Dan Jenkins and Dave Anderson contend we base for a story, Golf World’s Bill Fields reminded us on Twitter on Saturday, a story in this box Hale Irwin, a few days bashful of 66, melancholy to win a Senior PGA Championship.

The story doesn’t always win, of course. Irwin finished third. Elsewhere, 17-year-old pledge Jordan Spieth finished 32nd in a HP Byron Nelson Championship, 18-year-old Matteo Manassero seventh in a BMW PGA Championship. So most for a oldest and youngest angles.

Yet a story doesn’t always disappoint, either, as a furious Sunday so entertainingly demonstrated, in any box providing during slightest a estimable surrogate and in one box a leading one.

Irwin competence not have won, though Tom Watson, 61, did in a playoff with David Eger. Spieth, a day after his high propagandize graduation that he missed since of his late Saturday tee time, faltered on Sunday, though rookie Keegan Bradley, 24, filled a blank capably with talent and haughtiness and an engaging backstory: His aunt is Hall of Famer Pat Bradley.

Then there was a BMW PGA Championship. Manassero, already a budding star and on a threshold of a feat opposite a world-class field, showed his age and shot 75. In his stead, a dual best players in a universe changed to a fore, Lee Westwood and Luke Donald eventually determining a outcome in a playoff.

Donald prevailed to succeed Westwood as No. 1 in a universe ranking.

That’s entertainment, during slightest as it would be tangible in golf circles. The story in any box redeemed itself.

COOL-HAND LUKE

How, we ask in a arise of Donald’s latest victory, did he ever skip a cut in a Northern Trust Open?

Since sharpened a 79 in a second turn on Feb. 18, Donald has not finished out of a tip 10 in his indirect 9 starts. He’s won twice (the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and a BMW PGA Championship), finished second twice (the Heritage and a Volvo World Match Play Championship), and tied for fourth twice (the Masters and a Players Championship).

Imagine what his record competence be were he to expostulate a round improved (he ranks 114th in sum pushing on a PGA Tour).

THE NEPHEW

The eminent sports clergyman Dr. Bob Rotella wrote this about Pat Bradley in his book, “Golf is a Game of Confidence”:

“She is as mentally tough as any tellurian being we have ever known.”

Keegan Bradley schooled a diversion from his father Mark (Pat’s brother), a conduct pro during Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Golf and Tennis Club. But he has looked to Pat for guidance.

“One of a ways we try to obey her is her toughness and work ethic,” Keegan told a New York Times progressing this year.

Pat Bradley was a Rotella client. Keegan is a devotee, too. “You know ur a golf nerd when alloy Bob Rotella audio tapes come adult dual times in a quarrel on iPod shuffle,” he wrote on Twitter final month.

A 68 in a Sunday gale while in row and a PGA Tour rookie isn’t a work of a diseased mind. Apparently mental toughness is a Bradley family trait.

THE VICTORY BELL

The cow bell that Pat Bradley’s mom (and Keegan Bradley’s grandmother) used to ring any time that Pat won a contest is out of elect and wasn’t ringing on Sunday in approval of Keegan’s victory. The bell is in a final resting place, a World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Fla. It went there in 1991, a year that Bradley was inducted.

BRADLEY VS. BRADLEY

Pat Bradley won 31 times in her career and warranted $5,755,951. Keegan warranted some-more than one-fifth of that sum ($1,170,000) with his initial victory.

THE INTERNATIONAL GAME

Winners of LPGA tournaments this year paint 7 opposite countries, Mariajo Uribe adding Colombia to a list with her feat in a HSBC LPGA Brazil Cup on Sunday. The others: Taiwan (Yani Tseng), Australia (Karrie Webb, who has won twice), Germany (Sandra Gal), United States (Stacy Lewis), Sweden (Maria Hjorth) and Norway (Suzann Pettersen).

Two observations:

• Only one American has won, Lewis during a Kraft Nabisco Championship. Yet this represents one some-more feat than Americans had during this indicate in 2010.

• No Koreans have won yet, shockingly, given a series of Koreans on a LPGA and a demeanour in that they’ve dominated in new years. A year ago, 3 Koreans had won by this theatre of a season.

IZZY AND THE BOYS

Isabelle Beisiegel, a local of Montreal and improved famous as Izzy, won’t comprehend her idea of personification a PGA Tour, though she warranted a good satisfaction prize: She tied for ninth during a Canadian PGA Tour’s open qualifier to acquire personification privileges.

A former LPGA actor and honest discuss All-American during Oklahoma, Beisiegel is austere that a lady can contest with men.

“I’ve always believed it’s a parable that women can’t play opposite men,” she told a National Post in 2008. “The round doesn’t know either it is a male or a lady attack it.”

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