PGA Tour Championship FedExCup Leaderboard
" ON THIS DAY : Rory won the 2022 PGA TOUR Championship becoming the first and only player in PGA Tour history to win the Fed Ex Cup 3 times.
He shot 63 then a closing 66 -21 to beat Scheffler who stumbled to 73 and Sungjae Im. That year 1st place was worth $18,000,000 to Rory.
That year Aussie Cameron Smith -13 won the Players, the new world#1 called Scott Scheffler struggled to T55 70 76 68 76 +2.
Smith would go on to win the Open at St.Andrews to secure his status in golf forever, then after drinking the night away with his posse, and listening to Greg Norman, announced he was giving all that heritage up for a gift of over $150,000,000 from the Saudi Princes bottomless riches of the PIF. He has played in obscurity ever since..
Against that background, the PGA Tour enlisted the help of America's richest sports owners who invested $1 billion, $20,000,000 signature events were announced, shocking us all.
Fast forward, now, before this version of the PGA Tour Championship got underway, the top 30 split $100,000,000 for their efforts this season led by Scott Scheffler who was 2nd 5 times, but his steady play was enough to earn $23,000,000.
THIS WEEK
On an ideal day in Atlanta Georgia the final 30 players went out on to play the venerable East Lake GC, for what looks like the 2nd last time, when the revamped 2028 Tour Championship format changes
Aussie Min Woo Lee was the best on opening day, spotless -8 62.
The diminutive Norwegian, 5'5" Viktor Hovland who has a stellar record here, had the flat stick working, T2nd -6 64, along with Colin Morikawa who has been trending again recently, and Chris Gotterup who has a deft touch to go with his obvious muscle.
All the rest fall in line down to Cameron Young who had a career year, at E 70, while JJ Spaun has W/D.
Rory who started this story is T20 -2 68 without his A game, Scheffler who claims he was born competitive is in the pack at T5 -5 65.
Bryan Angus
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