Jim Furyk Wins Tour Championship and 10 Million Dollar Fed Ex Cup

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Published: September 27, 2010

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Kathy Bissell

 

East Lake GC --  The joke on Jim Furyk was supposed to be that he had a $10 million  alarm clock because his cell phone alarm failed to ring for the Barclays pro-am, the first tournament in the $10 million Fed Ex Playoffs.  It was supposed to have ruined his chances to win the Fed Ex Cup.    

According to PGA Tour regulations, missing a start in the pro-am is an automatic disqualification.  The DQ bumped Furyk from third place in the rankings to eighth starting week two.  That was important because when the Tour Championships began, only the top five had a lock on the $10 million bonus if they won.  The numbers were just plain stacked against Furyk going in to the last event.    

But that didn’t stop him.

Now with an extra ten million in the bank, he can afford any number of alarm clocks, chimes, carillons, even a tabernacle wake-up choir, because he won both the Fed Ex Cup -- $10 million prize --  and  Tour Championship, his 16th  PGA Tour title, for another million three.  

At the end of the day Sunday he said the impact “still had not sunk in.”  He is on a schedule that will take him to Wales by tomorrow for the Ryder Cup.



 

“It’s my second biggest win,” he said after a long explanation that included his first PGA Tour victory and his US Open title in 2003.  “We get judged by the number of tournaments we win and the number of majors we win.”  

He said that the Tour Championship victory was important because it was his first three-victory season.  The Fed Ex Cup was important because the Tour Championship and his other two 2010 victories were contained in it.  He noted that years from now, his name will be on the trophy with Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh, who he call...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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