Winner: Sergio Garcia
Around the wider world of golf: Willie Wood got his first Champions Tour win at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open; Mika Miyazato got her first LPGA win at the Safeway Classic; Lydia Hall got her first LET win at the ISPS Handa Ladies British Masters; Shawn Stefani got his first Web.com Tour win at the Midwest Classic; and Augusta National got their first two female members, Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore. (I'll have to do a post about that last one!) In addition, Paola Moreno got her 2nd Symetra Tour win at the Eagle Classic and Mi-Jeong Jeon got her 20th JLPGA win at the CAT Ladies, but those seem a bit anticlimactic after all those firsts, don't you think? You can get the details on the CAT Ladies from the Constructivist.
It just seems appropriate, would not it? El Ni?O returns to the PGA Tour winner's circle at some stage in a rain-not on time event!
The typhoon of emotion that frequently derails Sergio appeared to subside as the water desk rose on the Wyndham Championship. He appeared calm or even confirmed moments of fine emotion as he sunk putt after putt remaining week. Those 4 birdies in the last 6 holes Monday morning truely made a assertion... But possibly now not as sturdy a declaration as the calm bogey he made at the 18th after one of the uncommon horrific pictures he hit all week. He casually walked over after his bad force, placed it lower back in play, and left himself a tap-in for bogey.
Why now not? He had three shots to play with!
I suspect the win wasn't as satisfying as the knowledge that he had just locked up a place on the European Ryder Cup team without needing a Captain's Pick. Poulter knocked him out of last place when Sergio missed the cut at the PGA. Monday, Sergio leapfrogged both Poulter AND Peter Hanson to end all doubt.
Sergio now enters rarified air, as a ways as I'm concerned. It's rare for any participant to win on each facets of the Atlantic during a given 12-month length. It's no longer that American golfing is higher than European golfing, or vice versa -- the 2 are just one of a kind, requiring barely one of a kind ability units, and few golfers seem to have both of them. Luke Donald may be the best golfer who can presently say that he wins on each facets with any regularity. At least Sergio is back inside the conversation.
And Sergio now has three victories within the last one year -- again, rarified air.
So state-of-the-art Limerick Summary salutes the nice and cozy wind of familiarity it's blown back into the PGA Tour... And into Medinah some weeks' therefore:
El Ni?O blew into the Wyndham;
No rain ? Or feelings ? Should send him
Careening off-route.
He'll now be a pressure
At Medinah, not just an addendum. The photo comes from the Wyndham main page at PGATOUR.com.
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