Winner: Graeme McDowell
Around the wider world of golf: Lots of golf this week! Marianne Skarpnord won the weather-shortened South African Women's Open on the LET; Raphaël Jacquelin won the Open de España on the ET in 9 extra holes (tying the ET record); Yoshinobu Tsukada won the Token Homemate Cup on the Asian Tour; Suzann Pettersen won the LPGA LOTTE Championship on the LPGA (her 2nd win of the year); Bernhard Langer won the Greater Gwinnett Championship on the Champions Tour; Angel Cabrera won the 82° Abierto OSDE del Centro on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; and Jake Roos won the Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open on the Sunshine Tour.
After I did a post about Charlie Hoffman's swing a couple of days ago and then Charlie went nuts Saturday, it looked like I was going to be a prophet and Charlie was going to walk away with the RBC Heritage. However, the wind came up Sunday and everyone found it hard to walk.
Except for Graeme McDowell and Webb Simpson, that is. Not best may want to they stroll, however they may manipulate their golfing balls as properly! Both had some thing in commonplace -- they had been U.S. Open champions who gained their Opens in California, inside spitting distance of the Pacific Ocean. They knew a way to cope with ocean winds.
Of route, developing up in Ireland apparently gave Graeme a slight side over Webb in that department. Graeme made simplest one bogey all day. Webb had 4; sadly, one got here inside the playoff. That was one too many.
This turned into Graeme's first PGA Tour win on the grounds that his U.S. Open, but given how nicely he is been playing (that overlooked reduce at the Masters turned into the simplest real blemish this yr) this win might be just what he wishes to catapult him right into a sturdy run at 2013's remaining majors.
Appropriately sufficient, this week's Limerick Summary appears ahead to the Irishman's capability going ahead:
His Irish home sounds so romantic?
But winds blowing off the Atlantic
Meant Graeme?S golfing history
Gave Webb pretty the smackdown;
For Graeme, this win could be gigantic. The photo came from the front page of PGATOUR.com.
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