Max Homa, Sahith Theegala show how quickly fortunes can change
The Wyndham Championship is the last chance for players to receive the PGA Tour’s postseason. It’s also a pointer that a lot in golf still must be earned.Sahith Theegala and
Max Homa are 2 examples, both of them part of the winning American team at the Presidents Cup last year in Montreal.Theegala, who ended up at No. 3 in the FedExCup last year and got a$7.5 million perk, had not ended up in the leading 10 until encountering neck difficulty in May. He withdrew from three competitions, consisting of the PGA Championship, to rest it.He returned at The Open and missed 2 straight cuts. Now he is No. 144 and requires absolutely nothing short of a triumph at the Wyndham Championship to getting approved for the postseason.Homa has actually remained in a downturn for 15 months, and he started this year with a new coach and brand-new equipment. He feels progress in his swing, however not his results. Now he’s at No. 106, and most likely needs a runner-up surface to have any hope of extending his season. Adding to the stress for Homa is his spouse
is due with their 2nd child next week. He was not eligible for the U.S. Open or British Open. He is still grinding.”My spouse is really, really pregnant right now so truly
like to win one of the next 2 so I might skip an occasion showing up just so I might keep the stress level low in our family,”he said at the Barracuda Championship, held opposite The Open.He connected for 45th at the Barracuda, and he tied for 39th in Minnesota.Three players from the International team in the Presidents Cup are outside the top 70 going into the last regular-season occasion– Adam Scott, Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Tom Kim. While the job of keeping one’s task extends through the fall, the huge story this week at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, is which players will get approved for the FedExCup Playoffs. The FedExCup standings going
into the Wyndham Champion show some 20 players who remained in the playoffs a year ago now outside the top 70. That includes Billy Horschel and Will Zalatoris, both out with injuries.Among the players in the top 70 who missed the
postseason in 2015 are U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun, two-time winner Brian Campbell and Chris Gotterup. They are among nine players who have won on the PGA Trip this year and are inside the leading 70. Winning always helps.Scottie Scheffler, on the other hand, will pick up$
18 million without playing this week.The PGA Trip has redistributed the FedExCup bonus money so the leader of the FedExCup after the routine season gets$ 10 million, along with $8 million from the Comcast Business Top 10. He is ensured of both.