Winner: Jason Day (individual), Australia (team)
Around the wider world of golf: Shanshan Feng won the CME Group Titleholders, the final LPGA tournament of the year; Luke Donald defended at the Dunlop Phoenix on the Japan Tour; Morten Ørum Madsen won the South African Open on the ET; and Rikako Morita won the Daio Paper Elleair Ladies on the JLPGA (the Constructivist has details).
I wrote at length about Jason Day in yesterday's publish, so nowadays I'll limit myself to the overall event. In truth, since you can read a very in-depth article here, I'll limit myself to 1 specific factor of it.
Overall, I assume the most fantastic issue about the World Cup wasn't Jason Day's win -- come on, he changed into waaaaay late -- nor even how badly the Australian team beat the US crew. (I might hope the Australians had a bonus at Royal Melbourne. Such a difficult direction almost needs familiarity to play it well in tough conditions.) Even the truth that Australia is the primary host team to assert the Cup when you consider that 1996 wasn't that massive a shock.
What truly surprised me became Adam Scott's solo 1/3 within the individual competition.
Scott has had an outstanding run considering the fact that returning to Australia for his "Masters victory tour," his first time domestic on the grounds that turning into the primary Australian to win the Masters. He'd already gained the Australian PGA and the Talisker Masters lower back-to-again, and the hero worship had achieved not anything but develop more potent with every passing day. Everybody Down Under expected him to be Superman in the World Cup.
Instead, he shot an unexpected four-over seventy five the primary day. There were forty five players who shot higher; handiest 14 who shot as bad or worse. For all sensible purposes, he had shot himself out of the match.
Or so it regarded. He accompanied that poor first spherical with two three-underneath 68s and a very last round five-under 66 (most effective one more player shot as well that ultimate day, and that they were two pictures ahead of the following exceptional). Do you understand that he shot -eleven in 3 days? Jason gained with -10 over 4 days!
And Adam Scott shot his excellent rankings during the most difficult conditions. There were no extra than 3 rankings better than his in any of these final three rounds. It changed into an certainly exceptional overall performance that, IMO, moves him ever closer to taking #1 from Tiger.
Nevertheless, Jason Day receives the Limerick Summary this week. Adam's had a pair already this year, and Jason did win the big prize. So bask within the glory, Jason -- you deserve it!
The swashbuckling duo Down Under
Caused Aussie lovers to thunder!
They rooted for Adam
But Jason Day had ?Em
All oohing and aahing in wonder. The photo came from the World Cup home page.
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