PGA TOURTHE BARCLAYSSite: Farmingdale, N.Y.
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As for the Ryder Cup, Patrick Reed now occupies the final qualifying place by just United States dollars 30,655 from JB Holmes, while Matt Kuchar, Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler can all qualify without winning at Bethpage. On the other hand, there is $10 million on the line at the end of the four-tournament event so it’s probably worth figuring out how it all works.
It is the time of year again (where has this year gone?) where the best player on the PGA Tour is due to be crowned with the FedExCup Playoffs, starting with The Barclays.
Jordan Spieth wasn’t sure who he considered the front-runner, perhaps because the summer has gone by so quickly due to the Olympic schedule. Stenson has one PGA Tour win, but it was a record-breaking performance in the British Open.
Dustin Johnson, the U.S. Open champion, is the favorite at +800 at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com heading into the showdown at Baltusrol Golf Club, followed by the two most recent winners, Jason Day (2015) and Rory McIlroy (2012 and 2014), who are listed at +900.
“I would say it was around Christmas time, New Years’ time, when I could really reflect”, Spieth said. Because I know that it would be great to be able to sit back one day and look at it and go, back in 2016, I was Player of the Year. “But I think that it’s hard to not give it to someone who has won a major championship”.
Pick to win the FedEx Cup: If history holds it won’t be Jason Day hoisting the big check and trophy in five weeks at East Lake. I can get better as a player and have years that are similar and maybe even better some day, but it’s just not going to happen every year. To have five wins, and especially two more in the playoffs, will obviously get it done. Last year’s champion, Jordan Spieth, is now fifth.
After a long, 44-year absence in the city, the PGA Tour returned to Indianapolis when the BMW Championship ventured down from its traditional Chicago home. Staged over the last month of the season, the earliest editions of the event got plenty of side-eye from players, fans and media.
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“The 2009 US Open was really wet and the course played longer, and it was easier to hit the fairways back then as the ball would just splat”, he said. Day has the status of being the world No. 1 and the defending champion after his 20-under 268 at Whistling Straits, but he has finished outside of the top 10 in his last two events. “And it’s Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and it’s soft”. He won the North & South twice, and the senior version six times. The trick is to stay there. “It’s up there in the top few toughest courses I’ve ever played”.
