Golf Gods Work Quickly Sometimes: Stanley Wins!
/A week after collapsing at Torrey Pines, Kyle Stanley was the beneficiary of Spencer Levin's Sunday struggles. John Strege explains:
Levin's bid for a first PGA Tour victory was undone by the toxic mix of sand, water and jumping cholla.
It was no less painful to watch than Stanley's implosion in his own bid for victory No. 1 a week earlier, when he needed no worse than a seven at the 72nd hole to win the Farmers Insurance Open, made eight, and lost in a playoff.
"That's golf," Stanley said, attempting to explain the inexplicable.
The upshot was that the Waste Management Phoenix Open was a tournament lost instead of won, notwithstanding the six-under par 65 registered by its winner by default, Stanley, who might have clinched the 2012 PGA Tour comeback player of the year award. He overcame an eight-shot deficit in a single round only a week after his own devasting loss.
Levin graciously sat in the press center and took questions after the round.
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