WILMINGTON - Patrick Cantlay became the first player to successfully defend a FedEx Cup Playoffs event, winning the BMW Championship by one stroke over Scott Stallings. Cantlay became the fifth player to defend a title this season, the most since 2007. He’ll enter the TOUR Championship at No. 2 in the standings in bid to become the first back-to-back FedEx Cup Champion.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (T-3) regained the FedEx Cup standings lead, a week after seeing his 23-week hold on the top spot come to an end.
Three-time PGA Tour winner Scott Stallings finished runner-up for the third time to advance to the TOUR Championship for the first time in his 12-year career.
Four players moved into the Top 30 in the FedEx Cup points race to advance to the season-finale at East Lake next weekend: Stallings, K.H. Lee, Adam Scott and Aaron Wise. The addition of four players tied the most since the FedEx Cup points structure changed in 2009).
with four in, there had to be four out. The four players who fell out of the Top 30 and failed to advance to East Lake: J.J. Spaun, Joohyung Kim, Davis Riley and Kevin Kisner.
Two rookies advanced to the TOUR Championship: Cameron Young and Sahith Theegala.
Jon Rahm and Adam Scott are the only two players to finish inside the Top 10 in each of the first two FedEx Cup Playoffs events with Rahm picking-up his eighth consecutive Top-10 finish in FedExCup Playoffs events, the longest streak in Playoffs history.
BMW Championship | Final Leaderboard
Patrick Cantlay 68-68-65-69—270 (-14)
Scott Stallings 68-68-66-69—271 (-13)
Scottie Scheffler 68-67-68-70—273 (-11)
Xander Schauffele 67-69-66-71—273 (-11)
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The Way They’ll Start at TOUR Championship
1 Scottie Scheffler -10
2 Patrick Cantlay -8
3 Will Zalatoris -7
4 Xander Schauffele -6
5 Sam Burns -5
6 Cameron Smith -4
7 Rory McIlroy -4
8 Tony Finau -4
9 Sepp Straka -4
10 Sungjae Im -4
11 Jon Rahm -3
12 Scott Stallings -3
13 Justin Thomas -3
14 Cameron Young -3
15 Matt Fitzpatrick -3
16 Max Homa -2
17 Hideki Matsuyama -2
18 Jordan Spieth -2
19 Joaquin Niemann -2
20 Viktor Hovland -2
21 Collin Morikawa -1
22 Billy Horschel -1
23 Tom Hoge -1
24 Corey Conners -1
25 Brian Harman -1
26 K.H. Lee Even
27 J.T. Poston Even
28 Sahith Theegala Even
29 Adam Scott Even
30 Aaron Wise Even
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On This Day in Golf History
August 22, 1993 - Phil Mickelson won his third title of his then-PGA Tour career at The International at Castle Rock, Colorado. Mickelson posted a “45” in the Stableford scoring system event and won by eight points. - Courtesy of Randy Walker, Author of On This Day in Golf History, available via Amazon.com and by clicking HERE
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