Emiliano Grillo is atop the Web.com Tour Championship leader board going into Sunday. Who will win and who will finish in the Finals Top 25?
Peak golf season continues with the Web.com Tour Championship sandwiched in between the PGA TOUR Playoffs and The President’s Cup next week in South Korea. Saturday was as exciting as ever in the fourth and final event in the Finals at Dye’s Valley Course.
Argentina’s 23-year old Emiliano Grillo shot a bogey-free 67 to double his Friday lead to two strokes going into Sunday’s final round. The $180,000 for first place will likely determine the overall money leader for the Finals and who will be fully-exempt on the PGA TOUR in 2015-16 and be invited to THE PLAYERS Championship next door on the Stadium Course.
Chez Reavie who won two weeks ago at the Small Business Connection Championship is in second place after a Saturday 67 to match Grillo’s score and leap frog Lucas Glover who was one stroke behind Grillo to start the day. Glover’s 69 gets him in the next-to-last pairing with Sam Saunders who shot 68. Although it looks like a shootout between Grillo and Reavie for the Finals Money Title, there are eleven players within six strokes of the lead, anything can happen in the final round of the Finals!
Will the winner come out of the final two pairings or be one of eleven players within 6 strokes of the lead?
The other full exemption and PLAYERS invitation goes to the overall money leader for the combined regular season and Finals and will likely go to Patton Kizzire. The only player that can overtake Kizzire is Dawie van der Walt and he needs to win outright to do so. He is currently T30 ten strokes back of Grillo.
On the other end of the spectrum is the fight to just get a PGA TOUR card for next season by being in the Top 25 on the Finals Money List. Five players are projected to make the Top 25 Bubble—Tyrone Van Aswegen (T5 after Round 3), Robert Garrigus (T17), Derek Fathauer (T17), Kevin Tway (T7) and Greg Eason (T12) bumping out five players who started the week inside the Finals Top 25—Eric Axley, Ryan Spears, Steve Allan, Justin Hicks and Jhonny Vegas. Those five players were all ranked within Nos. 20 to 25 and all missed the cut! Only Brian Davis who started at No. 22 and made the cut is still projected to remain inside the Finals Top 25 at No. 25!
But nothing is a done deal yet as the pressure mounts. One good or one bad round tomorrow can trigger wild swings in money distribution and impact the final Bubble outcome.
Should be anther exciting Sunday at TPC Sawgrass!
I can’t wait to see who wins the Web.com Tour Championship and who earns the Finals Top 25 PGA TOUR cards!
