Winner: Marc Leishman
Around the wider world of golf: A very busy weekend! Lee In-woo won the Volvik Hildesheim Open on the men's Asian Tour; Mark Calcavecchia won the Montreal Championship on the Champions Tour; Danny Willett got his first win at the European Tour's BMW International Open; Mel Reid won the Raiffeisenbank Prague Golf Masters on the LET; Brittany Lang won the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic on (of course) the LPGA; Casey Wittenberg won the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open on the Nationwide Tour; and Mayu Hattori won the Earth Mondamin Cup on the JLPGA. Check the Constructivist for details.
For what it is really worth, the LPGA's tournament changed into honestly the maximum exciting this weekend. The 3 leaders have been gambling together inside the very last group and nobody could shrink back, then a participant 8 strokes returned tied them and posted early... After which the climate grew to become. The leaders couldn't pull away, so there was a four-player playoff, and Brittany Lang gained it -- now not most effective getting her first win but breaking the "curse" that no player from NCAA golfing powerhouse Duke University had ever won on the LPGA.
With that said, the Travelers tournament changed into probable pretty thrilling for Marc Leishman. The Aussie shot his very own 8-beneath spherical and had to sit down for two 1/2 hours even as the remainder of the sector charged and fell lower back. The round he idea could get him a Top10 ended up triumphing the match.
What else can I say? The closing 4 holes quite an awful lot destroyed the sphere. Players like Charlie Hoffman would shy away, best to make a couple of awful shots and emerge as falling short. One after the other, gamers like Tim Clark and Roland Thatcher got close enough to sniff victory... Then got a noseful of dust as they plummeted face first returned to earth.
How sure become Marc that he would not win? He had long past to get something to eat and watch a few "football" (this is football for us Americans). He wasn't even making plans to watch the tournament!
It's ironic that Travelers sells coverage. This occasion honestly proved that there are no guarantees in golf!
So this week's Limerick Summary salutes the guy who wanted no insurance in any respect to get his first win... Just a beer and a few soccer. Good on ya, mate!
A final-spherical lead's no coverage
Of victory; in search of warranty
Through the closing organization is futile.
Although ready's brutal,
You might win with Marc's plan—endurance. The photo came from the front page of PGATOUR.com.
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