Five years after overcoming a debilitating back injury that put him out of the game for more than two years, American Patrick Cantlay reached the PGA TOUR summit by winning the season-long prize, the FedExCup, and its $US15 million prizemoney.
Quick question: how much is the purse for this week’s Tour Championship? If you said $0, you’re technically right. Officially, there was no tournament prizemoney payout this week at East Lake Golf Club. What players are competing for is money from the FedEx Cup bonus pool distributed for their finishes in the season-long points race Read more…
Cantlay, who played in the same pairing as DeChambeau in the final two rounds of last week’s BMW Championship, beating him in a six-hole playoff, offered an answer that was surprisingly long, forthright and thoughtful.
The first and third rounds will feature four-ball play, with the second and final rounds foursomes. For many in the field, it’s a proposition that perhaps takes a little adapting to, given the scarcity of which it is experienced.
A program of this kind had been in discussion for multiple years, and the tour’s Player Advisory Council always understood the value in rewarding the tour’s highest-profile players.
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