Winner: Jiyai Shin
Around the wider world of golf: Luke Guthrie won the Albertsons Boise Open on the Web.com Tour; Willie Wood got his 2nd win in 3 starts at the Pacific Links Hawaii Championship on the Champions Tour; Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño won the BMW Italian Open on the ET; Mi Hyang Lee won the Symetra Classic on the Symetra Tour; and Gaganjeet Bhullar (he's from India) won the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship on the OneAsian Tour. And of my "5 to Watch" for the Ricoh, two of my choices did pretty well. Paula Creamer finished 3rd and So Yeon Ryu got a T5. (UPDATE: I forgot to add a third pick, Lydia Ko, who won Low Amateur. She's now won LowAm in 2 majors this year!)
With the PGA Tour off this week, it best made feel to do the Summary about the closing LPGA / LET most important of the year, the Ricoh Women's British Open. But this one had a further dimension to it, one that made me agree with this match changed into greater deserving of the Summary than any of the alternative events being staged.
I don't use this word often, but Sunday it certainly fit. Jiyai Shin's play was nothing short of Tiger-esque. And the particular performance I have in mind is Tiger's amazing victory at the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
It's not just that Jiyai blitzed the field by nine strokes in a major. Cristie Kerr did that at a major more than one years in the past, winning with the aid of 12 and prompting players to ask if they may play the identical route she become gambling. And Tiger gained at Pebble by 15 strokes. Large wins appear occasionally.
It's not that Jiyai, like Tiger, became the only player beneath par while the event ended.
It's not even that the weather was so darned horrible. Part of what made Tiger's victory so impressive, in case you don't know, was the winds he had to play through. (Here's a link to the Sports Illustrated story that appeared after he won, in case you're too young to remember it clearly.)
No, and that is the irony of the term. What makes it so Tiger-esque is some thing that ISN'T the equal. You see, Tiger honestly overpowered the course in awful weather. He had photographs in his bag at some stage in that important that no person else had even dreamed of but.
In Jiyai Shin's case, she underpowered the course. According to her scoring page, for the week she averaged under 250 yards off the tee... and only 190 yards for the final round! Karrie Webb has won the British Open 3 times, yet her two Sunday rounds were 68-82, compared to Jiyai's 71-73. And in the final round only 2 players scored better -- both Paula Creamer and Lexi Thompson managed par 72s. If anybody has ever exhibited the sheer strength of will that Tiger is known for, Jiyai showed it on Sunday.
Perhaps I should coin the term Tigress-esque to describe her.
Since Jiyai's remaining win in 2010 she'd had eye surgical operation, back issues, and overlooked of this year's majors because of wrist surgical treatment. But now, with a T3 and returned-to-back wins in her last 3 starts offevolved, it looks as if Yani and Stacy simply would possibly have a touch enterprise in the Rolex Race for #1!
So this week the Limerick Summary salutes the only known as "Final Round Queen," the sovereign who ruled Hoylake with an iron sceptre... Or perhaps it was a hybrid. To be honest, the driving force and putter had been pretty properly too...
On a long day of golfing, Royal Liverpool
Rudely taunted: "When golfing makes you shiver, who'll
Find the fireplace deep interior?"
That's while Jiyai ? With pride ?
Grabbed its throat and refused to be ridiculed. The photo came from PGA.com's news page. Isn't it strange that the LPGA doesn't have a picture up yet... and it was their tournament?
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