ATLANTA -- The past two weeks saw a scramble for the last automatic places on the U.S. Ryder Cup team -- and might have made captain Steve Stricker's job a bit easier.
A good bit changed from the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Tony Finau won the Northern Trust in a playoff over Cameron Smith and then Patrick Cantlay prevailed over Bryson DeChambeau in a six-hole sudden-death playoff at the BMW Championship.
Cantlay's victory pushed him into the sixth and final qualifying spot, bumping out Finau, who had claimed that position a week earlier.