Winner: Jonas Blixt
Around the wider world of golf: Alas, Graeme McDowell continued his bizarre run with a win at the Alstom Open de France on the ET (in his last 8 starts, he has 3 wins and 5 missed cuts); Inhong Lim won the Michigan PGA Women’s Open at Crystal Mountain Resort (that's run by the Michigan PGA Section); Wil Collins won the Dakota Dunes Open on the Canadian PGA Tour; Adilson Da Silva won the Sun City Challenge on the Sunshine Tour; and Young Kim won the Nichi-Iko Ladies on the JLPGA. (The Constructivist has details.)
Some of you may have heard Jonas Blixt tell GC's Todd Lewis after Saturday's round that he had no idea where his drives had been going. He turned into simply hitting and hoping and relying on his short recreation.
Does this fall under that "beware of the sick golfer" thing? Because he sure seemed to do just fine on Sunday, despite the delay for lightning. Appropriate for a golfer whose name comes from the Swedish word for lightning.
After all, he sure struck often and hard during the last round. (Struck. Ha-ha.) And it's not like it was that easy -- take a good look at that trophy photo, folks. It's DARK.
Johnson Wagner (sans mustache) walked off the 9th green with a two-stroke lead at -14. He came home in 3-over, continuing the Greenbrier's tradition of 54-hole leaders NOT leading after 72 holes. But the Lightning Boy apparently shocked everyone with his sudden surge up the leaderboard. (Lightning, shock, surge... is there a pattern developing here?)
Blixt, as you may do not forget, won the Frys.Com Open ultimate yr however that occasion failed to get him into the Masters as he had hoped. Then he'd struggled this year. Wow, what a distinction one week could make.
As a result of this win, Jonas receives to play within the 2013 PGA Championship and the 2014 Hyundai Tournament of Champions, the 2014 Masters Tournament, AND the 2014 PLAYERS Championship. Plus, as I apprehend it, he'll bounce up very close to #50 within the OWGR, which ought to make him an alternate for the Open Championship in more than one weeks. And he jumped up round a hundred spots inside the FedExCup race.
No surprise he become so emotional after the win, standing there inside the darkish.
So this week's Limerick Summary salutes the Swede who just became his 12 months completely round in a single strike. Just what you will assume from Jonas Lightning:
Time to finish on Sunday become tightening
?Cause the spherical were given behind schedule due to lightning.
Then Lightning Boy Blixt struck!
He said that his drives sucked;
Don’t you think the field finds that MORE frightening? The photo came from the front page of PGATOUR.com -- Jonas had a bigger smile in that pic!
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