Will Zalatoris has been nursing a bad back since the FedEx Cup playoffs, but is expected to return soon.
Will Zalatoris has been nursing a bad back since the FedEx Cup playoffs, but he found an important way to fill his schedule between starts — by tying the knot.
The former Wake Forest star and 2014 U.S. Junior Amateur champion announced his engagement to girlfriend Caitlin Sellers, also a Demon Deacon, with a series of pictures on Instagram back in April of 2021. The post included the caption, “Best day of my life. I love you.”
On Tuesday, also via Instagram, Zalatoris posted a photo of the happy couple with the caption, “Can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with my best friend. I love you.”
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Zalatoris entered August’s BMW Championship in the advantageous No. 1 spot in the FedEx Cup standings after capturing his first PGA Tour win at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.
But during the third round at Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware, Zalatoris suffered a back injury on the third hole. Zalatoris and his playing partner, Emiliano Grillo, let the group of Sam Burns and Adam Hadwin through as they waited for the PGA Tour physio.
After a short visit and numerous stretches, Zalatoris decided to withdraw from the event.
However, the Sentry Tournament of Champions recently announced that Zalatoris is expected in the field for the event in early January.
Will Zalatoris walks back to the crowd with his arm around his fiancé after winning his first PGA tournament during the last day of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022.
Everything you need to know for the third round of the 2022 Tour Championship.
For a while Friday, this tournament looked like it was over. Scottie Scheffler was head and shoulders above the rest of the field after going out in 32, but Xander Schauffele turned it on down the stretch.
During the second round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Schauffele posted a 29 on the back nine and played his last three holes 4 under.
He’s now just two back of the world No. 1 entering the weekend.
The biggest mover of the day was Max Homa, who had the second tee time this morning but thanks to an 8-under 62 will tee off with Rory McIlroy Saturday afternoon sitting at 9 under, 10 back.
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Everything you need to know for the second round of the 2022 Tour Championship.
This week, the 2022 Tour Championship will mark the end of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which will come to a conclusion Sunday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. The course was designed by Tom Bendelow. It is a par-70 and will play 7,346 yards.
Scottie Scheffler began the first round with a two-shot advantage on Patrick Cantlay and proceeded to grow his lead. After tapping in for birdie at the last, the world No. 1 signed for a 5-under 65 and will tee off Friday five shots ahead of the field.
Matt Fitzpatrick and Joaquin Niemann, sitting solo third and T-4 respectively, tied for the round of the day with 6-under 64s.
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So when was the last time Scheffler got strokes in a match?
There’s a sizable chunk of Scottie Scheffler’s DNA that longs for nasty weather, difficult conditions, and the grind of grueling competition.
So having a 10-stroke lead on the field — a major handicap — heading into the first round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta is almost off-putting. It goes against his very nature.
But the No. 1 player in the world is learning to live with it.
“It’s going to be a little weird, the only tournament of the year where you actually start with strokes ahead of the field,” he said on Wednesday morning, sneaking out quickly before Jay Monahan and Rory McIlroy took to the podium. “I think what’s going to probably work best for me is to look at it like a four-day event and really ignore the starting strokes deal and kind of go out there and do my thing and see where it puts me at the end of four days.
“There might be a tiny bit of added pressure but I get two extra strokes, which is definitely nice. It’s definitely a position that I want to be in for sure.”
After a meteoric rise in which he won four times in six starts, culminating with his first Green Jacket at the Masters last April, the University of Texas product hasn’t found the winner’s circle in his last 11 tournaments but he’s hardly fallen way off. Although he has missed three cuts since Augusta — most notably at the PGA Championship — he’s also racked up a pair of second-place finishes and placed T-3 at last week’s BMW Championship.
So, when was the last time Scheffler, a former University of Texas star who helped the Longhorns win three Big 12 championships, got strokes in a match?
“It’s been a while, yeah. It’s nice being on this end of the strokes versus having to give them up to everybody, which is nice, like I have to do at home,” he said. “I’d have to really think. I can’t remember anything off the top of my head if I was ever the one getting strokes. I’m not going to give you a hard ‘no,’ but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.”
Here are some of the best photos from the week in Atlanta.
We’ve reached the end of the 2021-22 PGA Tour season, and it’s time to crown the winner of the FedEx Cup.
East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, will once again host the top players in the FedEx Cup standings. Sitting atop those standings is world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. Thanks to four wins this season, including his first major championship at the Masters, he’ll start the tournament at 10 under, two shots ahead of Patrick Cantlay, who rose to No. 2 in the standings thanks to his BMW Championship win last week.
