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‘BLITZPUIG’

This Aug. 13, 2017, file
photo shows Justin Thomas
posing with the Wanamaker
Trophy after winning the
PGA Championship golf
tournament at the Quail
Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C.
Associated Press
More than

just $10M

at stake

in FedEx

Cup playoffs

By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The Fe-
dEx Cup isn’t the only tro-
phy at stake over the next
five weeks. One trophy
is known for its $10 mil-
lion prize, with $9 million in
cash. The other is about re-
spect and honor from the
other players. The PGA Tour
launched its lucrative Fe-
dEx Cup in 2007 with hopes
it would give the season
some definition and keep
golf interesting after the
majors are over. Another
purpose it occasionally
serves is to allow the best
players to lobby for the
Jack Nicklaus Award as
the player of the year.
This campaign is more
playoffs that start Thursday Dodgers win on Yasiel Puig HR
about results than rhetoric.
Going into the FedEx Cup

with The Northern Trust,
it’s a two-man race. That Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig leaps
could change.
Justin Thomas is regarded against the electronic scoreboard to make a catch
as the front-runner, and the of a fly ball by Pittsburgh Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen
size of his lead depends on in the sixth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug.
the scope of one’s memo- 21, 2017, in Pittsburgh.
ry. Associated Press
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