PGA Playoff series: The Northern Trust .............what is on the line / what to expect ?
Aug 23, 2018
PGA Tour: Playoff series: The Northern Trust
Play off season est arrivé !
We have a virtual knockout format, with 125 golfers, playing down to 30 over the next three weeks, they will all then do battle in the "final", with mega money on the line.
Top 125 players on the FedEx standings are eligible to compete and play in the first event, which starts today......The Northern Trust previously The Barclays.
After this week, the top 100 in the standings are then eligible to play in the Dell Technologies Championship formerly the Deutche Bank Championship.
Following that, the top 70 move on to the BMW Championship and finally.....
Just 30 will feature in the season ending Tour Championship.
There is no halfway cut in the final two events, all four have big prize money, but the top 30 who make the Tour Championship will also share out some huge bonus payments ($35m !) .
This always makes for some interesting scenarios with people busting a gut to shoot low over closing holes despite being way off the pace, just moving up from 101st to 100th spot could be vital, it would mean playing next week, when it would start all over again, but more importantly, keep the dream alive !
We will definitely be returning to this on Sunday morning and see if the oddsmakers have given this massive incentive, enough weight.
In recent years as many as eight of the players ranked 101-125 this week made it into the top 100 and played at the Deutche/Dell and anyone currently outside the Top 50 could even guarantee a place in the final 30 by finishing top 2 this week.
So, an awful lot to keep our eye(s) on over the next few days !
The projected points anticipated to secure a spot for next week is 529 , you can see a list of those on 528 and less and what they probably need to reach the desired number on this page of the PGA website.
Last year I wrote ..........
This was formerly known as The Barclays and, in addition to the name change, is also being played on a completely new PGA course, the Glen Oaks Golf Club and there is no form to go on, so we have to go with the design and what the pros have said. It is easy to see similarities to Augusta and that is no surprise as course superintendent Craig Currier spent a couple of years at the Masters and the influence is fairly obvious. Two other names that have popped up a lot when players have discussed similarities this week are Ridgewood and Riviera and that also makes some sense and the former has hosted the Barclays three times since 2008.
That all made sense as the leaderboard was full of players who had done well in those previous tournaments, in the case of the Masters, chock full !
Of the top 20 in last year's Northern Trust, 8 had also finished top 25 in the 2017 Masters, but of that same 20, an incredible 12 were also top 20 at Augusta this year !
This year the event returns to Ridgewood in New Jersey for the first time since 2014 when, of the Top 30 and ties, as many as 19 could be considered Masters specialists, including seven former Augusta winners.
So, as a starting point, I think we can consider form from the first major of the year as hugely important, perhaps accuracy off the tee is more significant here than Augusta and with the fairways wet, being long and straight with the driver is another key attribute we want our player to have.
I think I have found just the guy and at huge odds ....................
Good Luck.
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