Hello guys, happy to be home for a couple of days after another hectic weekend !
From my perspective it was dominated by one of the great moments in Canadian sports, 19 year old Bianca Andesscu's stunning straight sets win over Serena Williams at the US Open. Considering her age, the setting, her opponent, opponents, is was arguably the greatest.
Ranked 152nd gong into the tournament she beat five players ranked away above her including possibly the best woman tennis player in the game's long history, she comes out ranked #5. She only lost two sets in 6 matches.
Every media outlet in this country, heck around the world, has spent the weekend and today using every contact they have to get a piece of her. She has already been on Good Morning America, and Live with Kelly and Ryan, so I'd expect her to do a national press conference here later today or tomorrow so everyone can call in.
She is of Romanian descent, her parents moved here in 1994, and had her on June 16, 2000 in Mississauga. She started to play when she was seven.
I'd be amiss not to mention, while I'm talking tennis, Rafa Nadal's gripping 5 set win over 23 year old Russian, Daniil Nedveded for his 19th major win, just 1 behind Roger Federer.
Mackenzie Tour Investments Open final scoreboard https://www.pgatour.com/canada/en_us/tournaments/mackenzie-invesments-open/leaderboard.html
Meanwhile another Canadian, Taylor Pendrith is playing the best tennis of his life. He won the MacKenzie Investments Open in Montreal over the weekend and has risen to #2 in the Order of Merit on the Mackenzie Tour- PGA Tour Canada
In 11 outings this year he is a stunning 127 strokes under par, including the record -28 this weekend, 8 shots clear of the field. This was his 2nd win this season.
“It was definitely the best week of tournament golf I have ever played, I honestly don’t remember playing from the rough on the weekend, maybe once or twice, but my wedge game was dialled in, especially today"
"To be fully exempt on the Korn Ferry Tour next season would be a big relief,” said Pendrith, who sits just over $5,000 behind Order of Merit leader Paul Barjon “There’s still work to do next week in London, I know it’s super close, there’s three or four guys who could do it, so there’s a lot of pressure but it’s just golf and I’ll go make as many birdies as possible and see how it ends up.”
He not only picked up his sixth Canada Life Canadian Player of Week award of the season, but also locked up the Canada Life Canadian Player of the Year award.
European Tour Porsche European Open final leaderboard http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2019/tournamentid=2019076/leaderboard/index.html#/leaderboard
Nice to see good guy Paul Casey get his first win in 5 years on the European Tour with rounds of 66, 73 69, 66 -14, holding off Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, overnight leaders Scottish rookie Robert MacIntyre and German, Bernd Ritthammer. They were all tied at -12 with 3 holes to go.
Paul is 42 now, having moved back to Scottsdale Arizona, playing mainly on the PGA Tour after an international career between the USA and Europe. He remarried (Pollyanna Woodward) in 2015, and his career has been revived ever since, including a starring role in Europe's enthralling win in Paris last year. The couple have a boy named Rex.
I've interviewed the amiable Englishman twice, the last time at the RBC Canadian Open at St Georges in Etobicoke, where he took time for me on the practice green before the pro-am. He has forearms like Popeye, and is as down to earth as they come, quietly confident, modest, well spoken, he makes you feel right at ease.
This week I look forward to the Solheim Cup being staged at historic Gleneagles in the rolling hills of Perthshire. Team USA has won the last two.
Bryan Angus
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