Winner: Rickie Fowler
Around the wider world of golf: George Coetzee won the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open on the ET; Shanshan Feng won the Buick Championship on the LET; Alejandra Llaneza won the Self Regional Healthcare Foundation Women’s Health Classic on the Symetra Tour; PH McIntyre won the Investec Royal Swazi Open on the Sunshine Tour; and In-Gee Chun won the World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup (bangkokbobby has the details).
Well, I wager he's no longer hyped up anymore. However, I'm willing to bet that his nameless critics will clearly stay nameless just from worry of the lovers. Their belief in him become made clear from all of the chants of "Rickie, Rickie, Rickie" on Sunday.
And if I have to tell you what happened on the back 9 at THE PLAYERS on Sunday... my gosh, were you dead? Have you not turned on GC even once since the event ended? This had to be the best PLAYERS ever, maybe the best golf tournament in years, simply because everybody involved showed up to play. Nobody gave the tournament away; every good shot was countered with a shot that was at least as good. Everybody was firing straight at the pins, no matter how dangerous they were. And the three-man playoff between Sergio, Kevin Kisner and Rickie was pretty much all we could have asked for.
In case you neglected it, Rickie went 6-beneath at the very last six holes (birdie-par-birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie) to take the clubhouse lead at -12. Sergio ran in a birdie putt on 17 from across the green to tie him. And Kisner went birdie-birdie-par to make the playoff.
And while Sergio didn't make it past the 3-hole playoff, Kisner matched Rickie shot-for-shot until Rickie birdied a 4th sudden death hole to win it all. As PGATOUR.com put it, "The finish by Garcia and Kisner would have been talked about for years. On this day, thanks to Fowler, it was nearly an afterthought."
Sergio proved he is in awesome shape for the upcoming majors, all of which resemble Open Championships... That's wherein he commonly performs his satisfactory. Kisner has been in playoffs twice in his remaining 3 events... And it took a birdie in both to beat him. As Frank Nobilo mentioned, nobody goes to need to face Kisner in a playoff every time soon.
And of path Rickie just blistered the course, going -8 in 10 holes (counting the playoff). This became a large win for Rickie, who may in the end agree with he can win the huge one. His mom, pictured with him within the photograph above, in no way doubted for a moment.
Besides, he is simply won himself some other Limerick Summary. How can he doubt himself to any extent further?
Decisively triumphing THE PLAYERS
Let Rickie close up his naysayers.
With them cut down to length
He commonplace his prize?
Cheered on by proud Fowler hoorayers. The photo came from cbssports.com.
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