Winner: Justin Rose
Around the wider world of golf: Lydia Ko defended at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic; the team of Joe Durant and Billy Andrade won the Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf (Larry Nelson and Bruce Fleisher won the Legends division) on the Champions Tour; Ashun Wu won the Volvo China Open on the ET/PGA TOUR China; Lee Westwood won the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters on the Asian Tour; Rachel Rohanna won the Guardian Retirement Championship on the Symetra Tour; and Hikari Fujita won the Fujisankei Ladies Classic on the JLPGA (bangkokbobby has the details).
It got a bit confusing at the Zurich Classic, trying to keep track of who was really leading the tournament. I mean, is the player at -19 after 17 holes really ahead of the player at -17 after 13 holes? But that's what the threat of lightning can do to an event like this. All those suspensions of play left most players with around 30 holes to play on Sunday and there simply wasn't time to re-pair for the final 18.
Jim Herman's -19 held the clubhouse lead for some time however there had been too many gamers nonetheless on the course to make certain it'd hold up. (It did not but it turned into still Herman's pleasant-ever finish on Tour.) Then it seemed like Boo Weekley might get the process executed (he eventually were given in at -20) or maybe Cameron Tringale (who published -21) as they neared the end in their rounds.
But somewhere among the Herman and Weekley finishes, Justin Rose snuck in a little -22 and left all and sundry scrambling to trap up. Jason Day, who was the unquestioned favored when the day commenced, become playing in one of the day's remaining groupings and knew pretty early on what he might ought to do. He actually couldn't do it.
Perhaps the greatest irony was that the top players all teed off on the front 9, so the final stretch became the determining factor... and only Rose managed to birdie both of the final two holes. Both Tringale and Weekley could have forced playoffs had they managed to do the same. And of the three, only Rose played the final round bogey-free. (In fact, Rose was bogey-free for all but his first 6 holes of the week!)
So, after a so-so 2015 spent battling lower back from a hand injury, Rose is in a good frame of mind to take his skills to Harding Park -- just more than one miles from this week's LPGA course -- where rain and lightning are not going to be a problem. (California's in the midst of an extended drought.) And why should not he be assured? He's sporting a pleasing brilliant new Limerick Summary with him!
Although lightning may also never strike twice
Justin Rose birdied back-to-again. Nice!
On those final two holes
Where the sphere couldn?T close,
Justin’s strikes proved to be quite precise. The photo came from the tournament upshot page at PGATOUR.com.
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