PGA Tour BMW Championship leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/bmw-championship/leaderboard.html
We are down to the last 70, all in Chicago at Conway Farms for the 3rd playoff of he FedEx Cup vying to get into the final 30 for next week's finale, the Tour Championship in Atlanta..
The main storyline for many is who is #1..is it Jordan or Jason ? and this week will further clarify that issue, Jordan off the boil, but his year of year's is already in the books, and Jason is the best player at the moment, which by the way is great news for the International Team going into the Presidents Cup in South Korea.
Day, Spieth and Rickie Fowler are the marquee pairing at 1,2 and 3 and that for me is another storyline, in that the world #1 Rory McIlroy is not in the first or second (Stenson, Watson and Hoffman) or third ( Johnson, Johnson and Furyk) but the 5th pairing ( Rory, Matsuyama and Snedeker)
Form is fleeting in this game, and the air at the top is very thin, that's why the truly greats Jack, Arnie Gary and Tiger are just that.. great. They have slumps for sure but over the span of their careers, they are consistently the best.
Last summer there was nobody near Rory and after following it up with the crowning glory with the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles, we all expected him to go into this year and really establish his status as world #1 and after winning the Wells Fargo and the WGC World Match Play, and a 4th at the Masters he seemed well on his way, until the first weekend in July when he tore up his ankle playing soccer with his mates and he hasn't been the same since...
He only arrived in Chicago Wednesday morning to fulfill his pro-am responsibilities, getting in 13 holes with his ams, citing the fact he preferred to stay home in Florida to prepare, and I'd say to avoid the world's media asking him yet again.. how's the ankle..
Let's see how he plays this week http://www.owgr.com/
The weather today will favour the early pairings as the rain is due this afternoon. They don't start until 1130 local time since it's such a small field.
The Solheim Cup teams, leaderboard http://www.lpga.com/tournaments/the-solheim-cup/leaderboard
First the weather in St. Leon-Rot Germany has not been good this week, https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=EcrMVb3XM4WN8QeTx63wAQ&gws_rd=ssl#q=weather+in+st+leon+rot. cool and rainy today and it looks on the link above to be a mixed bag over the weekend.
That won't dull the passion that always unfolds, like the Ryder Cup we get treated to raw emotion that playing for your country evokes, and with Europe winning the last 2 cups, there is an added edge, especially since as always the USA team of big hitters are favoured.
They are ranked much higher 25th in average to 54th for the Europeans. However being underdogs is nothing new to Europe in either the Ryder or Solheim Cups and that in fact may be their greatest strengths. David vs Goliath never gets old, and as we can see from recent results, world rankings just go right out the window in these events..
Golf is a world wide game, and in fact you could argue the strongest team if they had one would be South Korea..
Sandra Gal and Caroline Masson will have the German crowds in a frenzy, they are the first all German pairing and there are many more storylines which will all start to unfold around 2am est tomorrow morning.
Bryan Angus
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