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On Thursday the culmination of this 2018 PGA Tour gets underway at East Lake GC in Atlanta, with the top 30 left standing playing for a 1st prize of $1.5 million and at the same time the $10m dollar Fed Ex Cup bonus. The top 5 players, DeChambeau, Rose, Johnson, Finau and Thomas have earned an advantage. If they win the tournament they win it all.
This leads to confusion for the public. For example last year Xander Schaufele won the tournament, but Justin Thomas won the Cup and the bonus.
Next year that will change, with the top player starting the week at -10, then so on down the list until the 30th player starts at E. There will also just be 3 events not 4, and of course they've thrown another $5m into the bonus pool.
It has always been such an anti-climatic finale for me personally and for most I have spoken with over all my years on Fairways. Throwing $10 or $15 million at millionaires makes no difference to anybody but those guys, in fact for most of us digging away every day to make our way in life it is, like most all pro sports, unimaginable.
If you want to see drama, take away all that money, put on their country's flag and watch the real emotion at the Ryder Cup in Paris in a fortnight's time.
Here are the pairings/tee times for Thursday with the pairings re-set on Friday. There are no Canadians in the field.
11:40 a.m.: Marc Leishman, Patton Kizzire
11:50 a.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Gary Woodland
12 p.m.: Kyle Stanley, Paul Casey
12:10 p.m.: Rickie Fowler, Jon Rahm
12:20 p.m.: Aaron Wise, Kevin Na
12:30 p.m.: Tommy Fleetwood, Tiger Woods
12:40 p.m.: Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele
12:50 p.m.: Patrick Reed, Patrick Cantlay
1 p.m.: Francesco Molinari, Phil Mickelson
1:10 p.m.: Webb Simpson, Jason Day
1:20 p.m.: Billy Horschel, Cameron Smith
1:30 p.m.: Brooks Koepka, Bubba Watson
1:40 p.m.: Justin Thomas, Keegan Bradley
1:50 p.m.: Tony Finau, Dustin Johnson
2 p.m.: Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose
Bryan Angus
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