As we start the end of season scramble, which is the Fedex Cup playoff, starting first at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, the problem of slow play rears its ugly head once again. Both Rory and Brooks were asked in yesterday’s interviews about the problem and neither of them held back their criticism and the need for the governing bodies to take action.
There was lots of concern that the new format of the Tour Championship was going to result in the FedEx Cup leader running away with things and there being a lack of drama at East Lake Golf Club over the last big weekend for the PGA Tour. Well things didn’t really work out like that as Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele and Brooks Koepka all start day two tied on 10 under with Rory just one behind.
This Sunday evening the winner of the FedEx Cup Tour Championship will pick up a cheque for a cool $15 million dollars. The same evening at the CP Women's Open Aurora, Ontario, Canada the winner will take home a cheque for a paltry $337,500. However, earlier in the day in far flung Czechoslovakia those competing in the final round of the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open will take home the combined sum of roughly $135,000!
The finale of the PGA Tour season is upon us and already we have a leaderboard in the race for that crazy payout of $15 million to the winner. Thirty men, honourable and true, will tee it up at the East Lake Golf Club just outside Atlanta with dollar signs in their eyes. Justin Thomas already leads by two, crazy we know but then again, the whole thing is.
Well we have run out of majors but Tiger will still be coming out to play in August as the FedEx Cup Playoffs commence this week in Jersey City, with The Northern Trust. It’s all change with the play-offs and we had to read it a few times before we sussed it out. So here’s how it will work..
The 10 Million Dollar Kid. Justin Thomas trousers the loot as Xander Schauffele makes Tour history
Apparently, some people actually care who is going to win the Tour Championship. Some people think it really matters. But who are these people?
To celebrate the upcoming Tournament Championship, take five from whatever you're doing and check out these pearlers, including: Sergio and Justin aces in 2008, John Senden's albatross, Matt Kuchar's jaw-dropping recovery Tiger's incredible hole out and Jim Furyk's wowzer-inducing 59...
He might have just missed out on qualifying for the Tour Championship, but we thought we'd cheer Phil up by taking a look at his incredible... INCREDIBLE short game. ladies and gentlemen, we give you 'Lefty's Greatest Up & Downs'...
Marc Leishman endured some tense moments at the BMW, but no one got closer than two shots, and the Leish birdied three of his final four holes to close out his second consecutive tournament.
Marc Leishman might have opened up a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the BMW Championship, but all the talk was of Jason Day's miraculous hole in one.
Rory McIlroy will have to produce a top 4 finish if he is to make next week's Tour Championship, while Ian Poulter will need a top 5 if he is to make it.
The FedExCup: Bunch of Arse or Helping the Gravy? There's $10,000,000.00 up for grabs but does anyone really care? We're not so sure so we came up with three very viable alternatives to the season end.
The FedExCup is the end of season tournament on the PGA Tour. Introduced in 2007, after a bit of chopping and changing, it has proven to be the exciting end to the season that the PGA Tour were looking for.
Rory McIlroy has had a change of heart, and will now not take a porlonged period of time off to recover from his persistent rib injury. Instead he will now try and defend his FedEx Cup title.
Well, that was bonkers!
The FedExCup: Bunch of Arse or Helping the Gravy? Who's currently in and out of the Top 70 for the Barclays?...
As the FedEx Cup is about the get under way, a new trend is emerging. And it’s all to do with growing a moustache.
Here are the Day One Tee Times and Pairings for the FedEx Tour Championship from East Lakes, Georgia. Ready for a final rumble.
Blimey - now it's getting really complicated. BUT NEVER FEAR - we've figured it out and made it way easy to understand. We've even got a table and everything!
Today it’s the start of the Deutsche Bank Championship at the TCP Boston. We’re all good to go with that. But it seems that Sergio will be staying at home. And he missed the Barclays as well. We wanted to know why?
So here we go with the FedExCup. First up is the Barclays. Last year's winner was Hunter Mahan: Gonna put him in your team?
After finishing 14 shots behind Brooks Koepka at Bellerive, Rory McIlroy is desperately trying to find his form ahead of the Ryder Cup.
It seems like the world's top golfers are rapidly lsing their minds. And their caddies. Now Jason Day has parted company with Col Swatton!!
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
The Tour Championship is looking like it will provide a thrilling finale to the men’s season on Sunday as at the halfway point as Brooks Koepke leads Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas by one stroke, with Xander Schauffele and Paul Casey still very much in contention.
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
It’s Manic Monday, so here is a very quick round up of all the results and stories from the weekend on the PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA and Women’s European Tour.
One week to go to the Ryder Cup, it should be a thriller!! This week the Portugal Masters and last round of fed ex play off the tour championship
Great to win the Wyndham with our 2 points selection Brandt Snedeker at 26/1. We also had CT Pan 2nd at 89/1. Two events this week but we leave the Czech event alone and concentrate on the first of the FedEx play off events the Northern Trust.
It's a bad day up north, as Beef has to pull out of the British Masters...
Justin Thomas got a proper champagne reception today after his $10 million scoop from the Tour Championship - a champagne reception which involved him being sprayed in the stuff by his Presidents Cup team mates.
Paul Casey has taken the lead at the Tour Championship, and with it the chance of bringing home the $10 million bacon.
