Winner: Ben Crane
Around the wider world of golf: Yet another busy week in golf! Inbee Park got her first LPGA win of the season at the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic (Stacy Lewis is still #1 in the world); the team of Fred Funk and Jeff Sluman won the Big Cedar Lodge Legends of Golf on the Champions Tour (Jim Colbert and Jim Thorpe won the Legends division); Steven Alker won an 11-hole playoff at the Web.com Tour's Cleveland Open; Josh Persons won the Bayview Place Island Savings Open on the PGA TOUR Canada; David McKenzie won the Lanhai Open on the PGA TOUR China; Mikael Lundberg won the Lyoness Open on the ET; Thaworn Wiratchant won the Queen’s Cup on the Asian Tour; Ryan Fox won the Tahiti International on the Australasian Tour; Min Seo Kwak won the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship on the Symetra Tour; Misuzu Narita won the Yonex Ladies on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details); and the American gals won the Curtis Cup 13-7.
The SnakeShaker hasn't been shaking it currently like he used to. First it changed into hip problems, and people brought about serious again issues. Then he made swing modifications that allowed him to maintain gambling... But the sport simply didn't seem to be there. It all pressured him to consider hanging up his golf career closing 12 months. As he advised Sean Martin at PGATOUR.Com:
?This has been a certainly tough 12 months,? He stated. ?I had to sooner or later become OK with golf not being inside the photo. I just felt like things had been stepping into that course and so I just were given to the region in which I said, ?Lord, if it?S now not golf, I will love You.? But if it's miles, that would be clearly a laugh.?Apparently God heard his prayer... and decided to remind Ben that He has a sense of humor as well.
And so, out of nowhere, Ben won the FedEx St. Jude Classic in twine-to-wire fashion. After desiring on-direction remedy for the duration of his exceptional finish in advance within the yr, he gained a match plagued by stop-and-start weather delays -- simply the form of element you'll assume to wreak havoc on his lower back. And on pinnacle of it all, his putter -- usually the most powerful membership in his bag -- abandoned him throughout his final spherical and he shot a birdie-unfastened three-over spherical.
It changed into sufficient.
Of path, lifting heavy trophies is difficult on the back too. I'm guessing he's going to permit his caddy cope with that.
If you want a play-with the aid of-play of the Golf Boy's week -- as well as the skinny on a number of the alternative contenders -- you could take a look at out the wrap-up at PGATOUR.Com. But in case you need the really crucial stuff -- Ben's new Limerick Summary -- you may most effective locate that here:
After dodging a top notch deal of rain,
FedEx introduced a 5th win to Ben Crane.
Though Ben?S lower back didn?T harm, he
Could not make a birdie?
And the sphere?S hopes STILL went down the drain! The photo came from the event's "upshot" web page at PGATOUR.Com.
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