As 70 players jockey for position in the penultimate FedEx Cup Playoffs event, nobody but Justin Thomas has played a competitive round on the host course.
Na, 38, who is among 13 PGA Tour members listed in the field for next week’s inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event in London, announced on social media Saturday that he has quit the tour on which he has competed for 19 years.
Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele were among the favourites coming into the week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, and for once in golf, form held.
The subject of “transparency” in relation to the tour’s business – be it financials, the levying of player fines and suspensions, or even the results of voting for Player of the Year – has become a growing topic of discussion in recent weeks and was reiterated on Tuesday in a press conference at TPC Sawgrass.
Five years after overcoming a debilitating back injury that put him out of the game for more than two years, American Patrick Cantlay reached the PGA TOUR summit by winning the season-long prize, the FedExCup, and its $US15 million prizemoney.
Australian Golf Digest
