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.”