Rory Mcilroy and JJ Spaun will set the player championship to a play off with three holes on Monday.
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Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. – The Championship He felt like he had finished in many cases on Sunday at TPC Sawgrass, with Rory Mcilroy quickly eraseing a four-stroke deficit and taking solo supremacy in the 11th hole shortly before a four-hour weather delay began.
When the weather finally settled, Mcilroy seemed to be ready to hit Gaz and navigate his second title of players. He enclosed his approach to no. 12 to 14 meters and poured into Birdie’s Putt. When Jj Spaun made Bogey behind him, Mcilroy’s supremacy was three in a nine back he has cut off in recent years.
It was starting to feel as if the last six holes would be a crown for Mcilroy and that the spas would fade while the weight of the restored moment.
On the contrary, the opposite happened.
Mcilroy Bogey 14 while Spaun made him after him. Mcilroy then lost a 7 -foot bird shock to 15 and followed it with bird losses of 12 and 11 meters respectively at 16 and 17 respectively, respectively. When Spaun Zied 16, he had tied Mcilroy at 12 under.
On the 18th, Mcilroy with two strokes of 73 meters for him, 4 meters, 4 -inch, 4 -inch, try pet to the right edge. Spaun found pine straw from 18 tee but hit his approach to 31 meters. His bird’s attempt turned out three short revolutions, by sending it to a general off the general with three holes (Holes 16, 17 and 18) with Mcilroy on Monday.
“I told myself that I don’t have to go away from the moment,” Spaun said afterwards. “I think in the past I have done it, I just been afraid to be in that spotlight, be in that pressure, worry about failure. But it’s hard to win, and you have to fail many times in order to win. That’s the kind of what I have learned throughout my career, and it was paid today.”
In the player championship, 2 world livestock seeking answers
Seduce
Mixing Monday’s Play off at 9am could not be tougher.
At one end: a generative talent with a fame hall resume that includes 27 PGA Tour’s career wins, four diplomas and a player. On the other hand: a 34-year-old self-proclaimed leader With a career win at 227 starts. One win for Mcilroy means two wins in four beginnings to start the season and fuel for the hype train as the masters approach.
For mcilroy, Winner check 4.5 million dollars It would be a fall at the top of his $ 153 million in PGA Tour’s career income.
For Spaun, a victory would be the change of life. His name would be permanently rubbed in history along with Mcilroy’s likes, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Scottie Scheffler, all occupied the stadium course and won the title of PGA Tour flag.
Monday’s duel is a period between inheritance and opportunity. For Spau, a victory meant everything. For Mcilroy, it would be ephemera.
“I would like to think that I could go back to my experience and maybe be a little more than JJ, but then at the same time, tomorrow is just about execution and get up there and make five good oscillations,” Mcilroy said after his round.
The player championship week is the PGA Tour moment in the sun, a prism that frames the season as the diploma approaches.
It is appropriate that within a week when the state of the tournament It is placed under a microscope, this event will be placed by players on the opposite ends of the pro-Golf spectrum. The flag tournament of a tour that seeks to get weaker by preserving its pillars of competition and meritocracy will come down to a player whose name is already in the pantheon of the great and who can choose and choose its beginnings as an apple from a tree against a player who only a year ago thought his career may have finished.
It will be Rory Mcilroy vs JJ Spaun for the championship title of players Monday morning at TPC Sawgrass in a perfect capsulation of two factions that have been struggling to form the future of the tournament.
Someone has nothing to lose. The other is supposed to win.
