Winner: Peter Senior
Around the wider world of golf: Charl Schwartzel blew away the field at the OneAsia Tour's Thailand Golf Championship; Shanshan Feng blew away the field at the LET's Omega Dubai Ladies Masters; Scott Jamieson won the ET's Nelson Mandela Championship in a playoff; and the team of Kenny Perry and Sean O'Hair squeaked out a win at the Franklin Templeton Shootout (aka the Shark Shootout).
When the PGA Tour isn't playing a normal season match, I now and again have trouble selecting what different match to jot down approximately. This week I had already determined to recognition at the Australian Open, certainly because Opens are commonly essential tournaments despite the fact that they do not constantly draw the massive names. The Aussie Open had Adam Scott, Justin Rose, and Tom Watson; most of the alternative gamers were lesser-recognized names. But it without a doubt became out to be the maximum thrilling event.
You see, while the winners of a number of this week's other occasions blew away their respective fields, no different tournament can say that its field became nearly blown away!
Even though there was a 3-hour delay because of high winds -- I don't know how high, but I heard there were gusts of 80km (that's around 50mph for my American readers) -- the Aussie Open still finished the event because the greens crew planned for it! They didn't cut or roll the greens and they picked easier pin positions, so the balls might wobble in the wind but they didn't roll away.
I do not assume the players certainly appreciated it that plenty. Even par turned into a tremendous score. A few players managed rounds of -1. The most effective guy to shoot inside the 60s was -- no wonder -- Tom Watson, who shot -3.
But the beauty of it all changed into that the winner turned into fifty three-year-old Peter Senior. His very last round of even par made him the oldest guy to ever win the Aussie Open, beating the preceding document set via Peter Thomson at the ripe old age of 43 manner lower back in 1972.
I find it irresistible while the antique guys show they may be nevertheless applicable. Maybe they are not as flashy as the young kids, however regularly they're a bit sharper in tough conditions. So this week the Limerick Summary celebrates Peter Senior's newest Christmas gift:
Oh the climate outside, it was frightful
And the excessive winds had been never delightful?
But at 53 years
Peter Senior simply sneers
When some blowhard says his game’s a mite dull. The photo came from this USAToday article.
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