How Bryson DeChambeau went to great lengths to win the U.S. Open

How the field qualified for the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship as of 2/14/2020: Check here for updates. Top 50 Players – Official World Golf Ranking (thru 2/10) Rory McIlroy Jon Rahm Justin Thomas Dustin Johnson Webb Simpson Xander Schauffele Tommy Fleetwood Tony Finau Patrick Reed Adam Scott Louis Oosthuizen Gary Woodland Shane Lowry Bryson DeChambeau Marc Leishman Matt Kuchar Paul Casey Bernd Wiesberger Hideki Matsuyama Francesco Molinari Matthew Fitzpatrick Kevin Na Abraham Ancer Lee Westwood Danny Willett Kevin Kisner Sungjae Im Tyrrell Hatton Cameron Smith Shugo Imahira Billy Horschel Matt Wallace Jazz Janewattananond Sergio Garcia Victor Perez Chez Reavie Brandt Snedeker Bubba Watson Rafa Cabrera Bello Graeme McDowell Byeong Hun An Jordan Spieth Frederick van Rooyen Top 30 on Prior Season’s FedExCup Points List Jason Kokrak Corey Conners Charles Howell III Lucas Glover Prior Year European Tour Order of Merit Robert MacIntyre Marcus Kinhult Kurt Kitayama Benjamin Hebert Matthias Schwab Christiaan Bezuidenhout Michael Lorenzo-Vera Jorge Campillo European Tour Order of Merit (thru 2/10) Lucas Herbert Branden Grace Pablo Larrazabal Prior Year Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit Shaun Norris Ryo Ishikawa Top 2 Players from the Australasian Tour Order of Merit Ryan Fox Zach Murray Top 2 Players from the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Zander Lombard Justin Harding Top 2 Players from the Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit Scott Hend Tae Hee Lee The highest ranked available player from Mexico on OWGR thru 2/10 Carlos Ortiz

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NOTE: For the next two events, Rob will focus only on golfers outside the bubble to advance in the FedExCup Playoffs. All five below enter THE NORTHERN TRUST worse than 70th in points. Tom Lewis ... Other than maybe Wyndham Championship winner Jim Herman, few have done more with a chip and a chair in PGA TOUR-sanctioned competition in recent memory than the Englishman. And here he is seeded 123rd in his FedExCup Playoffs debut. You’ll recall that in his only career Korn Ferry Tour start, he won the KFT Championship in the 2019 Finals. That yielded a PGA TOUR card for 2019-20. He went 0-for-3 in the fall and didn’t make his first cut until The Honda Classic (T47). An improved summer was punctuated by a stunning co-runner-up finish at the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. That lifted him 74 spots and eventually into THE NORTHERN TRUST. Emiliano Grillo … It was just a month ago when he was in jeopardy of not qualifying for his fifth consecutive Playoffs in as many tries, but the 27-year-old rallied for a T3 at the 3M Open where he gained strokes on the field with his putter for the first time in seven starts since play resumed. He added a T9 at the Barracuda Championship at a T66 at the PGA Championship to enter at 92nd in points. TPC Boston has been a gem of a spot for him as well. Since debuting with a T33 in 2016, he improved progressively with a solo 22nd in 2017 and a T7 in 2018. Jason Kokrak ... Whatever bothered him at Memorial where he withdrew after one round may have run its course. He’s fresh off a T15 at the Wyndham with a second-round 63. Finished the week T12 in greens hit, ninth in proximity, seventh in Strokes Gained: Tee-To-Green and eighth in putting: birdies-or-better. Slots 90th ahead of TPC Boston where he has three top 25s, including a T24 in the last edition in 2018. Brian Stuard ... He’s been quiet since the mildest of surges that culminated with a T30 in his home-state Rocket Mortgage Classic, but he’s fared a little better over time at TPC Boston. From 2013-2018, he went 4-for-4 with a pair of top 25s. The 76-seed usually ranks among the leaders in fairways hit, so his best chance to advance is to lean on that superpower while he manages his misses with the confidence that his terrific greenside game will clean up if necessary. Matt Jones ... Might feel like he has unfinished business at TPC Boston, site of a T4 in his last trip in 2015, albeit seven strokes back of champion Rickie Fowler. Jones closed with 74. He’s been a steady if unspectacular performer throughout this season, but he has scattered four top 20s, the most recent of which a T14 at the Workday Charity Open. Sits 86th in the FedExCup standings.

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2021 John Deere Classic, Round 1 Scoring Conditions: Overall: -1.17 strokes per round Morning wave: -1.37 Afternoon wave: -0.97 Current cutline (top 65 and ties): 74 players at -2 or better (T52) Top 3 projected cutline probabilities: 1. 4 under par: 42.0% 2. 3 under par: 30.5% 3. 5 under par: 17.6% Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Sebastian Munoz (T1, -8, 12.5%) 2. Chez Reavie (T3, -7, 6.9%) 3. Hank Lebioda (T3, -7, 6.7%) 4. Chesson Hadley (T1, -8, 6.0%) 5. Ryan Moore (6, -6, 5.5%) 6. Camilo Villegas (T3, -7, 4.8%) 7. Doug Ghim (T7, -5, 4.0%) 8. Russell Henley (T12, -4, 3.6%) 9. Daniel Berger (T52, -2, 2.9%) 10. Sungjae Im (T29, -3, 2.4%) NOTE: These reports are based off of the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut”, “Top 20”, “Top 5”, and “Win” probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the John Deere Classic, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.

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