Winner: Kevin Stadler
Around the wider world of golf: Kind of a slow week for golf. Stephen Gallacher became the first player ever to defend at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic on the ET, and Mi Hyang Lee won the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open on the LET. And the Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII.
No one can settle on a nickname for Kevin Stadler. For the time being, I'll just call him "the Lesser Walrus." He's got a ways to go before he's on a level with his dad, Craig Stadler aka THE Walrus (no, not the late John Lennon), but he's made a start.
It's been a long haul for Kevin. Although he is gained numerous times at the Web.Com Tour (one of these wins got here at the identical day as a Champions Tour win for his dad) and as soon as at the Euro Tour, he's had trouble getting past the runner-up stage in PGA Tour activities. And with Bubba Watson starting the final spherical 2 shots in advance of him, on a direction that suited a protracted hitter like Bubba, things did not look that excellent for him on Sunday.
Until Kevin birdied the primary three holes. And for maximum of the day it looked find it irresistible turned into between Bubba and Kevin... Until round hollow 15. Then it seemed like it become each person's event for the taking. In the stop simplest Graham DeLaet made a real run -- he completed just one off the lead -- and it came all the way down to Kevin and Bubba on the 18th hole.
Neither participant had displayed particularly stellar play over the returned 9 -- they were all around the direction, dumping balls inside the water and the sand, and Kevin even managed to get a ball suspended in air on cactus spines -- however by hook or by crook they had been tied at -16 at the 18th tee. Kevin played the hole in addition to viable, hitting the fairway, sticking the ball pretty close to the pin, and two-placing for par.
For Bubba it changed into less tidy. He missed the golf green wide proper, then hit the ball lengthy into the rough, leaving a downhill deceive a quick inexperienced. His chip did not come off as he deliberate but he left himself a longish putt for par... Which he neglected. But it changed into that kind of hollow -- Ryan Moore, the third member of the institution, noticed his birdie putt make a full 360? Lap around the rim before preventing multiple inches away.
In the end, a very thrilled Lesser Walrus waddled up to simply accept his first PGA Tour trophy. (Okay, perhaps "Lesser Walrus" isn't always that great a nickname. I'll work on it.)
At any price, I am very pleased to present Kevin his very first Limerick Summary. After all, when Kevin tees it up at Augusta along with his dad in April, to be able to be yet any other little bit of father-son records for the Stadlers:
When Bubba fell prey to failures,
It sent Kevin straight to the Masters
Where he?Ll play together with his dad?
The first time we?Ve had
Such a pair. That’s prime stuff for broadcasters! The photo came from the front page at PGATOUR.com.
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