Monday, September 16, 2013

ZACH JOHNSON WINS BMW CHAMPIONSHIP BY TWO SHOTS

FROM THE BBC SPORTS WEBSITE

BMW Championship final leaderboard (US unless stated)

  • -16: Z Johnson
  • -14: N Watney
  • -13: J Furyk
  • -11: J Day (Aus), L Donald (Eng), H Mahan, S Stricker
  • Selected others: -9: T Woods; -5: S Garcia (Spa); -4: D Lynn (Eng); -2: A Scott (Aus); -1: B Davis (Eng), J Rose (Eng)
American Zach Johnson shot a final-round 65 to win the BMW Championship and climb into the top five in the race for the season-ending FedEx Cup.
Johnson, on 16 under, finished two ahead of Nick Watney and three better than third-round leader Jim Furyk, with Tiger Woods seven adrift.
Woods and Johnson are amongst the five who can win the $10m (£6.3m) FedEx Cup  with victory in Atlanta next weekend.

How the FedEx Cup works

  • Players pick up points throughout the regular season in each event they play. Most tournaments give 500 points to the winner
  • The top 125 players enter the play-offs, which consist of four tournaments and where victory carries 2,500 points
  • The field is whittled down to 30 for the final event, the Tour Championship
  • Points are reset, so the number one player has 2,500 points, number two has 2,250 and so on to number 30, who has 210
  • In theory, all 30 players could win the FedEx Cup, but only the top five are guaranteed to take the trophy if they win the Tour Championship
Luke Donald finished tied for fourth to reach the final event at East Lake.
The Englishman followed his third-round 67 with a 66 in Monday's rain-delayed final round to climb from 54th to 29th in the FedEx Cup standings, with 30 men moving on to the Tour Championship.
Johnson, the 2007 Masters champion, picked up the $1.44m (£900,000) top prize and his 10th career title.
Furyk, who became only the sixth player to card a sub-60 round when he fired a second-round 59, has now squandered his last six 54-hole leads.
Woods had begun the day four behind Furyk, but a level-par round of 71 saw him slide down the leaderboard.
The world number one can console himself with the knowledge that he has his FedEx Cup destiny in his own hands.
Along with Johnson, fellow American Matt Kuchar, Sweden's Henrik Stenson and Australian Adam Scott are the players who are not relying on others to falter in Atlanta.
Furyk began the back nine with a two-shot lead over Johnson at Conway Farms in Illinois, but the world number 24's bogey-free round would eventually see him home.
A birdie on the par-four 12th saw Johnson draw level, with Watney's 14 under at one point being good enough for a three-way share of the lead and the lowest score in the clubhouse.
But Johnson's birdies at 16 and 17, the latter courtesy of a 13-foot putt, took him to 16 under. For Furyk, a bogey via a bunker on 16 and three putts at each of 17 and 18 ended his challenge.
He would drop a shot behind Watney, who also jumped into the field for the Tour Championship.
However, his progress, along with that of Donald, ensured that England's Lee Westwood will miss out.

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