Only the top 125 players on the FedEx Cup points list after this week’s Wyndham Championship will qualify for the Playoff tournaments, which begin next week at the Northern Trust event.
It is not a query that begets a singular, clear-cut answer. However, after speaking with tour and tournament officials, players, caddies and an epidemiologist, the response also is not as ambiguous as it may seem.
Because of the 13 cancelled events, plenty of big-name golfers who thought they had time to play their way into the top 125 are now sitting on the bubble.
As he did earlier this year in winning at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Simpson’s work on the greens with his Odyssey Tank Cruiser V-Line putter proved key.
Duncan wound up playing nine of the best holes of his life, shooting a four-under 31 that included birdies on the 17th and 18th holes, the latter of which came from 24 feet.
Specialist golfing retailer GolfSupport.com utilised SparkToro’s Fake Followers Audit tool to find out which golfer from the current top 20 in the world has the most ‘fake’ followers relative to the overall following they have on their official (i.e. verified) Twitter account.