List, Mitchell advance
Former Baylor School golfers Luke List and Keith Mitchell will compete in the second leg of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs starting Friday at TPC Boston. The Dell Technologies Championship has a 100-player field, down from the 125 at The Northern Trust this past weekend at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey. A third Baylor golf alum, Harris English, missed the cut last Friday and was eliminated in the opener of the four FedEx Cup playoff events. List was the only golfer of the three to make the cut at The Northern Trust, finishing tied for 48th at 3-under par after closing with a 3-over 74. He is No. 31 in this week’s FedEx Cup standings, down from No. 29 last week. Mitchell dropped from No. 68 to No. 78 in the standings and needs an impressive performance at TPC Boston to avoid being eliminated. The third leg of the playoffs, the BMW Championship in Newton Square, Pennsylvania, has 70 players in its field.— David Paschall
PARAMUS, N.J. - To his right was the silver trophy Bryson DeChambeau won Sunday at The Northern Trust, a victory that felt comfortable to everyone but him. To his left was the silver FedEx Cup trophy, a reminder of the ultimate prize in the PGA Tour season.
Missing was the gold Ryder Cup trophy.
DeChambeau took a giant step toward playing for that, too.
"Like I said yesterday, I'm a man on a mission right now - two missions, actually," DeChambeau said after a four-shot victory in the opening event of the FedEx Cup playoffs. "One being the Ryder Cup, and one being the FedEx Cup. I'm doing pretty well right now and just got to keep moving forward in the right direction."
That was the only direction his game went in a final round devoid of much drama. Staked to a four-shot lead, DeChambeau never let anyone closer than two shots, ended the threat with consecutive birdies and closed with a 2-under 69 to win by four shots over Tony Finau (68), who also had the Ryder Cup on his mind.
Finau will crack the top 20 in the World Golf Ranking, at No. 18, for the first time in his career.
DeChambeau never felt entirely in control until he stabbed at a chip short of the 12th green - a shot he had worked on all week and used only in that instance - that rolled out to four feet from the hole to set up the birdie that turned back his only threat. His only wild shot was on the 18th hole, where he sent his drive so far to the right it landed in the fairway of a hole that wasn't being used at Ridgewood Country Club. He still had a good angle to the green, made par and finished at 18-under 266.
He won for the second time this year, both against some of the strongest fields. He moved to the top of the FedEx Cup standings and is virtually assured of being one of the top five seeds at the Tour Championship who have a clear shot at the $10 million bonus. Also on his mind is playing for no money at all at the Ryder Cup.
DeChambeau narrowly missed earning one of the eight automatic spots for the U.S. team when he missed the cut at the PGA Championship. Jim Furyk makes three of his four captain's picks a week from Tuesday, and it will be tough to ignore a 24-year-old Californian with victories at the Memorial Tournament and a FedEx Cup playoff event.
"Hopefully he can see that I've got some grit and grind, and that even when I don't execute certain shots, I can get it done," DeChambeau said.
Billy Horschel (68) and Cameron Smith (69) tied for third at 13 under.
Ryan Palmer also felt like a winner. He came into the playoffs at No. 100 in the FedEx Cup rankings - the top 100 advanced to the second stage this week at TPC Boston - but delivered a 65 Sunday to tie for fifth at 12 under, along with Adam Scott (69) and Aaron Wise (67). Palmer moved all the way to No. 50.
Tiger Woods, coming off a runner-up finish at the PGA Championship, never got anything going. He closed with a 70 and tied for 40th, 14 shots out of the lead.
Bryson DeChambeau hits a shot on the fourth hole during the final round of The Northern Trust on Sunday at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, N.J.Home sweet home
REGINA, Saskatchewan - Brooke Henderson became the first Canadian to win her country's national championship for women's golf in 45 years, closing with a 7-under 65 for a four-stroke victory in the CP Women's Open.
The 20-year-old Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ontario, finished at 21-under 267 in chilly, rainy conditions at Wascana Country Club, capping the emotional victory in front of a large, adoring gallery with a short birdie putt on the par-4 18th. The fans chanted her name and sang "O Canada" in celebration.
Angel Yin (68) was second, with Jennifer Song (67) two strokes further back in third.
Jocelyne Bourassa is the only other Canadian to win the event, accomplishing the feat in 1973 at Montreal Municipal in the inaugural La Canadienne - the tournament that became the major championship du Maurier Classic, then the current nonmajor in 2001.
Henderson, whose sister Brittany was her caddie, has seven LPGA Tour titles, one short of Sandra Post's record for Canadians.
Streb regains status
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Robert Streb won the Web.com Tour Finals-opening Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship to regain full PGA Tour status, beating Peter Malnati with a par on the first hole of a playoff.
Streb closed with a par 72 in scattered showers to match Malnati (66) at 12-under 272 on Ohio State University's Scarlett Course. Streb was 178th in the FedEx Cup standings to drop into the lower-tier tour's playoffs.
Cameron Davis (66) was a stroke back in third, and Shawn Stefani (67) followed at 10 under to take fourth.
Athens, Tennessee, native Eric Axley (73) tied for 65th at 3 over.
The four-event series started with the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour's regular-season money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup regular-season final standings, plus nonmembers with enough money to have placed in the top 200.
The top 25 finishers on the Web.com regular-season money list have earned PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals. The other players are fighting for 25 cards based on series earnings.
Parel rallies for win
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. - Scott Parel won the Boeing Classic for his first PGA Tour Champions title, making birdies on the final six holes on the front nine during a 9-under 63.
Five strokes behind Kevin Sutherland and Ken Tanigawa entering the round, Parel beat Sutherland by three strokes at The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge. Parel, who totaled 10 birdies Sunday, finished at 18-under 198.
Sutherland, who shot a course-record 60 in the third round, closed with a 71. Tanigawa also failed to follow up a low round, going 64-73 on the weekend to tie for third at 3 under with Miguel Angel Jimenez (67).
Pavan breaks through
VYSOKY UJEZD, Czech Republic - Andrea Pavan closed with a 5-under 67 to win the Czech Masters for his first European Tour title.
Tied for the third-round lead with three-time major champion Padraig Harrington, the 29-year-old Italian beat the veteran Irish star by two strokes. Pavan finished at 22-under 266 at Albatross Golf Resort.
Harrington closed with a 72 to finish three strokes ahead of third-place Gavin Green (69).
Three-time major winner John Daly, tied for the first-round lead after a 64, had a 74 to tie for 59th at 5 under.