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.
For the week Scheffler ranked sixth in strokes gained/off-the-tee, picking up almost five shots on the field, while ranking second in strokes gained/putting.
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.
Quick question: how much is the purse for this week’s Tour Championship? If you said $0, you’re technically right. Officially, there was no tournament prizemoney payout this week at East Lake Golf Club. What players are competing for is money from the FedEx Cup bonus pool distributed for their finishes in the season-long points race Read more…
Cantlay, who played in the same pairing as DeChambeau in the final two rounds of last week’s BMW Championship, beating him in a six-hole playoff, offered an answer that was surprisingly long, forthright and thoughtful.