The Limerick Summary: 2014 SymetraTour Championship

Winner: Marita Engzelius

Around the wider world of golf: Mi Jung Hur won the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic; Jiyai Shin won the Munsingwear Ladies Tokai Classic on the JLGPA (the Constructivist has details); Connie Chen won the Tenerife Open de Espana Femenino on the LET; Joost Luiten won the ISPS Handa Wales Open on the ET; Derek Fathauer won the Web.com Tour Championship; and Paul Goydos won the Pacific Links Hawaii Championship on the Champions Tour.

Whenever the PGA Tour doesn't play, I have the option of doing a Limerick Summary for one of the other occasions taking place. (Since it is my blog I think I even have that choice every week, but you know the way habits can be.) And this week I had quite a few possibilities.

Did that this week's Wales Open changed into the final time it will likely be played on the ET? They had a actual shootout happening to the twine, with 8 or nine men inside a shot or two of the lead most of the very last spherical.

Stacy Lewis started the day four shots behind M.J. Hur at the LPGA event, shot -6... And did not gain a single shot. Hur now not simplest were given her first LPGA win in five years, however set a brand new event document doing it.

And of route, we had all the drama on the Web.Com Tour Championship. In case you wonder, three gamers got complete exemptions to the Big Tour -- Derek Fathauer and Adam Hadwin were given those with the PLAYERS invite, and Carlos Ortiz had already gotten the sector promoting for triumphing 3 instances ultimate season.

But in the long run I decided to give the Symetra Tour gals a touch love. Their occasion resulted in a three-manner playoff that vaulted an unexpected player into the Top10 who were given Tour cards. Here's a listing of the ten lucky women -- and sure, I realize there may be simplest nine within the above image. I suppose #7 Yueer Cindy Feng is the missing face:

1. Marisa Steen (also won Player of the Year)
2. Min Seo Kwak
3. Jackie Stoelting
4. Sadena Parks
5. Min Lee
6. Wei-Ling Hsu
7. Yueer Cindy Feng
8. Kendall Dye
9. Demi Runas
10. Mallory Blackwelder

Demi Runas was one of the 3 in the playoff (she started the week at #15 on the money list), along with Jackie Stoelting (#7 to start) and Marita Engzelius (sitting way back at #54). Engzelius, a Norwegian player who idolizes Suzann Pettersen, eagled the first playoff hole to get her first Symetra Tour win... and a trip straight to the Final Stage of Q-School, which greatly increases her chances of getting a Tour card that way. Here's her after-round interview:

If you'd like to check out some of the things that went on after the round, you can check out Twitter's #VolvikRace page here. (That's where the photo's from, btw.) Since Gary Williams from Morning Drive was there, I assume Morning Drive plans to do some after-the-fact coverage today.

You also can test the official Symetra Tour Twitter web page here. That's wherein you may find the video of all 9 card winners doing a cannonball to celebrate! (It's additionally on their YouTube channel. The above video can link you there.)

As for Marita Engzelius herself, I have (drumroll please!) her very own Limerick Summary. She might be the only Symetra Tour player to get one while she is actually still on the Tour -- I can't remember if I've ever done another one -- and I'm sure she's the only one to get a Limerick Summary featuring Norse mythology. (She is Norwegian, after all.)

Marita Engzelius got a surprise

When she won the playoff. Her golfing inventory

Shot up like a rocket?

The cash in her pocket

Means she?S off to Finals, not Ragnarok! Good luck to all the Volvik Race to the Card winners... And to Marita and her friends as they put together for Q-School!