The Limerick Summary: 2014 The Barclays

Winner: Hunter Mahan

Around the wider world of golf: So Yeon Ryu went wire-to-wire at the LPGA's Canadian Pacific Women's Open; Scott Dunlap won the Boeing Classic on the Champions Tour; Carlos Ortiz won the WinCo Foods Portland Open and also locked up the top Tour card awarded on the Web.com Tour; David Bradshaw won the Great Waterway Classic on the PGA TOUR Canada; Jamie Donaldson won the D+D REAL Czech Masters on the ET, thus locking up a Euro Ryder Cup team spot; and Momoko Ueda won the CAT Ladies on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details).

Hunter Mahan with wife and daughter

No doubt Tom Watson is very happy today. In all likelihood, one of his "possible choices" for the American Ryder Cup team stepped up and made a really good case for being much more than just possible.

In the method, Hunter Mahan also took over first vicinity inside the FedExCup standings from Rory McIlroy. And then, as if that wasn't sufficient, his spouse Kandi and one-yr-antique daughter Zoe have been awaiting him on the 18th inexperienced. (They weren't purported to meet him until Tuesday at the Deutsche Bank.)

PGATOUR.com's Helen Ross started her wrap-up with the words, "Kandi Mahan stopped short of saying she had a premonition on Saturday night," but it's clear that Kandi knew something the rest of us didn't. (Perhaps she remembered Hunter's penchant for shooting 65 in final rounds.) At any rate, she and Zoe zipped up to New Jersey just in time for the award ceremony.

With the exceptions of Cameron Tringale, William McGirt, Morgan Hoffman, and Patrick Reed, the leaderboard was flush with enjoy -- Stuart Appleby, Jason Day, Ernie Els, Matt Kuchar, Jim Furyk, and Rickie Fowler, to call a few. It grew to become out to be a miles closer race than every person expected.

Except for Kandi Mahan, this is.

And so this week's Limerick Summary is going to Hunter Mahan, who may additionally have had an unconscious premonition himself. If no longer, he were given extremely fortunate. After all, it's no longer smooth to get a one-yr-antique to cooperate on a protracted journey:

With a ride to the Ryder Cup looming

Plus that purse of 10 mil, I?M presuming

Hunter said, ?Gotta win!

?Cause if Kandi flies in

And I don’t get it done, she’ll be fuming!” The photo comes from the Tournament Upshot page at PGATOUR.com.

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