Winner: Adam Scott
Around the wider world of golf: WOW! What an awesome weekend of golf! Rory McIlroy came from 7 strokes back -- his best rally ever -- to win the BMW PGA Championship on the ET; Colin Montgomerie held off a charging Tom Watson to get his first ever US win -- and his first major -- at the Senior PGA Championship on the Champions Tour; Jessica Korda got her 2nd win of the season at the tightly-contested Airbus LPGA Classic (the Constructivist has more details); Koumei Oda won the Kansai Open Golf Championship on the Asian Tour; Kylie Walker won the Deloitte Ladies Open on the LET; Mallory Blackwelder won the 2014 Symetra Classic on the Symetra Tour; Byron Smith won the Web.com Tour's Rex Hospital Open; Julian Etulain won the Lexus Panama Classic on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; and Sun-Ju Ahn won the JLPGA's Chukyo TV Bridgestone Ladies Open (the Constructivist also has details on this one).
And, if you ignored it, Duke University gained their 6th NCAA Women's Golf name even as the University of Southern California's Doris Chen gained the character identify. Way to move, gals!
Well, pardners, I guess we need to have anticipated it after this type of wild weekend of golf. First Rory McIlroy's rally from a 7-stroke deficit to beat Thomas Bjorn at Wentworth got every body excited. Then Colin Montgomerie won what is probably the maximum prestigious main at the Champions Tour as Tom Watson forced him down the stretch. There had been as many as 6 players tied for the lead at the LPGA occasion -- and they have been taking pictures 67s and 66s -- until Jessica Korda positioned it away with a 65.
So why should not the Crowne Plaza come right down to a playoff between 2 major champions, one among whom had just come to be the World #1? And a pleasant playoff at that -- no balls inside the water or ignored tap-ins this week!
After Adam Scott slightly made the cut and charged up the leaderboard to deprive Henrik Stenson (playing over at Wentworth) any desire of taking the World #1 spot himself, he and Jason Dufner put on a 3-hole playoff that could were an exhibition. If you're fascinated, there is a stroke-by using-stroke precis of the playoff at the Tour Report hyperlink on the give up of this put up. But here's the short summary:
After pars on the primary playoff hollow (18), Adam placed his tee shot to the par-3 seventeenth simply a chunk long while Dufner crammed it in close, then Adam tired the long putt for birdie and Duff topped him. And on the 1/3 hollow (18 once more) the jobs had been reversed with Dufner leaving an extended birdie putt (that he nearly made) while Adam filled it close to take the one identify in Texas that he hadn't won.
That's proper, Adam Scott is the only golfer to ever corral all four so-known as "Texas Slam" events:
- The Valero Texas Open
- The Shell Houston Open
- The HP Byron Nelson Championship
- The Crowne Plaza Invitational
So now that Adam achieved "cowboyed up" and rounded up all 4 of those little Texas titles, I reckon I'll salute him with a gen-u-wine Limerick Summary. Yee-haw, pardner!
In his first week as World Number One,
Adam observed his recreation beneath the gun.
But he?S now the primary guy
With the Texas Grand Slam
‘Cause it spurred him to get the job done. The photo came from the tournament's Tour Report page at PGATOUR.com.
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