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After taking home the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup over the weekend, Jordan Spieth is a virtual lock to receive the PGA Tour’s Player of the Year honors. On Monday, the PGA Tour announced Spieth would be competing with Jason Day, Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler for its year-end award, which goes to the player who performed best in the 2014-15 season, per Brendan Porath of SB Nation....
Published: September 20, 2015
Rory McIlroy is still winless since May. As he showed all weekend, though, the world No. 1 (for now) is inching closer to putting his game back together. McIlroy shot a one-under 70 in Sunday’s fourth round, helping him finish the 2015 BMW Championship in a tie for fourth place at 14 under. The Northern Irishman finished eight strokes behind winner Jason Day, carding three birdies against two...
Published: September 20, 2015
Jordan Spieth didn’t make up his 10-stroke deficit to Jason Day. That said, the world No. 2 did just enough to keep himself in contention for the FedEx Cup title at next week’s Tour Championship. Spieth shot a one-under 70 to head into the clubhouse at 11 under overall for the tournament and in a tie for 11th overall. The round was a case of two nines for the two-time...
Published: September 17, 2015
Jim Furyk was forced to withdraw from the 2015 BMW Classic after playing just six holes on Sept. 17 due to a wrist injury. Jason Sobel of ESPN reported Furyk has withdrawn from the Tour Championship due to the injury. Continue for updates. Furyk’s Agent Issues Statement on Golfer’s Status Friday, Sept. 18 Furyk’s agent Andrew Whitlieb issued a statement, per PGA Tour: “I only...
Published: September 16, 2015
After a one-week reprieve, the world’s 70 best golfers descend on Conway Farms this weekend for the penultimate tournament of the 2015 FedEx Cup. Since the playoff’s inception in 2007, the winner of the BMW Championship has gone on to take home the $10 million prize twice, including Billy Horschel a year ago. The 2015 event appears to be a battle of two of the world’s three best players....
Published: September 14, 2015
Rory McIlroy is the world’s No. 1 golfer. Again. The Northern Irishman overtook Jordan Spieth on this week’s rankings despite not playing in a sanctioned event, thanks to a previous tournament being wiped away from his two-year total. According to ESPN’s Bob Harig, the 0.023 average points of separation are the fewest between the top two players since the World Golf Rankings...
Published: September 13, 2015
Novak Djokovic can complete one of the best single-season runs in tennis history. Roger Federer can further cement his legacy as the most decorated men’s player in the sport’s history. Either way, tennis fans will win Sunday when Djokovic and Federer do battle in the 2015 U.S. Open final. Djokovic enters coming off the most dominant Grand Slam semifinals win of the Open era. The world No....
Published: September 9, 2015
Retired tennis player James Blake was handcuffed and slammed to the ground by multiple police officers Wednesday while on his way to U.S. Open action in New York City. According to Wayne Coffey of the New York Daily News, Blake was approached by five white police officers wearing plain clothes, who mistook him for the operator of an identity-theft ring. Blake suffered superficial wounds, and the...
Published: September 8, 2015
Andy Murray will not be adding a second U.S. Open championship to his mantle. The Brit suffered a 7-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6 defeat to Kevin Anderson at Flushing Meadows on Monday, removing one of the biggest contenders from the men’s side. Bleacher Report UK provided a look at the final tally: The key for Anderson was his ability to control Murray at the net. Anderson consistently approached the middle...
Published: September 1, 2015
It’s been seven years since Roger Federer‘s last U.S. Open championship. You wouldn’t have known it Tuesday. Federer needed only 77 minutes to take down Leonardo Mayer 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in their first-round matchup at Flushing Meadows. The world No. 2 hit 12 aces and won on 84 percent of his first-serve opportunities against the Argentine, who was a year removed from a third-round...