It was a light week in the world of professional golf. The LPGA, Web.com, Champions, Ladies European, and PGA Latinoamerica tours all took the seven days off. The stage was left to the Open de Portugal and a small get-together, south of Jacksonville, to hold our attention.

We’ll get to Iberia later. First, here are four memories from the 2017 Players Championship.

Players Championship Memory #1: Si Woooooooooo

The last time Si Woo Kim was at No. 14 … ???? pic.twitter.com/NcGZQU6aEd

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 14, 2017

Si Woo Kim did what some great golfers have done previously; he made The Players Championship his first top-shelf win. It’s not a major, but it’s close. Guys like Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott, and Henrik Stenson all won at TPC Sawgrass before claiming a major title. Guys like Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar, and K. J. Choi have also won, but are yet to break through in one of the big four. What about Si Woo?

Well, he’s only 21, and the youngest winner in the history of the event. He has won twice in nine months on the PGA Tour and has shown the ability to hold a lead. Kim made three birdies on the outward half to take the lead, then he put the swing on cruise control with nine pars on the inward side. While golfers melted down all around him, Kim was calm and a deserving champion.

Related: Si Woo Kim’s Winning WITB

Players Championship Memory #2: Big bird, that albatross

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Just perfect. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/bgyFEl6pzI

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 14, 2017

Despite Kim’s youthful victory, the 2017 trend has been toward wily veterans and experience. Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia dueled it out at Augusta in April, and Rafael Cabrera-Bello jumped up to a 4th-place tie with an albatross-birdie run on the 16th and 17th holes on Sunday. He wasn’t the top veteran in the field; that distinction went to Ian Poulter and Louis Oosthuizen, two stalwarts who finished three back of Kim at 7-under par.

What Cabrera-Bello, a fist-time Ryder Cup participant in 2016, did best was show a flair for the dramatic under the greatest of pressure. While Poulter made an shank-bogey at the last (more on that later) and Oosthuizen bogeyed two holes on the back nine after closing the gap, Cabrera-Bellow simply ran out of holes. Even when he got himself into trouble (he drove it in the water at the last) he managed to hole a 40-foot putt to save par.

Players Championship Memory #3: Shanks a lot

From way right to extremely tight.

The ups and downs of golf for @IanJamesPoulter.

Whew. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/Jw6q8WP4Dr

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 14, 2017

Love him or hate him, Ian Poulter brings out the fans… with their cheers and jeers. One of the great Ryder Cup performers of the last 20 years, Poulty has had less individual success than one would expect from such a veteran of international competition. Poulter, having excused himself from attention over the last few seasons, made a delightful return to our scrutiny with a consistent, four-day run.

Poulter was deep in the mix after a birdie at the 11th on Sunday. He followed it with an inexplicable bogey at the oh-so-simple 12th hole, and then closed with that bogey on No. 18 after a hosel-rocket approach. Did the weight of the moment get to him? Absolutely. Did he shy away from it? Not for a second. Was it his worst memory of the week? Nope, that would have been the Twitter block from Brandel Chamblee.

Good to have you back, Poulty.

Players Championship Memory #4: Don’t mess with the 12th

Dustin Johnson took the scenic route to birdie on No. 12. #QuickHits pic.twitter.com/ka8Gg4KmwP

— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 14, 2017

The PGA Tour pays attention to other governing bodies. After the USGA received much recognition for its reincorporation of the driveable par-4 hole at the U.S. Open, the Tour pulled the trigger on a change to the 12th hole. Long one of the most-eagled holes on the course, despite its length of 360 yards, the Tour hoped that a reduction to 300 yards would make it even more likely to impact the tournament. Sadly, year one was a flop. Here are four reasons:

• Trouble left and trouble right. No reason to risk driver or even three-metal with bunkers and H2O lurking.
• Awkward look to the hole (see below.) It simply doesn’t set up well for the players. The silly bunker up the middle should have been replaced by a series of smaller ones. As it is, half of the fairway is out of play.
• A great mind once indicated that a driveable par-4 should make the lay-up difficult and the risky play easier. Not the case here.
• Another great mind, in this case, Tom Doak, suggested recently that if the 12th were meant to look like this, Pete Dye would have found it when he laid out the course.

As it was, Dustin Johnson gave us one great memory when he played the 12th totally wrong, and came away totally right. All this debate and criticism may be forgotten one day when some guy aces the hole on the way to victory.

European Tour: Wallace holds off red-hot Suri in Portugal

You know it’s an off week when the European Tour and its Challenge Series hold a dual-ranking event. Matt Wallace of England will be forever grateful for this conspiracy. Wallace had previously won six times on the Alps Tour (nope, I hadn’t heard of it, either. And no, it’s not a cycling circuit.) and joined the European Challenge Tour in 2017. With all the greats across the pond in North Florida, Wallace led for 72 holes at the Morgado Resort in Portimao.

An unheralded American, Julian Suri, nearly stole the glory from Wallace. Suri birdies four of his first five holes, and 10 of his first 15 to move into the lead. He couldn’t hold form, however, and bogeyed No. 16. Meanwhile, Wallace played perfect golf on the final day with four birdies of his own against zero bogies. He gained strokes on the 13th and the 16th, coasting to a three-shot victory over Suri.