FedEx Cup Standings The top two players in the FedEx Cup standings continue to be two from outside the US borders for the week of April 18, Australians Adam Scott and Jason Day. Scott leads the chase with 1,731 points through nine events. He’s won twice and finished in the top 10 four times. World No. 1 Day has also won twice and has four Top 10 finishes. He has 1,340 points, trailing Scott by 391 points. 2015 FedEx Cup Champion Jordan Spieth is currently sixth in the standings with 1,132 points through nine events. Day finished second behind Spieth a year ago. Winning the RBC Heritage Classic last Sunday moved South Africa’s Branden Grace into the top 20 of the standings at 19th with 790 points. Prior to the victory, his first on the PGA Tour, Grace was tied for 90th in the standings. The top 125 players in the final standings qualify for the four-tournament post-season challenge with elevated points and prize money. Race to Dubai Standings Masters champion Danny Willett maintained his comfortable lead in the Race to Dubai standings this week, with more than 2.74 million points, more than a million ahead of his closest competitor. Willett finished second in the Race to Dubai standings last year to eventual chmpion Rory McIlroy, who has won the title twice. McIlroy is currently fourth with 1.321 million points in five events. He is one of five players to have broken the 1-million point threshold, along with Louis Oosthuizen (1.548 million), Rafa Cabrera Bello (1.33 million), and Henrik Stenson (1.045 million). Willett’s lead will likely last a while unless one of those four other players wins the US Open in June. The top 60 players in total points qualify for the Final Series, a four-week series of tournaments with escalating prizes. Sweden’s David Lingmerth is currently the man on the hot seat at No. 60 with 132,767 points.
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Day Retains No. 1 Status
Jason Day's Saturday collapse at the RBC Heritage took him out of contention for that crown, but he managed to retain his hold on the No. 1 ranking in the world. Day finished 23rd at Hilton Head, South Carolina. He is No. 1 for the fourth week in a row and the 10th week overall … Continue reading Day Retains No. 1 Status
Grace Scores First PGA Crown
South Africa's Branden Grace won for the first time on the PGA Tour, bookending rounds of 66 to win the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head, South Carolina, by two strokes over Russell Knox and Luke Donald. Grace fired a 66-74-69-66 - 275 to finish 9-under. Not bad for a guy who missed the cut at … Continue reading Grace Scores First PGA Crown
Danny Willett Rises to No. 9
Masters champion Danny Willett cracked the Top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings for the first time on Sunday, rising three spots from No. 12 to No. 9. Not bad for a guy who was barely inside the top 20 to start 2016. Jason Day retained the top spot in the rankings ahead of … Continue reading Danny Willett Rises to No. 9
Jason Day Wins Dell, New No. 1
There was only one way for Jason Day to reclaim the No. 1 ranking in the world - win the most competitive tournament to date of 2016. And that's what he did on Sunday, routing Louis Oosthuizen 5 and 4 to claim the WGC-Dell Match Play for the second time in three years. He took … Continue reading Jason Day Wins Dell, New No. 1
Jason Day Reclaims No. 2 Ranking
Jason Day reclaimed the No. 2 ranking in the world with his win at Bay Hill on Sunday, and is in position to retake the No. 1 spot from Jordan Spieth this weekend at the WGC-Dell in Austin, where Spieth played his collegiate golf. Day's victory saw him bypass Rory McIlroy and move within 0.3074 … Continue reading Jason Day Reclaims No. 2 Ranking
Day Goes Wire to Wire for Palmer Win
The hottest player in the world over the second half of 2015 returned to form on Sunday, as Jason Day competed a wire-to-wire victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitation at Bay Hill, his first win of 2016. Day regained the No. 2 position in the world with the win, and could conceivably pass Jordan Spieth … Continue reading Day Goes Wire to Wire for Palmer Win
Jason Day Seeks Advice from Tiger Woods
Jason Day has barely been a blip on the radar so far in the 2016 season after nearly stealing Player of the Year honors from Jordan Spieth last fall. A big part of that has been the birth of his first child, which saw Day do less off-season preparation and start later in the year … Continue reading Jason Day Seeks Advice from Tiger Woods
Rankings, FedEx, Dubai Updates: February 16, 2016
Official World Golf Rankings South Africa's Charl Schwartzel climbed to No. 31 in the world with his win at the Tshwane Open on Sunday, having now moved up 12 spots since the start of 2016. American Jordan Spieth remained No. 1 for a 15th straight week and 21st overall. Next Monday he will catch Lee … Continue reading Rankings, FedEx, Dubai Updates: February 16, 2016
McIlroy Re-Takes No. 2 Ranking
Jason Day did not attend the Farmers Insurance Open last weekend, thus failing to defend his title, which caused him to drop to No. 3 in the world, behind new No. 2 Rory McIlroy. McIlroy is averaging 10.3156 points per event, Day dipped to 10.2120. Both have a sizable deficit behind Jordan Spieth, who finished … Continue reading McIlroy Re-Takes No. 2 Ranking