Jordan Spieth holds several distinctions coming into this week’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. Spieth is No. 1 in the FedExCup standings after runner-up finishes in the first two Playoffs events and a tie for seventh last week in Chicago. He is also the only player in the 30-man field to have ever won the Tour Championship or taken home the FedExCup trophy. … [Read more...]
Matt Kuchar Second in British Open to Jordan Spieth’s Sensational Finish
Since 2009, Matt Kuchar has been arguably the most consistently successful player on the PGA Tour. During that stretch, Kuchar has qualified for the Tour Championship seven straight times, represented the U.S. on either the Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup team every year since 2010 and scored six of his seven career PGA Tour wins. Among his victories are a Players … [Read more...]
New Finish for Tour Championship; Nines Reversed at East Lake This Year
Since East Lake’s historic golf course was thoroughly renovated and upgraded in the mid-1990s by Rees Jones, most of the work on the course has been relatively minor apart from the replacement of the bent grass greens after the 2008 Tour Championship with Mini-Verde Bermuda, which enabled the course to better handle Atlanta’s Summer heat. The changes to the course since … [Read more...]
TOUR Championship field finalized: Dustin Johnson takes No. 1 position to East Lake
ATLANTA – Dustin Johnson shot a 5-under 67 to win the BMW Championship for his third victory of the season, edging Paul Casey by three shots. It is Johnson’s second career title at the BMW Championship and 12th PGA TOUR title. With the win, Johnson claims the No. 1 spot in the FedExCup standings heading to the TOUR Championship, meaning a win at East Lake will guarantee the … [Read more...]
Former Augusta State Star Patrick Reed Wins Playoffs Opener
Coming into the first of the FedExCup Playoffs events, Patrick Reed was very much on the bubble of the U.S. Ryder Cup standings, holding down the eighth and final spot for automatic inclusion on the team, with the Barclays the final tournament before the eighth automatic spots were determined. Considering his performance in the 2014 Ryder Cup in Scotland, Reed was almost … [Read more...]
Matt Kuchar Takes Home Bronze Medal from Olympics
Ordinarily, a player the caliber of Matt Kuchar would not be in a particularly celebratory mood after a third place finish in a tournament, with the exception of a major championship. Kuchar already had a trio of third place finishes this season, one in the Players Championship and another in the WGC event at Firestone. But his most recent third place showing was a … [Read more...]
3 Ex-Georgia Collegians on Olympic Team
Bubba Watson, Patrick Reed, Matt Kuchar to Represent U.S. When golf makes its return to the Olympics this month, the four-man U.S. team will consist of three players with Georgia ties, two of whom made the squad thanks to the lengthy list of world class players who elected to skip the Games in Rio de Janeiro. The players not competing in Rio have largely overshadowed those … [Read more...]
Meagan Wallace Takes Women’s Open in Playoff Over Kaylin Yost
After losing a playoff in the Georgia Women’s Open at Brookfield Country Club, Kaylin Yost can identify with Jordan Spieth’s experience in the 2016 Masters. Like Spieth, Yost held a sizeable lead on the back nine when two ill-timed and poorly hit shots on a par-3 resulted in a quadruple bogey and the loss of her lead. Yost went from four shots ahead to tied after making … [Read more...]
UGA’s McCoy Places Fourth in PGA Tour Event
One of the most valuable lessons Lee McCoy has learned during his college stay at the University of Georgia is that persistence pays off. So does begging. McCoy discovered those two helpful traits hundreds of miles from the UGA campus near his hometown in the Tampa suburbs. McCoy grew up near the Innisbrook Resort and his parents were members at the club. As one of the … [Read more...]