ATLANTA – As the Tour Championship gets underway today at East Lake Golf Club, only five of the 29 competitors (the 30th, Jim Furyk, withdrew with a wrist injury) have control of their own fate in the chase for the ninth FedEx Cup.
Any player among the top five in points – Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler, Henrik Stenson and Bubba Watson – can capture the cup and the extravagant $10 million winner’s bounty with a triumph in the Tour Championship (which pays another $1.4 million, with the winner also collecting at least one cool perk: a Coke machine for home.