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Wells Fargo Championship: Derek Ernst beats David Lynn in play-off
A week like no other at Quail Hollow held one final surprise on Sunday when 22-year-old rookie Derek Ernst birdied the 18th hole to force a play-off, and then won the Wells Fargo Championship on the first extra hole against David Lynn of England.
Ernst was playing only his ninth PGA Tour event.
He was the fourth alternate at the start of the week.
He was No 1,207 in the world ranking.
None of that mattered when he choked up on a 6-iron from 192 yards and drilled his shot into 4 feet.
He made one of only four birdies on the 18th in the final round, and this was the most important.
It gave him a 2-under 70 and put him in a play-off with Lynn, who also shot 70.
Congratulations: David Lynn shakes hands with Derek Ernst after the latter won at Quail Hollow (left) The shot was no fluke.
On the 18th hole in the playoff, as the cold rain started coming down harder, Ernst hit a 3-iron left of the flag to 15 feet.
Lynn went from the bank of a creek to the bunker to the rough behind the green, and Ernst was able to win with a par.
Phil Mickelson, who had a one-shot lead with three holes to play, made bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes, and he narrowly missed a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th that would have allowed him to join the playoff.
He had a 73 and finished third.
‘This feeling is unbelievable right now,’ said Ernst, who wasn’t sure where he was going at the start of the week and can’t believe where he’s going now.
Making a splash: Lynn hits a shot on the 18th hole in the play-off against Ernst Pure delight: Ernst shares a moment with his girlfriend Alison Ross on the 18th green Sand storm: Lynn hits a bunker shot on the 18th hole during the final round For starters, the victory at Quail Hollow gets him into The Players Championship next week.
He qualifies for two World Golf Championships, the PGA Championship, the Tournament of Champions next year at Kapalua and the Masters next April.
And to think he started this week in a rental car driving from New Orleans to Georgia to play a Web.com Tour event.
He received a call Monday afternoon that enough players had pulled out – several stayed away because of the ragged greens – that he was in the Wells Fargo Championship.
The rest of the week was a blur.
The greens were choppy all week, surprising for a club that prides itself on the most pristine conditions.
The sun didn’t shine all week, and it was colder on the first weekend of May in Charlotte than it was at Pebble Beach in February.
Early in the final round, the leaderboard featured Mickelson and Nick Watney at the top, with Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood right behind.
Shout: Rory McIlroy reacts as his tee shot on the tenth hole travels right Keeping pace: Lee Westwood finished near the top in the Wells Fargo Championship When it was over, the winner was Ernst, who grew up in the central valley of California and has cloudy vision out of his right eye from a freak accident as a kid.
Ernst won just over $1.2 million and most important to him was the two-year exemption that comes with winning.
Robert Karlsson, the Swede who now lives in Charlotte, needed a birdie on the last hole to get into the playoff but made bogey for a 72.
That left him in a tie for fourth with Westwood, who was tied for the lead until back-to-back bogeys early on the back nine.
McIlroy was one shot behind when he made a double bogey on the 12th hole.
He played that hole in 4-over for the week.
He had a 73 and tied for 10th.
Ready for action: Phil Mickelson plays his second shot on the fifth hole…
and is watched by fans (below)
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Sandown success for Sugar Boy
Chris Hayes: Rode the winner at Sandown Sugar Boy (4/1) ran out a game winner of the bet365 Classic Trial at Sandown as the Irish raiders dominated.
Sent to the front early on by jockey Chris Hayes, the son of Authorized looked in trouble when Eye Of The Storm (2/1f) went past him two furlongs from home.
However, Ryan Moore could never quite put the race to bed on the favourite and it became clear on the climb to the line that Sugar Boy was not yet beaten.
He poked his nose in front with half a furlong to go and tenaciously held off the Eye Of The Storm to win by a neck, with Galileo Rock just behind in third having been held up.
Hayes said: “He’s a good galloper and Patrick filled me with confidence going out.
“I just said to Patrick that if we’d got beat it would have been my fault because I possibly didn’t make enough use of him.
