ATLANTA — Exactly five weeks from now, the United States and Europe will be dueling through the singles matches of the Ryder Cup. If there's any justice in the golf world, Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele will go head-to-head in that match, with the Ryder Cup on the line.
All due respect to Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm and all the other Ryder Cup players (in Koepka's case, potential players), but nobody's hotter than Hovland right now, and nobody's cooler than Schauffele. Their head-to-head, final-round-pairing battle for the FedEx Cup wasn't quite match play — not when Hovland came into the day with a six-shot lead — but the result was some of the most entertaining eye-to-eye golf of the now-completed 2022-23 season.