Forecasting is always a chore, both for the forecaster and the predicted.
At the post-match press conference of the Volvo China Open, Zhang Huilin, the prize money king of the ST China Tour and a member of the DP World Tour, confided a truth: in fact, in the game, he was also calculating whether he could keep the title of the first place in the prize list.
Moreover, we also took it by the hand and was named by him
"After the first day of playing, I haven't counted, even after two days of playing, I haven't counted, but I saw bird sports out of (prediction) and I have to be in the top 7." Zhang Huilin said, "I was thinking, I am now +3, I should hit a -5 on the third day, I can only try to get closer to this aspect." ”
However, recalling the moving day, Zhang Huilin once again "flipped the card" for us.
Zhang Huilin through a bitter battle (Photo: Liu Zhuang/Wang Liming)
"On the third day I only played an even par, but okay, went a few miles ahead. After this day, Bird Sports sent another... I was thinking, how many times should I hit? ”
"It's like buying groceries, you've been settling accounts!" Zhang Huilin used a metaphor, easy but heavy.
However, later he also said bluntly that when the battle of the bonus king reached the stage of fighting bayonets, it was pressure and motivation.
"I want to attack again, but when I attack, my body will be particularly tight, really tight!" So this time the ball came down, I felt that although I didn't win the championship, the balls I played were all the balls of the championship group. Zhang Huilin said.
Wu Junjie's real-time bonus list of the Central Tour
The exchange between the Central Tour Prize King and the media can't help but remind people of the Hero World Challenge a month ago. At that time, before the game, Nosferatu (@VC606), the god of golf data on Twitter, deduced that if Colin Morikawa won the championship, he would surpass Ram to reach the first place in the world.
Immediately after the pre-match press conference, Colin Morikawa flipped the Nosferatu "brand".
"I realized I could be the number one in the world, Nosferatu posted a bunch of predictions online and we all followed him." The Japanese-American handsome man said, "I saw these predictions. I guess I just need to focus on this week's win, and if I do, it's all going to happen. ”
Colin Morikawa named the media that researched predicting him
The PGA Tour star named the media, vivid and hilarious video, which was subsequently retweeted hundreds of times, and the Golf Digest website even named it one of the "7 most surprising golf social interactions of 2021".
Unfortunately, Colin Morikawa once held a 5-stroke lead after three rounds, but he lost a good game in a good situation, ceded the championship to his university rival Victor Hofland, and failed to achieve the feat of ascending to the throne at the end of the year...
Unlike Morikawa, Zhang Huilin finally did it. As he said, not a champion, like a champion, in 2022, Hunan will usher in a splendid future on a new stage.
Zhang Huilin was awarded DP World Tour membership
Prediction is a chore, but as long as the ending is sweet, whether it is the predictor or the predicted, all the efforts are worth it.
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