Winner: Jordan Spieth
Around the wider world of golf: It was a weekend for all kinds of outstanding performances! Phil Mickelson got his first-ever links golf win at the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open on the ET; Hee Young Park got her 2nd LPGA win at the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic with a near record breaking final score after setting a course record Saturday; Kenny Perry got his 2nd Champions Tour major at the 34th US Senior Open; and Steven Alker won the Utah Championship on the Web.com Tour though Will Wilcox stole his thunder by shooting a 59.
I simply can't add much to the TV broadcast except to say... Jordan Spieth ROCKS!
He started out the day 6 strokes off the lead. You likely saw the miracle hole-out from the bunker on 18 to make a three-manner playoff with David Hearn and defending champion Zach Johnson. (And admit it -- till then, you expected them to alternate the call of the event from the Steve Stricker Classic to the Stricker-Johnson Invitational.) Then you noticed Spieth simply hold in there, gambling smart golfing for 5 holes till he ended up with a brief putt at the very last hollow to win it. You noticed all that.
No doubt you also heard them say that Spieth is the first teenager to win a PGA event in 82 years. (The final, consistent with the John Deere Classic wrap-up at PGATOUR.Com, turned into Ralph Guldahl at the Santa Monica Open in 1931.)
What you can now not recognise is simply how a whole lot this affects his agenda for the relaxation of the year. Spieth had already played well sufficient to fasten up his Tour card for subsequent 12 months -- he had five Top10s (one in every of them a T2) and had made around $1.Four million. But this win did more than provide him immediate Tour membership.
Firstly, the win got him a niche inside the Open Championship subsequent week. Better buy some heat woolies, Jordan -- Scotland's cold right now!
But that's not all. As a member of the Tour he now gets to play in the FedExCup playoffs. The points he would have gotten all season now become official... and he debuts at #11 in the FedExCup standings. (Yes, he's played THAT well. At 19 years old. Like I said, Jordan Spieth ROCKS!) Do you think he's going to be a Presidents Cup Captain's pick this year? I suspect he will.
So this week's Limerick Summary salutes the Texas teen who done good. And to the rest of the Tour I offer this sage bit of advice... Be afraid. Be VERY afraid...
Beware of that teenager Spieth!
That Deere-inexperienced stuff coating his teeth
Is what?S left of the sphere
Since he?S eaten his fill?
From the TOP of the heap, not beneath! The photo came from the front page of PGATOUR.com.
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