PGA Championship final leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/pga-championship/leaderboard.html
With all due apologies for the obvious headline.. there should always only be one Jimmie Walker.. alias JJ on the hit television series Good Times with his famous catch phrase "Dy-no-mite" !! ( By the way he is still touring North America doing his stand up comedy routine)
The Jimmy Walker from Texas who just deservedly won this year's PGA Championship should be called Jimbo, or James or Jim... or if he were a hockey player the Jimmer...but never Jimmy... It's like there is only one Johnnie Walker, and I may just have one later tonight...
All the same it was a well earned win for one of the game's good guys, who toiled mostly in obscurity until a few years ago, and at 37 this major will put the icing on a solid if unspectacular career.
Jason Day, a good friend of the Texan's made him work all the way to the 72nd hole after he hit a spectacular 2 iron to 15' at the last and made the eagle putt to cut Walker's lead from 3 to just one.
When Walker missed the 18th green to the right in gnarly rough I thought, after the marathon day it has been the last thing we need is a playoff, but he pitched out past the pin to 40 feet and held his nerve with a 2 putt for par that gave him a -3 67 good enough for the one-shot victory.
He had shot a 68 in the morning to continue to lead as he had from the start and he earned this win as he didn’t make a bogey over the last 28 holes finishing at -14 266.
His win moves him up to #4 in the Ryder Cup standings, and remember he was a solid addition to the US Team that got creamed the last time out at Gleneagles.
So he joins Danny Willett (Masters) Dustin Johnson (US Open) Henrik Stenson (the Open) as guys who are solid pros but have now had their lives changed forever this year, and they will all be squared off late September at Hazeltine.
A tip of the cap to Mother Nature who relented after dumping 4" of rain in the New York area, but decided to let up enough to let these guys finish in regulation, or I wouldn't be writing this yet..
Check my link to the final leaderboard to see where your favourite ended up. You'll be surprised.. Guys like Robert Streb and Daniel Summerhays and Tyrell Hatton all had big weeks..
Next week is the Travellers Championship where Bubba is due to defend, the it's off to Rio for the Olympics August 11-14.
You may not see the likes of Jason Day or Rory now until the end of this month when the Fed Ex playoffs begin with the Barclay's at Bethpage Black on August 25th
The majors may be over, but the 2016 season is far from it.
Bryan Angus
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