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The Northern Trust 2020 PGA event is taking place at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass, and is the first of the PGA-Tour's three-season-ending FedExCup playoff events. As well as boasting a $9.5 million purse, it will whittle down the worlds 125 best golfers as judged by FedExCup standings, after the Wyndham Championship to a top 70 that progresses to next weeks BMW Championship. That tournament will then give us a final field of just 30 golfers to contest the 2020 Tour Championship. It's not a perfect system, but it makes for some awesome end of the season PGA drama for the golf fans.
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Dustin Johnson could have used a finish like this for a record score. The birdie-eagle ending to his round Saturday at the Northern Trust gave him a 7-under 64 and stretched his lead to five shots in the FedExCup playoff opener. Johnson coming off a remarkable day in which he was 11 under through 11 holes and finished with seven pars for a 60, pulled away from Harris English and Scottie Scheffler with a 20 foot birdie putt on the 17th and a 40 foot eagle on the closing hole at the TCP Boston. He is at 22 under 191, his lowest 54-hole score by three shots.
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Dustin Johnson was in complete control of his game with a performance worthy of his return to #1 in the world. Johnson capped off his dominant week at The Northern Trust with an 8 under 63, finishing with a tap in birdie for a 11 shot victory at the TCP Boston. It was the largest margin of victory since Phil Mickelson won by 13 shots at the TPC Sugarloaf in 2006.
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The PGA Tour this weekend will be the BMW Championship at Olympia Field's Country Club in Olympia Field's, Illinois, with a field of 70 players.
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Phil Mickelson chose to make his PGA Tour Champion debut at Ozarks National this week, so he could avoid a two week break right in the middle of his preparations for the U.S. Open at Winged Foot. If he was going to show up, Mickelson thought he might as well win. He closed with a 5 under 66 on Wednesday to reach 22 under leaving him Three shots clear of Tim Petrovic. The wire to wire victory made Mickelson the 20th player to win on the 50 and over tour in his debut, not to mention gave him some much needed confidence after a missed cut at the Northern Trust knocked him from the Fed Ex Cup Playoffs.
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Japan's Hideki Matsuyama opened with a eagle and matched Dustin Johnson in shooting a 1-under 69 to share the lead after Saturday's third round of the US PGA's BMW Championship. Johnson coming off a 30-under par score, and an 11-shot victory a week ago at the Northern Trust, shared a two-stroke edge with Matsuyama at 1-under 209 after 54 holes at Olympia Fields in suburban Chicago. Johnson said this is pretty much a major championship venue, obviously, and the conditions, the way it's set up, it's playing just like a Major.
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It took an extra hole, and the longest putt of the season, but Jon Rahm walked out of Olympia Fields with his second win of the season. Rahm drained a wild 66 foot birdie putt to beat Dustin Johnson in a playoff Sunday to win the BMW Championship, marking one of the craziest finishes on the PGA tour this season. Never did I think I'd be making another 50, 60 footer, plus a couple of breaks in there to end up winning it. Johnson trailed Rahm by a single stroke coming into the final green, and was left with a 43 foot birdie putt to close out his round. Despite the putt being more than 10 foot longer than anything he had made all week, and having an insane break down the hill, Johnson struck it perfectly.
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Dang it I missed it! Sounds similar to that first Muirfield tournament.
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cbolt, I didn't see the finish either, it must have been one heck of a putt on the 18th hole as well as the first extra hole.
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The 2019-2020 PGA Tour schedule concludes this coming week-end with the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Georgia. The U.S. Open will take place from September 17-20 at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, while the Masters will run from November 12-15 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
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The final leg of the 2020 Fed Ex Cup Playoffs starts on Friday at the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. This tournament was originally on the schedule for the weekend of August 27-30, but the global coronavirus pandemic, and the ensuing schedule disruption forced many changes. The PGA tour then slid one of it's marquee events back a week and decided to wrap things up on Labor Day Monday, which is totally fine with us. The battle for the seasons money title is already decided, as Justin Thomas won that honor for the third time in the last four seasons.
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In less time than it would take for him to tap in a putt, Justin Thomas gave his answer when asked who the PGA Tour Player of the Year would be at the current moment ? " Me." If Thomas would have elaborated this week at East Lake Golf Club, his argument would have been strong. The World No 3 is the only player to win three times this season, as he captured the C.J. Cup last fall, won in a playoff at the Sentry Tournament of Championships in January, and closed with a 65 to win the World Golf Championships Fed Ex St.Jude Invitational last month to become the World No 1 for a brief moment.
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World #1 Dustin Johnson rediscovered his driving form to fire a six under par 64 and seize a five stroke lead after Sundays third round of the U.S. PGA Tour Championship. The 36 year old American is chasing his first PGA playoff crown, and his third victory since the tour returned from a three month coronavirus shutdown in June, standing on 19-under after 54 holes at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Dustin Johnson's already significant career earnings got a big boost on Monday. The 36 year old PGA tour veteran secured victory at the Tour Championship on Monday, shooting a 2-under 68 at East Lake for a -21 tally on the week after a staggered start, three strokes better than runner-up Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele. Johnson won the FedEx Cup title and the $15 million payday that comes with it, adding to his career tally of $67.6 million. The title is the first for Johnson, who has 23 career PGA Tour win's and a U.S. Open Title on his resume.
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Brian Stuard closed with a scrambling birdie for a 6-under 66, and a share of the Safeway Open leads Saturday with James Hahn and Cameron Percy. On a day when eight players held or shared the lead, the trio of Stuard, Hahn and Percy emerged in front despite all three running into trouble at various times at Silverado Resort.
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Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from the US Open after testing positive for Covid-19. The USGA confirmed the news on Sunday evening, adding that the 24 year-old Scheffler is back home in Dallas and is asymptomatic.
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Stewart Cink won the season-opening Safeway Open at 47 years 0ld Sunday for his seventh PGA Your victory and first since the 2009 British Open. Cink closed with a 7-under 65, rebounding from a bogey on the 17th with a birdie on the 18th for a two-stroke victory over Harry Higgs. Cink is the oldest PGA Tour winner since Phil Mickelson at 48 years old at Pebble Beach in February 2019. Cink's last victory came at the expense of then 59 year old Tom Watson at Turnberry, with Cink winning a 4-hole playoff.
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All of the run-up to this years U.S. Open focused on just how tough Winged foot was going to play. Turns out that, on Thursday at least, they were dead wrong. Justin Thomas broke the record for the lowest score at a U.S. Open at Winged Foot by carding a tidy 65. The greens were soft and forgiving, and Thomas took advantage, spreading a six birdie, one bogey round over the field.
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Matthew Wolff is young, is what we're saying. And the 21-year-old is currently leading the U.S. Open by two strokes heading into Sunday. Wolff did a spectacular job of keeping his head while the rest of the field was losing theirs on Saturday, surfing through a swirling New York wind and swooping Winged Foot greens to card a 65, matching Justin Thomas's Thursday card for the lowest score ever recorded during a U.S. Open at the course. Wolff only hit two fairways all day, but nonetheless managed to recover enough to put himself in position hole after hole.