Winner: Greg Chalmers
Around the wider world of golf: Jason Day and Cameron Tringale won the Franklin Templeton Shootout; Bernhard and Jason Langer won the PNC Father/Son Challenge; Lee Westwood won the Thailand Golf Championship on the Asian Tour; Shanshan Feng won the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters on the LET for the second time in three years (Charley Hull won the Order of Merit and Amy Boulden won the Omega Rookie of the Year); and Branden Grace won the Alfred Dunhill Championship on the ET.
I possibly could have chosen nearly any match this past week for this submit and it might had been an excellent choice. Shanshan Feng become nearly ideal in her win at Dubai, as had been Jason Day and Cameron Tringale on the Shark Shootout. Lee Westwood made a assertion of types with his win in Thailand, as did Branden Grace in South Africa; each were out of the limelight for a while and their wins may be a signal of things to come back. And Bernhard Langer now has a team win with each sons Stefan and Jason, leaving best Christina to make it a sweep for the Langer clan.
But the Australian PGA become the most important occasion of the week and simply had the maximum drama. Adam Scott changed into in function to defend his title at -10, as a minimum till Greg Chalmers shot a bogey-loose sixty four to rocket up via the ranks and post at -11 in the clubhouse. By my depend simplest 4 players managed to shoot within the 60s during the last round, and the subsequent closest rating become sixty eight. Wade Ormsby and Adam could most effective manipulate 71s but that was sufficient to get them right into a three-manner playoff.
And an epic playoff it was, too! Seven instances they performed the par-four 18th. Twice the trio made par. On the 1/3 time through Ormsby neglected the inexperienced and settled into thick tough, from which he pulled off a mind-blowing par... Which wasn't enough. Scott and Chalmers both made birdie -- the simplest birdies within the entire playoff.
Those continued the playoff via 4 extra holes. That's right, a 7-hollow playoff where Adam's setting woes persevered. It wasn't that he putted particularly terrible; he simply couldn't get the ball to lip into the cup for birdie. Unfortunately for him, at the seventh hole he could not get a par either.
Chalmers putted like a system all day and, even though he needed to work for pars at some point of the playoff, the ones par putts tracked into the hole from anywhere. Early within the day he made some putts in the 50-60 foot range!
Greg Chalmers hasn't made a massive call for himself inside the States. He has most effective two wins right here, and both of those are on the Web.Com Tour. But he has 4 Australasian majors -- 2 Australian Opens and now 2 Australian PGAs. That's a quite prominent profession for every body so it is my delight to additionally offer him along with his second Limerick Summary, to go together with his 2011 Australian Open verse:
Greg sliced through the sector like a razor,
His setting as instantly as a laser?
At least ?Til the playoff,
Where pars had been the payoff
As Scott went as cold as a glacier. The photo came from the tournament page at pga.org.au.
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