For many a casual golf fan the season ended back in September with Bill Haas winning the $10m Fed Ex Cup, however this is truly a world wide sport with a lucrative world wide schedule, just ask Matt Kucher.
Early this morning in far away China he capped off a spectacular 2 weeks, when he and partner Gary Woodland won the Omega Mission Hills World Cup, the first in 11 years for the USA, with a final foursomes round of -5 67 -24 total, 2 better that Justin Rose and Ian Poulter who closed with an incredible -9 63 -22 and Martin Kaymer with Alex Cjeka -3 69 -22
Kuchar is coming off the Presidents Cup win in Melbourne the week before, and he and Woodland will be paid $1.25m each for their win.
Favourites Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell started with a 3 putt bogey and never caught fire finishing T4 72, -21 along with Australia, Holland and Scotland.
This Blackstone course as I've said all week, with it's wide fairways is a good venue for this team play format because it keeps all the teams in the fairways, and forces a lot of exciting second shot risk and rewards, and inevitably it was the American pair, in particular Woodland, who Kuchar called the "best player in the field all week", who were steadier.
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Bryan Angus also on twitter@mummmbles
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