“I think it’s great to have something going on around the hole”.
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Jason Day is the No. 1 player in the world and No. 1 in the FedEx Cup, narrowly moving past U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson on the strength of his runner-up finish at the PGA Championship.
“But in the bigger scheme of our overall golf year, it wasn’t a big win”.
Stenson eyes another playoff run after Open, Olympics (read here): Henrik Stenson is determined to kick on after an incredible summer of golf, and push himself into the mix in the FedEx Cup.
Russell Knox and Jordan Spieth are the only two other players within 1000 points of Day’s lead though with points quadrupled for the four playoff tournaments, that is of little outcome.
Rose was among the nine European players to secure their berth with a week to spare on Sunday, allowing the 36-year-old to turn his attention to the four events in the highly lucrative play-offs.
The top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings after The Barclays move on to the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston on Labor Day weekend.
Day is the defending champion but won this tournament at a different venue, Liberty National, last year. Bethpage Black hosted The Barclays in 2012, won by Nick Watney.
Stefani tied for 11th at the Travelers Championship two weeks ago.
Casey is coming into this week with top 20 finishes in three of his last four starts on TOUR.
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BETHPAGE: The Black is a big ball park, the start of a playoff series that favors the big hitters – the TPC Boston next week, Crooked Stick in IN after that, and then East Lake. But I think his amount of play and desperation to give himself validation for a Ryder Cup spot, Rickie gets his game in fantastic shape this week in NY. “That’s what I am going to try and do”. “Did a lot of good quality things out there, and hopefully I can just keep pushing that from the second to fourth round now”.
In 2015, Jason Day won The Barclays by six strokes, but this year’s opener of the FedEx Cup playoffs will be contested at the daunting Bethpage Black course. Using our experience and our confidence from performing in big moments, but how can we improve each and every week going forward the second half of the year to hopefully eventually create a scenario to where I can play the way I played in the Tour Championship and then feed that into the Ryder Cup? “That’s obviously important. Then it’s kind of all up to me whether I can win it from there”.
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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. Me and a few friends ended up staying at a sketchy hotel in downtown Jamaica where we may or may not have been very close to being mugged, approached by prostitutes and saved by cab driver who gave us a ride home on “credit” because we forgot our wallets at Jones beach.
