PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
Webb Simpson’s runaway victory soon to be forgotten
Ponte Vedra Beach — Webb Simpson jumped from 41st to 20th in the world rankings with his victory at the Players Championship on Sunday, still far from superstar territory in a sport with room for only a handful of house- hold names. Tiger Woods, at 42, will no doubt dominate the golf landscape until he retires, while 20-somethings Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy have all occupied top spot at a young age. US Masters champion Patrick Reed, and Dustin Johnson, world No.1 before Thomas deposed him on Sunday, were all ignored by fans, media and television cameras alike at TPC Sawgrass, so Simpson seems to have little chance of being more than a 24-hour story. If capturing a US Open at age 26 did not earn Simpson fame, a Players Championship six years later is unlikely to do so either. But the man who sat unrecognised in a local coffee shop on Saturday morning is among a group of players fractionally below the top echelon, capable of winning when they put all facets of the g...
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