Monday recap: Chad + Chris back in the victor's circle
This weekend saw the return of both Chad Campbell, playing at the Bob Hope Classic, and Chris DiMarco, playing in Dubai, to the victor's circle. For Chad, it's been 2 years since his last victory, and, for Chris, it's been 4 years. Just shows you how difficult it is to win on tour. With his second place finish at Sony last week, Chad Campbell appears to be primed and ready for a great season. At the Hope, Jesper Parnevik, finally playing some good golf, finished tied for second with Scott Verplank.
Meanwhile, Annika Sorenstam and teammate Lisalotte Neumann won the World Cup of Golf for Sweden. Even though they shot +3 on Sunday (with some shaky play from Neumann), they still finished 3 ahead of the second place team from Scotland. The U.S. team of Paula Creamer and Natalie Gulbis finished a somewhat disappointing 4th, at +1, a full 8 strokes behind.
Footnotes: It's still early in the season, but both Sean O'Hair and Jason Gore are starting to raise questions of "sophomore slump" with their play (although Gore may still be a tour rookie, depending on how you count it). Both missed the cut this week and last week, and both ended up tying Michelle Wie last week. Meanwhile, Phil Mickelson had a good first showing of the season, finishing 5th at -19, while young gun Lucas Glover made up for last week and getting beat by Michelle Wie, and finished tied for 10th.
4 Comments:
Nice blog you have here. I enjoyed reading your post.
I know that my co-blogger Mulligan is not much of a David Duval fan or at least not as much of one as I am, but I was extremely excited to watch him climb up the leaderboard on Day 4 shooting an 8-under 64 to make the cut.
I hope that David has the fire in him to continue to capitalize on his good play, because he has always been one of my favorites!
Do you suppose Jesper's improved play is result of getting his hat fixed?
Just as a side note to Mulligan's post (great comment on Gore and O'Hair...two guys that were expected to have break-out years), I also am watching Duval, as Jason noted, for this 2006 season. As you probably know, this is Duval's last exempt year because of his British Open win, and he is making a valient effort to retain his card. He is 69th on the money list, making 2 of 2 cuts, and he averages about 69th in most playing stats. The best stat about Duval this year is the proof that he can shoot low, shooting lower than most, if not all, of the field on at least one day in each of the tournaments played. If he can pull out a win or start cracking the top 10 in more tournaments, he will be able to get himself the Most Improved award.
Fun watching him play...he has a strong simularity in his current swing to his old swing, despite having a larger build.
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