FEDEXCUP
Week six FedExCup notes -- AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
For the week of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am:
J.B. Holmes
• 4,958 points, second place, four points behind K.J. Choi
• Has 2,098 more FedExCup points this year than he earned all of last year
• Is virtually assured of finishing inside the top 70 with another made cut. He did not make the field of the BMW Championship last year, finishing 106th in the final FedExCup standings
Daniel Chopra
• 4,711 points, third place, 251 points behind Choi
• Has 1,892 more FedExCup points this year than he earned all of last year
• If he plays the rest of the season like he did last year, he will finish with over 7,000 points, which should be good for a spot in the Top 30 going into the playoffs.
D.J. Trahan
• 4,546 points, fifth place, 416 points behind Choi
• Has 1,780 more FedExCup points this year than he earned all of last year
• Last year, he earned over half his points in Texas, with an eighth at the Shell Houston Open, a tie for 55th at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship and a tie for 7th at the Crowne Plaza Invitational, for a total of 1,560 points. If he does that again this year, he will finish well inside the Top 70 with just those points and the ones he already has.
Justin Leonard
• 4,528 points, sixth place, 434 points behind Choi
• Has 643 more FedExCup points this year than he earned all of last year, despite not having a victory. He is "on pace" to score 24,900 points in 2008.
• Last year, only two players (Steve Stricker and Sergio Garcia) scored more than 10,000 points without a victory. Both finished inside the Top 15 in the Regular Season.
Phil Mickelson
• 3,569 points, ninth place, 1,393 points behind Choi
• Last year, Mickelson was the No. 4 seed in the FedExCup, with 16,037 points in the Regular Season, despite having a total of only 137 points coming into the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
• Mickelson scored 94% of his 2007 points in two three-week stretches: AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (4,500), Northern Trust Open (2,700) and World Golf Championships -- Accenture Match Play Championship (262), plus EDS Byron Nelson Championship (1,200), Wachovia Championship (1,450) and THE PLAYERS Championship (4,950).
Kevin Na
• 1,978 points, 13th place, 2,984 points behind Choi
• Currently averaging nearly 500 points per event. Assuming he plays 18 events prior to the Playoffs, as he did in 2007, he needs to average about 350 per event for the rest of the Regular Season to make it into the Top 30.
• Na is likely to score points no matter what this week -- his amateur playing partner is Mike Glenn, CEO of FedEx
Kevin Sutherland
• 1,440 points, 23rd place, 3,522 points behind Choi
• He scored over 50% of his total 2007 FedExCup points at the three AT&T events, including 2,700 for second place at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. His 5,888 total was good for a 47th seed.
• Of those who played all without winning any of the three AT&T events, his total of 3,075 points in the AT&T "Triple Crown" was best. The winners of the three events -- Phil Mickelson, Zach Johnson and K.J. Choi -- were the only players who had more.
Brandt Snedeker
• 1,346 points, 26th place, 3,616 points behind Choi
• With two top-10 finishes this year, he's off to a solid start but not as strong as last year; he had 1,955 points coming into this event last year, good for 14th place.
• Snedeker is the quintessential example of the importance of playing well all year and the value of every week in the FedExCup race. His solid play through the first 32 weeks of the season put him in 27th place, and his win at the Wyndham Championship vaulted him into the Top 10 going into the Playoffs.
Mike Weir
• 1,334 points, 27th place, 3,628 points behind Choi
• Well ahead of last year's pace (1,135 more points than at this time last year); on pace to be among the Top-30 seeds.
• He scored over half his points last year in three consecutive starts: the US Open, AT&T National and the British Open.
Jim Furyk
• 1,301 points, 28th place 3,661 points behind Choi
• Furyk was consistently excellent all year in 2007 -- he had top five finishes in five of the seven months leading into the Playoffs, including three top fives (and a 12th) in July.
• He has started 2008 very similarly: With 1,301 points this year, he is right on pace with his 1,359 at this point last year.
• Although he hasn't won on the "West coast swing" since the 2001 Mercedes-Benz Championship, he plays the swing very well -- he was fourth in points among non-winners last year, with ties for third, fourth andsixth and two other top-25 finishes.
Hunter Mahan
• 1,071 points, 34th place, 3,891 points behind Choi
• 2007 was an "all or nothing" kind of year for Hunter Mahan -- he had more missed cuts (eight) than anyone else in the Top 15, and only one fewer than Boo Weekley and Jonathan Byrd, the only players in the Top 30 with nine missed cuts.
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