Monday, 7 October 2019

2019 - Week 40 Winners

Jon Rahm (ranked 1st by Golf Predictor) won the Mutuactivos Open de Espana on the European PGA Tour. The 24 year old Spaniard and short odds favourite delighted the large home following by winning his national open for the second year running. Rahm easily saw off several compatriots and even with a bogey on his penultimate hole won by five shots from a fast finishing Rafa Cabrera Bello. Rahm was our top ranked player (by some margin!) and we had twelve of the top seventeen plus ties (12/22).

Kevin Na (ranked 34th by Golf Predictor) won the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on the US PGA Tour. The 36 year old American put on an incredible display of putting to win in Las Vegas for the second time. Na holed a record setting just under 559 feet of putts (+14.262 strokes gained on the greens!), but still just pipped another former winner Patrick Cantlay in a play-off. Na was cruising to the win until a treble bogey on ten brought him back to the field, but he finally got the job done on the second extra hole. Our top ranked player, Brooks Koepka, yet again didn't perform at a regular event and missed the cut. Overall, we had only eight of the top eighteen plus ties (8/28), in a birdie fest where many of the lesser lights came to the fore.

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