Scott Piercy finished third, seven strokes back. “It will go in the bank and if I want to buy something nice, I will. I mean, like, it’s nice to think that you could win $10 million this week, but that’s not what excites me. Not out of sadness anyway”, he said. If he can pull out a win this week at the TOUR Championship and win the FedEx Cup, then it would nearly have to go to Day. Stenson said, shifting into sarcasm mode. “So it shouldn’t be that hard”.
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The 45-year-old Furyk will collect last-place money of $132,000 from the elite event, and will receive a FedExCup bonus based on his final standing on the points list, according to PGA Tour officials.
Stenson compared it with the world ranking.
Jason Day is the favourite to take out the cup after claiming the number one ranking, but Fowler is not giving up on victory. Golf savors its history, and Spieth stirred visions of Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods in his prime during the spring and early summer.
Bringing it up as a goal to the public led to backlash over the years.
“I expected to get a little bit (of criticism), but not the response that I got from practically everyone”, Day recalled, another championship trophy poised within arm’s reach.
A win by Spieth would put an exclamation mark on a remarkable season for the 21-year-old Texas Longhorn and an end to any suspense about the outcome of the PoY race.
It’s why he’s 18/5 with Betfair when this article was written to win the closing Tour Championship ahead of McIlroy and Spieth.
Using the experience of World Number One Day, it definitely pays off heeding the advice to “follow your dreams”. Five players have won the Tour Championship in their first appearance. Day won the PGA Championship. Spieth has four.
“It is approaching stupid”, Jordan Spieth added. Day is at 69.13.
Day will have to hold off challenges from Rory McIlory and Jordan Spieth, who as the second and third ranked players in the FedEx Cup could also take the cash with a win. That might be a slight edge for Day, however, because he has played in four fewer events.
He has vowed to continue his quest of further rising in the golfing world, which has been always the case for him as a golfer since Day One. The bad news is still hasn’t quite figured out East Lake.
“The fact that five out of the last six majors are won by guys in their 20s and you would consider young, up-and-comers, it just shows that in the biggest stages of what we do, we’re fearless, and we embrace the opportunity”.
“It’s a learning process”, said the 36-year-old. Then again, he has no choice. Fowler, who tied for fourth in the BMW Championship last week, was in good shape four years ago at East Lake before closing with a 76 and sliding to a tie for 23rd.
Rory McIlroy, last year’s victor , didn’t forget. But that’s the process of a golfer.
That sounds all well and good, but can he really do it? I don’t like getting beat in anything and I’m very stubborn.
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“Knowing that right now there’s no one on this planet that’s better than me, that’s pretty cool”.
