PGA Tour Thread

prawnsambo

Mad that Jordan Spieth might not make it to the Tour Championship. Currently at 31 in the standings with, of all people, Keegan Bradley at 30. If he can put together another low round today, he'll probably make it, but there's a lot of golf to be played and others like Putnam, Armour and An with a relistic chance of getting past him.

prawnsambo

Could be waiting a bit for the fourth round. Delayed due to weather. No word on when it will start, was due to kick off at 7am local (currently 6am).

Hoboo

prawnsambo wrote: »

Could be waiting a bit for the fourth round. Delayed due to weather. No word on when it will start, was due to kick off at 7am local (currently 6am).

Thats down for the day, non stop. Suspended now so can't see how it'll even start. Its not even that heavy.

prawnsambo

Hoboo wrote: »

Thats down for the day, non stop. Suspended now so can't see how it'll even start. Its not even that heavy.

Yeah. The whole area is being absolutely deluged. This is the radar map. Philly is roughly the location of the golf course. The wind is from the NE, so if any clearance comes, it'll be from that direction.

Hoboo

12pm (5pm GMT) at the earliest now. Update at 3pm GMT.

prawnsambo

Hoboo wrote: »

12pm (5pm GMT) at the earliest now. Update at 3pm GMT.

Can't see it hapening tbh. Radar is showing unremitting rain and forecast is between 95% and 100% rain all day. Monday's forecast is not much better at 80% plus thunderstorms.

HighLine

https://twitter.com/NickMentaGC/status/1038789045340594176

Barnaboy

It would be an awful shame if it was to end this way. Was really looking forward to Rory having a go at catching Rose.

LuckyGent88

No surprise play was abandoned. Nearly could have made that call hours ago with the forecast. Not even much better tomorrow.

Big shame if we don’t get a final round. Was set up for a cracking final round.

If Rose is declared the winner, does he become world number 1??

prawnsambo

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

No surprise play was abandoned. Nearly could have made that call hours ago with the forecast. Not even much better tomorrow.

Big shame if we don’t get a final round. Was set up for a cracking final round.

If Rose is declared the winner, does he become world number 1??

Yep. He's the outright winner, so gets the ranking points.

Old diesel

prawnsambo wrote: »

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

No surprise play was abandoned. Nearly could have made that call hours ago with the forecast. Not even much better tomorrow.

Big shame if we don’t get a final round. Was set up for a cracking final round.

If Rose is declared the winner, does he become world number 1??

Yep. He's the outright winner, so gets the ranking points.

Is there any adjustment made to ranking points for shortened tournaments when it's 54 holes

mickmackmcgoo

Old diesel wrote:

Is there any adjustment made to ranking points for shortened tournaments when it's 54 holes

Only if it's reduced to 36

PEACEBROTHER

mickmackmcgoo wrote: »

Only if it's reduced to 36

Any updates ? What’s the likely scenario now

GreeBo

PEACEBROTHER wrote: »

Any updates ? What’s the likely scenario now

They'll try to play tomorrow and based on how that goes the rules outlined above will apply.

First Up

PEACEBROTHER wrote: »

mickmackmcgoo wrote: »

Only if it's reduced to 36

Any updates ? What’s the likely scenario now

They'll try tomorrow. If half the field gets finished they can go into Tuesday. Otherwise 54 holes.

Rikand

Lucky theres no tournie this week


Good thing too. A lot of rain could hit the area of East Lake this coming weekend with Hurricane Florence in the area and another storm coming up in the Gulf Of Mexico. Hopefully will all have blown over before the Tour Championship

prawnsambo

Tee times are set for the morning. Starting a half hour later than scheduled for today and the same dual start on the 1st and 10th. Last tee time is 9:20am.

prawnsambo

Just seen that they are saying that if they don't think half the field can't get their rounds finished tomorrow, they'll call it at 54 holes. It's unlikely, but it is a possibility.

prawnsambo

Currently not raining there and hasn't been for a couple of hours. Chance of rain starts to increase at 8am at 30% and up to 60% by 10am. It really depends now on whether they can get the water off the course and get play started at 7:30am. Feel for the greenkeepers who've probably been out on the course since the rain stopped.

eoghan104

Is the rain absolutely catastrophic stuff or what? Unless the course is completely flooded surely they should be playing in very bad rain.

kiers47

It is pretty torrential stuff.

https://twitter.com/BMWchamps/status/1038724714846474240

https://twitter.com/BMWchamps/status/1038745555315421184

https://twitter.com/BMWchamps/status/1038865311859130369

Hoboo

And those photos are from yesterday morning or possibly even Saturday ........rained all Sunday then.

eoghan104

Maybe it's me but I dont think it looks that bad! there is rules for casual water. Obv have placing too.

It is an interesting one if they need to make it 54 holes with the cut for the top 30. Gonna be some pretty annoyed lads that are left at 31-35.

kiers47

The pictures are after the rain stopped yesterday morning when they were trying to get ready. It was down for pretty much the day yesterday.

Trust me it was unplayable.

HighLine

eoghan104 wrote: »

Maybe it's me but I dont think it looks that bad! there is rules for casual water. Obv have placing too.

