Greensboro, North Carolina | The FedEx Cup -Play -offs will officially start next week at the Fedex St. Jude Championship, but the Wyndham championship this week has its own play -off feeling.
It is the regular season finale, which means that the magic song at Sedgefield Country Club 70 is, the Cutoff on the points list to be eligible for the play-offs.
There is also the chase to be in the top 50 after the first play -off event, not just to guarantee a place in the second, the BMW championship, but to be eligible in the characteristic events of the Tour next year. Jordan Spieth plays the Wyndham, who is number 50 this week. And the Top 30 NA BMW is eligible for the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.
Although the Fall Series events will be recorded, players floating at the bottom of the top 100 also need their entire playing rights for next year.
This week the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 also completes its $ 40 million payout. Scottie Scheffler achieved the top position a long time ago, but Ben Griffin is in Seventh and Keegan Bradley is in 10th place and both are in the field, with the intention of maintaining their places that have a minimum $ 2 million bonus.
There is also something called the Ryder Cup on the Horizon and Griffin, Lucas Glover, Spieth and Bradley, the captain himself, are in serious fighting to be one of the six big picks for the September matches.
Let’s start with the top 70, which has the most urgency. Land there and players are assured of bonus money. Miss Out and the play -offs will continue without those players, many of whom will follow the Top 100 line as soon as the autumn events begin.
Each player on the 60th to 80th is in the field on the Wyndham championship with Matti Schmid at number 70. Patrick Rodgers (no. 68) and Ben An (no. 69) are in the line but need a solid week to keep their positions.
Behind Schmid are Nicolai Højgaard, Keith Mitchell, Chris Kirk, Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Gary Woodland, in that order.
“I remember missing the cut and the last thing you want to do as a golfer is not control of your destination.” – Ben Griffin
Adam Scott is at no. 85 and Tom Kim is number 89 and both should rely on sponge accounts to get to the characteristic events next year if they will not make a big move in the coming two weeks.
Then there is the case of Joel Dahmen, who was 99th last week in points until he triple the 72nd hole at the 3M championship until 101st. Every little bit matters during this time of the year.
It is the end of the line that came to define the Wyndham championship and it sometimes comes down to the last holes on the last day before the line is permanently drawn.
Griffin knows all about it.
Griffin is seventh in the points race with two wins and has locked himself in everything that matters except the Ryder Cup. Two years ago, however, he sat at home on his couch after he had missed the Wyndham snit and wondering whether Justin Thomas would steal the last place of him in Sedgefield on Sunday.
“Ik herinner me dat ik de snit miste en het laatste wat je als golfer wilt doen, is niet de controle over je bestemming. Ik herinner me dat ik op de bank zat met mijn verloofde – nou, ze was toen mijn vriendin … Ik herinner me dat ik daar met haar en mijn vader, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn moeder, mijn Mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, my mother, with her and my father, missed, not with her and my mother, said my mother, crazy.
“I think my father had way too much fear, he probably loves leaving the room. I remember that I had viewed that chip because we knew a little or he hit him, Justin, he went to Memphis and I wasn’t. He didn’t hit the flagstick and it was hardly missing and it was just crazy … [my] The heartbeat was just like super high to look at it. “
The stress, said Griffin, starts long before Sunday afternoon at the Wyndham championship for players on the bubble.
‘You can’t get it out of your head. If you [can]You are a God. I mean, props for your mental lead, “said Griffin.
“Everyone has those kinds of thoughts in the back of their heads. It is easy to get rid of them a little when you play really good wave, at least kind of those first pair of rounds and you are in a position that you don’t really have to think about. …
“For the boys this week who are on the bubble, you just have to have the most focus ever and just try to exclude and try not to distract through the external things.”
After he had recovered his card last year via the Korn Ferry Tour, (Ryan) Gerard is one of the emerging stars of the PGA Tour, who picked up his first Touro Windings on the Barracuda Championship two weeks ago.
There is a well -known mantra among players – if you play well, everything else often takes care of themselves – and it sounds especially this week.
Ryan Gerard played the Wyndham championship two years ago and missed De Snee, one of the 10 he missed in 22 Starts and cost him his tour card.
After he had recovered his card last year via the Korn Ferry Tour, Gerard is one of the emerging stars of the PGA Tour, who picked up his first Touro Windings on the Barracuda Championship two weeks ago.
In addition to the two-year exemption that is accompanied by winning, the Gerard pushed to the 29th in the Fedex Cup race, so that he further enriches his bank account and also to be exempted next year in three of the four Majors. In the Top 30, a different kind of stress presents, one with a softer landing.
“When I came from last year’s Korn Ferry tour, I knew I wouldn’t get much start and you have to make your way in more chances,” Gerard said.
“As the season progressed, I played my way in those opportunities and the goal posts have shifted a bit from keeping your card to making the play-offs to top-50 characteristic events until now, I think to East Lake would be an amazing goal.”
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