Winner: Russell Henley
Around the wider world of golf: Rashid Khan won the SAIL-SBI Open on the Asian Tour and Dimitrios Papadatos won the NZ Open on the Australasian Tour. But mainly it was a week for ending win droughts! Ross Fisher won the Tshwane Open on the ET, his first win since the 2010 Irish Open; and Paula Creamer won the HSBC Women's Open on the LPGA, her first win since the 2010 US Women's Open.
Everybody anticipated to look a PGA Tour win drought ended this week. It's just that we all idea it would be Rory's. Instead, Russell Henley received for the first time for the reason that 2013 Sony Open, his first rookie look at the huge excursion.
Granted, it is now not a drought that matches both ET victor Ross Fisher or LPGA victor Paula Creamer; both of them had been well over three.Five years in duration. But 15 months can be a long time -- simply ask Californians approximately the drought they've been having. Any dry spell can grow to be a cause for worry.
But if it wasn't as long as Fisher's or Creamer's, its finishing simply carried some of the drama of the huge guns. I anticipated Rory to shoot -three inside the very last spherical; instead he shot four and missed an eagle putt for the outright win. Likewise, Russell Knox shot 1 and Ryan Palmer shot -1 after he blew a threat at birdie for the outright win. Henley's 2 round was accurate sufficient to send all four to a playoff, a playoff we feared might be reduce brief with the aid of darkness. After all, it seemed like no person virtually desired the victory.
But if all Henley may want to muster in regulation become par, he extra than made up for it in overtime. The only participant to hit the green on the par-5 18th in two, he turned into additionally the most effective man who ought to give you a birdie for the win. The irony is that even he couldn't agree with it; he stated it was going to take a while for the win to sink in, and he in reality regarded to be in surprise at some stage in his put up-spherical interviews.
Henley now enters the rarified ranks of sub-30-yr-olds with multiple win on the big tour. He jumps from 110 to forty six within the OWGR, getting him into the WGC this week, and from 142 to sixteen in the FedExCup ratings. But, most importantly, he gets this week's Limerick Summary!
When McIlroy, Palmer, and Knox
Ended up hitting too many photographs
Into fescue and sand,
The playoff seemed bland?
Then Henley hit all the right spots. The photo came from this page at the PGA Tour's Honda Classic site.
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