championship on the Champions Tour (his second win this season); Andy Sullivan walked to a 9-stroke win at the Portugal Masters on the ET (his third win this season); Nicholas Lindheim won the Mundo Maya Open on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; Xinjun Zhang won the Chongqing Jiangnan NewTown KingRun Open on the PGA TOUR China; Scott Hend won the Venetian Macao Open on the Asian Tour; and Teresa Lu won the Fujitsu Ladies on the JLPGA (her fifth win of the season -- bangkokbobby has details).
Before I get to the PGA Tour event, allow me make multiple shout-outs to LPGA gamers Yani Tseng and Amy Yang. Yani has runner-ups, a 5th vicinity finish and a MC in her ultimate four occasions, and Amy merely birdied the ENTIRE returned nine of her final spherical in South Korea to card a 27. Outstanding play from each ladies!
It was just seven months ago that Emiliano Grillo ignored a short putt to win the Puerto Rico Open and lock up a PGA Tour card.
It changed into simply more than one weeks ago that Emiliano Grillo sunk an extended putt to win the Web.Com Tour Championship and lock up a PGA Tour card.
Then on Sunday Emiliano Grillo did all of it -- sink a long putt to force a playoff, pass over a quick putt to win the primary playoff hollow... And then, just for appropriate degree, he sunk a barely longer putt to win the Frys.Com Open and lock up his subsequent 3 years on the PGA Tour.
And he did it all in his rookie debut. You were given to admit, the younger Argentinian's were given fashion.
The playoff turned into every other near leave out for Kevin Na, who hardly absolutely everyone expected to element within the event. Most anybody thought it'd be one of the Justins (Rose or Thomas), one of the other veteran players like Jason Bohn or one in all different freshmen like Tyrone Van Aswegen, all of whom stored making birdies -- and then bogeys -- to hold the scoreboard in constant flux down the stretch. It changed into a dramatic ship-off for the Frys.Com Open, on the way to re-come to be the Safeway Open subsequent season.
Grillo may be new to casual golf enthusiasts but he certainly isn't always new to the scene. He's got several Top5 finishes at the European Tour, as well as wins on the Web.Com Tour and now the PGA Tour. And he isn't always new to the Limerick Summary, as he got one for that Web.Com Tour win only a couple weeks returned.
Well, Emiliano, now you get one for the Big Tour as nicely:
A flash within the pan Grillo?S now not;
He?S properly to the final shot.
He won weeks returned;
Now he?S proper again on track?
Guess he struck while his irons were still hot! The photo came from the tournament daily wrap-up page at PGATOUR.com.
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