Winner: Jordan Spieth
Around the wider world of golf: Not a whole lot going on this week. Thaworn Wiratchant won the King’s Cup on the Asian Tour, and Sakura Yokomine won the ElleAir Ladies Open on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details).
On event I make a prediction and get it right. For instance, lower back in January 2011 I stated Luke Donald was in position to have a breakout yr and expected at the least one massive win -- kind of months before Donald won the 2011 WGC-Accenture Match Play and went on to win the cash identify, PGA Tour Player of the Year, and emerge as #1 on the OWGR.
Then there has been the June 2011 publish in which I stated that a brand new kid named Victor Dubuisson bore watching, that "as soon as he acclimates a bit extra to Tour life, he could end up an exquisite participant." A couple of years later he gained the 2013 Turkish Airlines Open... And he was off to the races.
But predicting a winner at a specific event isn't one of my strong suits. In fact, I've remarked more than once about the Ruthless Golf Curse affecting my picks. (You may even remember this post apologizing to Jiyai Shin and Corey Pavin for jinxing them.) So you'll understand that this victory by Jordan Spieth is particularly satisfying for me!
When I picked him earlier than ultimate week's occasion to get his first international win, I had no concept he could put on one of these show -- the sort of display, in truth, that even ESPN gave him some air time. He led at -four after round one, sat 2 strokes again at -three after spherical , became tied for the lead again at -five after spherical 3...
And then he obliterated the sphere with a bogey-loose 8-beneath 63 inside the final spherical, posting a complete of -thirteen to win by using 6 full pictures. To make it even higher, he did it on a complex sandbelt direction in swirling winds.
Other gamers made a number of birdies, however none ought to break out the inevitable bogeys. Jordan chipped and putted as though he had been born to Australian golf. Grabbing a large worldwide victory like this can be simply the factor Jordan wishes to get 2015 off to a quick begin. (If you are interested in what become in Jordan's bag -- such as the new driver and ball combination -- you may get that data on this golfdigest.Com article.)
Jordan entered the week as one of the occasion's "Big Three" along Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott. By the cease of the week, he stood on my own amid the roaring crowd on the Australian Golf Club in Sydney. It's best fitting that he alone must get hold of this week's Limerick Summary:
The ground shook as crowds cheered in wonder?
An echo of Spieth?S rolling thunder!
His putter were given hot
While the others? Did now not,
Which pushed him up over Down Under. The photo came from this ESPN article.
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