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Check out the entire field and how they qualified for the 2018 Quicken Loans National. HOW THEY QUALIFIED Winner – Quicken Loans National Bill Haas Billy Hurley III Troy Merritt Kyle Stanley Winner – THE PLAYERS Championship  Rickie Fowler Si Woo Kim Winner – PGA Championship  Jimmy Walker Winners of the Arnold Palmer Inv. & the Memorial  Marc Leishman Winner – Tournament Winner in the Past Year Ryan Armour Billy Horschel Andrew Landry Ted Potter, Jr. Chris Stroud Gary Woodland Winner – Prior Year U.S. Amateur Championship Doc Redman Member of Last Named U.S. Ryder Cup Team J.B. Holmes Member of Last Named International Presidents Cup Team Adam Hadwin Anirban Lahiri Top 125 on Prior Year’s FedEx Points List  Mackenzie Hughes Francesco Molinari Charles Howell III Kevin Na Stewart Cink Scott Brown Martin Laird Jamie Lovemark Sung Kang Ollie Schniederjans Robert Streb James Hahn Kevin Tway Danny Lee Kelly Kraft Rod Pampling Jason Kokrak Patrick Rodgers Jonas Blixt Chad Campbell Kevin Streelman Cody Gribble Cheng Tsung Pan Whee Kim Harold Varner III Nick Taylor David Lingmerth J.J. Spaun Michael Kim Scott Stallings Byeong Hun An Martin Flores D.A. Points Richy Werenski Ryan Blaum Geoff Ogilvy Robert Garrigus Brian Gay Vaughn Taylor Derek Fathauer Tyrone Van Aswegen Harris English Dominic Bozzelli Nick Watney John Huh Blayne Barber Ben Martin Rory Sabbatini J.J. Henry Top 125 (Medical) Ryan Palmer Michael Thompson Sponsors Exemptions – Members not otherwise exempt  Kiradech Aphibarnrat Jason Gore Sponsors Exemptions – Unrestricted Doug Ghim Dylan Meyer Joaquin Niemann Kristoffer Ventura Players below 10th – FedExCup Points List Chesson Hadley Beau Hossler Andrew Putnam Tiger Woods Tom Hoge Keith Mitchell Trey Mullinax Brandon Harkins Alex Cejka Brian Stuard Martin Piller J.T. Poston Abraham Ancer Corey Conners Tyler Duncan Aaron Baddeley Seamus Power Talor Gooch Nicholas Lindheim Sam Saunders Joel Dahmen Ben Silverman Ben Crane Denny McCarthy Tom Lovelady Johnson Wagner Adam Schenk Shawn Stefani Xinjun Zhang Nate Lashley Sam Ryder David Hearn Bronson Burgoon Jonathan Randolph Hunter Mahan Matt Jones Peter Malnati Rob Oppenheim Stephan Jaeger Matt Every Ethan Tracy Fabián Gómez Zac Blair    

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AVONDALE, La. — Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele played the back nine in 8-under 28 and shot a 12-under 60 in best-ball play Saturday to shatter the Zurich Classic of New Orleans three-round record at 29 under and stretch their lead to five strokes. RELATED: Leaderboard | Inside the Field: Mexico Open at Vidanta Cantlay and Schauffele broke the 54-hole mark of 23 under. Jonas Blixt-Cameron Smith and Kevin Kisner-Scott Brown set the 72-hole mark of 27 under in 2017, the first-year of the team format at TPC Louisiana. The final round will be alternate shot. Cantlay and Schauffele opened with a tournament-record 59 in best-ball play Thursday and had a 68 in alternate shot to maintain a one-stroke lead. The South African tandem of Garrick Higgo and Branden Grace were second at 24 under after a 63. They bogeyed the par-4 12th. Sam Burns, the local favorite who played at LSU, and Billy Horschel were 23 under after a 63. They bogeyed the difficult par-3 ninth hole, then shot a 5-under 31 on the back nine. Australians Jason Day and Jason Scrivener (63) and Aaron Rai and David Lipsky (65) also were 23 under. The father-son team of Jay and Bill Haas was 12 under after a 68. At 68 years, four months, 20 days, Jay Haas, making his 799th official start, is the oldest player to make a PGA TOUR cut. Cantlay and Schauffele, who trailed briefly during the round, made just one birdie in the first four holes. They eagled the par-5 seventh and began the back nine with four consecutive birdies. After making par at the par-4 14th, Cantlay and Schauffele birdied the final four holes.

