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Wilson!

Written by: Tony Korologos | Monday, January 17th, 2011
Categories: PGA Tour • Pro Golf
Tags: PGA Tour

Mark Wilson wins 2011 Sony Open

HOG congratulations to Mark Wilson for a great 36 hole performance yesterday at the Sony Open. With the rain delayed first round, the Tour had to play 36 on Sunday to finish on time. Wilson fired two bogey free rounds, 65 and 67 (-5, -3) to win the tournament by two shots.

When Wilson pulled his tee shot into the left green side bunker on #17, a 194 yard par-3, I thought perhaps a playoff between him and Tim Clark was looming. But when he made the clutch putt of nearly 11 feet to save par I knew he had the golf balls to finish it off and win.

Notes

Interesting notes for the Sony Open include a hole in one by Shaun Micheel, though he missed the cut. So the guy misses the cut and makes no dough, but has to buy drinks for everyone. Ouch.

Camilo Villegas wasn’t disqualified this week, but didn’t make the cut either. So the Hawaiian swing for Villegas was not a profitable venture as he made zero dollars in prize money. I feel for his caddy.

John Daly looked fairly consistent and solid. He just couldn’t score low enough to make the cut, missing it by one shot.

Chris DiMarco played very well, which is nice to see. He easily made the cut and ended up T30.

Davis Love III didn’t have any issues adjusting to his new equipment after switching from Titleist to Bridgestone. He played very well with some great ball striking. DLIII fires four rounds in the 60’s and records a top ten finish.

Stuart Appleby had the lead for a while but couldn’t put together a strong finishing round. T13.

Surprises

Some surprising performances from players this week were both good and bad.

After such a great performance last week at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, Robert Garrigus missed the cut this week.

Others who surprisingly missed the cut include Jim Furyk and Adam Scott.

Made the cut but didn’t play the final two rounds? HUH?

The Tour’s ever confusing “made the cut but didn’t play the weekend” oddity really throws me for a loop. Despite technically making the cut and making prize money, players like Zach Johnson, Vijay Singh, Rocco Mediate and Heath Slocum did not play the final two rounds. A very strange setup.

