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Just over three weeks ago, Hideki Matsuyama was in isolation for COVID-19 and desperate to record a negative test to have any chance of competing in his home Olympics.

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The postseason has arrived. Now it’s time for the PGA TOUR’s best to compete for the FedExCup. Every postseason participant has a chance to take home the TOUR’s season-long crown. With FedExCup points quadrupled in the Playoffs, players in the back of the pack can make a Cinderella run. The regular season’s strongest performers still have an advantage, though. The top 125 in the FedExCup standings are eligible for THE NORTHERN TRUST, which begins Thursday at Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey. The top 100 will advance to next week’s Dell Technologies Championship at TPC Boston. Then 70 players will compete in the BMW Championship at historic Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.  The Playoffs field will be pared to 30 for the season finale, the TOUR Championship at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club on Sept. 20-23. While every player in the TOUR Championship field can still win the FedExCup, the top 5 in the standings can clinch the Cup with a win at East Lake. Here’s a quick look at the men who will play for that prize.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Cameron Smith tied the PGA TOUR record for fewest putts in a round (18) during his second-round 62 at the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. He missed a birdie attempt from just over 22 feet on 18 that would have broken the record. “Yeah, it’s a pretty cool little title I guess to have next to your name,” Smith said after making six birdies and an eagle at the par-5 third hole, where he holed his sand shot from over 33 feet. He also had no putts at the par-3 fourth hole, where he got out of position but chipped in for par. All told, Smith made 110 feet, 3 inches worth of putts. He saved par eight times in eight tries. “The greens are so good around here,” he said, “if you get the ball started online and you’ve hit a good putt, most of the time they’re going in. Yeah, really just a good day on the greens, I guess. “…I probably didn’t drive it as good as I did yesterday,” he continued, “but the approaches were really nice. Like I said, I felt I was hitting lots of nice shots that were just going off the green and made a couple of them and a couple of them missed. That’s just how it went, but still a pretty cool record.” He admitted to trying to add up how many putts he’d taken on the day as he played the 17th hole. For some reason, he said, he thought the record for a single round must be 17, not 18 putts. Smith is one of 19 players in Memphis who played the Olympics in Japan, 14 times zones away. Still, fatigue doesn’t seem to have slowed him down much as he is in position for his first victory since capturing the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with partner Marc Leishman in April. “Probably haven’t had the results that I wished for,” he said. “After the win at Zurich, I felt like I’ve continued to play really nice golf and really haven’t got the most out of my game, so a day like today I think was probably a little bit overdue, but it’s nice to know it’s still in me.”

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