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Six Australians remain in the hunt to take a chunk of the $70 million FedEx Cup bounty following the completion of the PGA TOUR regular season.
Six Australians remain in the hunt to take a chunk of the $70 million FedEx Cup bounty following the completion of the PGA TOUR regular season.
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Sydney’s Cameron Davis was the best of the Aussies at the Wyndham Championship won by JT Poston but his tie for 22nd was not enough to move him into the top 125 on the moneylist, he and Curtis Luck now with the option to play in the Korn Ferry Tour finals to improve their conditional status for the 2020 season.
The three-event FedEx Cup Playoffs commence this week with The Northern Trust at Liberty National where Marc Leishman, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Cameron Smith, Aaron Baddeley and Matt Jones along with Kiwi Danny Lee will tee it up.
Smith and Jones were the only ones to play the Wyndham Championship and both missed the cut.
Smith shot 66 in the first round and seemed well positioned but a second round of 1-over 71 saw him miss the cut on the number and drop four spots to 79th on the FedEx Cup points standings.
With only the top 70 to advance to the second week of the playoffs Smith will need a strong week in his first look at Liberty National to play the BMW Championship.
Jones had a somewhat nervous wait after failing to qualify for the weekend rounds at the Wyndham but his fall of just six spots moved him to 115th in the final standings to secure not only a place in the playoffs but a full PGA TOUR card in 2020.
Lee enters the FedEx Cup playoffs in 66th position having been disqualified midway through his second round at Sedgefield Country Club.
| Wyndham Championship | |||
| Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina | |||
| T22 | Cameron Davis | 66-67-69-65—267 | $US53,044 |
| MC | Cameron Smith | 66-71—137 | |
| MC | Matt Jones | 69-70—139 | |
| MC | Rod Pampling | 70-71—141 | |
| MC | John Lyras | 73-70—143 | |
| MC | Curtis Luck | 70-74—144 | |
| DQ | Danny Lee | 70-45—115 |
Ryan Ruffels’ path towards a Korn Ferry Tour card in 2020 is taking two very different routes after he logged his second top-five finish in just three starts on Canada’s Mackenzie Tour.
Ryan Ruffels’ path towards a Korn Ferry Tour card in 2020 is taking two very different routes after he logged his second top-five finish in just three starts on Canada’s Mackenzie Tour.
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Tied for second heading into the final round of the 1932byBateman Open in Alberta, Ruffels moved to within one of the lead early in the back nine but he was perhaps guilty of pushing too hard as three bogeys blotted his run home.
Canadian Taylor Pendrith finished three shots clear at the top of the leaderboard with Ruffels four shots back in a tie for third.
The result moves the 21-year-old to 15th on the Mackenzie Tour Order of Merit from just three starts and with an interesting decision to make with regards to his schedule for the rest of 2019.
Top five on both the Mackenzie Tour and Latino-America Tour moneylists at the end of the season earn elevation to the Korn Ferry Tour next year and both avenues are now open to the Victorian.
Currently sitting fifth on the Latino-America Order of Merit, Ruffels can play the remaining four events in Canada before the Latino-America schedule recommences on September 19 and how he fares over the next month will likely dictate where he channels his energies for the back-end of the year.
| 1932byBateman Open | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Edmonton Country Club, Edmonton, Alberta | |||
| T3 | Ryan Ruffels | 66-67-70-68—271 | $10,400 |
| MC | Ruben Sondjaja | 71-69—140 |
