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The independent
| 8 months ago
Team Europe flew into Chicago from Heathrow early yesterday afternoon. That there were only three players on the plane tells how far the centre of golfing gravity has shifted in recent years. Five of the European team lining up at Medinah this week...
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The Daily Herald
| 8 months ago
Heres a quick glance at the 12 players representing Team Europe in the 2012 Ryder Cup, with rankings and earnings through Sept. 23: Rory McIlroy Born: 5-4-89 Residence: Holywood, Northern Ireland European Ryder Cup points: 1st Ryder Cup record: 1-1-2...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Fans can expect a high-octane contest between two star-studded teams in this week's Ryder Cup at Medinah where the United States host holders Europe for the 39th edition of the biennial competition. Never before has the trans-Atlantic showdown...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 8 months ago
Tiger Woods, who headlines the United States team, was the winner of the 1999 and 2006 PGA Championships at Medinah, so he'll obviously have a good feeling about this course...Sergio Garcia will have those same good feeling as he finished second to...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 8 months ago
Players, some very high on the leaderboard, fielded questions about the Ryder Cup over the weekend at the Tour Championship...Certainly, those players, especially Tiger Woods, pooh-poohed Ryder Cup talk most of last week, but isn't it imaginable that...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Week after week, professional golfers go about the lonely and selfish pursuit of birdies and paydays. They succeed and fail on their own merits and condition themselves to remove emotion from the equation. They are...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker , who won the Tour Championship and $10 million for the FedEx Cup title, moves into the Top 10 of the men's world golf rankings. Snedeker shot 6-under-par 64 Saturday and had a 68 Sunday in winning the championship by three strokes...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker doesn't claim to be the best player in the world, the best player on the PGA Tour or even the best overall player in the FedEx Cup playoffs. All he needed was the best round of his career at East Lake to become FedEx Cup champion,...
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Independent
| 8 months ago
Snedeker (31) romped to a three-stroke victory in the Tour Championship to clinch the FedEx Cup and the $10m bonus that goes with it, making US skipper Davis Love look like a genius for handing him a wild card to Medinah next weekend. The Tennessee...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
While Brandt Snedeker was still finishing off the biggest and richest week of his golf life late Sunday afternoon, a side parking lot at East Lake Golf Club had a line of vehicles with their trunk lids open. There was Phil Mickelson at the back of a...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Atlanta Brandt Snedeker celebrates winning the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup. Photograph: Tami Chappell/Reuters Rory McIlroy 's aspirations of landing at the Ryder Cup with a $10m confidence boost were dashed by one of the players he will face...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs Goals galore, comebacks, and contentious refereeing decisions. All part and parcel of Championship f... by Jonathan Campkin 21 September 2012 01:01 AM It's hardly a secret that Liverpool (15/8) and...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Tour Championship winner Brandt Snedeker and runner-up Justin Rose were among a host of players who delivered sparkling form in the final event of the PGA Tour 's regular season ahead of next week's Ryder Cup . With the triumphant Snedeker leading...
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The Star
| 8 months ago
American Brandt Snedeker won the US PGA Tour Championship and claimed a $10 million bonus for capturing the tour season playoff title after firing a two-under par 68 in Sunday's final round. Snedeker was among five players, including 14-time major...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Getty Images American golfer Brandt Snedeker has earned a multi-million-dollar pay day by upstaging the likes of Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods to claim both the US PGA Tour Championship and the season-long FedEx Cup. Snedeker claimed the $US1.44...
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Denver Post
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker won something far more valuable than money Sunday...Snedeker knew his best chance to be the FedEx Cup champion was to win the Tour Championship, no simple task with East Lake as tough as ever and Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods going...
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Myrtle Beach Online
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker cashed in big time Sunday, capturing the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup titles at East Lake Golf Club to collect $11.44 million. Coastal Carolina alumnus Dustin Johnson tied for 10 th in the tournament and finished eighth in the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker held off a late charge by fellow American Ryan Moore to win the season-ending Tour Championship by three shots on Sunday, along with FedExCup honors and the eye-popping $10 million bonus. Tied for the lead overnight with Britain's...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Snedeker, a third-round co-leader, shot a 2-under 68 on Sunday and finished at 10-under 270. He won by three shots over fellow overnight leader Justin Rose at East Lake Golf Club...He pocketed $10 million for the FedExCup win and an additional $1.44...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Snedeker played the biggest round of his career for the biggest payoff in golf. Needing to win the Tour Championship on Sunday to beat out Rory McIlroy for the FedEx Cup, Snedeker came up with three big birdies on the back nine at East Lake to take...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker has won the US PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta and claimed a $US10 million bonus for capturing the tour season playoff title...Snedeker was among five players, including 14-time major winner Tiger Woods and world No.1 Rory McIlroy,...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker played the round of his life and claimed the biggest payoff in golf. Snedeker, needing to win the Tour Championship on Sunday to beat out Rory McIlroy for the FedEx Cup, made three big birdies on the back nine at East Lake and pulled...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
European Par for a typical finishing hole on the PGA Tour is four or five, which means the flag can be detected off in the distance, if at all. At the Tour Championship, though, the pin is far away by par-3 standards, but seems near enough for a No...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
European At the FedEx Cup version of the Super Bowl , Snedeker has driven himself into perfect position with three solid rounds at East Lake Golf Club. That includes a six-under-par 64 on Saturday that catapulted him into a first-place tie at eight-...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
There is no telling the story of what Sunday holds at the Tour Championship without some sort of narrative picture-in-picture...Then there is the tournament itself, with its separate purse and the possibility of the winner being only the second...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
