But the biggest mover was in 2009, when Heath Slocum went from 124th up to third after winning the first tournament of the playoffs before eventually finishing eighth. Kim dominated on his way to a victory at the Wyndham with a 21-under score last week and he has finished in the top-25 in three of his last four starts including a runner-up finish at the Barbasol Championship.
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When a layoff didn’t heal the injury, he underwent surgery in February and didn’t play until May. I know that one good week sets up my whole FedEx Cup at this point of the season. With that in mind, you can click through the gallery for a closer look at the best bets with big potential payouts (we’re looking at players at 40-to-1 or longer, per the odds at SkyBet). He missed the cut in the event last season and earned a tie for fifth in 2014.
McIlroy is 36th in the FedExCup standings going into Thursday’s opening round at The Barclays and hopes to climb higher this week at a venue he has always enjoyed. The total balloons to at least $67 million when bonuses are factored in. Five players already have clinched spots: Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson, Jimmy Walker and Brooks Koepka. Brandt Snedeker tied for third last week to move up to No. 6 and would appear to be safe.
While Love would be delighted to have Fowler on the team – a young player who commands the respect of many of his elders – you get the feeling if he isn’t going to make the team on points he’s going to have to prove to Love that he’s deserving.
THE POINTS: The PGA Tour made a slight tweak to the points system for the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Any U.S. squad that draws any one of these three players – let alone two of them at the same time – will have their hands full.
Four distinct playoff tournaments worth $US8.5 million each, with a descending cut beginning at 125 players (or 124, as Anirban Lahiri has withdrawn).
Stenson won the 2013 FedEx Cup title, taking both the Tour Championship and Deutsche Bank Championship that year.
Last tournament: Gene Sauers won the U.S. Senior Open.
Like Oakmont, Bethpage Black is a long, demanding physical test with deep rough. I mention this because those are the stats that I targeted this week when picking out my players for the playbook.
“I’m hoping to play a little better than I have the last three months and have a little run like I did earlier in the year and finish the year off really well and have a shot at winning the FedEx Cup”, he said.
“Well, I think the ultimate goal for me is to stay in the top five, getting into Tour Champ. And it’s Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and it’s soft”.
He makes it sound so simple, perhaps because that’s what he did a year ago.
All it takes is one good week to keep advancing.
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“It would be nice to win a couple, and that’s why I’m saying, to get off to a good start, it would be good to get a win here and get off to a great start that way and really get the push that I had past year”.
