There are high stakes at this week’s Wyndham event, specifically for those players trying to finish inside the top 70 of the FedEx Cup standings, which last year became the new cut-off point to qualify for the playoffs.
In a study of the human tendency of focusing on what might have been as opposed to actually what is, the athletes who finished with a bronze medal looked markedly happier than those who won silver.
The framework agreement between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia reached its one-year anniversary on Thursday, and while tour players continue to express optimism that a deal can be reached, they also seem resigned to the possibility that a resolution might still be quite a way off.
This was Conners’ second PGA Tour victory, and it came in the same place as the first; four years ago, he grabbed his maiden tour win at this same tournament.
A decade and a half after Adam Scott “won” a truncated (and unofficial) 36-hole tournament here, the Aussie emerged as the last man standing on a frenetic Sunday at an unseasonably fiery Riviera.