Deutsche Bank Players Championship, day four

Today I was rooting for Gary Birch Jr., followed his round from hole 10 to 18. Gary is of british descent, but has a german passport (portrait on welt.de (german only)). I got to know him last year on our GC St. Pauli club championships, he is also member of the club. He normally play the Challenge and EPD tour events, but received a wildcard for the Deutsche Bank. With solid rounds of 73-70-72 he started in match five this morning, not as early as yesterday where he had to start at 6:40 as a single player.

After ten holes, Gary had dropped two shots, but then put the foot on the throttle. Birdies on 12, 15 and 18 put him on -2 for the tournament. His second shot on the par 5 15th was the best shot I swa from him. He narrowly missed the eagle put, but saved the birdie. After the round he told me that a couple of other players read the green as he did and every one of them missed the hole as the ball didn’t pick up the break everybody saw there.
He was pretty satisfied with his performance and is looking forward to the Russian Open he will be playing next week.

After watching Garys round I met Denis, the author of Foremenblog.  We followed Rory Sabbatini, watched some balls get wet on the third hole and then joined the flight of Charley Hoffman (what a freakin’ haircut).

Before it started to rain heavily I left Gut Kaden and watched the final of the tournament on the warm and dry couch of my in-laws. As Oliver Wilson said: “I’m desperate for some sunshine, I can’t take any more wind and rain.” There is absolutely nothing to add to that!