Winner: James Hahn
Around the wider world of golf: The Kobra strikes again! Lydia Ko won the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open on the LPGA/LET/ALPG; high schooler Hannah O’Sullivan became the youngest ever winner on the Symetra Tour when she won the Gateway Classic; and Anirban Lahiri won the Hero Indian Open on the ET/Asian Tour.
A little bit of rain made the Northern Trust Open oh so much more exciting.
In my opinion, the ones green complexes weren't intended to be stimped at 12 or thirteen. When you cannot pitch directly onto the inexperienced, and when mild putts from just off the the front run 70 or 80 ft across the green after which 30 yards away, the veggies want to be a piece softer for the contours! So I became thrilled to see players capable of stop pictures to the greens.
At least, they'd forestall if you have been hitting from the fairway... And a number of gamers sincerely could not hit them. The leading rating slowly dropped until we had a three-way playoff at -6, 3 pictures greater than while the round started, and none of the playoff contestants become closer than four shots off the lead when the day started out.
Of route, it didn't appear to be it would be much of a playoff. Dustin Johnson changed into cracking the ball manner down the fairway, Paul Casey turned into methodically selecting the route aside, and James Hahn had no Tour wins but a steady recreation. In all that rain, DJ regarded to be the prohibitive favourite, and he alone hit the first fairway, however honestly no person faired well at the 18th all day so all of them moved on with pars.
On the 10th most effective Casey managed to hit the green -- and he left the ball within the proper spot, only to be knocked out by means of incredible birdies from the difficult.
And then on the 14th Hahn sunk a 25-foot birdie putt to weigh down DJ. The Player Formerly Known as That Gangnam Guy got his first PGA win on a mythical path against a adorned discipline.
Of route, getting that first win changed into the smooth element. Now he has to get prepared for his first toddler.
And so it is that James Hahn breaks through for his first PGA Tour win and, no longer coincidentally, his first Limerick Summary. I wager while it rains, it pours:
Hahn started out the day 4 in the back of
But, although Riviera?S a grind,
He got to the playoff,
Gave Casey the comb-off
And birdied on DJ two times. The photo came from the tournament wrap-up page at PGATOUR.com.
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