Winner: Matt Every
Around the wider world of golf: It was a lost week for 54-hole leaders. Karrie Webb nabbed her 41st LPGA victory at the JTBC Founders Cup; Jeff Maggert won his first Champions Tour start at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic; and Carlos Ortiz won his first Web.com Tour title at the Panama Claro Championship; Our exceptions for the week? Marcelo Rozo closed out his 54-hole lead for another NEC Series-PGA TOUR Latinoamérica win at the TransAmerican Power Products CRV Open, and Rikako Morita did likewise at the JLPGA's T-Point Ladies. (The Constructivist has details on that last one.)
I have a book called Wild at Heart, in which author John Eldridge says that every man eventually asks himself one question: "Do I have what it takes?"
Matt Every would not should ask that query anymore. Every has been runner-up multiple times earlier than however hasn't been quite capable of get the activity executed. Sunday he subsequently did it by beating out important champions and his personal nerves. In reality, he turned into the best participant inside the closing 2 businesses to interrupt par, notwithstanding his struggles over the previous few holes as he have become aware that he turned into no longer the pursuer however the pursued.
Here's his after-event interview with PGATOUR Radio, where he discusses those difficult shots coming in:
Every becomes only the 2nd Big Break alum to win on the PGA Tour. (Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey is the other, of course.) Perhaps it's appropriate that he finally broke through at the King's tournament since that was the first event he ever attended as a child. He cried when he won... but the smile in the photo with Arnie says it all, doesn't it?
This wraps up a wild Florida Swing. You have to hand it to Gary Williams on Sunday's Morning Drive who, when his cohorts picked either Scott or Bradley to win, noted that none of the eventual winners had been the favorites going into the final round... and then said he was betting on Matt Every to take the title.
As Every prepares for his first experience to Augusta, I provide up this little Limerick Summary for the latest of the new blood to make their mark this season:
I bet you may name him an Everyman.
People questioned, ?When things don?T move quite to plot
And the stress makes him quake,
Can he seize his Big Break?”
That’s a question no more, folks. Matt Every can. The photo came from the tournament wrap-up page at PGATOUR.com .
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