Winner: Jonas Blixt
Around the wider world of golf: It was a very busy weekend! Inbee Park won the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia on the LPGA Tour; Gaganjeet Bhullar won the Venetian Macau Open on the OneAsia Tour; Peter Wilson won the WA Goldfields PGA Championship on the Australasian Tour; Fred Funk won the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn (here in NC) on the Champions Tour; Shane Lowry won the Portugal Masters on the ET; Ya-Huei Lu won the Taiwan LPGA South Taiwan Open on the LAGT; and Shawn Stephani won the Miccosukee Championship on the Web.com Tour.
On an afternoon while Red Bull proved they could provide balloons and parachutes as well as wings (and this hyperlink offers you masses of snap shots), Jonas Blixt proved that his own family can destroy the sound barrier as properly.
At least, they could with the right incentive... And Jonas actually gave them that. Despite Jimmy Walker's -9 and Tim Petrovic's -7, Blixt just did not deliver the gamers round him any hope of catching him. What else could you count on from the fellow with the longest cutting-edge string of holes without a three-putt (233)?
After a third-vicinity end remaining week in front of his own family (traveling from Sweden), Blixt frivolously played the final four holes in -2 to win this week. If he hadn't won, he nevertheless would have had his card for subsequent year -- despite missing more than one months in the thick of the season from accidents, he had nevertheless managed to make over $1mil and attain #115 inside the OWGR -- but it's so a great deal nicer to present your self multiple years to play. I'm guessing this win gets him excessive enough to qualify for the invitational tournaments if not the majors.
But the way he is playing, that cannot be a long way off. As simplest the 1/3 rookie to win this season, he's preserving a few pretty special corporation... And subsequent week's McGladrey Classic is sort of a domestic recreation for him.
So this week's Limerick Summary salutes the most recent Swede to chalk up a PGA Tour victory. Perhaps he'll deliver his family every other purpose to break the sound barrier this week:
With his circle of relatives from Sweden transfixed
By his play down the stretch, Jonas Blixt
Got his first win on Tour.
Now for 2 years he is certain
That his golf dreams won't be eighty-sixed. The photo came from the front page of PGATOUR.com.
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