Will Last Week’s Top 10 Finisher Win This Week at Riviera?

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Published: February 17, 2011

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Top-10 finishes usually signal better things to come on the PGA TOUR.

Look at Jonathan Byrd, who won his last event of 2010 with a dramatic playoff trump ace in Las Vegas. The next time he teed it up—granted, it was 2-1/2 months later—led to another playoff win in the season opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua on Maui.

Here's another example. After finishing 6th at Disney two months earlier, Mark Wilson won the SONY Open.

Get the picture?

A good finish leads to even better things a couple months later.

Not so fast.

In the 3rd tournament of the year and only his 5th start in a PGA TOUR event, rookie Jhonattan Vegas won the Bob Hope Classic after finishing T57 at Waialae. "I hope to be the best player in the world, I know it is tough to achieve but feel I have the game and mentality to do it," said the 26-year old.

Sound familiar?

Furthermore, Bubba Watson won the Farmers Open after missing the cut entirely in the Hope. And Mark Wilson rang the bell again with a playoff victory in the Phoenix Open after sandwiching a T57 between his two wins.

So much for the theory that a Top-10 finish one week is the antecedent to a win the following week.

Look at Carl Spackler, a.k.a. Bill Murray, winning the Pebble Beach Pro-Am last week.

"Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a miracle—it's in the hole! It's in the hole!" It had taken Spackler over 30 years.

So what's the point?

Well, D.A. Points finished 5th at the Farmers, then T18 in Phoenix before winning his first PGA TOUR event on the sun-drenched Monterey Peninsula alongside Murray.

Finishing towards the top—sooner or later—usually means victory is somewhere out there on the back nine on Sunday when things fall into place.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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