The PGA TOUR announced improvements to the 2009 playoffs and FedEx Cup. The best change for the upcoming season is THE TOUR Championship will count. The season-ending event will carry the same field of 30 golfers but, all playoff points will be reset so the entire field will have a shot at the $10 million [...]
The PGA Tour is in a tough spot with all the buzz about the $20 million race for Dubai for this year’s European Tour. The news of top talent like Phil Mickelson thinking about playing in Europe regularly as soon as next year and, more importantly, young guns like Anthony Kim and Camilo Villegas already [...]
With the FedEx Cup all but wrapped up by Vijay Singh, how can the PGA Tour improve the competitive atmosphere of the playoffs?
The current system was tweaked to have all players play the four events and have a close points race heading into THE TOUR Championship. With Singh winning the first two events, he put [...]
Vijay Singh can take it easy at THE TOUR Championship as his 44th place finish earned him enough points to clinch the FedEx Cup and the $10 million bonus. The catch…he just has to finish four rounds. The Tour will take this week off before the Ryder Cup begins on September 18th, with THE TOUR Championship [...]
Camilo Villegas grabbed his first PGA Tour victory at the BMW Championship, the third leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs. He finished off the wire-to-wire victory at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Mo with a two-under, 68, for a two shot advantage over Dudley Hart.
Villegas didn’t make the win an easy one as bogeys [...]
Jim Furyk finished a long Saturday at the BMW Championship with the lead after shooting a course record 62 in the second round and a 66 in the third round. There are still 23 players on the course as play was suspended due to darkness.
Of the 23 players yet to complete the third round are Camilo [...]
Camilo Villegas shot 65 in the opening round of the BMW Championship at Bellerive Country Club.
After a birdie on the first hole, Villegas closed the front nine with four straight birdies and a bogey. He added three birdies and two bogeys on the back nine to lead five players by a shot.
Tied behind Villegas are [...]
The first round of the BMW Championship was cancelled due to heavy rains in the St. Louis, Mo. area. The tournament will start Friday with 36 holes played on Saturday.
The third leg of the FedEx Cup playoff series is the BMW Championship played at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Mo.
The race for the Cup is now limited to a few as Vijay Singh has taken control of the playoff series with two straight wins. Sergio Garcia has been knocking on the door and [...]
Vijay Singh won the first FedEx Cup event in a great start to the PGA Tour playoffs.
After a bogey on the 12th hole, Singh finished with birdies on the 13th and 17th holes to move into a tie with Sergio Garcia and Kevin Sutherland. Singh and Garcia made terrific birdies on the 18th and first playoff [...]
