The Tour Championship, the final event of the FedEx Cup, is September 22-25.
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The FedEx Cup is rather straight forward: four tournaments, cutting down along the way with the victor grabbing a cool $10 million from the $35 million bonus pool.
Though the world number five clinched an emotional victory at the Irish Open in May, his first triumph in his national open, he has failed to win on the PGA Tour despite several close calls and missed the cut in two of the four majors.
Another longshot on the golf betting lines at the sportsbooks with a great value price is the 23-year-old Argentine, Emiliano Grillo (+8000). In that timeframe, there have been a few other epic performances by some of the best golfers in the world, as the current top two in the Official World Golf Rankings, Jason Day (2015) and Dustin Johnson (2011), tied Bob Gilder (1982) and Johnny Miller (1974) with the lowest scores to par (-19) at this event in their respective victories. The Barclays takes place this Thursday-Sunday from Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York. The withdrawal means he will not be among the top 100 who advance to the next playoff event.
The Barclays will see 25 players culled as the FedEx Cup play-offs eventually dwindles down to the top 30 at the Tour Championship. Wet conditions leading into the event led players to tear up the Pete Dye design and host of John Daly’s famous 1991 PGA Championship win.
Marc Leishman will survive to the next round of the playoffs despite a horror second round seven-over-78 sending him home from Bethpage Black.
The playoffs begin with the Barclays in NY tomorrow.
Headlined by world number one and defending Barclays champion Jason Day, as well as FedEx Cup title holder Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy, the top 125 in the points standings on the PGA Tour following the Wyndham Championship will descend on NY, starting Thursday.
“I was getting better and better and that’s what I’m looking for now”.
“I think a couple wins would be nice a couple more wins should do it, yeah”, Day said.
Jason Day won the tournament past year when it was held in Chicago.
The BMW Championship is the modern incarnation of the WGA’s Western Open, which was known as a major in the earlier days of American golf and played 103 times before halting in 2006.
“I think by Tour Champs, I wasn’t – it was just a hard week for me, because I couldn’t really click, get anything clicked together”. And dropping back to even, I’ve got an uphill battle now. He has gone more than three months since his last victory. Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson are among 16 players who have qualified for the FedEx Cup playoffs since they began in 2007.
The Barclays has an $8.5 million purse, so players still can make up ground.
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Scott says he has done some honest analysis of his game in recent weeks and ideintified what he needed to work on.
