The Limerick Summary: 2012 BMW Championship

Winner: Rory McIlroy

Around the wider world of golf: The LPGA still doesn't have a winner at the Kingsmill Championship! Paula Creamer and Jiyai Shin played 8 playoff holes before they could no longer see the fairway. GC will broadcast the continuing playoff this morning at 9am ET. Elsewhere, Peter Hanson won the KLM Open on the ET with an eagle on the 18th hole; Caroline Hedwall successfully defended her UNIQA Ladies Golf Open title on the LET; Matthew Griffin won the High1 Resort Open on the OneAsian Tour; Terry Price won the Pon Senior Open on the Euro Seniors Tour; and apparently Chie Arimura won the JLPGA's 2nd major of the year, the Konica Minolta Cup. I imagine the Constructivist will have a summary up soon.

Before I go any further, let me repeat what I said earlier: The LPGA still doesn't have a winner at the Kingsmill Championship. Paula Creamer and Jiyai Shin played 8 playoff holes before they could no longer see the fairway. GC will broadcast the continuing playoff this morning at 9am ET. I want to make sure you know about that, in case you read this in time to see it!

UPDATE: Jiyai Shin won on the first hole Monday morning (which would be the 9th playoff hole) with a par.

Now, in which had been we? Oh, sure... INSANITY. After Sunday's finish, I suspect the powers-that-be on the PGA Tour and FedEx want extra than bail for immoderate partying... They possibly want an "prolonged vacation" on the Betty Ford Center. (For those of you outside the US who might not recognize, it really is a well-known drug and alcohol abuse treatment center.)

If you saw the very last spherical, you understand that the 2012 golf season by some means continues getting better and better. Just whilst we think we've got seen the high-quality golfing we've got ever seen, BAM! We get some thing even better. And it is honest to say that we've by no means seen ANYTHING like we saw this weekend.

In the end, we got Rory winning his 2nd tourney in a row and his third in 4 begins. In the manner he pretty much locked up the cash identify and POY, and in all likelihood each of the scoring titles . We noticed ALL of the golfing international's heavyweights going toe-to-toe on a tough path suddenly. And we ended up with a Tour Championship field of 30 which can thoroughly be the great unmarried area ever assembled.

Just for the report, the Top five -- the men who "manage their very own future," who if they win the Tour Championship additionally get the FedExCup -- are:

1. Rory McIlroy
2. Tiger Woods
3. Nick Watney
4. Phil Mickelson
5. Brandt Snedeker

It would have been nice to see Lee Westwood in that group, but it's not bad, is it? And -- once again -- Tiger and Rory will be paired for the first two days of the Tour Championship. With Mickelson busting into the Top 5, the Tour and sponsors got just about everything they could have possibly asked for.

Like I said, we've got in no way seen ANYTHING like we noticed this weekend... At the least, no longer till the Tour Championship in more than one weeks. Until then, at the least we've got were given the Ricoh Women's British Open to keep us entertained. Need I remind you that the Kobra may be there?

For now, I'll simply go away you with this week's Limerick Summary, saluting the Tour's most modern ache-in-the-neck (at least, for the relaxation of the sphere):

The field has been settled for East Lake?

And you would possibly say they ALL were given a terrible damage

Because Rory's win here

Puts him first, unfastened and clean,

In the points. Now he's MORE than a headache! The photo came from the BMW Championship home page at PGATOUR.com.