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The debating is finally done, the votes are finally in, and, as it turns out, a five-win season does trump a major.
Turns out, basing fantasy picks on OWGR works pretty well, but among our experts, Charlie Rymer still came out on top.
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem confirmed to GolfChannel.com that the circuit will consider a player for the PGA Tour Courage Award.
Henrik Stenson had a ‘comeback’ year, but the PGA Tour won’t be handing out an award.
In addition to the $11.4 million in cash and deferred prizes Henrik Stenson collected on Sunday at East Lake, the FedEx Cup champion was also given a vintage Coke machine for his victory at the Tour Championship.
Fresh off arguably his most successful year, Phil Mickelson hinted on Sunday at the Tour Championship that he may reduce his playing schedule.
Henrik Stenson put a ‘stolen’ 4-wood, which was fixed onto his old shaft, in play on Saturday and Sunday on his way to victory and the $10 million FedEx Cup.
Flashing form that made him the Tour’s most consistent player, Henrik Stenson won the Tour Champ., FedEx Cup.
From 170 yards at the par-4 seventh hole, Keegan Bradleys approach bounced once and hopped into the cup for eagle at East Lake.
Adam Scott showed up at East Lake just before lunch on Sunday feeling and looking much better than he did on Saturday.
Dustin Johnson rallied with a third-round 67 on Saturday at the Tour Championship to move into position to claim the rare bookend slam, victories at the years first and last events. He also clarified who is monitoring his golf swing.
Though no fault of the course or the format, Henrik Stenson is in position to run away with the FedEx Cup.
As anticlimactic as Sundays final round is setting up to be at the Tour Championship, there are still a few races worth noting going into the final round of the 2013 season.
A forecast that wavered between an 80 percent and 100 percent chance of rain on Saturday at the Tour Championship left just enough room for officials to race the 30-man field around East Lake and complete Round 3 play.
Adam Scott arrived at East Lake early Saturday with a fever and chills and doctors administered an IV before he teed off at 9 a.m. (ET) for his third round.
Henrik Stenson has broken another club, although this time the damage was done honestly.
He’s the fittest athlete on the PGA Tour, but Tiger Woods admitted Friday that he’s running out of gas.
Tiger Woods round on Friday at East Lake seemed to turn on one hole, the 454-yard, par-4 14th hole where he made a double-bogey 6 to begin an inexplicable back-nine slide.
Although Tiger Woods declined interviews after his opening-round 73 at the Tour Championship, on Friday he said his 34-putt total on Day 1 had more to do with the speed of East Lakes greens than his stroke.
Tiger Woods played his final five holes in 6 over par, including a double-bogey-6 at the 14th and a triple-bogey-7 at the 17th, to finish with a 71 and a 4-over-par total that left him tied for last after 36 holes.
A foreboding forecast for Saturdays third round at the 30-man Tour Championship has prompted officials to move up tee times and send players out in threesomes.
On this the FedEx Cup math is refreshingly straightforward, if one of the top 5 players on the playoff point list wins this weeks Tour Championship they cash $11.4 million in cash and deferred prizes.
Henrik Stenson’s ability to overcome adversity, including his own bad habits, has been the key component in the Swede’s revival on Tour.
In order, when things arent going well for players they switch putters, then caddies and, at least according to a long-held locker room punch line, eventually wives.