20th Annual Cigar Fest Golf Event – Thank you!

Thank you to the 20th annual Cigar Fest held at Dragonfly on Sep 27th!  The event featured 196 players in the tournament and over 500 for dinner!

 

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FedEx Cup 2017: Standings, winners, rules and how golfers win $10 million

The FedEx Cup is a bit complicated, but it gets simplified this week as the field is cut to 30

The final PGA Tour event of the 2016-17 season is here, and there is a lot of money on the line. Thirty players will play the Tour Championship this weekend at East Lake, and just under $34 million is at stake between the Tour Championship purse and FedEx Cup bonus money.

Jordan Spieth is the favorite to win this week (it would be his second in three years), but he’ll have loads of competition. One of the quirky nuances to the Tour Championship is that the FedEx Cup points players have been earning since last fall get reset this week.

The reason for this is to create a little bit of drama in case one or two players are way out in front. The PGA Tour wants everyone to have a mathematical chance of winning the FedEx Cup if they win the Tour Championship, thus the reset. Their points earned at the Tour Championship are then added to the reset points to determine a FedEx Cup winner.

Here’s how we stand right now.

2017 FedEx Cup Standings

RANKING	PLAYER	RESET FEDEX CUP POINTS
1	Jordan Spieth	2,000
2	Justin Thomas	1,800
3	Dustin Johnson	1,520
4	Marc Leishman	1,296
5	Jon Rahm	1,280
6	Rickie Fowler	1,120
7	Hideki Matsuyama	960
8	Justin Rose	800
9	Brooks Koepka	640
10	Paul Casey	480
11	Pat Perez	384
12	Matt Kuchar	368
13	Charley Hoffman	352
14	Daniel Berger	336
15	Jason Day	314
16	Webb Simpson	293
17	Jhonattan Vegas	272
18	Kevin Kisner	251
19	Kevin Chappell	231

20	Brian Harman	219
21	Adam Hadwin	206
22	Kyle Stanley	194
23	Patrick Reed	182
24	Tony Finau	170
25	Sergio Garcia	161
26	Xander Schauffele	151
27	Russell Henley	142
28	Gary Woodland	133
29	Patrick Cantlay	124
30	Jason Dufner	115

So you can see the player in 30th (Jason Dufner) has to win the Tour Championship and basically have the field finish in the opposite order of its ranking (i.e. Spieth in 30th, Thomas in 29th, etc.) for him to win the FedEx Cup. Let’s say Dufner won this week. He would finish with 2,115 FedEx Cup points. If Spieth finished even 29th, he would surpass Dufner with 2,118 points.

The margin is thin for players at the bottom. It’s not that they can’t win, it’s just that it’s incredibly unlikely. The top five are guaranteed a FedEx Cup win if they win the Tour Championship. The players just outside of that have a great chance of taking home the $10 million first prize by winning the Tour Championship as well. Take Rickie Fowler, for example. All he has to do to win the FedEx Cup is win the Tour Championship and have Jordan Spieth finish third or worse. Fowler would finish with 3,120 points, and Spieth would finish with 2,760 with a third-place finish.

Over $25 million in bonus prize money is distributed for the FedEx Cup after the dust settles this weekend (and this doesn’t include the $8.8 million purse for the Tour Championship!). All told, $35 million of FedEx Cup money is distributed to players who make the FedEx Cup playoffs. Those who got cut in previous weeks receive a little bit of the $35 million pot, and even those who finished Nos. 125-150 in the standings receiving $32,000 each. Here are distributions for the final 30.

