PGA Tour Genesis Open final scoreboard https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2019/genesis-open/leaderboard.html
In the end Mother Nature threw a swirling, gusting wind into her mix of torrential rain, cold by California standards, fog and yes even sunshine at last week's Genesis Open at Riviera.
After Justin Thomas, Adam Scott, Marc Leishman, Si Woo Kim, Rory McIlroy and for a while even Tiger made their runs at her, it was long hitting Kentuckian JB Holmes who emerged in the wind on Sunday afternoon to shoot -1 70 to catch Thomas who blew up to a +4 75, and win his first PGA title since 2015.
He birdied his first hole the made a steady string of pars featuring clutch putting the rest of the way in, while Thomas 3 putted the 13th and 14th to lose his 4 shot lead.
Nick Taylor shot a commendable +1 72 to finish -3 T33 while Adam Hadwin had a difficult weekend finishing 2nd last with a pair of 77's.
It was a testing three days for these pros who gathered to contest this prestigious title after the pouring rain which began on Tuesday wiped out 7 hours of play on Thursday forcing them to play catch up all weekend.
Tiger for example didn't play at all on Thursday so was up at 3am every morning playing as many holes as possible. On Sunday he put the final touches on a -6 65 to complete his 3rd round which had the crowd hollering, and he began as quickly on his first nine of round 4. However he admitted he ran out of gas come the back nine and slumped to +1 72, but still T15.
All in all despite or because of the weather, the result was in doubt until the end which made for good viewing.
Speaking of which see my next posting re how we cover golf on TV these days and see if you don't agree with me.
Bryan Angus
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