Jason Day sole Australian at Tour Championship
Jason Day with the AT&T Byron Nelson trophy which was crucial in getting to Atlanta – file photo Getty Images
Jason Day remains as the only Australia alive in the FedEx Cup Playoffs following the completion of the BMW Championship in Chicago on Sunday.
Day will now head to the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta for the Tour Championship which he will play for the 9th occasion having made the select field of 30 to tee it up for lucrative final of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Day finished well back in 46th place of the 50 players who made the field for this week’s BMW Championship but he had done enough throughout the season including a win in Dallas and a runner-up finish at the Open Championship to finish the event in 25th place on the FedEx Cup table.
Day’s best finish in Atlanta previously was when 4th in 2014 and, although his most recent form has been mixed, he heads to the final just outside the world top 20 after beginning the year outside the top 100.
The only other Australian who made it to the BMW Championship, Cam Davis, was unable to capitalise on his three consecutive top tens to get him to Chicago and finished 40th this week and in 48th place overall in the FedEx Cup.
Davis might not have made it to Atlanta but has had yet another impressive season on the PGA Tour despite the disappointment of missing out on a debut at the Tour Championship.
This week’s event was won by Viktor Hovland whose brilliant final round of 61 saw him win by two over world number one, Scottie Scheffler and Matthew Fitzpatrick and move to number two on the Fed Ex Cup table behind Scheffler.