“It was my first time riding at the track and I thought I’d gone quick enough in the ground.
“But looking at how he finished I could have gone a bit quicker.”
Ashes 2013: Australian press savages 16-man squad selection
The Australian media has torn into the 16-man squad to tour England in this summer’s Ashes series, calling it a ‘dog’s breakfast’ and questioning whether the ‘motley mob’ is the worst to ever leave their shores.
The selections of 35-year-old batsman Chris Rogers, who has just one Test cap to his name, and the appointment of wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, also 35, as vice-captain, drew particular criticism, with one paper likening them to ‘Dad’s Army’.
A perfect storm of perceived weaknesses – a lack of specialist spinners and top quality batsmen, and a fear of conflict within the squad – led Aussie pundits to fear a 5-0 whitewash.
Scroll down for video Brave face: Captain Michael Clarke (centre), vice-captain Brad Haddin (left) and fast bowler Peter Siddle following the announcement of Australia’s 16-man squad for the Ashes tour of England this summer ‘It’s a dog’s breakfast of a squad with some hardened old heads infused in a desperate attempt to give some stability and grunt to a team torn apart by internal strife on the recent Indian tour,’ wrote Ben Dorries in the Herald Sun.
‘You could make a case for this motley mob being Australia’s worst Ashes tourists.’ A number of newspapers compared the selection to the side led by Allan Border in 1989, which was described as the ‘worst ever’ only to return with the Urn following a 4-0 win.
‘This touring party is without question the least-credentialled Ashes squad since then, but it is better than the ramshackle 17 that ventured to India with such painful on- and off-field results a couple of months ago,’ wrote the Sydney Morning Herald.
Return the Urn: Michael Clarke (centre), Steve Waugh (left) and Mark Taylor before today’s squad unveiling The Herald Sun also picked up on the consequences of this dressing room discord, particularly the disagreements between Shane Watson and Michael Clarke, which led to Watson stepping down as vice-captain last week.
‘The incompatible Clarke and Watson simply can’t cop each other and Watson’s ridiculous claim that he resigned from the vice-captaincy to allow succession planning was shown up to be nonsense when 35-year-old Haddin was handed the vice-captaincy gig.’ Trying to pre-empt the reaction of the English press following the selection, Dorries wrote: ‘You can already hear them calling it Dad’s Army.’ Big call: Jackson Bird (left) was surprise inclusion in Australia’s 16-man Ashes squad.
He is pictured here alongside Peter Siddle and Brad Haddin Other areas of weakness were also analysed, including the selection of just one specialist spinner.
The Herald Sun said ‘Australia’s selectors are putting most of their eggs in one basket and banking on pure pace,’ while the Daily Telegraph said the omission of promising left-armer Ashton Agar was a ‘shock.’ There were also deep worries about the top order, with the Herald Sun calling it ‘woeful’ and the ‘fly in the ointment.’ It continued: ‘Consider this.
Not one of Australia’s top-order planks of Dave Warner, Ed Cowan, Phil Hughes or Shane Watson average more than 40 at Test level.
‘You cannot bank on our batsmen.’ Revenge: England were convincing 3-1 series winners in the 2010-11 series But Steve Waugh, part of that 1989 team, suggested that history could repeat itself.
He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘There is certainly enough talent here for this team to be successful.
We can beat any team in the world and we proved that, almost, last year when we nearly beat South Africa, who are the No.1 team.
‘So we’re not that far away.
It’s a matter of the top six getting some consistency, getting some confidence.
‘England have themselves been very inconsistent over the past 12, 18 months.’ ESPN Cricinfo’s Brydon Coverdale wrote: ‘England could look at these facts about Australia’s 16-man Ashes squad and wonder if it is a touring party or a touring wake.’ But he added: ‘What’s relevant now is that John Inverarity and his selection panel have picked the best group they could.
The squad is neither a throwback nor a forward gamble; it is a team for the here and now.
And in a year featuring two Ashes series, what else matters but the here and now?’
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