Seasons go on the road at this week’s BMW Championship with 20 gamers combating to remain within the Fed-Ex Cup, whereas qualification for the celebrated Ryder Cup concludes after the ultimate spherical at Olympia Fields.
4 US points-based spots are nonetheless obtainable within the penultimate FedEx Cup playoff occasion the place $20 million (A$31m) shall be handed out, together with 30 spots within the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the place the winner alone pockets a large $18 million (A$28m).
That has added to the strain in suburban Chicago, the place Ryder Cup factors and captain’s picks hopefuls must shine together with these ranked 31-50 within the Fed-Ex Cup standings.
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“We’ve got a lot at stake these subsequent two weeks, whether or not it’s cash, Ryder Cup,” US standout Keegan Bradley stated.
“There’s a lot to play for, and that’s actually thrilling.”
World primary Scottie Scheffler, final 12 months’s Masters champion, and reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark are the one gamers who’ve clinched Ryder Cup spots on factors for subsequent month’s showdown in opposition to Europe in Italy.
At the moment within the different 4 Ryder Cup spots are fourth-ranked Patrick Cantlay, the two-time defending BMW champion; British Open champion Brian Harman, LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka, who received his fifth main at Might’s PGA Championship, and Max Homa.
Amongst these chasing at this week’s 50-player occasion with an opportunity to stumble upon the Ryder Cup line-up are reigning Olympic champion Xander Schauffele, three-time main winner Jordan Spieth, two-time main winners Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas, 2022 British Open runner-up Cameron Younger, 2011 PGA Championship winner Bradley and 2009 US Open champion Lucas Glover, who received the previous two PGA Tour occasions.
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“I’ve by no means made it and I wish to,” Glover stated of the Ryder Cup. “That was a objective from the day I turned professional again in 2001.”
US captain Zach Johnson will title his six picks after the Tour Championship.
Requested if he would decide himself together with his sizzling type, 43-year-old Glover stated, “Taking part in fairly good golf and I feel I’d be fairly good within the workforce room and be a superb accomplice, so yeah completely I’d.”
Bradley, 37, performed on the 2012 and 2014 dropping Ryder Cup groups. “I would love to be on a successful Ryder Cup workforce sometime,” he stated. “I take into consideration the Ryder Cup each second I’m awake principally.
“I really feel like I may convey some expertise to the workforce. I really feel like I may very well be a superb accomplice to lots of guys.”
Cantlay, third in factors to all-but seal his spot in Italy, trusts Johnson to type out what this week doesn’t clear up.
“There’s no yet another able to making educated picks than him,” Cantlay stated. “This go-around looks as if it’s possibly more durable than years previous. There’s lots of horses for a restricted quantity of slots. It’s going to be a troublesome set of picks. I belief him. He’s going to do an amazing job.”
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Within the FedEx Cup playoff chase, reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm of Spain stays the factors chief forward of Scheffler. That will give Rahm a two-stroke edge in the beginning of the Tour Championship at East Lake if he can keep in entrance this week.
“Level of coming to the playoffs is to present your self the perfect likelihood to get to East Lake on the primary spot,” Rahm stated. “I’ve carried out a reasonably good job up to now. Hopefully this week I can have a superb efficiency and provides myself the perfect shot.”
Solely two Australians stay within the Fed-Ex Cup: Jason Day and Cameron Smith.
Day is poised to succeed in the Tour Championship for the primary time since 2018, heading into the BMW Championship with a nine-spot buffer to the drop zone.
Sydneysider Davis, in the meantime, will want an enormous consequence having been certainly one of simply two gamers — the opposite being Hideki Matsuyama — to play himself into the BMW Championship ultimately week’s St Jude.
Davis moved from No.62 to No.45 by ending T6 at TPC Southwind, which adopted T7 on the Wyndham Championship and T10 on the 3M Open.
At minimal, Davis wants to come back solo sixth to qualify for the Tour Championship.
“I’ve discovered myself on this form of state of affairs fairly a number of occasions now by way of my profession, whether or not it was my first 12 months getting on to the PGA TOUR and dropping my card and having to play an amazing 9 holes to complete the Korn Ferry Tour Finals simply to get my card again, to taking part in in a playoff,” Davis stated.
“I really feel like when it’s form of a do-or-die state of affairs, among the inhibitor truly is taken off in my mind, I really feel like … in that form of headspace, I really feel like I’ve performed lots of actually good golf to maintain my profession urgent ahead.”
Additionally on the bubble of being eradicated are main winners Justin Rose, Matt Fitzpatrick and Matsuyama.
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