PGA tour media official Joe Chemycz is one of my favourite guys and when he comes up here to the Canadian Open I always get him on our Fairways radio show to tell stories about the players in the field many of you don't know about.
" To me there are 156 story's every week" Joe often says, and this week at the 2010 season ending Children's Miracle Network Classic that was true again..
Robert Garrigus who turned 33 on Remembrance Day, came to this event last year at 123 on the money list but MC with a pair of 74's and ended up at 127 and played on conditional status all year. So this year's win will be that much sweeter.. He and Bubba Watson are the tour's 2 biggest bombers, he was 1st in 2009 averaging 316 yards, and he has certainly paid his dues since turning pro in 1997. He's been through Q school 3 times,played on the Hooters and Gateway tours, played the Nationwide in 2000,02,04,05, has had a couple of T3 during the Fall Series and of course during the 2010 St Jude Classic he had a three stroke lead going into the 18th hole, needing only a double bogey to beat Karlsson and Westwood. He ended up with a triple bogey which dropped him into a three way playoff which he subsequently lost, ending up tied for 2nd but he had never won.......... until yesterday
How about Troy Merit.. Not only did he end up at number 125 on the money list, he then went out after the tournament to play a special playoff hole worth $1m in the Kodac Challenge against Fowler and Baddeley
What is the Kodac Challenge ?? (pgatour.com)
Now in its second season, the Kodak Challenge celebrates beautiful holes and memorable moments on the PGA TOUR and challenges players to perform their best on 30 designated Kodak Challenge holes. The player with the lowest cumulative score on his best 18 Kodak Challenge holes wins the $1 million. The 485-yard, par-4 17th on the Magnolia Course was the 30th and final hole of the 2010 Kodak Challenge season
Well they all had wedges in but Merit landed his 18 inches away, nearly holing it !! After Fowler and Baddeley each missed long birdie putts, Merit tapped in for a cool $1m !!
Here's the final top 10 on the money list
1 1 Matt Kuchar 26 $4,910,477 1
2 2 Jim Furyk 21 $4,809,622 3
3 3 Ernie Els 20 $4,558,861 2
4 4 Dustin Johnson 23 $4,473,122 2
5 5 Steve Stricker 19 $4,190,235 2
6 6 Phil Mickelson 20 $3,821,733 1
7 7 Luke Donald 20 $3,665,234
8 8 Paul Casey 17 $3,613,194
9 9 Justin Rose 22 $3,603,331 2
10 10 Hunter Mahan 25 $3,574,550 2
and those around 125..
120 117 Ben Curtis 24 $812,136
121 118 Jeff Maggert 28 $801,579
122 179 Roland Thatcher 26 $796,157
123 140 Mark Wilson 28 $789,681
124 120 Joe Durant 19 $788,755
125 121 Troy Merritt 29 $786,977
126 153 Johnson Wagner 28 $753,802
127 126 Briny Baird 28 $753,577
128 125 Troy Matteson 28 $736,060
129 123 Woody Austin 29 $727,352
130 124 Michael Allen 17 $726,631
Look at Briny Baird (127) who just played himself out of the top 125 on the weekend, as did Troy Matteson (128), Woody Austin (129) and Micheal Allen (130)
On the other hand look at Roland Thatcher who was leading by 4 going into the final round, "vomited it up" as he would say after, to Garrigus but still managed to finish at 122 (up from 179) on the list to become the happiest loser of the week !!
Canucks
Graham Delaet 100, Stephen Ames 107 and Mike Weir 151 and of course they will be joined by David Hearn (Nationwide), Chris Baryla (medical exemption) and of course the final stage of Q school starts the 1st week of December with Jon Mills amongst those Canucks vying for their cards..
LPGA
This of course is the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico and In-Kyung Kim is your winner, her first of the year, her 3rd career. She is called I.K and is yet another diminutive South Korean starring on the LPGA tour...She donated her winnings to the Lorena Ochoa charity
Suzann Pettersen is now at #2 in the world. Yani Tseng is #1. This was her 6th second place of the year and the14th of her career, kind of like a certain Greg Norman..
The women now have next week off before playing the season ending Tour Championship.
1 In-Kyung Kim -8 F -19 69 68 68 64 269 $220,000
2 Suzann Pettersen -4 F -16 70 65 69 68 272 $113,794
3 Karine Icher -4 F -15 70 67 68 68 273 $82,550
T4 Cristie Kerr -6 F -14 64 76 68 66 274 $57,629
T4 Paula Creamer -4 F -14 68 66 72 68 274 $57,629
6 Ai Miyazato -2 F -13 68 69 68 70 275 $42,054
T7 Angela Stanford -9 F -12 73 70 70 63 276 $31,255
T7 Na Yeon Choi -5 F -12 68 70 71 67 276 $31,255
T7 Stacy Lewis -1 F -12 67 69 69 71 276 $31,255
T10 Hee Young Park -5 F -11 69 71 70 67 277 $23,467
T10 Azahara Munoz -2 F -11 70 67 70 70 277 $23,467
T10 Karrie Webb -2 F -11 70 69 68 70 277 $23,467
Bryan Angus bryanangus4@gmail.com
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