five players who entered the week<\/a> controlling their own destiny, as those handful of pros would win the Cup outright with a victory at East Lake. A Sunday struggle led Rose to a final round 73, but it was enough to win golf’s largest financial payday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nRose and Bryson DeChambeau began the Tour Championship tied for the shortest odds of winning the FedEx Cup at 2\/1.<\/p>\n
Woods needed a series of scenarios to go his way to hoist the FedEx Cup, and aside from Rose, they did. Tiger entered the final playoff event long at 60\/1 to win the playoffs. He finished second, and claimed a $3 million bonus on top of his $1.62 million win.<\/p>\n
Golf Ahead<\/b><\/h2>\n
Though the Tour Championship concludes the 2017-18 FedEx Cup series, there’s plenty of exciting golf remaining on the 2018 calendar.<\/p>\n
The Ryder Cup will be played September 28-30 in Paris, and Team USA is the favorite at -180, and the Europeans the underdogs at +150. A $100 bet on the Americans nets $55.56 should they win, while the same wager on Europe returns $150.<\/strong><\/p>\nAfter the international team competition, Tiger and Phil Mickelson will go head-to-head in Las Vegas for a winner-take-all $10 million shootout<\/a> on November 23. With his strong play, Woods is becoming a heavy favorite (-220) and Lefty’s line continues to lengthen (+180).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods is in the winner’s circle on the PGA Tour for the first time in more than five years. It’s a comeback story that seemed destined to remain fiction at this time a year ago. Woods underwent his fourth back surgery in April 2017, and was arrested for DUI on pain and sleep medications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":88874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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