Brandt Snedeker won golf Sunday. Everyone can go home, now.
Whom, you ask? Exactly. With a final round 68 at the Tour Championship, Snedeker placed among recent Fedex Cup Champions with a 10-under par win, taking both trophies in the process.
He entered Sunday four spots back of Rory McIlroy in the Fedex Standings and needed a strong showing in the final week to come up and grab it, and he did.
It was kind of assumed that McIlory would just run away with the title, after winning back to back at the BMW and Deutsche Bank, weeks two and three of the four week playoff format.
But he kind of mailed it in this week at East Lake Golf Club and let Justin Rose, Ryan Moore and Sneds get into the mix. Kind of shame, really. mcIlory was carrying the torch for professional golf over the past two months and actually had people into golf during football season. But that dropped off with his T-10 finish. Oh well.
Snedeker is a worth enough champion of the prize. A winner in California earlier this year, he was very solid all season with seven top-10 finishes and made a push late to get onto the Ryder Cup. But winning the Fedex Cup, the top 30 golfers make it to the Tour Championship, was supposed to crown the best golfer on the PGA Tour for that season. The last two winners have been Bill Haas and Brandt Snedeker. That doesn't really move the stimp meter.
The Fedex needs fixing and here are two ways they can do that, in my opinion.
1. Change the name of the final event from the Tour Championship to something else. Recommendations? Anything other than the Tour Championship. I know it's an old tournament and it was sort of an end of the year championship, a ceremonial Tour winner thing but the name needs to change. Saying the Tour Championship and Fedex Cup in the same sentence sounds confusing and redundant. Fedex Cup isn't going anywhere; they have tried FOREVER to get that thing popular or gain ground and finally it picked up steam so, Tour Championship has to go. It's sponsored by Coca Cola so throw that in there.
2. Change the point amount for the final event. Drop it. And for this reason: it leaves too much open for a big push in the final week to come up and grab it. I know that takes away from some of the drama but that assures you of a big name or certifiable winner taking home the gold.
And 3, because why not. Move it up a week or two, let it battle with week two of the NFL and be done with it. I love golf but it has a season and it's season isn't football, thats for sure.