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It’s a first in The First State. The PGA TOUR is making its debut in Delaware. RELATED: Play Pick ‘Em Live | The First Look | Five Things to Know This week’s BMW Championship will be contested on the South Course of Wilmington Country Club in Delaware. It’s as neutral a site as any to host a FedExCup Playoffs event. For analysis of the course, how the winner and contenders should be defined, and more, continue reading beneath the expanded ranking. POWER RANKINGS: BMW CHAMPIONSHIP Draws and Fades will include reviews of notables including Hideki Matsuyama, Billy Horschel, Shane Lowry and Cameron Young. The middle leg of the Playoffs reserves room for 70 golfers, the top 30 of whom at its conclusion will advance to the season-ending TOUR Championship in Atlanta. However, Cameron Smith has withdrawn due to an injured hip and Tommy Fleetwood (personal) didn’t commit, so the field in Wilmington is 68 deep. At third in the FedExCup, Smith will survive to compete in the finale, but Fleetwood’s season officially is over. He’s currently 56th in points. Robert Trent Jones, Sr., designed the South Course over 60 years ago. Today, it’s a par 71 capable of stretching 7,534 yards. How it routes for the BMW Championship differs from the walk experienced by members. This yields an uncommon par-5-3-5-3 stretch on holes 12-15. The Palmer Cup was staged here in 2013. Justin Thomas is the only qualifier of the BMW Championship who competed in that amateur team competition, but that’s nine years ago and the course has undergone significant renovations since, anyway. Therefore, consider that there is no useful competitive experience in play this week. When a new challenge is presented, ball-strikers are benefited. Seeing targets and hitting targets plays everywhere, but greens require experience to master with the putter. The surfaces at Wilmington CC average of 8,000 square feet, but they protected firmly and fairly by commensurately sized bunkers. With fairways resembling ribbons in places and primary rough beginning at four inches high, the tee-to-green game plays up. Within a day or two, and depending on hole locations, the field will find the pulse of the bentgrass greens, and because of their size, guys who rely on the flat stick will enter the chat. Speeds will touch 12½ feet on the Stimpmeter. There is no cut, so everyone who tees it up is promised 72 holes. This makes it more difficult to advance to the finale, but it’s never impossible. In the previous two editions of the current points structure (2019, 2021), five golfers have risen into the top 30 with strong performances at the BMW Championship. Aside from a threat of rain on the weekend, the weather should cooperate for all. Seasonably warm and dry conditions will extend into Saturday. Daytime temperatures will reach into the mid-80s. Wind should be a non-factor. Other than a chance to be crowned the 16th FedExCup champion at East Lake next week, everyone positioned inside the top 30 at the conclusion of the BMW Championship is poised to earn exemptions into the 2023 editions of the Masters, U.S. Open and The Open Championship. Those are traditional benefits for generating the best seasons on the PGA TOUR and timely performances in the Playoffs. ROB BOLTON’S SCHEDULE PGATOUR.com’s Rob Bolton recaps and previews every tournament from numerous perspectives. Look for his following contributions as scheduled. MONDAY: Power Rankings TUESDAY*: Sleepers, Draws & Fades WEDNESDAY: Pick ’Em Preview SUNDAY: Qualifiers, Reshuffle, Rookie Ranking * – Rob is a member of the panel for PGATOUR.COM’s Expert Picks for PGA TOUR Fantasy Golf, which also publishes on Tuesday.

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