Ping’s inCrowd
How Azinger
Cracked The Code
Pak Survives,
Rain and Playoff
( 5)
They Shoot Horses,
Don't They?
Golf as Survival is nothing new. Once
upon a time in America at the U.S. Open
they used to play 36 extra holes on Mon-
day if a winner hadn't been determined
Sunday. Billy Burke and George Von
Elm (remember them?) needed 72 extra
holes to crown a champion at Inverness
in 1931.
Fast forward to Sunday, May 16, 2010.
It was more Survivor than Survival.
And almost all the important winners
tried, at least once, to vote themselves
off the island.
In Spain, Sweden's Peter Hanson
double-hit a chip (discovered only by a
TV camera) but recovered in time to win
something called the Iberdola Open Cala
Millor Mallorca.
Then there was the sodden LPGA
event in Alabama that declared itself
a 54-hole event after the fourth round
had started and then declared the
winner would come from a three-way,
sudden-death playoff. Se Ri Pak sur-
vived the rain, the delays and testing
10-footers on the second and third extra
holes to outlast Brittany Lincicome and
Suzann Pettersen.
Finally in Texas, Adam Scott, not even
the best player never to have won a major
anymore, survived 36 holes on Sunday
and a bogey on the last hole to capture
the Valero Texas Open on a new TPC
course that looked like something off the
set of Survivor: Papua New Guinea.
But, of course, we know they don't
ask how. They just ask how many.
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