Day: August 24, 2017

If one day you were handed a check for $10 million, how would you spend it? That’s a very real question that athletes have to contemplate all the time. In golf, it happens about once a year: The winner of the FedEx Trophy doesn’t just get a trophy, you get cut the largest check of the year — a check that’s about four times larger than what you get for winning the Masters. Rory won the money last year, so what did he do with it? Speaking ahead of this week’s first FedEx Cup playoff event: “Had a wedding to pay for. We’re just renovating a house, so that’s going to take up a bit of that, as well. Wouldn’t mind winning it again.� He continued: “It’s nice to have it. Yeah, I didn’t treat myself to

OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. – Breaking: Jordan Spieth is a good putter. As far as newsworthiness goes, that ranks right alongside “Dogs Bites Man� in importance, but it’s worth mentioning after Spieth’s last few rounds. At the PGA Championship, Spieth’s last start, he finished tied for 28th, with a negative strokes gained-putting average (minus-.08), and on Thursday at The Northern Trust he ranked 107th in that category, giving up 1.97 strokes to the field. To put that in context, he’s gained strokes on the field each of the past five seasons on the PGA Tour and ranked second in the category last year. On Thursday at Glen Oaks, Spieth seemed confused by the pace of the greens on his way to a 1-under 69