A lot of them haven’t played since the PGA Championship three weeks ago.
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The Scot took full advantage of the more forgiving front nine on the course set to host the 2019 US Open and 2024 Ryder Cup to be four under par after eight holes before coming in with one birdie and eight solid pars. A successful defense of the FedEx Cup could improve things immeasurably, though the way he finished his first round of the Barclays on Thursday at Bethpage Black was a reminder of why things haven’t gone exceedingly well in 2016. The highest-ranking 125 players in the FedEx Cup standings after the Wyndham Championship will take to Bethpage Black – site of the 2002 and 2009 US Opens, as well as the future site of the 2019 PGA Championship – to try to tame the NY metropolitan area’s most famed track. Now anything less encourages scrutiny, even when you’ve won twice in a year. “If I have a season like this and I’m out here for 20 more years, that’s 50-some odd wins, so I’m certainly OK with that”. The top 100 in the Cup standings will advance to the Deutsche Bank Championship, with weekly eliminations until the top 30 meet at the Tour Championship.
Our selections begin at the very top with the defending champion and obvious sports betting favorite to win this event outright in Day.
Last week: Si Woo Kim won the Wyndham Championship.
The 40-year-old arrived in NY having won a silver medal in golf’s return to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
As Day tries to pip Johnson to the Player of the Year award, he said: “I’m playing good and he’s nibbling at my heels – it’s like, ‘Why can’t you give me a break?'”. “We don’t really think much of the whole FedExCup. Hopefully with the week off that I have after the third one, I’ll get some good rest and I’ll be able to fire in for the Tour Champs”.
Play concludes Sunday at Bethpage State Park (Black).
“I’m hoping to play a little better than I have the last three months and have a little run like I did earlier in the year and finish the year off really well and have a shot at winning the FedEx Cup”, he said.
“It’s up there in the top few toughest courses I’ve ever played”, he said. For a sport where the largest events on the schedule have at minimum 80 years of history, it’s often hard to create prestige in a new event – heck, a new Olympic gold medal wasn’t compelling to some players, and others roll their eyes at the 40-year-old Players Championship.
Scott says he has done some honest analysis of his game in recent weeks and ideintified what he needed to work on.
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“And obviously if you’re exhausted, that can kind of creep into your mental game, as well”.
