Winner: Justin Rose
Around the wider world of golf: Bernhard Langer won the Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, the third major on the Champions Tour; Greg Owen pulled off an unexpected win at the United Leasing Championship on the Web.com Tour; Stacy Lewis got her third win of the year at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship on the LPGA; Fabrizio Zanotti won the BMW International Open on the ET; Florentyna Parker won the Ladies Italian Open on the LET; and Miki Sakai won the Earth Mondamin Cup on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details).
The comic story changed into that they were protecting the Quicken Loans National when a US Open broke out.
As it seems, the funny story turned into on the sphere.
When america Open become held at Congressional three years in the past -- you realize, the one Rory gained through blitzing the field -- Mother Nature changed into the big participant. Rain decreased the usually difficult course to a big Pitch'n'Putt. The folks at Congressional weren't thrilled and, despite the fact that nobody become ever silly enough to consider that Congressional is straightforward, in recent times they not often ever make the course play any which way however difficult.
In essence, Congressional is in constant US Open mode.
So is it any surprise that it took a past US Open Champion to tame it? Okay, "tame" is a strong word... maybe "survive" is better. Between the super-thick rough on the rolling slopes, the large trees, and the incredibly firm greens, the final round became a war of attrition. Who would give up the fewest strokes to par? Who would hang on long enough to take their chances at the peninsula green at 18?
In the quit, only Justin Rose and Shawn Stefani survived -- Stefani with a par at 18, Rose with a scramble for bogey after running it into the water. Ironically, it become the water surrounding 18 that sooner or later gave Rose the victory while Stefani additionally ran a shot into the water during the first playoff hole.
This gives Rose the begin of a set. He had a trophy from his win at this match in 2010 when it became held at Aronimink, and now he has a trophy from Congressional. I wonder how many more he's going to gather, now that there can be a rota of courses?
In the intervening time, Justin adds yet another Limerick Summary to his series.
The island at Sawgrass? A cream puff!
Congressional?S eighteenth? Now THAT?S difficult!
And even though he got dampened,
It?S Rose who?S the champion?
He played the nineteenth from the dry stuff. The photo came from the tournament wrap-up page at PGATOUR.com.
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