Patton Kizzire earned no points for originality, but his newfound appreciation for embracing the power of positive thinking earned him those all-too-valuable FedEx Cup points and his third career victory on the PGA Tour.
Henley secured his fourth career PGA Tour title with a four-stroke victory over Brian Harman by overcoming nerves and demons and loads of past disappointment while holding a 54-hole lead.
Stuck in tie for 48th, miles from the top, Kizzire likely understood that his mission to make Atlanta was all but doomed. This clearly didn’t sit well, and after missing his short bogey putt, he gave himself body and soul to the gods of rage in what amounts to one of the best meltdowns on the PGA Tour in this or any other year.
With this week’s event the last chance for players to make their way into the playoffs (and in many cases, earn their cards for next season), here are 12 notable names on the FedEx Cup Playoffs bubble.
Nothing was entirely what it seemed during the final-round telecast of the Sony Open in Hawaii, as Golf Channel producers scrambled to put together a broadcast disrupted when union video and audio workers went on strike.