Winner: Chris Kirk
Around the wider world of golf: Victor Dubuisson got his first ET victory at the Turkish Airlines Open; Adam Scott completed the Australian Triple Crown with a victory at the Australian PGA Championship on the Australasian Tour; Mohd. Siddikur won the Hero Indian Open on the Asian Tour; amateur Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong (I think I spelled that right) won the PTT Global Chemical Thailand Ladies Open on the LAGT (Pornanong Phatlum got the money); and Teresa Lu won the LPGA/JLPGA Mizuno Classic (the Constructivist has details).
Alas, terrible Briny Baird! He keeps to searching for his first PGA Tour win. The McGladrey Classic become his 365th start -- a 12 months of starts offevolved, in case you please. Perhaps bounce yr could be luckier for him.
At least he gets some consolation. Playing on a medical exemption after surgery on both shoulders, he made enough cash to keep his card and he got his 6th runner-up finish. And it's not like he played badly; he was undone by a 3-putt par and one bad drive. Not bad for someone who's played very little golf in the last year or so.
But it might had been lots higher for him if Chris Kirk hadn't confirmed up for the very last spherical. Despite a bogey on the 14th hollow, and notwithstanding rinsing his ball on the fifteenth hole along with his 2nd shot (and hitting a bad chip with his fourth shot), he nonetheless controlled to escape with a bogey and a par. They saved him in touch with Baird, a mere shot ahead after the three-putt par.
And then Kirk birdied 17 and Baird bogeyed 18 (because of the awful force). Game over.
While it became Kirk's 2d PGA Tour victory, it was the first-time trip to the Masters that had him maximum excited. The tournament wrap-up at PGATOUR.Com has more exciting bits of data in case you're fascinated. In the intervening time, this week's Limerick Summary salutes the latest new man at Augusta:
His hybrid at fifteen was jerked
To the left, making this spherical greater work
Than I?M sure Chris supposed.
Still, while it all ended,
He won. (And Augusta’s a perk!) The photo came from the front page of PGATOUR.com.
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