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cshea

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Ball game. Nice win for Rickie. He's an assassin down the stretch when he's in contention.
 
13 global wins for Rory, Spieth, Day and Fowler this season. Crazy.
 

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Ball game. Nice win for Rickie. He's an assassin down the stretch when he's in contention.
 
13 global wins for Rory, Spieth, Day and Fowler this season. Crazy.
 
All 27 and under. Very good time to be a golf fan.
 

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Is there really any clear indication why CBS made the move to toss him?  I've always found him to run somewhat cross-grain, but only at shallow angle - not a rip or cross cut.
 
He added value IMHO.  And I am truly perplexed why CBS made the move.  Was it $$$?
 

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Speith follows with an ace on the next......These Guys Are Good
I just turned it on to see the replay of this.  
 
I can't roll the ball in that perfectly from three feet away.  Unreal.
 

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Day goes out and shoots 63 today, after 61 yesterday, tying the all time PGA Tour record of -18 through 2 rounds. Outrageous. 
 

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NBC just ran a graphic about the World #1 and the comical month it has been
 
Jordan Spieth Finished second at PGA moved to #1
Rory doesn't play the Wyndham he jumps over Spieth and becomes #1 again
Spieth missed cut at Deutsche bank, jumps over McIlroy to become #1
No event last week,  Rory jumps over Spieth to become #1
 
Now Day will become #1
 

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After missing the final tourney by one shot the last two years, Harris English just sank a birdie putt from off the green to get himself to 30th in the rankings.
 
Now he sits and waits.
 

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I know there was some brief discussion on this a few weeks back.   At this point I would say it is winner take all for Player of the year this weekend, assuming Spieth or Day win
 
If someone else wins this weekend, then I'd have to call it a tossup; although, I'd lean to Day
 

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Agree that if either one of them win it has to clinch PotY.  A 2nd or 3rd without the other winning probably clinches it, too.
 
If both finish out of the top 3, I would lean Spieth simply because of the two Major victories.  But I would not complain about Day winning.
 

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I would have guessed that no player who won two majors didn't get the POY year award, but it turns out it has happened a few times. Most notably, in 1974, Gary Player won the Masters and the British, but the award went to Johnny Miller, who won no major that year, but did win eight other events. (Player won one other PGA event, and a handful of others worldwide.)
 

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I saw this floating around Twitter...but to answer the POY question, ask Jason which year he'd rather have, his or Spieth's. I suspect he'd say Spieth's and that's your POY.
 

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I think he'd give up the $10 million for Spieth's green jacket or Open in a heartbeat. He's already won millions, and I don't think the FedEx Cup carries enough history and prestige to compare with the majors.
 

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cshea said:
I think he'd give up the $10 million for Spieth's green jacket or Open in a heartbeat. He's already won millions, and I don't think the FedEx Cup carries enough history and prestige to compare with the majors.
 
Maybe true now, but probably not even as recently as last year:
 
 
“I’m going to be honest here,” he finally said. “I came from a very poor family. So it wasn’t winning that was on my mind when I first came out on the PGA Tour. It was money.
“I wanted to play for money, because I’d never had it before.”
 

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The pgatour.com leaderboard tracker is notoriously unreliable, but they are making it seem as if Day was in bounds and is now back in play.
 
Seems like he's going to struggle to avoid double bogey in any case.
 
Edit:  And now the unreliability comes into play, as they had him making 5 but it's posted as a 7 because of the OB.  A tidy triple bogey.
 

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Seems like Day's chances are slipping away. He's E for the tournament, 8 back of Stenson. Needs to make a move.

It's kind of a stupid format here. Stenson could win $10 million with 1 win (in the 28 man field) while Day and Spieth win a combined like 10 events and don't end up FedEX cup champions. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I can't really think of a better way to settle it.
 

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I think it makes sense. Its the playoffs - just like in every other sport you can have a dark horse Cinderella who gets hot at just the right time and wins it all. Like Horschel last year.