Valspar Championship Finish Had More Lead Changes Than a NASCAR Race

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Published: March 17, 2014

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If you went to the kitchen for a snack or a beverage while watching the last nine holes of the Valspar Championship, you probably missed a lead change or two. For a time, particularly during the last hour of the telecast, there were three tied for the lead, three additional players one shot back and another pack of professionals right behind them, ready to pounce. It was like the fox had been smelled, and the hounds were after it, howling all the way.

Had the leaders been named Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy, the ratings for Valspar would have been off the charts with excitement. In reality, the battle was between 42-year-old Aussie, John Senden; faster-than-he-used-to-be-but-still-relatively-slow Kevin Na; U.S. Open champ Justin Rose; former world No.1, Luke Donald; long-hitting Jason Kokrak; former snowboarder Will MacKenzie; and left-hander Scott Langley, who has the distinction of being the only player on the PGA Tour who came through the First Tee program.

The finish was punctuated by 20-mile-per-hour winds and complicated by Sunday pin placements that created more tragedies than a Shakespearean play. There were bad hooks and slices into the timber, and miraculous shots out of wooded areas and off pine straw and roots. We saw lucky bounces, hole-outs and plenty of anguish. The trees got so much action, it's a wonder NBC didn't hire an arborist.

Robert Garrigus, who had the 54-hole and 36-hole leads, had a few choice words for the vegetation after his final round, which saw him fall into a tie for fourth. He said next year he's, "going to bring a damn chain saw out to the place and cut a few trees down. I kept hitting it behind them all day."

Luke Donald uncharacteristically sent putts to the right instead of into the hole.

"I had a chance for the whole back nine and couple, you know, untimely three-putts on 11 and 13," Donald said. "Those were my only two bogeys over the last 36 holes." H...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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