Winner: Brandt Snedeker
Around the wider world of golf: Wow, what a busy weekend! Scottie Scheffler won the US Junior Amateur and Gabriella Then won the US Girl's Junior Amateur; Michael Hoey won the M2M Russian Open on the ET; Bernhard Langer and Mark Wiebe will finish up a playoff this morning to determine the winner of the Senior Open Championship on the Champions Tour; Ainil Johani Abu Bakar won the Taiwan LPGA Kenda Tire Open on the LAGT; Karrie Webb won the ISPS HANDA Ladies European Masters on the LET; Olivia Jordan-Higgins won the Credit Union Classic on the Symetra Tour; and Kevin Tway (yep, that's 1986 PGA Championship winner Bob Tway's son) won a playoff at the Albertsons Boise Open on the Web.com Tour. (UPDATE: Wiebe won the playoff. I'm still in shock that Langer ended up in a playoff at all!)
This photograph should be captioned, "Take THAT, all you gamers at the RBC Canadian Open... Besides for you, Hunter. Thanks for going home, friend!"
Would Hunter Mahan have won the tournament if he'd stayed and played with the lead instead of charging back to Texas and his wife Kandi for the birth of his daughter Zoe Olivia? (In case you missed it, she was born around 3:30am Sunday morning, about 3 hours after I finished Sunday's post. Mother and daughter are doing well, by all reports.) I don't know. I doubt it, since golf would have been the LAST thing on Hunter's mind after the phone call that Kandi had gone into labor.
But RBC-backed player and honorary Canadian Brandt Snedeker truly did not mind the help. (Brandt's caddie is Scott Vail, actual Canadian and son of the previous Calgary Flames hockey famous person Eric ?Big Train? Vail.) Brandt advised the media:
"Zoe can be getting a totally first-rate toddler present from me," Snedeker said. "I can't thank Kandi sufficient for going into exertions early. I don't know if I'd be sitting here if she hadn't. But that may be a way greater vital element than a golf event. I ignored a golf match while my first turned into born, and it turned into the fine choice I ever made. I'm certain Hunter could say the same element."True, but this win is important to Brandt for several reasons. Of course, it gave him his second win of the season -- pushing him into the rarified company of Tiger, Phil, and Kuchar -- as well as putting to rest any more questions about his injured ribs.
But it additionally moved him to 3rd in the FedExCup rankings. Did you know that no FedExCup champion has ever made it back to the finals the next 12 months? Brandt is in desirable function to try this now, what with handiest three activities left till the playoffs, that can suggest he's going to be making records. There's a large hole among 4th and 5th vicinity -- 1020 points -- which means the top 4 are quite a good deal locks for now. While the factors could be redistributed whilst the playoffs start, all Brandt needs to do is play his normal stable sport and he'll in all likelihood attain East Lake nevertheless in the pinnacle 5.
With his destiny in his own palms.
Brandt Snedeker appears to love it that way.
In the meantime, there's a WGC and a major to be won. Brandt is 32, just like Adam Scott and Justin Rose (and markedly unlike Phil, but that's another story), winners of the Masters and US Open earlier this year. Now if he can just convince Hunter to stay home with Kandi and Zoe until after the PGA...
In any case, this week's Limerick Summary is devoted to the person who knows how to turn a "hard work of love" right into a victory:
Once Hunter flew again home to Kandi,
Brandt said, ?Winning here might be dandy!
My caddie?S a nearby
So I?M sure those folks?Ll
Be glad… Plus, the points will be handy.“ If you want to see a picture of Brandt with his trophy, you can find it here at the tournament page. Obviously, I liked this photo from PGATOUR.com much better!
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