2017 FedEx Cup payouts

PLACE	FEDEX CUP PAYOUTS
1st	$10 million
2nd	$3 million
3rd	$2 million
4th	$1.5 million
5th	$1 million
6th	$800,000
7th	$700,000
8th	$600,000
9th	$550,000
10th	$500,000
11th	$300,000
12th	$290,000
13th	$280,000
14th	$270,000
15th	$250,000
16th	$245,000
17th	$240,000
18th	$235,000
19th	$230,000
20th	$225,000
21st	$220,000
22nd	$215,000
23rd	$210,000
24th	$205,000
25th	$200,000
26th	$195,000
27th	$190,000
28th	$185,000
29th	$180,000
30th	$175,000

There is a lot at stake this week at the Tour Championship. The winner of the tournament walks away $11.5 million richer if he also wins the FedEx Cup. Interestingly, eight of the 10 champions of this event (including Rory McIlroy this year) did not make it back to East Lake to defend, and only Tiger Woods has ever won the FedEx Cup twice (something Spieth could accomplish this week).

Past FedEx Cup Champions

• 2016: Rory McIlroy
• 2015: Jordan Spieth
• 2014: Billy Horschel
• 2013: Henrik Stenson
• 2012: Brandt Snedeker
• 2011: Bill Haas
• 2010: Jim Furyk
• 2009: Tiger Woods
• 2008: Vijay Singh
• 2007: Tiger Woods

We should be in for a tremendous week of golf in Atlanta. All of the playoff events have been strong so far, but throw in the juice of $34 million and you start to ratchet up the intensity from 30 of the best players on the planet.

Source: CBSSports.com

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2017 Net Amateur Championship Qualifying – RESULTS at Dragonfly GC

Dragonfly was proud to host the 2017 Net Amateur Championship Qualifying.  Some awesome play here at the club last week.  Here are the results!

Player	Club Name	Total
Frederick, Monty	Yosemite Lakes Park GC	69
Matthews, Ryan	Diablo Grande GC	70
Watts, Chase	Paso Robles Mens GC	70
Segrue, Darren	Riverside of Fresno GC	71
Grossman, Stephen	Rancho Del Rey GC	72
Cook, John	Sherwood Forest GC	72
Failed to Qualify
Morgan, Brandon	Diablo Grande GC	72
Villarreal, Juan	Ridge Creek GC	72
Evans, Bruce	Riverside of Fresno GC	72
Salinas, Lance	Riverside of Fresno GC	73
McCarthy, Mike	Valley Oaks GC	73
Dillon, Patrick	Stevinson Ranch GC	74
Sofranek, Jim	Merced GCC	75
Flores, Henry	Riverside of Fresno GC	77
Russell, David	Sherwood Forest GC	78
Kitchen, John	Madera Muni GC	79
Underwood, Dave	River Island CC	79
Ordway, Neil	Yosemite Lakes Park GC	79
Ferraiz, Alfred	Lemoore GC	79
Lawrence, Steve	Pheasant Run GC	81
Badillo, Philip	Christian GC of Central Califo	81
Ingraham, Bruce	Merced Elks GC	82
Sanzberro, Joe	Lemoore GC	83
Nolen, Eddie	Pheasant Run GC	84

 

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Hole-in-One

A huge congratulations to Arturo Delacruz for his hole-in-one today on hole 5, here they are pictured having a celebration beer at the Wings Grill after their round! Congrats Arturo!!!

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Special Olympics

We would like to congratulate these individuals on participating in the Special Olympics! The Special Olympics mission is to provide athletic opportunities to children and adults with intellectual disabilities, instilling the confidence they need to succeed in life. We have been providing these guys with range balls and golf course access at 6PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays so they can tune up their games in preparation for upcoming regional and national golf competitions.  We wish them luck and much success!

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New Merchandise!

We hope everyone is starting off the weekend great, we just wanted to let you know to check out the new shirts we have received next time you are in the Proshop! Stay looking sharp with our Adidas Golf Shirts that range in sizes from Medium to XL. Happy weekend everyone!

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Congratulations Bryson DeChambeau!

Dragonfly Golf Club would like to congratulate Bryson DeChambeau for his recent victory at the PGA Tour John Deere Classic.  Bryson, and his coach Mike Schy, who runs the Golf Performance Institute here at Dragonfly, are pictured here using the Robo Pro located here at Dragonfly.  Bryson often works on his game at Dragonfly and uses a wide variety of the instructional devices and aids located here to fine tune his swing and short game.

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