Highlights from the final round of Players Championship – Part1
The $9.5 million Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour’s Players Championship wrapped up on Sunday at the Tournament Player Club Sawgrass. The fifth flagship event was won by K.J Choi. Here is a quick recap for the event.
The final round kicked off in the afternoon, after rain forced the third round to the sidelines. The rain made tee boxes slippery and the greens faster. Coping with the conditions, K.J Choi smashed a score of 2-under par to push the tournament into a play-off
and managed to seal it with a victory after he rolled a par-putt on the 17th hole. Meanwhile, David Toms bogeyed it and left the course as the runner-up.
Paul Goydos remained loyal with the number 69, and for the second day, remained successful in carding five birdies against two bogeys. He relished a success rate of 86 percent in driving accuracy and 78 percent in green hits in regulation, which inferred
that the player took care of the long pars in an American style; the kind of game-style in which the player has an edge over the long game. Making use of the edge, Goydos finished third on the leader board.
Goydos was pleased at his finish and said while speaking to reporters, “I'm actually quite pleased with the way I played today. Quite frankly, it's a tough course. I got off to a little bit of a slow start, but the last 12 or 13 holes I think I hit I think
the last 12 holes I hit every fairway, missed one green.”
The forth place on the leader board was taken up by Nick Watney and Luke Donald. Watney, who won the Cadillac Championship in the start of the season, teed-off from the front and birdied the first three holes, posing as a threat for the leader, Choi.
However, before he could have created panic in the top section of the leaderboard, Goydos started tripping. He bogeyed the immediate hole and dropped two more shots towards the end, which left him standing at 1-under par, 35. On his way to the back, the
American dropped one more shot after carding a birdie and wrapped the day, three strokes behind the leaders.
Watney got a grip on the short game by the end of the weekend, but lost the magic in his long game. He missed 11 greens, while hitting regulations and missed eight of the fairways, which showed the weakness in his long game.
Despite faltering in the end, the player said that he was pleased with his game. He stated, “Well, I didn't hit a lot of greens coming down the stretch. But that wasn't necessarily I felt like it was tricky out there. The wind would blow in, and then it
would blow sideways. I felt like there were some tricky clubs to pull. But overall, I'm pleased with my game. I just couldn't quite get it going today.”
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