Fowler still hasn’t won in four tries as a 54-hole leader on the PGA Tour, and this one might sting.
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“If you go and win it takes care of everything else: Gets you. into (the) Ryder Cup, gets you to lead FedEx”. Another former Husky, Joel Dahmen, earned the final spot in The 25; he made $150,267, or $975 more than 26th-place Xander Schauffele.
“I’m just trying to win the tournament really”, he said.
Reed took care of business and won The Barclays by one shot at 9-under par over Sean O’Hair and Emiliano Grillo on a rather anticlimactic day of golf at sun-splashed Bethpage, where no one made any sort of dramatic challenge on the back nine, leaving Reed to somewhat coast home.
Top-ranked Jason Day of Australia (69) was two strokes back and tied for fourth with Gary Woodland (69) and world number seven Adam Scott of Australia (71) at the Bethpage Black course in Farmingdale, New York.
“I wasn’t trying to get a decent finish, ” Doug Ferguson of the Associated Press reported. This is Reed’s first PGA Tour victory since January 2015, when he captured the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. His win Sunday was the eighth straight in a Playoffs event for a player under 30 years old.
Reed, who finished at 9-under 275, wasn’t the only player who felt like a big victor. “Just haven’t quite had that breakthrough like today”.
Fowler is the defending champion at next week’s Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston.
Fowler can enhance his chances by playing well in the coming weeks.
Right when it looked as though Zach Johnson had played his way off the US team, Fowler squandered a chance to earn the eighth and final automatic spot when he shot 39 on the back nine at The Barclays, capped off by two bogeys and a double bogey over his last four holes.
“It will hurt”, Fowler said. “I felt like that just set the tone for me and let me run with it”.
“Every time I was standing over the ball, I couldn’t feel like it was going to be a good shot”. He has climbed to ninth on the Official World Golf Ranking, he’s moved to 1st place on the FedEx Cup standings, he’s assured of a chance to win the $10 million top prize at the Tour Championship and he has secured his place in the U.S. Ryder Cup team.
Fowler’s loss was Zach Johnson’s gain as the 2015 British Open champion claimed the eighth and final automatic spot.
Still, the mustachioed and colorfully-attired American tumbled all the way into a three-way tie for seventh place at 6-under par by bogeying four of his final eight holes – including a double on 16 – after posting only one bogey through the first three-and-a-half rounds.
Day, the regular-season FedExCup points leader, curled in a 71-foot on No. 15 to put himself within striking distance three shots back, but three-putted on the next hole for bogey before a finishing par. Reed holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the next hole for a two-shot lead, and Fowler never got any closer. But to come down here and to be able to finish off on the last is just unbelievable.
The 2015 Barclays victor dropped to second in the standings (3,195).
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But Pan finished tied for fourth after closing with an even-par 71 for a 12-under 272 total. But the Aussie gave back that stroke by bogeying the next hole, and finished at 7-under.
