Around the wider world of golf: Mi Jung Hur won the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic; Jiyai Shin won the Munsingwear Ladies Tokai Classic on the JLGPA (the Constructivist has details); Connie Chen won the Tenerife Open de Espana Femenino on the LET; Joost Luiten won the ISPS Handa Wales Open on the ET; Derek Fathauer won the Web.com Tour Championship; and Paul Goydos won the Pacific Links Hawaii Championship on the Champions Tour.
Whenever the PGA Tour doesn't play, I have the option of doing a Limerick Summary for one of the other events going on. (Since it's my blog I suppose I have that option every week, but you know how habits can be.) And this week I had a lot of possibilities.
Did you know that this week's Wales Open was the final time it will be played on the ET? They had a real shootout going down to the wire, with 8 or 9 guys within a shot or two of the lead most of the final round.
Stacy Lewis started the day 4 shots behind M.J. Hur at the LPGA event, shot -6... and didn't gain a single shot. Hur not only got her first LPGA win in 5 years, but set a new tournament record doing it.
And of course, we had all the drama at the Web.com Tour Championship. In case you wonder, 3 players got full exemptions to the Big Tour -- Derek Fathauer and Adam Hadwin got the ones with the PLAYERS invite, and Carlos Ortiz had already gotten the field promotion for winning 3 times last season.
But in the end I decided to give the Symetra Tour gals a little love. Their event ended in a 3-way playoff that vaulted an unexpected player into the Top10 who got Tour cards. Here's a list of the 10 lucky ladies -- and yes, I know there's only 9 in the above photo. I think #7 Yueer Cindy Feng is the missing face:
- Marisa Steen (also won Player of the Year)
- Min Seo Kwak
- Jackie Stoelting
- Sadena Parks
- Min Lee
- Wei-Ling Hsu
- Yueer Cindy Feng
- Kendall Dye
- Demi Runas
- Mallory Blackwelder
If you'd like to check out some of the things that went on after the round, you can check out Twitter's #VolvikRace page here. (That's where the photo's from, btw.) Since Gary Williams from Morning Drive was there, I assume Morning Drive plans to do some after-the-fact coverage today.
You can also check the official Symetra Tour Twitter page here. That's where you'll find the video of all 9 card winners doing a cannonball to celebrate! (It's also on their YouTube channel. The above video can link you there.)
As for Marita Engzelius herself, I have (drumroll please!) her very own Limerick Summary. She might be the only Symetra Tour player to get one while she is actually still on the Tour -- I can't remember if I've ever done another one -- and I'm sure she's the only one to get a Limerick Summary featuring Norse mythology. (She is Norwegian, after all.)
Marita Engzelius got a shockGood luck to all the Volvik Race to the Card winners... and to Marita and her friends as they prepare for Q-School!
When she won the playoff. Her golfing stock
Shot up like a rocket—
The cash in her pocket
Means she’s off to Finals, not Ragnarok!
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