Patrick Reed Wins Barclays, Locks Up Ryder Cup Spot
Barclays
Ugly, ugly finish this afternoon. Bogeys everywhere. Snap hooks everywhere. Fans yelling in backswings everywhere. But with a nervy 5 on the par-4 eighteenth, the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs goes to Patrick Reed — our cocky, controversial American. While the New York crowd at Bethpage was about 90/10 in favor of Rickie, it didn’t seem to help. Reed was 2-back early on but got back in it with this chip-in on number 5.
Patrick Reed makes back-to-back birdies … in style.
He's 1 back.#QuickHits https://t.co/dGXqc07x8y
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 28, 2016
Rickie played damn near mistake-free golf for the first 64 holes, but then collapsed down the stretch making a few bogeys and a double. And he just didn’t get the breaks — got a fried egg in a greenside bunker on 11 and found himself in this divot after a perfect drive on the par-5 fourth.
How does Rickie Fowler beat a bad lie?
Clean contact. Ball first. pic.twitter.com/6PXjsA630J
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 28, 2016
(still made birdie though, nbd)
Jason Day finished in the top-5 despite being dead last in the field in fairways hit. Fun things like this 70-footer helped.
Here he comes…
Jason Day is two back. https://t.co/NUhbbkrcZP
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 28, 2016
Crowd definitely wasn’t pro-Reed, but was pro-Stool. As is tradition.
@BarstoolBigCat Yabo! pic.twitter.com/7u6ps7rWqg
— greg elbaum (@GregE_33) August 28, 2016
@BarstoolBigCat @BarstoolTrent @barstooltweets #SaturdaysAreForTheBoys pic.twitter.com/Lo84v51zD4
— G Mill (@Gmill10) August 27, 2016
John Daly may not be in the top 125, but he’s still at The Barclays. pic.twitter.com/lOZG5rZSE4
— SkratchTV (@skratchTV) August 25, 2016
Here’s the final leaderboard:
(i predicted -9 winning score, nbd)
Ryder Cup
The other big golf news as a product of the Bethpage finish is our top-8 U.S. Ryder Cup spots are locked up. Rickie just needed a third place finish or better to automatically qualify, but doubled 16 to bump himself right out. He’ll probably receive a captain’s pick, but Zach Johnson squeezed in over him for now. Here are our auto 8:
1. DJ
2. Spieth
3. Phil
4. Walker
5. Koepka
6. Sneds
7. Reed
8. Zach Johnson
The first 3 captain’s picks will be made in two weeks; the final one two weeks later after the Tour Championship. My 4 picks would be:
1. JB Holmes
2. Bubba
3. Rickie
4. Berger
I think Furyk will get in over Berg, but that’s who I’d take. And that will change throughout the FedEx Cup playoffs.
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Next week the boys are in Boston. 100 guys left. Our march to the Ryder Cup continues and, although we were pulling for Rickie, seeing an American win a big event is always a great feeling. I included this video in my Ryder Cup blog from earlier in the week, and I’ll include it again because goosebumps.
Bring on the Euro trash.