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Billy Horschel got a hot hand when it mattered most. He shot nothing but 60s in his last 12 rounds. He was 69th in the Fed Ex Cup standings a month ago then was runner-up in Boston, a winner in Denver and he capped a blistering 3 weeks with a 3 shot win in Atlanta this weekend.
Rory McIlroy messed up early in his round allowing Horschel to get ahead, then he holed two clutch putts to hold off Jim Furyk on the back nine. He closed with a 2-under 68 for a three-shot victory in the Tour Championship and he and his very pregnant wife collected an obscene $11.4m and 5 years exemption on the PGA Tour.
Furyk closed with two bogeys for a 69 and his fourth runner-up finish this year, he and Rickie Fowler and Sergio have been playing second fiddle all summer to McIlroy who never recovered from three straight bogeys around the turn. He finished with a 71 and wound up No. 3 in the FedEx Cup, which is worth $2 million in addition to his prize money this week.
So after a hot humid muggy mostly forgettable week at East Lake in Atlanta, Horschel joins the ranks of Bill Haas in 2011 to hit the jackpot, and I predict now that he is set for life he will go on to have a nice career on Tour, not spectacular, not a needle mover in the ratings game, but nice..just like this Fed Ex Cup..
As I wrote on Wednesday, these playoffs needed Rory to be the story to cap off his great summer, maybe that will happen at Gleneagles in a fortnight. Heck Jim Furyk who won this in 2010 would have been a nice story...Rickie after his top 3 in all the majors would have been a bigger story.. The finally grown up Sergio would have been a bigger story..
The PGA tour has done about all it can to wrap up their year with these playoffs, but they just don't work, there is no drama, no tension, no umph !!
You'll see plenty of that in 2 weeks, the Ryder Cup has all the ingredients these playoffs so badly lack.
Perhaps they should just go back to wrapping the year up after the PGA Championship then play the Ryder or Presidents Cup as the icing on the cake..
Congrats to Billy Horschel and his family, I don't mean to rain on their parade but these playoffs are being ignored by the general public and this win will soon be forgotten by all but the ardent golf fan..
Bryan Angus
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