The Limerick Summary: 2014 Open Championship

Winner: Rory McIlroy

Around the wider world of golf: Kylie Walker won the Ladies German Open on the LET; Lydia Ko got her second LPGA win of the year at the Marathon Classic; Steve Wheatcroft won the Albertsons Boise Open on the Web.com Tour; Wes Homan won the Staal Foundation Open on the PGA Tour Canada; Troy Cox won the Ian Weigh Toyota Rockhampton Pro Am on the Australasian Tour; and Misuzu Narita won the JLPGA's Samantha Thavasa Ladies (the Constructivist has details).

Until he bogeyed the 15th, I notion Sergio Garcia simply may pull it off. He had gotten himself inside two photographs of Rory... However that 6-shot cause start the day changed into simply an excessive amount of. (Sergio said later that, even earlier than the bogey, he knew that Rory hadn't stumbled badly enough to give him a threat. It didn't forestall Sergio from giving Rory a smiling congratulations at the give up. Sergio has come a protracted way.)

And it would not prevent me from gloating simply a chunk. They won't have received, however three of my picks -- Sergio, Rickie Fowler, and Jim Furyk -- filled out the Top4 at the Open. I rarely choose that well!

The old cliche proved to be genuine: Rory both drove for show and putted for dough. (And for the Claret Jug, of route!) Rory became the handiest European participant with 3 legs of the Career Slam, with best the Masters left to head... And Phil Mickelson changed into probably accurate while he said Rory's sport turned into well-desirable to selecting up that closing leg! He became the third youngest player to get to the three/4 point:

1. Jack at 23
2. Tiger at 24
3. Rory at 25

And of course he set a number of other records, most of which escape me at the moment.

Of route, it appeared that the largest information changed into the bet Rory's dad (and a few pals) located 10 years ago concerning Rory triumphing the Open. There are some of distinct reports about the bets and precisely what the bettors received, but ESPN posted the Ladbrokes official statement on their website online. Here's the fast model (these are quoted from the thing):

There were three bets:

• One bet -- believed to be made by McIlroy's father -- was a 200-pound wager ($341) at 500/1 odds placed in 2004 for his son to win within 10 years. That bet Will pay out $171,000.
• The second bet -- believed to be made by his dad's friends -- was for 200 pounds at 250/1 for him to win The Open by 2015, and
• The third bet -- also believed to be made by his dad's friends -- was for 200 pounds at 150/1 for McIlroy to win The Open before age 50. These last two bets Will pay out a combined $136,700.

And Ladbrokes tweeted that they Will be paying these bets off. These are called unique odds requests and apparently they aren't unusual, although most of them never pay off. You can get the details from that ESPN article.

In the meantime, Rory Will be sipping wine from his jug in celebration of his newest Limerick Summary. That's worth more than anything, right?

Three-fourths of the manner to the Slam

Rory?S proved he?S a wolf, not a lamb!

There?S a grin on his mug

When he?S preserving the Jug?

And on Dad’s. He’ll drink more than a dram! The photo is the selfie that Rory sent out on @The_Open.