Here are some of the best photos from the week in the ATL.
Everything you need to know for the first round of the 2022 Tour Championship.
The final event of the PGA Tour’s 2021-22 season is here.
This week, the 2022 Tour Championship will mark the end of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which will come to a conclusion Sunday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. The course was designed by Tom Bendelow. It is a par-70 and will play 7,346 yards.
Patrick Cantlay won the Tour Championship last year and captured the FedEx Cup in the process. He also won the BMW Championship last week in Wilmington, Delaware, to become the first player to defend a title in a playoff event.
Scottie Scheffler will begin at 10 under with Cantlay two strokes behind him. Will Zalatoris was slated to begin at 7 under but withdrew on Tuesday.
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Can Xander Schauffele bounce back and take home the FedEx Cup?
It’s time.
It’s time to crown the winner of the 2021-22 FedEx Cup. After his victory at the BMW Championship last week, Patrick Cantlay has vaulted from No. 7 in the FedEx Cup standings to No. 2, only behind Scottie Scheffler.
At this week’s Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, the leaderboard will be staggered. Players will start a certain amount of shots behind the world No. 1 depending on where they rank in the standings (the full leaderboard is detailed below).
The last three FedEx Cup champions: Patrick Cantlay (2021), Dustin Johnson (2020) and Rory McIlroy (2019).
Let’s jump into our final preview of the 2021-22 campaign.
A general view as Justin Thomas of the United States putts on the 18th green during the final round of the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club on September 05, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
Key stats
Strokes Gained: Approach
Fairways in regulation
Strokes Gained: Putting: Bermuda
Data Golf Information
Course Fit (compares golf courses based on the degree to which different golfer attributes — such as driving distance — to predict who performs well at each course – DataGolf): 1. TPC River Highlands, 2. TPC Twin Cities, 3. TPC Deere Run
“(The Tour Championship) was my No. 1 goal to start the year,” said Stallings, who vaulted to No. 12 in standings.
WILMINGTON, Del. – Scott Stallings isn’t a numbers guy, but when he saw PGA Tour rookies Harry Higgs, Maverick McNealy and Robby Shelton qualify for the 2019 BMW Championship by finishing in the top 70 and he didn’t yet again, Stallings realized those three players shared one common trait: a stats coach.
“I need to know what you did with them that’s going to help me,” Stallings told Hunter Stewart, a former player turned stats guru.
Three years later, after hiring Stewart, Stallings not only made it to the BMW Championship this week, held at the south course at Wilmington Country Club in the First State for the first time, he nearly won the tournament, shooting a final-round 2-under 69 to finish second to Patrick Cantlay on Sunday.
But there was a pretty sweet consolation prize for Stallings, who in his 12th year on Tour booked his first trip to the Tour Championship, which is reserved for the top 30 in the season-long FedEx Cup point standings.
“That was my No. 1 goal to start the year,” said Stallings, who entered the week at No. 47 and vaulted to No. 12 in the FedEx Cup. “To compete with the best players in the world and make it to East Lake was better late than never, I guess.”
Stallings, 37, opened with a pair of 68s and climbed within a stroke of the lead with a 66 on Saturday as he searched for his first victory since the 2014 Farmers Insurance Open. Stallings tied for the lead early with a 6-foot birdie putt at the third hole, but gave a stroke back with a bogey at the fifth. He bounced back by stiffing a pitch from 72 yards to inside 3 feet for birdie at the sixth. Stallings built a two-stroke lead with a birdie at 11 and a bogey by Cantlay, playing a group behind him, at No. 10.
But Cantlay, who successfully defended his title and won for the eighth time in his career, carded three birdies on the way to the clubhouse, including a 6-foot putt at 17, which turned out to be the difference. Stallings made a three-putt bogey at 13 and a birdie at 14, but couldn’t buy a putt down the stretch. Stallings missed a 9-foot birdie putt at 18 to tie Cantlay, one of four birdie tries from 18 feet or less that didn’t drop.
“It did exactly what we thought it was going to do,” Stallings said of the final birdie effort, “it just did it behind the hole.”
Cantlay is the first player to successfully defend a FedEx Cup Playoff event.
WILMINGTON, Del. – Patrick Cantlay drove off with the BMW Championship trophy again.
The 30-year-old Californian made birdie at the 17th hole at the south course at Wilmington Country Club on Sunday and held on for a one-stroke victory over Scott Stallings. Cantlay shot 2-under 69 for a 72-hole total of 14-under 268 and became the first player to successfully defend a FedEx Cup Playoffs event.
