Why Jim Furyk will win the Tour Championship
No top-flight player is more overdue a victory than Jim Furyk, a 13-time PGA Tour winner who hasn’t tasted victory since 2007.
Well, that drought could end in memorable fashion if Furyk can win the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta this weekend. Furyk enters at No. 3 in the FedEx Cup points (and +1300 to win on WagerWeb.com), meaning that if he does win the tournament, he also would win the FedEx Cup’s $10 million prize.
Furyk has had a typically solid season but hasn’t really truly threatened to win a tournament. He was third at the WGC-CA Championship in March and second at the Memorial Tournament in June for his best finishes of the year entering the FedEx Cup playoffs. But Furyk seems to be rolling at the right time now.
He finished T15 at The Barclays, T8 at the Deutsche Bank and T2 at the BMW Championship in the three playoff events. He has jumped from No. 16 when the playoffs started all the way to No. 3. Furyk has broken par in 10 of his last 12 rounds, and he’s 27 under during that stretch.
The American is the highest-ranked player without a victory in 2009 thanks to nine top-10 finishes. In 21 events, Furyk has missed only two cuts this season. He is third in scoring average this year on Tour.
He also plays well at the Tour Championship, with two-runner up finishes, coming in 1996 and 2006. Last year he finished tied for sixth and hasn’t been lower than 13th since 2002.
Meanwhile, the top four in the final 2008 FedEx Cup points list, led by defending champion Vijay Singh, failed to make it to East Lake this year. Singh will miss the Tour Championship under any format for the first time since 1994, and Camilo Villegas, Sergio Garcia and Anthony Kim also will be absent from Atlanta.
Ten players will be in the Tour Championship for the first time. Four – Kevin Na, Steve Marino, Marc Leishman and Jason Dufner – will play in their first Masters in 2010, the perk for finishing among the top 30 in points. Tour Championship qualifiers also receive berths in the U.S. Open and PGA Championship.
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