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Rookie Snedeker enjoys twin goals in Greensboro
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-08-20 14:35
RALEIGH, North Carolina - American Brandt Snedeker was elated after
achieving twin goals with his two-shot victory at the Wyndham
Championship in Greensboro on Sunday.
Brandt Snedeker poses with the Sam Snead trophy after winning the PGA
Tour's Wyndham Championship golf tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday,
Aug. 19, 2007. [AP]?
The PGA Tour rookie claimed his first title on the world's biggest
circuit and climbed into the top 15 in the inaugural FedExCup points
standings to enhance his prospects for the big-money playoff events
starting next week.
"Everything the Tour has been telling us, to have a legitimate chance to
win the FedExCup you got to be inside the top 15," the 26-year-old from
Tennessee told reporters after the final event of the Tour's regular
season.
"I know my game can leave me tomorrow and I can have the shanks. I wanted
to go as high as I could."
"I got a feeling a lot of guys would take this week off and then play
four in a row," added Snedeker, who piled up 10 birdies and one bogey in
the closing round to finish 22-under 266.
"That gave me a chance being a rookie out here to jump those kinds of
guys."
"I think the guys who were 25th or 35th or 40th that didn't play this
week could have really jumped up and made it a whole lot easier, but I
think everybody is kind of leary this first year."
"I've been playing very well as of late and when you're playing well the
rule of thumb is to keep playing. I was never going to take this week
off, and it's worked out great."
Snedeker, who closed with a sparkling nine-under-par 63 at Forest Oak
Country Club, vaulted 17 spots in the FedExCup standings to all but
guarantee he will play in the first three playoff events.
The leading 144 players after the Wyndham Championship automatically
qualify for next week's Barclays Championship in Harrison, New York.
The field will then be cut to 120 for the following week at the Deutsche
Bank Championship outside Boston before 70 players qualify for the
September 6-9 BMW Championship near Chicago.
The playoffs end with the top 30 competing at the Sept 13-16 Tour
Championship in Atlanta, Georgia where a $10 million bonus in deferred
compensation will be earned by the overall champion.
"These next four weeks are all about trying to get myself in the right
frame of mind, make sure I go in and try to win each one of them,"
Snedeker said after lifting his season's earnings on the PGA Tour to more
than $2.5 million.
"I'm obviously going in playing well, and that's the best-case scenario
for me. I look at it as a guy who could have a chance of winning it. When
I get on hot streaks, I make a lot of putts and give myself some chances."
Others making significant moves in the FedExCup standings included
Americans Tim Petrovic, who rose from 124th to 82nd after tying for
second at Forest Oaks, and Jeff Gove, who secured the 144th spot despite
missing the cut on Friday.
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