At 11am this morning Davis Love III will make 3 of his 4 captains picks for this year's Ryder Cup squad, with the 4th coming after the Tour Championship. The much anticipated presser will be the icing on what was another storied weekend in the pro game.
The US team is staring at a 2-8 record since 1995 and of course had a near mutiny on their hands after their thrashing at Gleneagles in 2014.
They have appointed a task force which includes Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson along with captain Love, and have jiggled the selection format from the traditional 10 qualifiers and 2 picks to this year's format.
I believe he will pick Matt Kuchar, JB Holmes and Bubba. Rickie Fowler has played his way off the team. That leaves him with whoever is hottest after East Lake as his final pick. The Ryder Cup starts at Hazeltine on September 30th.
US Ryder Cup standings http://www.rydercup.com/rankings
European Tour KLM Open final leaderboard http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2016/tournamentid=2016070/leaderboard/index.html
What a great story, a Dutchman wins his national title on a course simply called the Dutch, and he ties the course record to do it in front of a huge adoring gallery. Congratulations to Joost Luiten who went out and shot 63 to win the KLM Open by 3 shots over Bernd Weisberger.
Luiten becomes the first Dutch player to win his national Open twice since it joined the European Tour in 1972,following his win in 2013 and makes him a five-time winner on Tour
PGA Tour BMW Championship final leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/bmw-championship/leaderboard.html
Paul Casey is playing some of his best golf, he just keeps running into hot hands. Last week he was 2nd to Rory who went out and shot 65 on Sunday to win the Deutsche Bank, this week it was Dustin Johnson who is at his absolute peak, making the game seem ridiculously easy on his way to a -5 67 -23 total for his 3rd win in his last 8 starts. He is the player of the year, 2016.
Still Casey has banked $1,836,000, not bad for a fortnight's work and he moves into the coveted top 5 at the Tour Championship for a shot at the $10 million bonus.
DJ is awesome off the tee, finally making all the important putts and has a sharp wedge game, there isn't a course out there he can't overpower.
I am not alone in thinking his win at the US Open finally got the monkey off his back, and he is now winning as regularly as we all knew he could, but didn't.. if you know what I mean.
I will be interested to see how his bottle is when the heat of the Ryder Cup gets turned up in 3 weeks time, but I do know he is better shape to handle it than ever before.
David Hearn shot a 71 to finish the event tied for 32nd at 5-under 283 and he drops out of the Fed Ex Cup playoffs as a result.
Here are the top 30 qualifiers for the Tour Championship http://www.pgatour.com/fedexcup/projected-standings.html
Web.com Tour DAP Championship final leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/webcom/tournaments/dap-championship/leaderboard.html
As expected with such a crowded weekend leaderboard this event ended up in a 4 man playoff with Bryson DeChambeau beating Andres Gonzales with a 5-foot par putt on the second hole of a playoff at Canterbury Golf Club.
DeChambeau and Gonzales each birdied the 18th on the first extra, eliminating Nicholas Lindheim and Argentina’s Julian Etulain.
DeChambeau shot a +1 71 in windy conditions to match Gonzales (68), Lindheim (66) and Etulain (67) at -7 273 and with the win he wraps up his PGA Tour card for next season.
Canadians: MacKenzie Hughes T46 69 68 72 74 +3, Adam Svensson T56 70 70 74 71 +5, Albin Choi T56, 72 67 75 71 +5
Bryan Angus
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