2011 Sony Open Final Leaderboard

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Pos	Player	Money	To Par	Total Score
1	Mark Wilson	$990,000.00	-16	264
T2	Tim Clark	$484,000.00	-14	266
T2	Steve Marino	$484,000.00	-14	266
4	Jimmy Walker	$264,000.00	-13	267
T5	Matt Bettencourt	$209,000.00	-12	268
T5	Matt Kuchar	$209,000.00	-12	268
T7	Shigeki Maruyama	$177,375.00	-11	269
T7	Roland Thatcher	$177,375.00	-11	269
T9	Chris Riley	$143,000.00	-10	270
T9	Jerry Kelly	$143,000.00	-10	270
T9	Steve Stricker	$143,000.00	-10	270
T9	Davis Love III	$143,000.00	-10	270
T13	Rory Sabbatini	$94,285.72	-9	271
T13	Anthony Kim	$94,285.72	-9	271
T13	Chad Campbell	$94,285.72	-9	271
T13	Tag Ridings	$94,285.71	-9	271
T13	Justin Rose	$94,285.71	-9	271
T13	Stuart Appleby	$94,285.71	-9	271
T13	Brian Gay	$94,285.71	-9	271
T20	Brendon de Jonge	$57,357.15	-8	272
T20	Jeff Overton	$57,357.15	-8	272
T20	John Senden	$57,357.14	-8	272
T20	Jason Day	$57,357.14	-8	272
T20	Kevin Na	$57,357.14	-8	272
T20	Cameron Beckman	$57,357.14	-8	272
T20	Alex Prugh	$57,357.14	-8	272
T27	Fredrik Jacobson	$40,700.00	-7	273
T27	Boo Weekley	$40,700.00	-7	273
T27	Marc Leishman	$40,700.00	-7	273
T30	Arjun Atwal	$34,925.00	-6	274
T30	Chris Kirk	$34,925.00	-6	274
T30	John Merrick	$34,925.00	-6	274
T30	Chris DiMarco	$34,925.00	-6	274
T34	Daniel Summerhays	$26,606.25	-5	275
T34	D.J. Brigman	$26,606.25	-5	275
T34	Jarrod Lyle	$26,606.25	-5	275
T34	Colt Knost	$26,606.25	-5	275
T34	Steven Bowditch	$26,606.25	-5	275
T34	Aaron Baddeley	$26,606.25	-5	275
T34	Jonathan Byrd	$26,606.25	-5	275
T34	Spencer Levin	$26,606.25	-5	275
T42	Ernie Els	$19,800.00	-4	276
T42	Nate Smith	$19,800.00	-4	276
T42	Brandt Jobe	$19,800.00	-4	276
T42	Kevin Chappell	$19,800.00	-4	276
T46	Charlie Wi	$15,592.50	-3	277
T46	Liang	$15,592.50	-3	277
T46	Webb Simpson	$15,592.50	-3	277
T46	Jason Bohn	$15,592.50	-3	277
50	Michael Connell	$13,860.00	-2	278
51	Billy Mayfair	$13,530.00	-1	279
52	Ryan Palmer	$13,200.00	E	280
53	Michael Sim	$12,980.00	+1	281
T54	Jesper Parnevik	$12,705.00	+2	282
T54	Matt McQuillan	$12,705.00	+2	282
56	Jason Dufner	$12,540.00	+7	287
MDF	Kent Jones	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Alex Cejka	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Zach Johnson	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Vijay Singh	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Rocco Mediate	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Ben Martin	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Jim Herman	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Scott Gutschewski	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Fred Funk	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Jhonattan Vegas	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Alexandre Rocha	$11,880.00	-2	138
MDF	Ryuji Imada	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Jeff Klauk	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Pat Perez	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Fabian Gomez	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Michio Matsumura	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Kyle Stanley	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Joseph Bramlett	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Steve Flesch	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Jim Renner	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Duffy Waldorf	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Heath Slocum	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Marc Turnesa	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Charles Howell III	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Keegan Bradley	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	David Hearn	$10,395.00	-1	139
MDF	Joe Affrunti	$10,395.00	-1	139
CUT	Chad Collins		E	140
CUT	Bo Van Pelt		E	140
CUT	Zack Miller		E	140
CUT	Carl Pettersson		E	140
CUT	Justin Leonard		E	140
CUT	Troy Matteson		E	140
CUT	John Daly		E	140
CUT	Brian Davis		E	140
CUT	Peter Tomasulo		E	140
CUT	Blake Adams		+1	141
CUT	Matt Jones		+1	141
CUT	Johnson Wagner		+1	141
CUT	Paul Goydos		+1	141
CUT	Charles Warren		+1	141
CUT	Jim Furyk		+1	141
CUT	Nathan Green		+1	141
CUT	Derek Lamely		+1	141
CUT	Tim Petrovic		+1	141
CUT	Robert Allenby		+2	142
CUT	Tim Herron		+2	142
CUT	Bio Kim		+2	142
CUT	Troy Merritt		+2	142
CUT	Shaun Micheel		+2	142
CUT	Robert Garrigus		+2	142
CUT	Adam Scott		+2	142
CUT	Dean Wilson		+2	142
CUT	Jamie Lovemark		+2	142
CUT	Scott Stallings		+2	142
CUT	Tony Finau		+2	142
CUT	Michael Putnam		+2	142
CUT	David Mathis		+2	142
CUT	Martin Piller		+3	143
CUT	Shane Bertsch		+3	143
CUT	Sunghoon Kang		+3	143
CUT	Shunsuke Sonoda		+3	143
CUT	Tom Gillis		+4	144
CUT	K.J. Choi		+4	144
CUT	D.J. Trahan		+4	144
CUT	Cameron Tringale		+4	144
CUT	Koumei Oda		+4	144
CUT	Joe Durant		+4	144
CUT	Josh Teater		+4	144
CUT	Paul Stankowski		+4	144
CUT	Camilo Villegas		+4	144
CUT	David Duval		+4	144
CUT	Hideki Matsuyama		+4	144
CUT	Bobby Gates		+4	144
CUT	Gary Woodland		+4	144
CUT	William McGirt		+5	145
CUT	Tommy Gainey		+6	146
CUT	Hunter Haas		+6	146
CUT	Kevin Hayashi		+6	146
CUT	Chris Baryla		+7	147
CUT	Brendan Steele		+7	147
CUT	David Saka		+8	148
CUT	Michael Thompson		+9	149
CUT	Doug LaBelle II		+10	150
CUT	Jeff Maggert		+10	150
CUT	Dave Eichelberger		+14	154
CUT	Kevin Kisner		+15	155
WD	Tadahiro Takayama		+3	73

One response to “Wilson!”

Golf Training says:

January 18, 2011 at 6:19 am

Nice to see 2 of the shorter players winning early this year. Can we expect either of them to win again? I would say Byrd will win again before Wilson.