Who were the biggest winners and most likeable losers over the course of the campaign? What worked, what didn’t and how can the league continue to reinvent not only itself, but pro golf?
Thanks to Horschel’s twisting 18-foot birdie on the 14th hole, Atlanta Drive defeated New York Golf Club 4-3 to sweep the best-of-three finals and claim the $US9 million first-place team prize.
Billy Horschel, the lefty. Turns out the right-hander can hit a mean left-handed shot, as evidenced by a stellar wedge shot early during the final round of the Valspar Championship.
Exactly what was being said between the two main protagonists in their many private moments will remain something of a mystery. Neither man had anything to say publicly at the conclusion of their rounds.
[PHOTO: Ross Parker – SNS Group] Rory McIlroy wanted nothing to do with speaking to the written press on the eve of the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. But the Belfast lad did give a two-and-a-half-minute interview to BBC Northern Ireland on the subject of, you guessed it, the symbolism of the men Read more…
Fittingly as things would later transpire, it was on the ninth tee in the final round of the BMW PGA Championship on Wentworth’s West Course that things started to go south for Matteo Manassero and north for the eventual champion, Billy Horschel.
Horschel, 37, followed 67-69 with 66-63 over the weekend to end at 23-under, two shots ahead of Wesley Bryan, who was looking to go wire-to-wire while playing on a sponsor exemption.
Overnight, Australian time, videos appeared on social media of Zach Johnson and Billy Horschel scolding some fans who understandably rubbed them the wrong way.
Predictably, the course plays a big part in Horschel’s enthusiasm for an event that has (under various sponsorships) been a permanent fixture at DP World Tour headquarters since 1984.
Billy Horschel needs a very high finish at this weekend’s Wyndham Championship just to make the FedEx Cup Playoffs this year. Turns out, an equipment alteration might have been made just in time to save his season.
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