It is an interesting one if they need to make it 54 holes with the cut for the top 30. Gonna be some pretty annoyed lads that are left at 31-35.

They would never postpone the final round like they did yesterday unless it was absolutely necessary. The lost in viewership between prime time Sunday night and Monday morning is disastrous for them.

Rikand

Twas the remnants of storm Gordon that affected the gulf of Mexico states late last week. There'd be a fair truck of rain in it.

prawnsambo

They'd had an inch of rain overnight between Saturday and Sunday. Then after a short break it just rained continuously from Sunday morning in to the early hours of this morning. They were expecting another inch of rain at least to fall in that period. The description was of soggy tee boxes and rivers running down the fairways. The front nine was better than the back nine apparently.

Hoboo

Bit of a break this morning, but scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tomorrow.

If they did start, and thunderstorms delayed today, and again tomorrow, would they go to Wednesday? Once they start they must complete?

prawnsambo

Hoboo wrote: »

Bit of a break this morning, but scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tomorrow.

If they did start, and thunderstorms delayed today, and again tomorrow, would they go to Wednesday? Once they start they must complete?

Thunderstorms will be passing, so they might have to suspend play for a couple of hours, but it won't mean a complete suspension for the day. Unless they are rolling in, one after the other. But that's very unlikely.

prawnsambo

Players have teed off on schedule.

HighLine

Interesting. He is through to the final week anyway.

https://twitter.com/PGATOURComms/status/1039110691154796544

LuckyGent88

Is it on tv? Can’t find on sky anyway

jayo26

Anywhere showing coverage of the golf today? Sky don't seem to have it and just turned on the golf channel in US but they don't seem to have coverage either I might check Canada.

Edit: golf channel have it 10 am et so guess sky will have coverage later too.

prawnsambo

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Is it on tv? Can’t find on sky anyway

Sky broadcasting from 2pm on EPG 405.

HighLine

prawnsambo wrote: »

Sky broadcasting from 2pm on EPG 405.

3pm I think.

spacecoyote

Looking slightly hairy for Spieth, he's right on the bubble now, sitting at projected 30th if things finish as they stand now.

Has a double risk to him too. One of the conditions to maintain your PGA tour card is to play a minimum of 25 events in a year. Including the BMW & the Ryder Cup that puts him on 24 events, so if he doesn't qualify, he won't hit his quota.

Supposedly its never happened before, and he wouldn't likely lose his card, he'd be given a large fine/suspension

Joe_ Public

I think it’s that he’s in danger of falling foul of the new rule that affected Molinari before the Open that time, not adding a tournament to your schedule that you hadn’t played in the previous 4 years I think it is. Once you fulfill this requirement you don’t hsve to play 25 events, think the number is 15 but not 100 per cent on that. They’ll just fine him and say don’t let it happen again I’d guess.

Synode

This is shaping up to be a great finish

prawnsambo

Rain pelting down again and 27 so far have finished. Need another 8 to finish to force it on to Tuesday if it gets suspended again.

prawnsambo

Past the point of no return now, so it'll finish out as a 72 hole tournament. Whenever it finishes.

LuckyGent88

Talk about hacking your way up the 18th!!

And absolutely clutch from Rose. That man has some bottle

HighLine

Some putt from Rose there.

prawnsambo

Play-off time lads.

Keegan Bradley and Justin Rose. Never thought I'd be saying that in this context.

Very clever by Bradley to Let Rose get to world no 1 before trying to win :pac:

HighLine

Winner of FedEx will get €15million from 2019 on. Also points system scrapped for Tour Championship in favour of stroke based system with the leader starting at -10. Silly IMO... starting the leader at -10 could be very anti-climatic.

PGA Tour announces changes to scheme for points race, playoff format

HighLine

This bit is also farcical....

"The winner of the Tour Championship, based on the staggered scoring formula, will be credited with an official PGA Tour win even if he did not shoot the lowest score over 72 holes."

GreeBo

Wonder why they are increasing the purse so much...its not like players have lost interest.

Miley Byrne

GreeBo wrote: »

Wonder why they are increasing the purse so much...its not like players have lost interest.

Maybe part of it is that there's one less playoff event maybe?

SeeMoreBut

All it is about is generating more revenue from advertising as everyone will have a better chance to win which will increase viewing numbers and nothing about the best golfer of the year winning it.

Realistic chance of a player outside top 10 in winning fedex is slim.

Niles Crane

HighLine wrote: »

Winner of FedEx will get €15million from 2019 on. Also points system scrapped for Tour Championship in favour of stroke based system with the leader starting at -10. Silly IMO... starting the leader at -10 could be very anti-climatic.

PGA Tour announces changes to scheme for points race, playoff format

The whole Fed Ex Cup playoffs are anti climactic.The best event of the post PGA championship run in to the tour championship is the event prior to the playoffs as players battling out to save their PGA tour card is always exciting

I don't get how they think paying the players an even bigger sum for winning the playoffs will help the playoffs as the prospect of someone getting paid even more money is not exactly a reason why people tune in to watch any sporting event.

The end of the final major is essentially the end of the golf season which is why I think having the last major in mid July is a poor move akin to what the GAA done with the All Irelands this year.