Winner: Kevin Streelman
Around the wider world of golf: Behold, scoffers! Michelle Wie rocked the golf world by making her first LPGA major the biggest in the women's game, the US Women's Open at Pinehurst. Also, Tom Lehman won the Encompass Championship on the Champions Tour; Sebastian Cappelen won the Air Capital Classic on the Web.com Tour; Joel Dahmen won the Syncrude Boreal Open on the PGA Tour Canada; Mikko Ilonen won the Irish Open on the ET; Camilla Lennarth won the Allianz Ladies Slovak Open on the LET; Nicole Vandermade won the Four Winds Invitational on the Symetra Tour; and Jiyai Shin won the Nichirei Ladies on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details).
I confess. The Travelers Championship was pretty low on my priority listing Sunday. First I became watching america Women's Open as Michelle Wie ultimately broke thru inside the majors. (After all, GC was going to replay the Travelers later; if I failed to watch the Open live, I'd miss it.) And then america-Portugal game inside the World Cup came on simply because the Open finished. (Again, I had to watch it live or pass over it.)
But I were given to see enough of Kevin Streelman's overall performance to enjoy it. Nobody in PGA Tour records had ever birdied the remaining 7 holes in the final spherical to win an event earlier than Kevin did it. (Ironically, the reality that he shot sixty four-64 at the weekend seems to have slipped underneath the radar!) And he did it with a few critical firepower proper on his tail the complete manner.
Wait a minute... it was Kevin who was on the tail of the serious firepower to start the round. And only leader Ryan Moore, Michael Putnam, and Scott Langley went backwards with 71s. Sergio and K.J. Choi -- the two men in the chase with the most wins -- both tied for second, just a stroke back of Streels.
In a way it's a shame that Kevin picked this week to grab his second win. On almost any other Sunday he would have been the big story in golf. But I doubt that he really cares; this was a huge win for the Streelman clan. After all, there was a time when this seemed like an unattainable goal.
And besides, he nevertheless gets the coveted Limerick Summary this week. Surely that counts for some thing!
After 4 cuts that Kevin had missed,
TPC River Highlands became bliss!
His birdie barrage
Was no dreamer's mirage;
It became greater than the sector should withstand. The photograph came from espn.Pass.Com.
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