Winner: Zach Johnson
Around the wider world of golf: Suzann Pettersen snagged her second major at the LPGA/LET's Evian Championship; Joost Luiten won the KLM Open on the ET; Seung-Yul Noh punched his ticket back to the Big Tour at the Web.com Tour's Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship; Max Gilbert won the TOUR Championship of Canada on the PGA Tour Canada; and Bo-Mee Lee won the Konica Minolta Cup, one of the JLPGA's majors. (The Constructivist has two posts on this one -- Saturday's wrap-up and Sunday's rainout/playoff wrap-up.)
You need simplest take a look at their again 9s:
- Steve Stricker: +2
- Jim Furyk: +1
- Zach Johnson: -3
Zach took a variety of warmness for lacking the primary playoff occasion to be first-rate guy in his brother's wedding ceremony. (He joked Monday that it turned into necessary a good way to get alongside together with his new sister-in-regulation.) Critics stated his brother ought to have set a exclusive date... And that Zach have to have fought for it. Some say which you should not be allowed to maintain within the playoffs when you pass an occasion.
Zach lightly left out them all, took the BMW Championship through the throat, and moved to #four in FedExCup factors. In other words, if he wins the Tour Championship subsequent week, he wins the Cup. Take THAT, critics!
You know what I like about this? Zach says he's just playing golf. He wasn't trying to get into the Tour Championship next week; he was just trying to play good golf. He wasn't trying to win the BMW Championship this week; he was just trying to play good golf. He wasn't trying to get into the Top5 of the points race; he was just trying to play good golf
I think he succeeded. And he instructed reporters he was quite positive his game plan next week will NOT be to win the Tour Championship or the FedExCup; he'll simply try to play true golfing. He smiled as he stated it.
I'd smile too!
Don't think this is not critical to him. He nearly broke down in tears talking approximately the people assisting him via all this. (Shades of Steve Stricker! Is that contagious?) But it is clear that he is playing guilt-free golfing -- not letting his recreation outline him or his worth, however simply enjoying his selected recreation. (I suspect it is a lot less difficult to experience it whilst you're triumphing. He's been playing quite nicely over the previous few weeks.)
As they love saying in FedExCupLand, he holds his destiny is in his personal fingers. I'm now not awarding him the Cup but -- it really is the infamous Ruthless Golf Jinx, you understand -- however I'm now not having a bet towards him both.
But this week I am awarding Zach the Limerick Summary. Let's get one thing straight -- Zach Johnson may have been a bridesmaid at John Deere, but he's the best man at BMW:
Zach proved that he?S not a pushover;
He IS the best man. And furthermore
This weekend?S top player
Showed all the naysayers
The honeymoon STILL isn’t over! The photo's from the main tournament page over at PGATOUR.com.
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