Kevin Kisner put out a call for help via Twitter on the Friday morning at the Tour Championship: “I need a helicopter to take me to Athens [Ga.] tomorrow after the round to make the game. Who has one in [Atlanta]?”
Here are the pairings and starting times for the first round of the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta. It's time to get the job done.
Words we never thought we would here from such a staunch competitor but Jordan Spieth has told reporters that second place in the final two events is okay for the three-time major champion as that will mean he will finish as the PGA Tours FedEx cup champion and pocket the cool $10 million bonus fund awarded for topping the points standings.
Marc Leishman's sensational form continues as he takes a five shot lead into the last round of the BMW Championship, as the fat lady prepares to give Rory a Skype call.
There have been 30 holes in one on the PGA Tour so far this season, and today at the Dell there were two within 65 seconds of each other. And one that just got away….
"When you are missing both ways with your driver, it's never good. And I also made a bogey with a wedge in my hand at the first, which is sloppy."
"I didn't lose this tournament (The Northern Trust Open). He (Dustin Johnson) won it," Spieth said after DJ turned around a three shot deficit going into the final round to force, an ultimately win, a play-off at Glen Oaks Country Club, New York.
Speaking ahead of this week’s first FedEx Cup playoff event, Rory McIlroy had this to say about what his winning cheque for $10 million in last year’s event was used for.
Rory McIlroy has confirmed that he intends to play in five more events this year before taking an extended break to recovery from his long standing rib injury.
European Tour players Thomas Pieters, Tyrrell Hatton and Tommy Fleetwood have all been given Special Temporary Membership of the U.S. PGA Tour for the remainder of the 2016–17 season.
Rory McIlroy has shrugged aside illness, sore ribs and a whole load of Trumpery to take the half way lead at the WGC in Mexico.
Callaway has announced that it has reached a Staff Pro agreement with Daniel Berger. Already a standout performer on Tour, Berger joins the company following a breakout season, highlighted by his first PGA Tour win in June at the FedEx St. Jude Classic.
Rory McIlroy has sent a letter to the young man who caught the ball he threw toward the gallery after making an eagle 2 on the 70th hole of the Tour Championship in September.
'A tsunami just hit my bank account, so thank you very much.'
41 years ago, Roger Maltbie folded his $40,000 winner's cheque, put it in his back pocket and went out to celebrate. And never saw the cheque again. Until now...
Paul Casey fell away in the final round while Rory McIlroy bagged his first PGA Tour win since May 2015 after overhauling a six shot deficit.
Paul Casey shot a blistering 66 in the third round at the Deutsche Bank to finish -15 overall and taker a three shot lead into the final round on Monday.
We love Jordan Spieth at GP Towers. He just comes across as such an unaffected, down to earth, good-natured fellow. And here's him signing a fans Budweiser bottle at Bethspage on Friday. We love the gesture.
With the FedEx kicking off, adidas has released a limited-edition shoe it is nicknaming ‘The Big Check’, or as we say in Blighty – ‘The Big Cheque.’
The Spiv is back with the inside track....The WGC World Match Play is one of my favourite events of the year. I love Match Play. The only problem is that there isn’t enough of it around on the Tour. This makes it difficult to place a bet. An out of form player with a strong competitive nature can easily win this one.
It didn’t rain (that much) today, and the crowds came out in their droves. Who says the young guns aren’t already making a difference? They came to see Jordan, and he did not disappoint. In the end he won comfortably with a two under 69 to beat Henrik Stenson by four shots.
Here's our wrap on Day One of the final event in the FedEx, the Tour Championship. Only 30 in the field now. What's been occurring? Mostly Henrik Stenson if you have to know.
Here are the day 2 pairings and tee times for the BMW. Round one still needs to be completed, but here's the official listings. Add 6 hours for UK. Should be another cracker. And how will Jason finish his round? Can't wait..
So they've all had a nice week off and now it's back to business for the world's 70 best golfers as they descend on Conway Farms this weekend for the penultimate tournament of the 2015 FedEx Cup.
Jordan Spieth missed the cut this week at The Barclays. It happens. We got so used to Tiger Woods being seemingly infallible when he was World Number One that everyone panics that the end of the world is nigh when the official best player in the world misses the cut. A panic that Jordan will never play a good round again. Yet even the best don’t play the weekend every tournament.
Barclays 2015 Round 2 Leaderboard
It was Bubba Watson’s day at the Barclays yesterday, as he shot a 2 under 68 to add to his opening day 65. Going into moving day, Bubba leads Henrik Stenson, Tony Finau, Zach Johnson and Jason Dufner by a single shot.
One fall out from Jordan Spieth’s missing the cut at the Barclays is that Rory McIlroy has now returned to the Number One spot in the World Rankings.
Well, you can’t win them all! The big news of the day is that Jordan Spieth carded a four over 74 on the first day of the Barclays, and confirmed that he is human after all. Maybe.
Tony Finau has had an up and down week at The Barclays, but what a way to finish the tournament, finishing at five under, and tied 16th. The big hitting Hawaiian pulverised the ball down 18, hitting a 306 yard drive over the trees and to within 12 ft of the pin. The rest was easy...
