Around the wider world of golf: At the time of this writing, the Symetra Tour Championship hasn't finished so we won't know until later today who won and who got their LPGA Tour cards; Azahara Munoz won the Lacoste Ladies Open de France on the LET; Kirk Triplett defended at the Nature Valley First Tee Open on the Champions Tour (as well as winning the Pro-Jr Pro-Am with his partner Michelle Xie); David Howell won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on the ET, his first win in 7 years; and Na Ri Lee won the Miyagi TV Cup Dunlop Ladies on the JLPGA. (Although the Constructivist will have a post of his own sometime today, I got this info from a post on Bangkok Bobby's site.)
We finally know who "The 50" will be -- those 50 lucky pros to gain their PGA Tour cards for 2014. (You can see that list right here at this link. It shows everybody from the #1 seed to the #128 seed.) John Peterson won the Finals money list and therefore shares the #1 ranking with Michael Putnam, winner of "The 25," the Web.com Tour's regular season card winners.
But just because you don't get the #1 seed doesn't mean you don't get a trophy. Chesson Hadley got the win this week, and all the bling that goes with it. (He also got the #3 seed, in case you're interested, and won a total of $229,433.33 for his trouble.) For all the drama we saw during Sunday's final round, Hadley wasn't really part of it. He pretty much waltzed through it all -- he was already the #3 seed from "The 25" and he led by several strokes most of the day, so nothing much really changed for him.
Except for getting that trophy. The trophy's a nice thing to have. If you missed any of the details about the final round, you can read a summary from the Web.com Tour's site here.
Of course, the debates will now begin over whether the Web.com Finals need to be tweaked. I think they do, and tomorrow I'll share my own plan for the new and improved PGA Tour Q-School replacement. (We all know how the Web.com Tour is waiting breathlessly to implement my suggestions, right?)
But for now I'll just offer up this week's Limerick Summary, along with a good luck wish to Chesson and his wife as they await their first child:
The first Finals didn’t go badly—The photo came from the summary at the Web.com Tour's site.
At least, if you ask Chesson Hadley!
They filled up his coffers
With all the win offered;
He took all the Tour swag quite gladly.
No comments:
Post a Comment