A year ago, Patrick Cantlay needed six extra holes at Caves Valley to claim the BMW title en route to winning the FedEx Cup. New course, but same result as Cantlay claimed his eighth PGA Tour title and second of the season.
Cantlay won the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with Xander Schauffele as his partner, but hadn’t won an individual title since going back-to-back at the BMW and Tour Championship last year. Scottie Scheffler, who tied for third, will start next week in the driver’s seat at 10 under with a two-stroke lead at the Tour Championship, where the FedEx Cup title will be on the line.
“This is the only week of the year where you actually get strokes on the field, but I think I’ll be best suited if I just ignore that and just go out there and play my game and do my best,” Scheffler said.
Patrick Cantlay plays a second shot on the eighth hole during the final round of the BMW Championship at Wilmington Country Club on August 21, 2022 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Cantlay will start in second place, two strokes back of Scheffler in the staggered-start leaderboard; no player has ever defended the FedEx Cup title.
“I’m in a really good spot,” Cantlay said. “It’ll be a little different type of a challenge this year, obviously, being two behind Scottie. He’s played a lot of great golf this year, so I expect the same. But it’s a golf course I really like, and I’m looking forward to the challenge.”
Stallings, who closed in 69, was seeking his fourth PGA Tour title and first since the 2014 Farmers Insurance Open. He missed a 9-foot birdie putt at 18 that would have tied Cantlay.
“It did what exactly we thought it was going to do, it just did it behind the hole,” Stallings said.
But the 37-year-old Stallings, who started the week No. 47 in the points standings, did succeed in booking his first trip to the Tour Championship, which is reserved for the top 30 in the season-long FedEx Cup point standings, in his 12th year on Tour.
“That was my number one goal to start the year,” Stallings said. “To compete with the best players in the world and make it to East Lake was better late than never, I guess.”
Cantlay opened with a pair of 68s and then surged into the lead with a hole-out eagle at 14 and overcame missing some short putts on Saturday to shoot 65.
In the final round, he trailed Stallings by two strokes after making his second bogey of the day at No. 10, but he was rock-solid from there. He made three birdies on his way to the clubhouse, with birdies at Nos. 11, 14 and 17. The last of the bunch included a 351-yard drive that benefited from a good bounce as his blast landed short of the bunker, hopped over the sand, wangled its way through the first cut and into the fairway just 64 yards from the hole. From there, he wedged to 6 feet.
“Maybe one of the best breaks I’ve gotten coming down the stretch, and when you get a break like that you need to pay it off, and fortunately I did,” Cantlay said.
But after a wayward drive into a fairway bunker, Cantlay still needed one more trick up his sleeves to close out the win. He hit a big slice 8-iron from 158 yards, which found the green 47 feet away.
“It came off almost exactly how I would have pictured it, how I visualized it,” he said.
In the tournament within the tournament to finish in the top 30 in the points and qualify for the FedEx Cup finale next week at the Tour Championship, K.H. Lee, who finished as the odd man out last year at No. 31, made birdie at the first four holes and shot 65 to jump from No. 35 at the start of the day to No. 26. Rookie Sahith Theegala made birdies on four of his final seven holes to shoot 68 and finish No. 28. Australia’s Adam Scott scrambled for par out of a greenside bunker at the last that kept him in the top 30 (No. 29) and prevented Ireland’s Shane Lowry to qualify for next week in Atlanta for the first time in his career. Aaron Wise squeaked in at No. 30 despite a final-round 73, 19 points ahead of Lowry.
“I guess that’s the beauty of the FedEx Cup Playoffs the way they are,” Scott said. “You can scratch it around a lot for the year and have a couple good weeks and get heavily rewarded by getting to East Lake and being in that top 30 and all the perks that come with it.”
Everything you need to know for the final round of the 2022 BMW Championship.
It’s time to crown a winner at the second event of the PGA Tour’s 2021-22 playoffs, the BMW Championship, at Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware. The course was originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1959, and Andrew Green completed a renovation last year. It is a par-71 layout measuring 7,534 yards.
Patrick Cantlay, the 2021 BMW Championship winner and last year’s FedEx Cup champion, took command with a 6-under 65, which included a hole out for eagle on the par-5 14th. Cantlay sits at 12 under. Xander Schauffele, who has played with Cantlay the first three days and will again Sunday, shot a 5-under 66 and sits tied for second with Scott Stallings. Adam Scott, the 36-hole leader, and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler are at 10 under.
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