Winner: Matt Kuchar
Around the wider world of golf: Inbee Park zipped out of the pack to win the Honda LPGA Thailand; Jaclyn Sweeney won the VisitMesa.com Gateway Classic, the Symetra Tour's first tourney of the year; Stacey Keating won the Women's Victorian Open on the ALPG; Chawalit Plaphol won the Zaykabar Myanmar Open on the Asian Tour; Jaco Van Zyl won the Dimension Data Pro-Am on the Sunshine Tour; and Kevin Foley won the Panama Claro Championship on the Web.com Tour.
Plus, for the ones of you maintaining song, Danica Patrick completed eighth in NASCAR's Daytona 500, the best end ever in that event by means of a female... Making her one of the few drivers, male or female, to have commenced in both the Daytona 500 and the Indy 500, the largest races at the NASCAR and IndyCar circuits, respectively.
Well, considered one of my authentic alternatives to make the Final Four on the WGC-Accenture made it. Of direction, Ian Poulter appeared to be a no-brainer to me -- there are not many gamers better than him in healthy play.
Other gamers are trying, though. I knew Hunter Mahan ought to preserve his very own. I had forgotten that Matt Kuchar had made Top5s the closing years. And Jason Day amazed me, however he is subsequently getting over some injuries. Those four made it to a completely cold, very windy Sunday to play 36 holes. (More or less.) They bundled themselves up in order that they gave the look of little wilderness Eskimos and got down to surprise the sector.
The shocks got here from more than the cold.
The 4 guys who could do no incorrect maximum of the week went bloodless Sunday. Jason Day performed nicely, specially for the reason that it was his first look. He completed 3rd ordinary.
Poults changed into the biggest surprise. His putter was cold from the very start, as putts that had fallen all week lipped out in each rounds Sunday. He hadn't performed in six weeks, so it could have simply been a bit rust that caught up with him while the conditions and emotional depth ganged up on him. He completed 4th.
Mahan changed into the second biggest surprise. After a few brilliant quick sport play within the semis, his long recreation went cold. The protecting champ completed as the runner-up.
It was Matt Kuchar who dealt with the bloodless quality. The boy in the Arctic blue winterwear finally cracked the finals for the first time... Then he cracked the stranglehold of the expected champions in this occasion. With his knit cap and his hand warmers every doing their component, he casually out-idea the relaxation of the sector and truly placed his ball where he could not make huge errors.
And he did not. He snagged his first WGC and a few severe bragging rights.
So this week's Limerick Summary salutes the maximum coldblooded competitor in the WGC area -- on a course that became ice bloodless as well:
It rained and it snowed and the wind blew;
The battered survivors performed proper via.
First Hunter beat Ian
Then Kuch wound up bein?
The winner. (They all turned a bit blue.) The photo came from the front page of PGATOUR.com.
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