FedExCup Playoff Championship returns this week with BMW Championship at Cog Hill GCC
The run up to the third leg of the FedExCup playoff Championship so far, has been a nail-biting season where some of the finest bunch of players has managed to slip past the otherwise sturdy field at the beginning of the championship.
Some 27 players are now locked in a fierce battle to make it into the final leg of the championship, the Tour Championship presented by Coca Cola next week for the first time in their careers.
Top-70 players from the Deutsche Bank Championship played at TPC Boston have now moved to the third leg, the BMW Championship at Cog Hill scheduled this week. Top-30 players on the updated money list will then proceed to the final leg the Tour Championship
with a colossal $10-million as winner’s share.
Top-21 of these 27 players are confident that they will make through the final cut while some 49 players from the rest of the 70 player field will be attempting to grab a spot for the remaining nine berths available.
Five players including Keegan Bradley, Webb Simpson, Mark Wilson, Gary Woodland and Chez Reavie are some of the most promising players on the field at Cog Hill who are likely to break into the nine berths.
Bradley, rookie champion of the last major of the year, PGA Championship is hoping to reinvent his stellar form he displayed at Atlanta last month to stay in contention for the lucrative title. The player posted a disappointing 19th at the Deutsche
Bank Championship but survived, thanks to his swelled up ranking on the money list. He will have to perform much better if he wants to survive this week’s notorious cut.
Although a winner at Deutsche Bank Championship, Simpson will still need some good putting and iron shots to stay in the loop for the next week’s final challenge.
This year’s Wyndham champion has done well for the season, bagging two top-20 finishes at the major events on both sides of the Atlantic.
Wilson, who posted a joint 17th at Boston, has four PGA Tour titles under his belt and has won twice this year on the tour including the Sony Open in Hawaii and Waste Management Phoenix Open earlier in the year.
Reavie has had an astonishing run so far in the last quarter of the year. Playing on medical exemption, Reavie finished for a brilliant outright second at the Deutsche Bank Championship, barely losing the title on the Playoff hole.
Reavie’s performance in the year was good enough to earn a spot in the FedExCup Playoffs where Tiger Woods failed to qualify. He made 15 out of the 22 cuts this year and has already posted four top-ten finishes in the season.
Woodland has won a title on the tour this season, The Transitions Championship in March where he defeated Simpson by one shot. He finished for runners up at Bob Hope Classic and played well at TPC Boston to settle for a joint 11th.
Some 22 players among the rest have not been to the final leg of the FedExCup Championship in their careers as yet including Charl Schwartzel, Brendan Steele, Chris Kirk, Scott Stallings, D.A. Points, Jhonattan Vegas, Scott Piercy and Johnson Wagner.
The venue of the championship Cog Hill Golf and Country Club is one of the renowned courses on the tour and the event has been staged on the course in successions since 1991.
The 7,386 par-71 course has been designed by d**k Wilson and Joe Lee in 1964 and is ranked 29th in Golf Digest's 100 "Greatest Public Courses”.
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