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JORDAN SPIETH
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"Each year, I've had an op-
portunity to win the FedEx
Cup at the end of the year.
This year, at this current
state, I'm in a more difficult
position to win the FedEx
Cup than I've been in the
last five years."
He's still inside the top 30
from the 70-man field at
Aronimink who hope to
advance to East Lake. Spi-
eth figures he only needs a
"normal" week in the third
FedEx Cup playoff event,
which starts Thursday.
A year ago, Louis Oosthui-
zen came into the BMW
Championship at No. 24
and missed out on the
Tour Championship by one
point. The highest-seeded
player who didn't advance
was Rickie Fowler in 2016,
when he was No. 22 and
missed by 0.57 points.
So for Spieth, there is work Jordan Spieth tees off on the the tenth hole during the first round of the Dell Technologies Championship golf tournament at TPC
to be done. Boston in Norton, Mass., Friday, Aug. 31, 2018.
And it's not just the mathe- Associated Press
matical shot at the $10 mil-
lion bonus, or even pride to The policy is in its second picks for the Ryder Cup on for East Lake because he won the second playoff
not be left out of the Tour year, and no one has vio- Tuesday evening: Woods, those players only have to event and the Tour Cham-
Championship for the first lated it yet. Phil Mickelson and Bryson win the Tour Championship pionship and walked off
time since turning pro. Also on the bubble are Tiger DeChambeau. And then to claim the richest prize in the big winner.
The PGA Tour has a policy Woods and Rickie Fowler. on Wednesday, Europe- golf. "It turns a sort of average
that requires its members Woods has finished out of an captain Thomas Bjorn He also wants to be No. 12 season into a great sea-
to play in a minimum of the top 20 in both playoff picked Paul Casey, Ian — the final member of the son," he said.
25 tournaments. If they fall events and has dropped Poulter, Henrik Stenson and U.S. team that Furyk will an- No one has less at stake
short of that, players have five spots to No. 25, need- Sergio Garcia. nounce Monday. than DeChambeau, who
to add a tournament they ing to play well to avoid All of them except Garcia, Finau is the leading choice won the last two weeks
have not played in four missing the Tour Champion- who didn't qualify for the as the final pick, mainly be- and is assured of being
years. Because he added ship for the first time when playoffs, are at Aronimink. cause he trails only world the No. 1 seed at the Tour
nothing new to his sched- playing a full schedule. And then there's Tony Finau, No. 1 Dustin Johnson for the Championship.q
ule this year, Spieth has to Fowler missed the first two who has played so well the most top 10s this year, and
reach 25 events. And the events with an injury and is last two weeks that he is because no other candi-
only way to reach 25 events No. 26. No. 4 in the FedEx Cup. He dates have stood out over
(the Ryder Cup counts) is to As for that other cup? goes into the BMW Cham- the last few months.
make it to the Tour Cham- U.S. captain Jim Furyk an- pionship trying to nail down "I just continue to approach
pionship. nounced three of his four one of the top five seeds it the way I have the last
couple weeks, and that's
winning the FedEx Cup.
Upcoming book assails Seems to have worked the
last couple weeks for me,"
Donald Trump's 'ethics said Finau, who was runner-
up in The Northern Trust and

deficit' in golf tied for fourth in the Dell
Technologies
Champion-
ship.
Twenty-two players in the
NEW YORK (AP) — The next ly is a longtime contributor 70-man field could be in
book to take on President to Sports Illustrated and the Ryder Cup. All of them
Donald Trump isn't focused CNN. He's basing his book could be in the running for
on Russia or tax policy. It's on firsthand observations, the FedEx Cup, and no one
about his golf game. along with interviews with knows that better than Rory
Hachette Books an- everyone from golfing part- McIlroy.
nounced Wednesday that ners to caddies. He skipped the opening
Rick Reilly's "Commander in Reilly has written about playoff event, struggled fin-
Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump and golf before, no- ishing off rounds last week
Trump" will come out next tably in his 2003 publica- at the TPC Boston to tie for
May. Hachette is calling tion, "Who's Your Caddy?: This cover image released by 12th, and comes into the
the book a close study of Looping for the Great, Near Hachette Books shows "Com- BMW Championship at No.
Trump's "ethics deficit" on Great, and Reprobates of mander In Cheat: How Golf 24. Two years ago, McIlroy
Explains Trump," by Rick Reilly.
the course and what it says Golf."q Associated Press was having a mediocre
about him as a leader. Reil- year by his standards when