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1. Tiger & JT tune-up at Winged Foot
Golf Digest’s Daniel Rapaport…“Woods’ camp confirmed to Golf Digest that he stopped over in Mamaroneck, N.Y., for an 18-hole practice round alongside Justin Thomas before both players head to the Boston area on Monday night. A video was posted to Instagram showing the two players hitting balls off mats at Winged Foot’s driving range.”
  • “Woods has frequently visited major championship venues early to play played practice rounds before tournament week, including a round at Bethpage Black eight days before last year’s PGA Championship.”
2. Life in the (FedEx Cup) bubble
Golf Digest’s Shane Ryan, as only he can, covers the experience of on-the-ground experience of being a FedEx Cup bubble boy…”It’s a little bit strange that the man who suffered one of the most anxious Sundays at the Wyndham Championships was, in fact, named Wyndham. It’s even stranger that he wasn’t on the course, that he had missed the cut on Friday and was forced to watch from afar as his position on the FedEx Cup leader board oscillated above and below the 125th spot, the cutoff for making it into the FedEx Cup Playoff. (That is, if he was watching at all; I’ve often thought CBS should have a live feed on the bubble boys who miss the cut, kind of like how you can see college basketball teams rejoice and deflate as they watch their fate on Selection Sunday.)”
  • “Who were Wyndham Clark’s opponents? Abstractly, you could say he was fighting against math, or the rapidly changing live projections. His true foes, thought, were Rafa Cabrera Bello and Rob Oppenheim and Shane Lowry and Peter Malnati and Tom Lewis and Bo Hoag. Based on how those men performed, Clark, who began the day just inside the projected top 125, would either squeak into the Playoffs by fewer points than you can count on your hand, or fall agonizingly short.”
  • …”The bad news for Clark came early, when Lowry, who started the week at 131st on the points list and Sunday at 126th based on his position entering the final round, shot a 67 to guarantee himself a spot in the top 125. That knocked Clark backward, to a projected 126th, and virtually guaranteed that Fabian Gomez, Russell Knox and Charl Schwartzel, who started the week inside the line, would be left out in the cold. (Schwartzel and Gomez missed the cut, while Knox couldn’t do enough on the weekend to fight his way to the playoffs.)”
3. Pushed back
BBC report…”The re-arranged Scottish Open will take place a week earlier on 1-4 October, the European Tour has announced.”
  • “The event at The Renaissance Club will be staged a week before the PGA Championship at Wentworth – which has also been brought forward a week.”
  • …”They now follow the Irish Open at Galgorm Castle, establishing a second UK Swing of 2020 on the European Tour.”
4. Perrine Delacour’s COVID-19 testing saga
Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols…”Perrine Delacour couldn’t wait to get to Scotland. After her fill-in caddie tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the Marathon LPGA Classic, Delacour, who tested negative, was forced to withdraw and quarantine in Toledo, Ohio, for two weeks.”
  • “When it came time to test again, Delacour didn’t want to solely rely on the LPGA’s saliva test that needed to be driven from Ohio to New Jersey over the weekend to be processed. She had a 7 p.m. flight to Scotland Sunday and wanted to make sure that she was on it for her debut in the AIG Women’s British Open at Royal Troon. (Her Inverness caddie, who never showed any symptoms and never again tested positive, had already been cleared for Troon.)”
  • …”Delacour then called her regular LPGA caddie, Jeremy Young, who was working on the PGA Tour for Jim Herman, winner of the Wyndham Championship, for help. Young suggested checking to see if the PGA Tour could test her over in Akron, Ohio, site of the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship.”
  • “Delacour drove the 2.5 hours from Toledo to Akron on Saturday for a 1 p.m. appointment and received her negative results by 8 p.m.”
5. New PGA Tour members: Will Gordon, Erik Van Rooyen
Golf Digest’s Joel Beall…”The PGA Tour announced Monday that Will Gordon and Erik van Rooyen have earned PGA Tour membership next season.”
  • “Gordon, 23, competed this year without any status on a major circuit after Canada’s Mackenzie Tour was canceled for the summer. The former SEC Player of the Year contended at the Travelers Championship, ultimately finishing T-3. Coupled with a T-10 at the fall’s RSM Classic and three other top-30 finishes-including at T-27 at the regular-season finale Wyndham Championship-Gordon has punched his ticket to the show.”
  • “As for van Rooyen, the South African already had job security thanks to his win at last year’s Scandinavian Invitation on the European Tour. But van Rooyen, 30, made a PGA Tour push starting at Feburary’s Genesis Invitational, and though he missed the cut in five of 11 starts, he made the most of the weekends he did make, highlighted by a T-3 at the WGC-Mexico Championship and a T-20 at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude.”
6. Hole-in-one at Sheep Ranch…with a putter
If you didn’t see the clip, you will want to. Great stuff from Digest’s Tod Leonard talking with Allison Koehnke, maker of the ace…
  • A morsel…”The anatomy of a putting ace goes like this: Allison Koehnke told her caddie for the day, Graham Banks, that she could be twitchy with short irons, and that her solution was keeping the ball on the ground with her putter. She relished chances to bomb 100-yard putts.”
  • “That stewed in Banks’ head until they reached the 16th. Allison’s moment. With the fescue grass cut tightly, the narrow runway to the hole runs smoothy, but there are bumps and undulations that pinball a shot in various directions. “Like playing a video game,” Banks lined Allison up. He coached her on getting the perfect height on her tee. She took a few practice swings, dialing in what they’d dubbed the “chutt”-chip-putt. Then came the real swipe, the putter rising about waist high and sending the ball in flight about a few inches off the ground.”
7. Meet the 125
Sean Martin at PGATour.com rounds up not only the full list of the 125 players teeing it up in the first event of the FedEx Cup playoffs, but …”The Playoffs have arrived. Now it’s time for the PGA TOUR’s best to compete for the FedExCup.”
“Every postseason participant has a chance to take home the TOUR’s season-long crown. With FedExCup points tripled in the Playoffs, players in the back of the pack can make a Cinderella run. The regular season’s strongest performers still have an advantage, though.”
“The top 125 in the FedExCup standings are eligible for THE NORTHERN TRUST, which begins Thursday at TPC Boston in Norton, Mass. The top 70 players will advance to the BMW Championship at historic Olympia Fields outside Chicago.”
  • 1. Justin Thomas: Trying to join Tiger and Rory as the only two-time winners of the FedExCup.
  • 2. Collin Morikawa: The 23-year-old became golf’s Next Big Thing with his win at the PGA.
  • 3. Webb Simpson: 2020 is his first multi-win season since 2011, when he finished 2nd in FedExCup.
  • 4. Bryson DeChambeau: Win at Rocket Mortgage and 8 other top-10s confirmed his weight gain was worth it.
  • 5. Sungjae Im: Reigning Rookie of the Year earned his first win at The Honda Classic.
8. Charlie Woods!
Allen Kim for CNN…”Tiger Woods’ 11-year-old son Charlie is a chip off the old block when it comes to golf.”
“Woods’ son participated in a US Kids Golf-sanctioned event at Hammock Creek Golf Club in Palm City, Florida over the weekend — and he dominated the competition.”
“Charlie bested all the boys competing in the age 11 category, shooting three under 33 across nine holes while finishing with three birdies. He beat the second place finisher by 5 strokes.”
“Woods, 44, was in attendance, and he could be seen in photos shared on social media acting as Charlie’s caddy for portions of the event, carrying his bag of clubs between rounds.”
9. U.S. Amateur Champion Tyler Strafaci WITB
Driver: Titleist TS3 (9.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Speeder Evolution 3
Fairway wood: Titleist TS3 (15.0)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei White
Utility Iron: Titleist U500 (3-iron)
Shaft: True Temper AMT Tour Issue X100
Irons: Titleist T100 (4), Titleist 620 MB (5-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (50-12, 54-10, 60-08)
Shafts: KBS 610
Putter: Scotty Cameron 009
Ball: 2019 Titleist Pro V1

