BMW Championship: Marc Leishman wins, Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler second
Last updated on .From the section Golf
| BMW Championship, final-round leaderboard |
|---|
| -23 M Leishman (Aus); -18 J Rose (Eng), R Fowler (US); -16 J Day (Aus); -15 M Kuchar (US), J Rahm (Spa); -13 T Finau, J Spieth (both US) |
| Selected others: -11 S Garcia (Spa); -10 P Mickelson (US); -8 P Casey (Eng); -7 I Poulter (Eng); -6 M Laird (Sco); -2 R McIlroy (NI) |
| Full leaderboard |
Australian Marc Leishman saw off a late charge from England's Justin Rose to win the BMW Championship by five shots.
Leishman's lead was twice cut to two shots by Rose, before he eventually finished 23 under, five clear of the Englishman and American Rickie Fowler.
Rose shot a six-under 65 but a 67 from Leishman was enough to secure his third PGA Tour title in the penultimate leg of the FedEx Cup play-offs.
Leishman and Rose both secured spots in the season-ending Tour Championship.
England's Paul Casey also qualified for the lucrative finale but defending champion Rory McIlroy's faint FedEx Cup hopes, which rested on a top-four spot, are over.
The Northern Irishman finished 21 shots behind Leishman after a level-par round of 71 and slides from 51st to 58th in the FedEx Cup standings.
Only the top 30 qualify for the event, which starts at East Lake in Georgia, on Thursday.
McIlroy won a three-way play-off at last year's Tour Championship to take home $10m (£7.7m) in prize money.
Rose's performance saw him rise nine places to eighth while Casey qualified in 10th overall.
The four players who moved into the top 30 this week included Masters champion Sergio Garcia, who jumped from 34th to 25th in the standings thanks to his tie for 12th.
Five-time major winner Phil Mickelson came up just short in his bid to book a Tour Championship berth, finishing 34th in the standings.
How does the FedEx Cup work?
- 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 winning carries 2,000 points
- The field is whittled down to 100, 70 and then 30 for the final event, the Tour Championship
- Points are then reset, so that the number one player has 2,000 points, number two has 1,800 and number 30 has 115
- Points earned at the Tour Championship are added to that reset value and the player with the highest points total is named winner of the FedEx Cup
| Notifications: Sign up to get golf news sent to your phone |
| My Sport: Sign up to follow golf news |
Comments
Join the conversation
McIlroy nowhere as usual, let's end the hype now.
Pro's get away with way too much and only because officials are too weak... look at Speith at The British Open, that was a joke.
It was the official who caused the delay and not SG
I concur, willie, Rory isn't injured whatsoever - he's just playing terrible golf.
Next season is a massive one for Don247's favourite grenade-launcher!
Now after his season 'is over' he is playing in the British Masters.?
This 'injury' in the words of Trump is 'FAKE NEWS'.. It is just to disguise the poor form he is showing - What else can it be..?? Comon you RM fans what is yer wee man up to.
He is kidding you all.
The difference in golf is that most tournaments have a halfway cut, so it is relevant to report the early rounds as they determine who'll be in the mix at the end. By your way of thinking, there should be no reporting of a Test match until the final day, or Wimbledon until the final. Also, check the football reports on a Saturday: live text updating every few minutes throughout the game.
I'm not a fan of golf tournaments that the outcome is predicted so much by the weather...I mean my game is suited for basically every golf course and most conditions, but these conditions, I just don't enjoy playing in, really. That's the bottom line. I'd rather play when it's 80 degrees and sunny and not much wind."
Rory likes to play the AD Links with his father Gerry. If the wind blows, he'll likely shoot 80 like in R2/2010. RM isn't a good wind player e.g. high shots going all over the place with missed cuts at the 2017 Irish and Scottish Opens. I remember when Tiger nearly hunted him down at the Honda Classic in tricky, windy conditions with a birdie-eagle finish for a career-best R4 62.
farcical.
Even when he deliberately hit the temporary hoarding only to penetrate the material to be given relief even though he was aware of what he was doing
strikes me as being a tad unfair.
PM didn't look too impressed!
Some people can't warm to him - I guess it's the SA thing that they can't get over.
I rate him, he's a very good golfer who should bag a couple of more majors before he's done.
He'd need a big week to bag the $10m, mind... and a little help.
Still think that Dustin or Justin will get it. John Rahm - if he can control himself - too!
Justin was his usual magnanimous self in defeat: "It was nice to be back in the hunt to win again and feed off the energy. It'd been a while. I’ve had a good play-off run and given myself a realistic chance of winning the FedEx Cup if I keep trending in the same direction."
Regarding East Lake, JR's had 2 seconds and finished no worse than 6th in 7 starts. He's still my boy!
He's got a US Open on his resume so he knows how to get it done.
He was charging on Sunday but it was always going to be a difficult task in catching ML.
Yes, Rory's best in pristine conditions, i.e. warm with little/no wind, soft fairways after heavy rain, slow holding greens. Most major courses in the US, including Augusta, are now equipped with SubAir systems to draw off excess moisture and ensure greens are running at 13+ on the Stimpmeter. Given RM's poor wedge game and questionable putting, he's heading for harder times IMHO.
Jack Nicklaus at Augusta 2017:
"I think with the length the guys hit today, the simplest solution is (to) change the fr**ging golf ball. The golf ball goes so far, Augusta National is about the only place, the only golf course in the world that financially can afford to make the changes that they have to make to keep up with the golf ball. I don’t think anybody else could ever do it."
Rory is interesting! I didn't know he'd already committed to the AD Links.
Leishman is a very good player, great wind player too - something Rory should be good at given his upbringing!
ML has certainly come into rich vein of form just at the right time. Driving well and putting well, he could do very well at East Lake.
And his hang-dog expression when he plays a bad shot is getting alarmingly worse.
He needs a tough new management team.
I think JS, JT and DJ were just ticking over saving themselves for this weekend.
JS came joint seventh without playing well especially on Friday and Saturday.
He has to go in as favourite @ East Lakes but I have a hunch for DJ.
Very exciting weekend coming up - I can't wait.