FedEx Cup week 2 preview: Deutsche Bank Championship

September 1st, 2010 by angelo Leave a reply »

Official Name: Deutsche Bank Championship

Where: TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts

When: September 3-6, 2010

Defending Champion: Steve Stricker (U.S.A)

The race for the 2010 FedEx cup is heating up and this week the top 100 remaining golfers will tee up in Boston to continue their quest to win golfs greatest pay day. Last week was exciting from start to finish, with Matt Kuchar producing a stunning shot in the play off to win The Barclays and become the leader in the FedEx cup. After this week the field for the BMW Championship will be cut to 70, so it is important that all players in the field produce some good golf in order to assure they progress further. As you can see below, Kuchar has a healthy lead, but Steve Stricker who is defending champion this week is easily within striking distance.

Fed-Ex Cup Points Race

  1. Matt Kuchar (3,937),
  2. Steve Stricker (2,572),
  3. Martin Laird (1,977),
  4. Justin Rose (1,860),
  5. Ernie Els (1,851). 

This tournament is also very important for other reasons for the American players, as it will be the last chance for them to impress Corey Pavin before he chooses his 4 captains picks for next months Ryder Cup. During the week Monty announced his captains picks for the Europeans, some of them were a little unexpected so it will be interesting to see which way Pavin will go and whether or not he will pick world number 1 Tiger Woods, who after a disappointing year, missed out on automatic qualification.

European Ryder Cup team:
Lee Westwood (England)
Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland)
Martin Kaymer (Germany)
Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland)
Ian Poulter (England)
Ross Fisher (England)
Francesco Molinari (Italy)
Peter Hanson (Sweden)
Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain)
Luke Donald (England)
Padraig Harrington (Ireland)
Edoardo Molinari (Italy)

Lind Golfs Predicted winner: Steve Stricker

Steve Stricker is in great form at the moment, coming off a 3rd place finish last week and he is now sitting 2nd on the FedEx cup standings, not to mention he is the defending champion of the Deutche Bank Championship. He also has a terricic record in the FedEx cup playoff events, with eight  top 10s in 13 events.

Lind Golfs Predicted Top Australian: Adam Scott

This was a hard choice, Adam has been very impressive of late, but so has Jason Day. The reason we decided to go with Scott was simply because he is playing well and is a past champion at TPC Boston. I think it is only a matter of time before Scott wins another USPGA event and given his form of late this could be his week. Don't be suprised if Day has a better week, but I am confident Adam Scott will be there abouts come Sunday.

Broadcast information

The Barclays will be shown Live on Fox Sports.

1st, 2nd & 3rd round – Saturday , Sunday & Monday:

5.00am – 8.00 am Fox Sports 1

4th round  – Tuesday: 4.00am  –  8.00 am Fox Sports 1

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