Welcome to the Monday ranking, where we drop the best stories of the weekend in the wonderful world of golf. Take a Arnold Palmer, pull a chair and see one of the wildest finishes for a major for years …
LPGA: They enter five large in a playoff series!
During the first major of the LPGA season, the Chevron championship saw the Masters qualifiers … and raised it. No, there was no victory for the definition of the heritage of Rory McILroy, but the 72nd hole and the playoffs of a holes presented superb shots, a slow exasperating game, sorrows of sorrow, controversies of rules … What else do you need? It was really one of the strangest finishes to a tournament, even less a major, which has been deployed for some time.
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Start with Ariya Jutanugarn, who could probably finish the tournament on the 18th with a peer. But her tee shot went widely, and she chose to shoot the stands because, fundamentally, a practical (and controversial) net. But his third blow did not go as planned …
The puff meant that she entered with a Bogey to fall into equality with Hyoo Joo Kim at seven sous. Shortly after, Ruoning Yin became from top to bottom with a birdie to finish seven cents. In the final group of the day, Haeran Ryu took an extraordinarily long time to play an approach and determine a drop. And then she just went to bury the chip from the fall zone:
But his game partners, Lindy Duncan and Mao Saigo, both managed to get up and descend to finish seven money and shoulder in the playoffs themselves. In one way or another, an eliminatory field of five lasted only one hole, because Saigo was the only one in Birdie the 18th and claiming victory.
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Oh, and just when you thought that the day could not have a stranger … Saigo almost drowned on the traditional jump of the chevron in the pond:
“I'm not really a good swimmer,” said Saigo through an interpreter. “When I entered inside, it was deep and at first I thought I was drowning.”
After a few stressful moments – the pond is 10 feet deep in certain places – SAIGO was taken from the water. What a tournament.
A pair of winners for the first time at Zurich Classic
Last week, Andrew Novak barely missed his first PGA Tour victory, losing against Justin Thomas at the RBC Heritage. He had his chance for redemption seven days later during the Zurich classic team game event, and this time, alongside Ben Griffin, he held for the victory. He marked the first tour victory for Novak or Griffin. The two won in their 100th and 90th PGA Tour Departures, respectively, by carding a 28 under hand combined of the alternation of shooting / Best ball. The twins Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard finished a stroke.
Joaquin Niemann takes Liv Mexico, assures us an open offer
Joaquin Niemann continues his reign of terror in LIV golf, saying that the Mexico event of the tour during the weekend to further consolidate his grip on the points. Niemann started on the last day of the tournament, three strokes behind Bryson Dechambeau and two behind Cam Smith, but was held strong when these two major winners failed to win by three strokes. The victory entitles him to an invitation to the US Open, according to the new user -friendly USGA rules. It will now be up to Niemann to save all his lobbying for major places; He never finished in the top 10 in major. Niemann is not necessarily the face of golf Liv – Dechambeau and Jon Rahm hold this honor – but Niemann must prove that the success of Liv's tour can result in a success on more prestigious events of increasingly prestigious field. He will have his next luck to a major in two weeks at Quail Hollow.
The legendary albatross Ames
Stephen Ames, sixty years – who had once the unfortunate distinction of talking about Tiger Woods waste, then being beaten 9 and 8 by Woods during a 2006 match match event – had a beautiful afternoon at the Mitsubishi Electric Classic during the weekend, carding an albatros on the 18th at TPC Sugarloaf. He finished the tournament in 8th place solo and pocketed around $ 15,000 additional for this one:
Shooting of the week: Country Golf
Chandler Phillips risked dignity, a mud bath and a Gator attack on Saturday for this brilliant escape from the mud at TPC Louisiana. Magnificent Farmer's Tan also here.
Phillips and the jacob bridgeman game partner were going to finish T10 in Zurich, and solo first for style.
Then come: PGA Tour: The CJ Cup Byron Nelson (TPC Craig Ranch, Texas); LPGA: Black Desert Championship (Ivins, Utah); PGA Tour Champions: Insperity Invitational (The Woodlands, Texas) Liv: Liv Golf Korea (Incheon, South Korea).
