Final scoreboard BMW Championship http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/bmw-championship/leaderboard.html
Jason Day's fabulous summer continued this weekend with his -2 final-round 69 and -22 total at Conway Farms which was good for a six-shot victory over rookie Daniel Berger with former Canadian Open Scott Piercy finishing third, seven strokes back.
Day really won this event with his ridiculous opening rounds of 61, 63 when the course wasn't providing a worthy professional challenge due to the soft yielding fairways and greens and benign conditions.
However the conditions applied to the entire field and Danny Lee summed up Day's recent form best “Whatever Jason Day is doing, or which course he’s playing, it’s ridiculous.”
In my opinion, despite the fact his had now won 5 times this year including the PGA Championship and our national championship, and is undoubtedly head and shoulders the best in the world, he is not the year's MVP..
That honour in the year long race is Jordan Spieth, who may I remind you was nearly as hot starting with his win at the Australian Open back in December followed by a little -26 win at Tiger's World Challenge Invitational, top 10's in February at Phoenix, Pebble Beach and the Northern Trust.
In March he was the man by a mile, in 4 starts he won the Valspar at Innisbrook, was 2nd at the Texas and Houston Opens, then won the Masters.
Back in Texas in May he was T2 at the Crowne Plaza, then went on a tear again starting in June with T3 at Jack's Memorial, then he won the US Open, then the John Deere and was T4 at the Open Championship and don't forget he was 2nd to Day at the PGA.
He is only 22, and those 2 major wins carry a lot of weight. So while Jason has really made a race of it, you must look at the entire year, and when you do, even if Day wins it all this week in Atlanta, Spieth gets the trophy.
I agree that Jason has been a joy to watch since he was a couple of rolls away from the playoff at the Open Championship and now that we all know his story about the affect on his life by Colin Swatton, who’s been his mentor and coach since age 12 and doubles as his caddie now it is even more remarkable.
He is simply overpowering every course, driving the ball close to 350 yards and straight, and putting great and consistently.
Since getting the RBC red eye flight back to Toronto from St Andrews he has won four times in six starts, as I mentioned our Canadian Open, the PGA Championship and the two FedEx Cup events and the stats' guys tell us he is now -101 to par during this stretch.
David Hearn by the way wrapped up his year with a nice -7 64 to finish T28 but will not be in Atlanta, finishing 55th in the Fed Ex Cup race.
Bryan Angus
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