“That was really the only reason I changed”, he said, per the Associated Press (via the Daily Mail).
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“I’m seeing the lines really well”.
The PGA Tour will take a week off next weekend before heading to the Tour Championship at East Lake in Georgia September 22nd.
“I couldn’t tell you in the last four years at any point in time how many points I’ve had”, he said, per Steve Hummer of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “All the work I have put in on my wedges has really paid off this year”.
After birdieing four of his last five holes to end round three, Johnson looks like he is going to exit the BMW atop the FedEx Cup standings.
Choi Jin-ho, who won the SK Telecom Open previous year, carded a 68 with five birdies and two bogeys to share third place with Lee Chang-Woo, who finished with a 69 and a total of 202.
Jason Day withdrew midway through the BMW Championship on Sunday because of a back injury.
The 2013 Masters champion started the third round with six consecutive pars before holing a 40 foot “bomb” at the seventh for birdie. “You don’t always have your best game, and I was able to finish it off and get in the Tour Championship”.
Day was leading the Vardon Trophy for the lowest adjusted scoring average going into the BMW Championship.
He was 2-over on his lap thru eight holes, outbalancing birdie-4 at five with bogey at the par-4 second and a double bogey-5 at the third that included a shank from a greenside bunker.
“I feel like I played well enough to get that shot”, Holmes said. “It was a little frustrating I lipped them out”.
He hit to 3 feet on the 233-yard par-3 17th to set up his final birdie. One shot behind was Kang Kyung-Nam, who was looking to re-ignite his career after completing his mandatory military service previous year. He made a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-3 13th, rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the next hole and then made an eagle putt from 25 feet on the 15th. His consolation, along with $1,836,000 in those weeks, was the No. 5 seed at the Tour Championship in two weeks.
Among notables to fall outside the top 30 and miss out on a chance at the US$10 million jackpot were American Rickie Fowler, Spaniard Sergio Garcia, American Brooks Koepka and Swede Henrik Stenson.
Johnson’s new putter has certainly been the X factor in his performance this week.
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Matt Kuchar closed with a 71 and tied for fourth, along with Ryan Palmer (70), Adam Scott (71), Schwartzel and Holmes.
