Martin Laird. After Laird three-putted the 72nd green for bogey to force a playoff, Kuchar came back on the same par-4 finishing hole at Ridgewood Country Club to win the title. His winning shot, a bouncing 7-iron from the left rough, settled within short birdie range as he bolted to the top of the Playoff standings, a position he would retain entering the Playoff finale in Atlanta. Hoffman was anything but a star coming
up. He was a member of UNLV’s 1998 NCAA Championship team but played second fiddle to players such as Bill Lunde and Jeremy Anderson. When he made the Nationwide Tour in 2000, Hoffman missed his first 15 cuts and earned just $15,000 for the season. He spent the first five seasons of his professional career on the Nationwide Tour. “It was the most I’ve ever learned about
golf—missing those 15 cuts,” Hoffman said. “Actually Zach Johnson and I reminisce every once in a while. We were traveling together. I think he missed his first 10, and I missed my first 15, and we pretty much weren’t very good. But we learned how to travel. There’s a lot more to golf than just playing golf, like traveling, dealing with Monday qualifiers, time, how much you need to practice, how much
you don’t need to practice. I definitely learned a lot that first year on the Nationwide Tour, and I wouldn’t give it up for anything.” Hof fman
also “grew” into his own niche. He
let his hair grow
Dustin Johnson won the BMW Championship and improved his FedExCup standings to second.
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« TO APPRECIATE SUNSHINE YOU’VE GOT TO GO THROUGH RAINY DAYS. I THINK IF ALL YOU KNOW IS PLAYING GREAT GOLF, I DON’T THINK YOU APPRECIATE IT NEAR AS MUCH AS THE GUY THAT’S SEEN SOME OF IT ALL. » — Matt Kuchar
cap. A pair of sunglasses adds to the ensemble. He even adorns a green glove, green shoes or green belt in a tribute to his sponsor, Waste Management. He has fun with that image, selling “Baywatch”- themed T-shirts on his website that read, “Don’t Hassle the Hoff,” in honor of former TV lifeguard David Hasselhoff. That cool image certainly didn’t hurt
during the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship, where Hoffman carded 11 birdies during a 62 and stormed past Jason Day for his second career title. The victory moved him to second in the FedExCup standings. Dustin Johnson’s comeback was even
more of a current event. He had won three times in just over two seasons, including two victories at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. His game drew accolades from the galleries and the game’s best; “He’s stupid long,” Woods said. The 6-4 Columbia, SC, native was a great athlete before golf, as he could palm a basketball in the seventh grade and dunk barefooted. Direct characteristics trickled down from his grandfather, Art Whisnant, an all-Atlantic Coast Conference center at South Carolina in the early 1960s. Johnson led again at Pebble Beach entering the final round of last summer’s U.S. Open but squandered his lead early on the way
Charley Hoffman made 11 birdies, fired a final-round 62 and won the Deutsche Bank Championship.
to an 82. Two months later, he came to the final hole of the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits with a one-stroke lead and made bogey after an errant drive to the right. He thought he was in a playoff but was penalized two strokes for unwittingly grounding his club in a rag-tag bunker after the errant drive. A lesser player would have been
devastated, but here came Johnson at the BMW Championship at Cog Hill. Wielding his driver and cutting corners on doglegs, he birdied the par-4 17th hole in the final round and then made a routine par on the difficult finishing hole to win by one and move to second in the FedExCup. “I know I’ve had some failures, but I
don’t know if I’d call them failures—I’ve had a few mishaps,” Johnson said. “But still, today, to come back and get it done, I’m very proud of myself.” Furyk flew into Atlanta under the radar.
He had fallen to 11th place and needed lots of help if he was to capture the FedExCup. Three weeks before, he had changed his putter on a whim, which helped with
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