The Ryder Cup next week at Medinah outside Chicago should be, in the words of the victorious 2008 American captain Paul Azinger, an epic match...For all that's in play at East Lake this weekend the $10-million FedEx Cup grand prize, the Tour...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Think of Sundays final round of the Tour Championship/FedEx Cup playoffs this way: On one table, theres $1.44million for the winner of the Tour Championship at East Lake, where Brandt Snedeker and Justin Rose share a two-stroke lead over Ryan Moore...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
England's Justin Rose fired a bogey-free two-under par 68 Saturday to match American Brandt Snedeker for the lead after the third round of the $8 million US PGA Tour Championship. Snedeker shot a bogey-free 64 at East Lake to join Rose on eight-under...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
American Brandt Snedeker is in prime position to cash in on a $10 million payday in Sunday's final round at the Tour Championship but he says his sole motivation is to win the tournament. Snedeker, one of five players who began this week knowing that...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
American Brandt Snedeker edged ahead of world number one Rory McIlroy in the FedExCup playoff race by charging into a tie for the lead in Saturday's third round of the elite Tour Championship . On a tricky day for scoring at a sunny but breezy East...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
Rory McIlroy hoped he had saved his best for last as the battle for a $10 million (£6m) payday went down to the wire in Atlanta. McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Brandt Snedeker and Nick Watney came into the final week of the FedEx Cup play-offs...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Justin Rose is tied for the lead with Brandt Snedeker after the third round of the PGA Tour Championship. The Englishman is eight under par after shooting a round of 68, but American Snedeker put himself in the frame in Atlanta after a superb round...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker had one of his best rounds of the year, a 6-under 64 on Saturday that gave him a share of the lead at the Tour Championship...Snedeker, in control of his game despite increasing wind at tree-lined East Lake, made a collection of tough...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Snedeker, who entered the final event of the season-long FedEx Cup as one of five players who control their own destiny, shot a bogey-free six-under-par 64 to move to eight-under-par, tied for the lead with Englishman Justin Rose (68). They have a...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Brandt Snedeker had what he called his best round of the year, a 6-under 64 that gave him a share of the lead Saturday at the Tour Championship...Snedeker was tied with Justin Rose, who had a 68, going into the final round Sunday at East Lake. The...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk could not have asked for a more enjoyable day at East Lake on and off the golf course. It started with writing seven 3s on his scorecard to start the round, which eventually added to a 29 on the front nine. And despite missing a 5-foot par...
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The Journal Gazette
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk, the only American on the Ryder Cup team without a win this year, put himself in position Friday to join them. Furyk made seven birdies through 10 holes at East Lake including seven 3s to start the round until he missed a few greens on the...
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Independent
| 8 months ago
East Lake yesterday but still remained bang on course for the $10m FedEx Cup jackpot, especially after a shocking second-round implosion by Tiger Woods . McIlroy's two-under-par 68, featuring a splendid eagle three on 15, lifted him to three-under...
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The Durango Herald
| 8 months ago
Gordon heads into the race Sunday ranked 12th in the Sprint Cup standings...Denny Hamlin was 32nd in qualifying after his crew used the wrong pressure in his tires. Jim Furyk, the only American on the Ryder Cup team without a win this year, now has...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Davis Love III Keegan Bradley Jason Dufner c-Jim Furyk c-Dustin Johnson Zach Johnson Matt Kuchar Phil Mickelson Webb Simpson c-Brandt Snedeker c-Steve Stricker Bubba Watson Tiger Woods ___ c-captain's pick
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk's looping swing brings to mind a rodeo cowboy throwing his lasso...These truths Furyk himself cited Friday after a second-round 64 gave him the lead at the Tour Championship, and perhaps for the moment stilled any voices claiming his career...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
At the same time, Jim Furyk sure didn't mind writing down all those 3s. "To be able to write '3' on your card nine times in the first 11 holes was a lot of fun," Furyk said after Friday's six-under-par 64 propelled him to a one-stroke lead over...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
European With a scoresheet that Reggie Miller would admire, Furyk registered 3's the first seven holes all but two for birdies and 9 of the opening 11 Friday at the Tour Championship. Despite missing a three-and-a-half-foot putt on the par-3 18th...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk hoped the question was coming and, when it did, he was glad. A few minutes removed from putting the finishing touches on a second-round 64 that gave him a one-stroke lead over Justin Rose midway through the Tour Championship at East Lake...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk swept aside any suggestion that he was fortunate to earn one of four U.S. captain's picks for next week's Ryder Cup as he charged into a one-shot lead at the Tour Championship in Friday's second round. A veteran of seven Ryder Cups, Furyk...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk, seeking a second playoff crown and Tour Championship title in three years, birdied seven of the first 10 holes on Friday to grab the lead after two rounds of the $8 million PGA event. The 42-year-old American, who has not won since...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk , the only American on the Ryder Cup team without a win this year, now has another chance to change that. Furyk made seven birdies through 10 holes Friday at East Lake including seven 3s to start the round until he missed a few greens on...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk leads the field by one from Britain's Justin Rose after a dominant second-round 64 at the PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta. The 42-year-old hit seven birdies in his first 10 holes to head Rose, alone in second on six under after a 68. World...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk , hunting his first PGA Tour victory in two years, took advantage of a sizzling start to grab a one-shot lead in Friday's second round of the elite Tour Championship . While tournament favorite Rory McIlroy carded a two-under-par 68 to stay...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
Jim Furyk , the only American on the Ryder Cup team without a win this year, now has another chance to change that. Furyk made 3 on his opening seven holes Friday at East Lake and had a 6-under 64 to take a one-shot lead over Justin Rose in the Tour...
