Despite the weather delays, it was a pretty exciting weekend at the Zurich Classic...so let me catch you up.
-Andres Romero won for the first time on the PGA Tour. Romero said that he plans to continue to play on the PGA Tour until the British Open. This is another big step for Argentinian golf, as Angel Cabrera captured the US Open last year. I think we have all learned that when Romero gets hot, watch out.
-Peter Lonard may have ended up one shot short at the Zurich Classic, but at least he received a consolation prize, a spot in the Masters. Because Lonard drained a 5-foot par putt on the final hole of regulation, he finished in solo second, allowing him to sneak into the top-50 in the world golf ranking and giving him the opportunity to play at Augusta in two weeks. When Lonard was asked after his round about the likelihood of playing in the season's first major, he said, "No, it'll probably be on my TV screen while I'm drinking beer or something."
-You might have seen it during NBC's coverage, but Stewart Cink was disqualified from the Zurich Classic because he broke rule 13-4, in that he played a shot from a fairway bunker that went into a greenside bunker, and his caddie raked the fairway bunker before Cink hit his greenside bunker shot. Crazy, right? Well, ESPN.com's Jason Sobel does a pretty good job of explaining how mind boggling it all is. Sobel writes, "We get the rule (sorta) and we get why it was instituted by the USGA (kinda), but in circumstances such as this where the caddie would have to wait 180 yards behind his player, it sure doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense." The policy was instituted last October.
