Sergio Garcia won The Players Championship in a playoff with Paul Goydos this weekend for the biggest win of his career. The win is particularly special to Garcia after his playoff loss last summer in the British Open …
“It feels like a major, and it tests you like a major,” Garcia said. “I’m so thrilled to be here standing with this trophy.”
Annika Sorenstam appears to be returning to form after a 2007 LPGA Tour season hobbled by injury. Sorenstam finished with a 5-under-par 66 Sunday to win the Michelob Ultra Open. She beat four other players by a whopping seven strokes …
Meanwhile, Hennie Otto earned his first European Tour title at the Italian Open this weekend. He carded a final-round 3-under 69 to win the Italian Open …
At GolfIllinois.com, Kiel Christianson writes about the Southern Illinois Golf Trail.
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(Classless sportwriter misses the fairway by a mile)
Any golf enthusiast (those who loves the game and the competition that even percolates on a Sunday afternoon between friends with 15 handicaps) who saw the drama unfold this past weekend in the Players Championship, couldn’t help but appreciate the “game” of Paul Goydos and the story behind his unexpected accent to the top of the leaderboard for most of the weekend. In fact, Goydos’ three bogys in the last five holes and a clutch par saving putt by Sergio Garcia on the 18th, (that was playing to a 4.9 stroke average) made the sudden death return to the famous seventeenth island hole almost anti-climatic.
But surely one thing the sport doesn’t need is a low-life senior sportswriter who decided to inject “class” into the story. According to Cameron Morfit---- Senior Writer, Golf Magazine----a Paul Goydos victory would have some how made the tournament a “classless” or “second-class” event:
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — A gust of wind won the 2008 Players Championship on Sunday. Pete Dye won the Players. And ultimately, to the great relief of everyone who hoped for a first-class winner at the "fifth major," Sergio Garcia won the Players. (Link)
http://www.golf.com/golf/special/article/0,28136,1739197,00.html
Morfit goes on in his story about the lack of “class” players in the tourney that included top players in the world rankings with talent like Mickelson, Els, Furyk, Olgilvy, and now #10 Garcia. To insinuate that a Goydos victory against this field of world class talent would make the victor some one other that “first class” speaks volumes about the writers solipsism and classless journalism.
On a day where the conditions on the course brought most of the field to its knees, the performance of Paul Goydos was nothing but first class. The only classless performance was committed by Morfit and his pathetic article that failed to see the drama all golfers appreciate----the best in the world and the highest handicappers. Morfit definitely hit this one out of bounds.