Winner: Russell Knox
Around the wider world of golf: Billy Andrade won the Charles Schwab Cup Championship for his third win of the season but Bernhard Langer won the year-long Charles Schwab Cup competition for a record third time; Kent Bulle won the 110 VISA Open de Argentina on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; Xiyu Lin successfully defended her title at the Sanya Ladies Open on the LET; Sun-Ju Ahn got her first LPGA victory at the Toto Japan Classic; and the rain-delayed Sanderson Farms Championship won't be finished until later today.
By the midway point it regarded pretty clean that this will be a two-guy race between Kevin Kisner and Russell Knox. And I should admit that I became quite thrilled about that. While the bigger names drew maximum of the eye, Kevin and Russell have each played properly in 2015. Both could realistically break thru for their first PGA Tour win at any time. And each could deserve that smash in the event that they were given it.
And here they have been, pushing each different for a WGC identify. It changed into a super hurricane.
Of route, the larger draws were not approximately to let their names be left out of the mix. Everybody from DJ to Spieth to Reed to Grace to McIlroy to Stenson to Garcia made runs on the lead, in addition to newer stars like Fitzpatrick and Berger or even nearby celeb Haotong Li. Ross Fisher persevered his comeback and Danny Willett made a few noise early on Sunday with a 10-underneath sixty two. But in the long run it got here right down to Kisner and Knox, and Knox got here out on pinnacle.
Knox barely made it into this WGC at all; most effective a WD via JB Holmes got him a spot as an alternate. But as soon as there, he made his first-ever WGC look his first PGA Tour win -- and his first ET win as nicely, considering this became a Race to Dubai playoff occasion -- some thing which hasn't passed off in nearly two decades. And that is huge for Scottish fans as properly; bear in mind that Martin Laird and Russell Knox are the handiest Scottish gamers presently on the PGA Tour... And Knox is the primary Scot ever to win a WGC. You can bet they were celebrating in Inverness (Knox's domestic metropolis) remaining night time!
And with this victory Russell profits some other new difference -- he's the best Scot ever to get hold of a Limerick Summary for prevailing a WGC:
Russell Knox is surprised?With right purpose;
He?S the fourth first-time winner this season.
Though he slightly were given in
To compete for the win,
Now the Scots will all cheer until they?Re wheezin?! The photo came from the wrap-up page at worldgolfchampionships.Com.
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