Winner: Smylie Kaufman
Around the wider world of golf: Lydia Ko posted a 9-shot win at the Fubon LPGA Thailand Taiwan Championship, becoming the youngest player ever to win 10 LPGA events (and also regaining her #1 world ranking); Justin Rose won the UBS Hong Kong Open, giving him a win on both PGA and European Tours this year; Kristine Pedersen got her first professional win at the Hero Women’s Indian Open on the LET; and Matt Kuchar and Justin Hueber won the Bridgestone America’s Golf Cup (a team event) on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica.
Will McGirt drew first blood, posting a sixty two very early in the very last round to take the clubhouse lead on the Shriners Hospitals for Childrens Open. Unfortunately for Will, that lead failed to last very lengthy and he ended up in a tie for eighth. While Will might had been a first-time winner, this week's event was slated for a unique first-timer.
Not long afterward, Smylie Kaufman posted a 10-under 61 that gave him a -shot margin over McGirt and set the mark for the rest of the field at -sixteen, about -and-a-half of hours earlier than the leaders had been predicted to complete. With rankings like McGirt's and Kaufman's -- and the reputation for low scoring that this occasion has built over the years -- you'd assume that somebody near the fourth-spherical lead would make quick paintings of Smylie's lead.
But you'd be wrong. For a few purpose the rest of the sphere just could not appear to get it going Sunday. Big weapons like Morgan Hoffman and Jimmy Walker stumbled proper out of the gate, spraying the ball anywhere. First-timers like Brett Stegmaier and Patton Kizzire performed nicely -- Kizzire even posted a 63 -- as did veterans like Alex Cjeka and Jason Bohn, but no one should wreck the -15 barrier. Even Kevin Na, who all over again put himself in contention, were given fooled by a chip at the seventeenth and over again published a runner-up finish.
Instead, Smylie determined himself in the implausible position of triumphing the tournament multiple hours earlier than it completed. According to GC, first-timers have not gained the first events of the season considering that 1980. I don't know if this portends whatever uncommon over the following few months of the new season, but I'm sure Smylie is not involved approximately it.
After all, lengthy odds are common in Las Vegas.
In the meantime I'm certain he'll find a excellent manner to rejoice his first PGA Tour win considering he's right there in Vegas -- a celebration we're going to in all likelihood by no means learn the info of, assuming the advertisements are correct -- however as a minimum all of us understand he's going to be getting a pleasant new Limerick Summary. Why, look -- right here it is now!
Smylie?S rating left the field quite deflated,
And for two-and-a-1/2 hours he waited
To see if the relaxation
Could in shape up to his excellent?
But they couldn’t, so Smylie’s elated. The photo came from this page at cbssports.com.
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