Winner: Ted Potter Jr.
Around the wider world of golf: Na Yeon Choi blistered the field at the LPGA's biggest major, the U.S. Women's Open; Kirk Triplett won the Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach on the Champions Tour (Tyler Broach won the Juniors competition); Marcel Siem won the Alstom Open de France on the European Tour; and Marianne Skarpnord won the LET's Ladies Norwegian Challenge.
PGATOUR.com has a nice article about Ted Potter Jr. that compares him to Carl Spackler. It's called From Cart Barn to Champion, Potter's Patience Prevails . It's both encouraging and funny, and I'd definitely recommend you read it. Just to borrow a short section:
After studying the sport without the gain of formal classes or a country membership life-style -- Potter's dad became a golfing-route preservation employee and his mom a Walmart worker -- Potter dominated the Hooters Tour, where he gained 14 instances, turned into two times Player of the Year, and racked up $650,000 in income, an surprisingly high amount for a mini tour.
In his first season at the Web.Com Tour in 2004, but, Potter missed each single reduce, a not-so-ideal 24-for-24, which intended it turned into returned to the minors.
He'd have to wait three years to get back to that degree, and when he did, he didn't fare an awful lot higher. Potter neglected 15 of 20 cuts in 2007.Potter is a rookie on the PGA Tour this year. Obviously he'll be playing there past 2012.
But watching him made me think more of Harry Potter than Carl Spackler. He wielded his clubs greater like a set of magic wands, knocking out a sixty four in the final round to provide himself a danger to win. When it have become clean that he might be going right into a playoff, did he head for the exercise range? No, he sat and watched, then casually walked out for a 3-hollow playoff in which he really hit the pictures he wished.
In the same way Harry Potter just seems to rise to the occasion -- I'm reminded of Hermione asking Harry if he was really that thick, to think he could just take care of things all by himself -- Ted Potter Jr. got his chance Sunday and just rose to the occasion. And as the evil Lord Voldemort, aka "He Who Must Not Be Named," discovered for himself, you don't want to be putting guys named Potter in a position where they need to come through.
They appear to have a propensity to do just that. PGA Tour gamers, take observe!
So modern Limerick Summary salutes the Tour's most modern wizard and his creative use of the Alohomora Spell -- which, if you aren't a pupil at Hogwarts, is a spell used to free up doors:
Tour gamers had better be wary.
As Voldemort found out about Harry,
He'll move the duration
And?Though no relation?
Ted too can be quite mercenary. The photo came from the Greenbrier's homepage at PGATOUR.com.
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