Around the wider world of golf: Paul Broadhurst got his second Champions Tour major at the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship; Minjee Lee gave herself a birthday present at the LPGA Volvik Championship; Louise Ridderstrom won the Valley Forge Invitational on the Symetra Tour; Cameron Davis won the Nashville Golf Open on the Web.com Tour; Francesco Molinari won the BMW PGA Championship, the ET's equivalent of THE PLAYERS; Shota Akiyoshi won the Gate Way To The Open Mizuno Open on the Japan Golf Tour; and the Arizona Wildcats won the NCAA Women's Division 1 National Golf Championship.
It was never really in question on Sunday. Justin Rose began his final round at the Fort Worth Invitaional with a four-stroke lead over Brooks Koepka, and he ended the round with a three-stroke lead over Brooks Koepka.
That doesn't mean it wasn't interesting. Just that Justin never really gave his pursuers a chance. He shot five-under on his front nine and a mere one-under on his back nine. When you shoot 64 in the final round, it's going to take something really special to beat you... and neither Koepka's 63 nor Kevin Na's 61 was special enough.
Forgive me if I don't spend a lot of time on this event, because there was no real drama to the finish. Rather, I think Rose's Strokes Gained stats are the real story here:
- Off the Tee: 4th
- Approach to the Green: 1st
- Around the Green: 19th
- Putting: 21st
- Tee-to-Green: 1st
- Total: 1st
But in the meantime, he can chill out with his newest Limerick Summary and get ready for the big ones coming up.
Knowing Koepka was on the attack,The photo came from this page at golfweek.com.
Justin couldn’t afford to hold back.
He kept pushing the pace—
And that kept enough space
‘Twixt his lead and the rest of the pack.
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