Winner: Charl Schwartzel
Around the wider world of golf: Sergio Garcia won the Iskandar Johor Open on the Asian Tour; Daniel Popovic won the Australian PGA Championship on the Australasian Tour; Teresa Lu won the Taifong Ladies Open on the LAGT; Davis Love and his son Dru won the PNC Father/Son Challenge; and Ariya Jutanugarn is leading the LET's Q-School going into its final day.
These kind of tournaments drive me crazy. You know -- the tournaments that get played in 2012 but count on the 2013 season. I'm listing this one as 2012 because it IS 2012, dammit!
Fortunately for Charl Schwartzel, it does not appear to depend what 12 months it's far. After suffering maximum of 2012 with a number of swing problems (each physical and otherwise), Charl seems to have hit his stride the last few weeks. After two excessive finishes in tournaments that he didn't win, he took remaining week's Thailand Golf Championship by means of eleven strokes and sponsored it up this week with a 12-stroke victory in the Alfred Dunhill Championship down in South Africa.
What can you say approximately such dominating performances? True, the largest names in golf are not playing proper now and the opposite "high-rankers" are scattered around the world. But winning anywhere is tough, winning weeks in a row even harder, and going forty nine-beneath in the ones two weeks -- beating the rest of the field by way of 23 strokes general -- is just implausible.
If Charl is subsequently back within the shape that gave him the 2011 Masters title, there could be some bleak days ahead for any discipline he performs in... And the guys on the pinnacle of the OWGR might not be exempt from the pressure.
So this week's Limerick Summary welcomes Charl back to the winner's circle -- he wished this ET win to qualify for my own RGWR -- and takes a quick look at the old crystal ball:
This is two weeks instantly Charl?S been the victor.
If December is any predictor
Of Twenty-thirteen,
Going this deep may suggest
He’ll squeeze fields like a boa constrictor. The photo came from this page at europeantour.com.
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