Can Webb Simpson surpass his major’s feat in 2013?
This year Webb Simpson, the American golfer, accomplished what every golfer in the world aspires to do.
He won the U.S. Open after an exhilarating performance on the Olympic Club, Lake Course, and defeated some of the top contenders in the major championship to be crowned as the champion.
Simpson is a highly talented golfer. Since he turned professional back in 2008, the American has won three times on the Professional Golf Association Tour.
He has had a decent run of form in 2012, recording his best results in all major championships other than The Open Championship.
The tall American golfer has made his mark on the PGA Tour with his exemplary stroke play.
Simpson rose to fame in 2011, when he won the Wyndham Championship and convincingly defeated fellow American golfer George McNeill by a margin of three strokes.
In the following month, Simpson recorded the second win of his professional career when he came out on top of Chez Reavie and claimed the Deutsche Bank Championship trophy.
Although the American has won only one major championship title in his career, there is plenty more in him to win much more.
The 27-year-old has been criticized by many. It is said that he won the major championship due to luck, and that the American does not have what it takes to win a major.
Simpson came into the U.S. Open after having missed the cut in his previous two tournaments. This statement holds true in most cases, when a golfer is having the worst time of his career and everything is going wrong, he usually comes out on top.
While coming into the 2012 U.S. Open, Simpson had already recorded four top-ten finishes.
There are, without a doubt, numerous talented golfers on the tour who are better than the American, Simpson, but saying that his win in the 2012 U.S. Open was a fluke, is injustice to his talent.
The American is fairly new to the professional circuit, although he has been playing golf since a long time now, representing his high school and his university in various golf tournaments.
There are many young American golfers on the PGA Tour who have been catching the spotlight with their performance on the fairways.
Simpson is still fairly young and has loads of potential to silence everyone who labels his U.S. Open win as a fluke.
With a win at the Olympic Club, not only did the American get his name engraved in the history books, he also received the champions’ share of $1,440,000.
As the 2013 PGA Tour is about to start, the players are gearing up to exhibit their talent on the fairways. Meanwhile, there is a determined American lurking in the midst with plenty to prove.
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