World number one Luke Donald snatches back the money leader title on PGA: Highlights Part 2
Simpson, on the other hand, is poised at the second position with gross earnings of $6,347,353 in his 26 appearances on the tour this year.
On a question whether it was disappointing for him to let go of the money title, Simpson said, “I mean, to be honest, it's not that disappointing. When you got a guy that's the best player in the world and he makes six birdies on the back nine on Sunday
is to win the golf tournament -- and he's probably going to win -- well, he's right there -- you know, I can't be that disappointed.”
Leonard, the PGA Tour veteran, who pulled in the lowest round on the tour for the year on the second day of the event, carded a disappointing round of one-under, 71 on the final day, to throw away what could have been an easy victory for him. He carded two
birdies on the front nine and also dropped a shot at par-three, 6th. The 1997 Open Championship winner has another one-year extension to play on the PGA Tour and is least worried about victories as long as he is able to pull in strong finishes and
end up with reasonable cash inflow.
“Yeah, it's a good way to end this year certainly from the year that I've had and wanting to use these last three weeks to really kind of look more towards next year.” said Leonard who finished for an outright second with an aggregate score of 15-under,
273.
A group of three players who kept falling in and out of contention through the weekend, finished for a joint third including Tom Pernice Jr., South Korean Sunghoon Kang and Kevin Chappell. Another group of five players finished further down the leaderboard
including John Rollins, Trevor Immelman, Nick O’ Hern, Billy Mayfair along with Simpson.
Some of the distinguished players on the tour failed to make the cut at the last of the Fall Series events on the tour. Davis Love III, Captain of the Ryder Cup team 2012, D.A. Points, Rocco Mediate, Robert Garrigus, Justin Rose, Ben Curtis, Hunter Haas,
and Bill Lunde all failed to make the cut in the $4.7-million event.
Donald has now soared as an undisputed leader in the sport for the moment and while his lead on the PGA Tour might be on the threshold, he is ruling the Race to Dubai list by a colossal margin. His extraordinary run to the top slot started in February this
year when he won the WGC Accenture Match Play event in Tucson Arizona. Donald never looked back after that. This is the second time since 1990 that the money list has seen its new owner in the last weeks of the season. Donald is not only the second foreigner
who has clinched the Money leader title on the Tour after Vijay Singh in 2008 but is the first Englishman to do so in the history of the sport.
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