Winner: Jimmy Walker
Around the wider world of golf: Frenchman Gary Stal won the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship on the ET, and Matias Dominguez of Chile won the inaugural Latin America Amateur Championship.
And there were a couple of other significant sports events: Lindsey Vonn (that's Tiger's girlfriend) won the downhill event at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Sunday to tie Austrian legend Annemarie Moser-Proell's 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup wins. [UPDATE: Lindsey broke the record today with a Super-G win.] And we now know Super Bowl XLIX will be a battle between the New England Patriots and the defending champion Seattle Seahawks. (Pats quarterback Tom Brady is a pretty decent golfer, btw.)
Yes, I admit it. The NFC and AFC Championship video games -- the ones that determine who will go to the Super Bowl in multiple weeks -- were my important supply of difficulty Sunday. I managed to keep up with the Sony Open through flipping channels in the course of industrial breaks and timeouts.
But I wrote this week's Limerick Summary earlier than any of it, golf or soccer, ever commenced on Sunday. Yes, I changed into that confident Jimmy would get it done this week -- regardless of his blowing a lead final week at the Hyundai and Martin Kaymer blowing a big lead Sunday in Abu Dhabi.
It wasn't simply the talk he had with Butch Harmon after remaining week's loss. The reality is certainly that Jimmy did not play that badly final week, and he saved up the pace this week by setting a brand new Tour record with 29 birdies for the week. In the end, he gained by means of 9 strokes -- another file, this time only a Sony Open document but a report however.
Just because the Patriots have been written off after handiest their fourth recreation this season, and simply as the Seahawks have been written off once they had been down sixteen-zero at halftime in Sunday's recreation (they came again to win in extra time, the 3rd largest comeback in NFL postseason records), too many folks wrote Jimmy off simply because he stumbled inside the very last spherical ultimate week. We are so brief to elevate winners after one or correct showings and barren region them after a stumble or two.
Fortunately lifestyles does not ought to work that way. Just ask the Patriots... Or the Seahawks... Or Jimmy Walker.
And so it is that Jimmy Walker choices up his fourth Limerick Summary in best 32 starts. ESPN is already suggesting he is an awesome choice for the Masters. I can apprehend their enthusiasm -- in the end, it is hard enough to get just one Limerick Summary...
You did it once more, Jimmy boy!
Was stumbling closing week only a ploy
To pressure the field nuts
When you drained all the ones putts?
They poured in like three-finger poi! The photo came from the tournament upshot page at PGATOUR.com.
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