Winner: Matt Kuchar
Around the wider world of golf: Several players returned to the winner's circle this week. Michelle Wie won the LPGA LOTTE Championship; Lee Westwood won the Maybank Malaysian Open on the ET/Asian Tour; Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Greater Gwinnett Championship on the Champions Tour; William Kropp won the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica's 83 Abierto OSDE del Centro; and Minami Katsu won the JLPGA's KKT Cup Vantelin Ladies (the Constructivist has details).
The streak has ended. Matt Kuchar need to be extremely glad.
After 3 weeks -- along with the Masters -- in which he positioned himself in role to win after which went flatter than day-old soda, shooting par or worse in the very last round, Matt Kuchar blistered the Harbour Town Golf Links with a sixty four to lap the sphere. (And, by the way, give Luke Donald his 5th Top3 there in 6 years.)
Instead of beginning the day with the lead, he began four returned, he shot a front nine 30 (-five) to take the lead... After which three-putted the seventeenth from 4 ft to fall returned right into a tie with Donald. It gave the look of he became going to fall prey to "the curse" all over again, specially after he hit his technique to 18 into the front bunker.
Of direction, whilst you hole out from the bunker on 18 to regain the lead, matters look a chunk one of a kind. It meant Donald needed to birdie either 17 or 18 to pressure a playoff and, on the ones exposed holes and with so much wind, that simply wasn't within the cards.
Kuchar now gets a couple of weeks off before heading to THE PLAYERS where he won in 2012. You can bet he's much more eager to get there now!
In the interim, he can sit back out and relish his ultra-modern Limerick Summary:
After 3 weeks of losing his fizz,
From the bunker Matt played like a whiz.
He popped the ball up,
It dropped inside the cup
And now Win Number Seven is his. The photo came from the tournament wrap-up page at PGATOUR.com.
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