Sports With his FedExCup fate out of his hands, Justin Thomas flew home to South Florida on Sunday and awaited the outcome.
“There’s no need for me to take a seat down down here and stress this out all afternoon,” he acknowledged.
It turned out to be a smart option — Thomas moved on to the Tour Championship by the slimmest of margins.
A three hundred and sixty five days after he failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in his profession, Thomas became the closing man into the sphere for East Lake. At the least he doesn’t wish to think a ways for a trusty omen — Keegan Bradley correct won the BMW Championship after being the fiftieth and closing participant in the sphere.
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Bradley became one in every of four gamers who became exterior the end-30 quantity and ended up qualifying for the season finale, becoming a member of Adam Scott (No. 14), Tommy Fleetwood (No. 22) and Chris Kirk (No. 26).
Scott tied for 2nd at Fortress Pines, whereas Fleetwood and Kirk each and each completed sooner or later of the end 10 in the season’s penultimate tournament.
“I own making it to East Lake is an improbable achievement,” Fleetwood acknowledged, “and that’s somewhere that you just purpose to be, and it’ll be a shiny destroy to the PGA season, and I believe forward to taking half in subsequent week and searching for to salvage the most out of it.”
Thomas had some tiring drama correct to nail down the closing qualifying field, coming home in 33 and sinking a 6-footer for par on his closing hole of the day.
“I feel care for I a minute bit did my fragment,” he acknowledged. “Now, with any luck it pans out.”
It did, barely, and now he’ll head north to Atlanta, the put he’ll initiate the Tour Championship 10 photos at the lend a hand of chief Scottie Scheffler.
In corresponding strikes, Brian Harman (No. 31), Jason Day (No. 33) Davis Thompson (No. 34) and Denny McCarthy (No. 35) all saw their seasons destroy per week early.
As fashioned, the flee for the end 30 — which permits gamers to compete for a $100 million bonus pool subsequent week, to boot to ensures salvage entry to into at the least three of the four majors subsequent three hundred and sixty five days — introduced about about a thrills and spills on the closing day.
Harman double-bogeyed the closing hole after making four tiring birdies to leap lend a hand sooner or later of the cut line. Alex Noren became mild very without difficulty sooner or later of the quantity when he made three straight bogeys to perform off a closing-round 75. Jason Day immoral his bid for East Lake with a triple bogey-double bogey stretch on Nos. 14 and 15 on Sunday.
“It became tough. It became delicate,” Noren acknowledged. “I didn’t hit the photos that I needed.”