The top 70 after next week advance to the third playoff event, with the top 30 going to East Lake for the Tour Championship.
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Rickie Fowler, Newsday columnist Mark Herrmann writes, “probably is a lock for the [U.S. Ryder Cup] team”, notwithstanding his back-nine collapse at the Barclays on Sunday.
It sends him back to his second Ryder Cup after he so famously – or infamously – put his index finger to his lips and shushed a vocal European crowd at the 2014 event in Gleneagles, Scotland. That, he said during a recent visit to Norton, was among his top priorities for 2016. “So yeah, very disappointing”. “Just made a couple bad swings at the wrong time”.
DEFENDING champion and World Number One Jason Day could only manage a final round 2-under 69 and never genuinely threatened eventual victor Patrick Reed in the final round of The Barclays at Bethpage State Park.
“Anybody in the top 100 has to be our radar because a guy could get hot the next two weeks and move himself to the Tour Championship and be in the running for the FedEx Cup”, Love said. Zach Johnson’s caddie Damon Green did not accompany him forSunday’s final round after being dehydrated Friday.
The way Fowler finished only leads to two weeks of uncertainty.
Three dropped shots in the last four holes, saw Fowler finished in a tie for seventh place.
That’s when it all went wrong.
“I’m just trying to win the tournament”, Fowler said when asked if he knew where he stood. “Go ahead and do what you can do and get the job done, ‘” he explained.
“It will hurt”, Fowler said. Larson had the better restart and went on to win by 1.48 seconds.
“Every time I was standing over the ball, I couldn’t feel like it was going to be a good shot”.
Love will make three of his picks after the BMW Championship, which ends on September 11, and then will make his final pick after the Tour Championship on September 25.
The FedEx Cup playoffs feature a progressive cut through three events to determine the final 30 players to qualify for the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta in late September, with the victor of that tournament taking home $10 million.
Big names such as Bubba Watson, Matt Kuchar and Rickie Fowler, who failed to finish in the top three and earn an automatic spot this week despite entering the final round with a one-shot lead, will be anxiously awaiting Love’s decision.
That gives the Americans two of this year’s major champions and only one rookie. On a team that already features five Ryder Cup rookies, he is looking hard at experience and appears set on Martin Kaymer and Lee Westwood.
The nine automatic European spots had already been filled, but only five players on the United States of America team were guaranteed a place before the points closed on Sunday following The Barclays.
“He just told me, ‘Hey, I’m going to go get my work done and I’ll see you in Minnesota, ‘ ” Reed said.
And Stenson might not be around either. He withdrew from The Barclays but says he may play at TPC Boston, where he won in 2013.
The 41st Ryder Cup will be held Sept 27 – Oct 2 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska and will be televised by KARE 11.
After a late meltdown cost Jutanugarn her first LPGA Tour victory in April in the major ANA Inspiration, she broke through in May with three straight victories.
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Chad Campbell was the last man into the Deutsche Bank field at No. 100 in the standings, while Blayne Barber, Ireland’s Shane Lowry and 2011 PGA champion Keegan Bradley were the first three out.
