Four Australians have qualified for next week’s Barclays tournament, Jason Day and Adam Scott both in the top-10 while Marc Leishman (55) and John Senden (93) will also tee up.
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Here’s a quick primer if you aren’t sure how the FedExCup playoffs work.
Golfers are awarded points throughout the season for the FedEx Cup standings. And with the playoffs comes the fun of player positioning (Who will move inside the top 100 and make it into the Deutsche Bank Championship field?) and endless scenarios move to the forefront of broadcast window banter.
Each regular PGA Tour event is worth 500 FedExCup points, with 550 awarded to the winners of each of the World Golf Championships and 600 to those who claim a major title or win the Players Championship.
“… I recognize that it’s just not possible, you have to get so many great breaks to have the kind of year like last year”. RICHY WERENSKI 80/1 2 points each way.
The course the elite field will tackle this week is one of the best known golf courses in the NY area on Long Island.
Jason Day was winning his third tournament in four starts when he won this event 12 months ago, just a fortnight after he’d won the USPGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
Last Year: It wasn’t pretty, but Billy Andrade closed with a 1-over-par 73 to beat Bernhard Langer by one stroke for his first victory since he beat Phil Mickelson in the 2000 Las Vegas Open on the PGA Tour.
The tournament was first staged in 1967 when Jack Nicklaus won the title for the first time and he won it again in 1972.
“Once the PGA Championship ended in the past, and before the Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup, there was a little bit of a void in our schedule and a lack of interest as far as TV viewers”. No player who has won the CareerBuilder Challenge has won the FedEx Cup playoff in the same year.
Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy is +1100 with Sweden’s Stenson at +1300 and reigning FedExCup champion Jordan Spieth of the US at +1300 on PGA golf odds.
Donald birdied that hole to pull within three strokes of Kim at 16 under, and Rafa Cabrera Bello – Kim’s playing partner – joined him by chipping in for eagle from a greenside bunker on that hole.
“East Lake Golf Club has served as a fitting venue for the finale of our FedEx Cup season”, PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said. Reigning British Open champ and Olympic silver medalist Henrik Stenson checks in third (7/1). Spieth missed the cut at the 2015 Barclays and was 14th at the PGA Championship in his last tournament. It’s that special time of year when the PGA Tour tries to make us care about something that the players wouldn’t care about if there wasn’t a $10 Million Dollar prize to the victor.
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Our DFS golf experts have put together the players they believe have the skills to succeed and provide big fantasy point totals. Andrade, who won four times on the PGA Tour, added victories in the Buick Southern Open and the Bell Canadian Open later previous year on the PGA Tour Champions.
