Golf News: Tiger is the king of Cog Hill - BMW Championship (FedEx Cup Playoff 3)

Tiger Woods has gone on to take his 60th tour victory at the BMW Championship and regains the lead on the FedEx Cup standings. Tiger, who has won at Cog Hill 3 times previous to this victory, had a fantastic round of golf and was deadly with the putter and posted a record equalling round of 63. Arron Baddeley and Steve Stricker also tried their best to stay with Tiger making some great birdies, but could not match the master.
The top ten:

Pos	Name	Country	Total	Strokes	1	2	3	4
1	Tiger Woods	USA	-22	262	67	67	65	63
2	Aaron Baddeley	AUS	-20	264	68	65	65	66
3	Steve Stricker	USA	-18	266	68	66	64	68
4	Adam Scott	AUS	-14	270	69	69	67	65
5	Tim Clark	SAF	-13	271	68	69	67	67
5	Justin Rose	ENG	-13	271	65	69	69	68
7	Stewart Cink	USA	-12	272	66	73	68	65
7	Camilo Villegas	COL	-12	272	65	69	71	67
9	Sergio Garcia	ESP	-10	274	68	70	69	67
10	Ian Poulter	ENG	-9	275	68	72	69	66
10	Rory Sabbatini	SAF	-9	275	69	72	68	66
10	Carl Pettersson	SWE	-9	275	71	68	69	67

The event saw some changes in the FedEx Cup standings with Camilo Villegas, Tim Clark and Stewart Cink all playing some great golf to come from outside the top 30 to finish within the cut off line. Unfortunately this means an early exit for Luke Donald, Jerry Kelly and Arron Oberholser who were all inside the top 30 before the event, but just missed the cut off line.
The Top 5 in the FedEx Cup standings:

1		Tiger Woods
2		Steve Stricker
3		Phil Mickelson
4		Rory Sabbatini
5		K.J. Choi

Realistically only the top 5 now have a chance at taking the FedEx Cup, but with 35 million dollars in the kitty everyone will be trying to win The Tour Championship next week.

Golf News: BMW Championship - FedEx Cup playoff #2 preview

Only the top 70 players are left standing for the 3rd FedEx Cup playoff the BMW championship. The roots of this tournament go back to 1899 when it was the former Western Open and make it the 3rd oldest golf tournament in the world (only the U.S open and British open are older). Only 30 players will remain in the running after this tournament so I expect their will be some fantastic golf.

Phil Mickelson withdraws for the BMW championship
The biggest news so far is that FedEx Cup points leader Phil Mickelson has withdrawn from the event because he says he needs to spend more time with his family. Now this could be seen as a serious problem for the FedEx Cup in the race to become golfs ultimate prize as you can't imagine Phil would not be taking a break in the lead up to say the British open or other major.

My prediction
With Phil out of the running I think that Tiger will be the favorite and rightly so he has won at Cog Hill three times and has never finished lower than seventh on the course! My outside picks would have to be Steve Stricker, who is in great form, and Robert Allenby, who won this tournament back in 2000.