Winner: Chris Kirk
Around the wider world of golf: Austin Ernst landed her first LPGA victory in a playoff over I.K. Kim at the Portland Classic; Trish Johnson won the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open on the LET; Hennie Otto won the 71° Open D’Italia on the ET; Fred Couples beat Billy Andrade in a playoff at the Shaw Charity Classic on the Champions Tour; Bud Cauley regained his PGA Tour card by winning the Hotel Fitness Championship at the Web.com Tour Playoffs; Nate McCoy won the Wildfire Invitational in a playoff over Michael Gligic on the PGA TOUR Canada; and Jiyai Shin won the Nitori Ladies on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details).
As is usual at the Deutsche Bank on their conventional Monday end, players needed to cross low in the event that they was hoping to win the event. Perhaps the handiest real surprise to most viewers became that Rory McIlroy wasn't a part of the price. Nevertheless, the event failed to disappoint.
The younger guns like Chris Kirk, Russell Henley, and Billy Horschel joined experienced gamers like Geoff Ogilvy and John Senden on a romp round TPC Boston that might first-rate be defined as a shootout. On the outside threat that you know nothing approximately traditional Wild West gunfights, films can be deceptive. In a actual gunfight maximum bullets never hit their goals, no longer even at near variety. And inside the days before smokeless gunpowder, the clouds of smoke further obscured their objectives.
Fortunately for us, the gunslingers at TPC Boston have been at the least close to their targets -- close enough to provide some bogey-unfastened rounds. And as you may assume, Chris Kirk shot one of these rounds. His 5-under sixty six became properly enough to maintain off all challengers, especially after Billy Horschel's technique on 18 fell just brief of the green.
With his win -- the biggest of his career to this point -- I suppose I could write some classic rhyme focusing on his composure and steady play. But with all of the "Captain Kirk" jokes during the broadcast and the Star Trek movie marathon running Monday on Syfy Channel, how could this week's Limerick Summary turn out any different than this?
Chris Kirk is a celeb on a trek
To Atlanta. Since Horschel?S ship wrecked,
Captain Kirk?S organization
Could come to be found out?
He might cling on to win the BIG check! The photo came from the tournament update page at PGATOUR.com.
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