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Ben Alberstadt is the Editor-in-Chief at GolfWRX, where he’s led editorial direction and gear coverage since 2018. He first joined the site as a freelance writer in 2012 after years spent working in pro shops and bag rooms at both public and private golf courses, experiences that laid the foundation for his deep knowledge of equipment and all facets of this maddening game. Based in Philadelphia, Ben’s byline has also appeared on PGATour.com, Bleacher Report...and across numerous PGA DFS and fantasy golf platforms. Off the course, Ben is a committed cat rescuer and, of course, a passionate Philadelphia sports fan. Follow him on Instagram @benalberstadt.

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T2 : Jon Rahm, $1,804,000

T2 : Alex Smalley, $1,804,000

T4: Justin Thomas, $843,866

T4: Ludvig Aberg, $843,866

T4: Matti Schmid, $843,866

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T7: Rory McIlroy, $637,050

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T10: Chris Gotterup, $496,707

T10: Justin Rose, $496,707

T10: Patrick Reed, $496,707

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T18: Padraigh Harrington, $229,128

T18: David Puig, $229,128

T18: Harris English, $229,128

T18: Min Woo Lee, $229,128

T18: Joaquin Niemann, $229,128

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T26: Alex Noren, $125,523

T26: Cameron Young, $125,523

T26: Andrew Novak, $125,523

T-26: Daniel Hiller, $125,523

T26: Tom Hoge, $125,523

T26: Sam Burns, $125,523

T26: Hideki Matsuyama, $125,523

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T35: Daniel Berger, $78,805

T35: Ryan Fox, $78,805

T35: Haotong Li, $78,805

T35: Aldrich Potgieter, $78,805

T35: Si Woo Kim, $78,805

T35: Martin Kaymer, $78,805

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T44: Matt Wallace, $53,743

T44: Shane Lowry, $53,743

T44: Jhonattan Vegas, $53,743

T44: Denny McCarthy, $53,743

T44: Chandler Blachet, $53,743

T44: Taylor Pendrith, $53,743

T44: Dustin Johnson, $53,743

T44: Nicolai Hojgaard, $53,743

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T60: Rickie Fowler, $29,218

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T65: Jason Day, $26,900

T65: Rasmus Hojgaard, $26,900

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T65: Sam Stevens, $26,900

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T75: Elvis Smylie, $24,158

T75: Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, $24,158

T75: Alex Fitzpatrick, $24,158

T75: Daniel Brown, $24,158

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