Patrick Reed is at No. 1 in the standings from his victory in The Barclays and his tie for fifth last week at the Deutsche Bank Championship.
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According to oddsmakers at Bovada.lv, Rory McIlroy is favored to win this tournament, as he has 5/1 odds. In that span he won 14 major championships and 80 PGA Tour events, so whenever he doesn’t do that people are going to wonder what’s wrong.
PGA Tour: “Beef” Johnston Eyes Card for 2016-17 Season (read here): As the Web.com Tour Finals approach, fan favorite Andrew “Beef” Johnston will be aiming to earn his PGA Tour playing card for next season with some stellar play over the coming weeks.
KLM Open: Top 10 Power Rankings (read here): As the European Tour prepares to stop off in the Netherlands, I ranked 10 of the leading contenders heading into this week’s KLM Open. Fowler needs a strong result to rate a Ryder Cup spot. He is at No. 27 and is hopeful he doesn’t narrowly miss out on East Lake. The defending FedEx Cup champion won five times last year, including the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Tour Championship, but in what is being called a down year he has won twice and placed in the top 10 seven times in 2016.
CROOKED STICK: John Daly was the ninth alternate when he introduced the world to his “grip it and rip it” ways in the 1991 PGA Championship, and that explains a lot about this Pete Dye design just north of Indianapolis. Of course winning here will go a long way to achieving that goal as the man who goes out on top this week will gain a whopping 2,000 FedExCup points and certainly be a lock, if not the front-runner to win it all, in the big event in a couple of weeks time.
“It’s just incredible, this game, how quickly things can change and how quickly things can turn around”, said Rory McIlroy after coming from six shots behind on the final day to win the Deutsche Bank Championship by two shots. USA captain Davis Love III makes three of his four picks on Monday after the BMW Championship. “It’s pretty simple what I have to do – top two or three – so, yeah, play to win”.
A good week wouldn’t hurt an American’s chances.
Jason Day showed at the PGA Championship that he needed only one practice round to contend for a title. Day leads 80-76 in the points race, mainly because he has an ultra slim lead on Johnson in adjusted scoring average (0.008 difference) and a $507,527 lead on the money list.
Does the Argentine let his mind wander a little and think about the FedEx Cup bonus plus the winner’s check if he were to win the Tour Championship, which would clearly give him the rookie award?
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The win completed a remarkable turnaround for McIlroy, who had got off to a disastrous start in his opening round Friday to be four over par after his first three holes.
