The Golf Playoffs

The golf playoffs for the PGA started this past weekend, with Tiger Woods in the lead for the FedEx Cup, everybody assumed that he would win this past weekends tournament, The Barclays. The Barclays is the first of 4 playoff tournaments for FedEx Cup points, at the end of the 4 tournaments, there is a FedEx Cup winner and the winner gets a big trophy and tons of money. This past weekend (Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun.) Tiger was never really in the hunt to win the tournament, but like always he made a weekend charge, he went from E par on Friday, to -4 under par by days end on Saturday, 5 shots behind the leader, which is no task for Tiger. Tiger made a late push on the back 9 Sunday, he shot -4 under for the day again, to finish the tournament -8 under, Tiger would have forced a playoff if he could have sunk his 14 footer for birdie on the 18th green, his 72nd hole. Tiger barley missed the put, keeping him at a tie for 2nd with 4 other players, the winner, Heath Slocum, sunk a 31 footer to save par on the 18th hole an won the tournament by 1 stroke, -9 under. There is still 3 more tournaments with this weekends coming up, The Deutche Bank championship, it would be safe to assume that Tiger is looking to win no doubt, and keep his lead in the FedEx Cup points race, I'll go with Tiger winning.


(Tiger reacting to his missed birdie putt on 18 at The Barclays, the putt was to force a playoff)



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