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CITY OF INDUSTRY, California - Kamaiu Johnson, one of the APGA Tour's biggest stars, birdied the 18th hole Wednesday to clinch the APGA Tour Championship, outlasting former PGA TOUR regular Brad Adamonis in the circuit's regular-season finale. Johnson had six birdies in shooting a second consecutive 4-under 68, ensuring the win with a 5-footer on 18 after hitting the par-5 green in two with a 5-wood from 236 yards out of the rough. His 8-under 136 at Pacific Palms Resort in City of Industry, California, was two strokes better than Adamonis and Tim O'Neal, another APGA Tour star who won two tournaments during the 2020 season. O'Neal clinched the season-long Lexus Cup Point Standings title with his second-place finish, pocketing the top prize of $17,500 from the $35,000 bonus pool purse. The Savannah, Georgia, pro won the APGA Tour at Farmers Insurance Open in January on Torrey Pines North and triumphed again in July, winning the APGA Tour at Dubsdread in Orlando. Johnson won $16,000 on Wednesday — $10,000 for winning the tournament and $6,000 for finishing second to O'Neal in the Lexus Cup Point Standings. "I went back to basics," said Johnson, the Tallahassee, Florida, native now residing in Orlando. "I worked with my coach (John Montgomery of Orlando) and came away with so much confidence. This win is bigger than me. This has been a growth year for the APGA Tour and for me with my Farmers Insurance sponsorship. The APGA Tour has done a great job with the schedule since the restart to give us this opportunity." The APGA Tour finished its regular season with six tournaments in 10 weeks after being sidelined along with all other professional sports by the global pandemic. The full 2020 schedule will comprise a record 10 events with a record $250,000 in prize money awarded. The tournaments were played without spectators under social distancing and health/safety guidelines in conjunction with regional authorities. Willie Mack of Grand Rapids, Michigan, took fourth place with a 5-under 139. Landon Lyons of Baton Rouge, winner of the previous two APGA events, was one stroke back in fifth. Kevin Hall of Cincinnati, Ohio, finished sixth with a 3-under 141. The APGA Tour became a prominent sports story on Aug. 24 when Charles Howell III pledged financial and mentoring support of the tour and its players as part of an initiative unveiled in an article by Adam Schupak of Golfweek/USA Today. Dubbed #CharlesHowell4APGATour, the program has Howell donating $50 for every birdie and $100 for every eagle that he scores in PGA TOUR competition. The three-time PGA TOUR winner is hoping to inspire others to join him in support of the APGA Tour. Howell's commitment includes playing rounds with APGA Tour players and providing informal mentoring as they pursue their goal of careers in professional golf. The Charles Howell news was also covered by Doug Ferguson of Sports Betting News. PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan discussed APGA Tour CEO Ken Bentley and the PGA TOUR/APGA Tour partnership in his pre-tournament press conference at this week’s TOUR Championship. The season began on a high note in Southern California in January when the Farmers Insurance Open hosted an APGA tournament during the annual PGA TOUR stop at Torrey Pines in San Diego. The Farmers Insurance Open included APGA Tour players and officials in all onsite activities and media operations throughout the week. The 27-hole APGA Tour at the Farmers Insurance Open competition, organized in collaboration with the PGA TOUR, Farmers and The Century Club of San Diego, took place on Torrey Pines’ North Course while the best players in the world were competing in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open on the South Course. The exposure resulted in major print, digital and TV media coverage about the 11-year-old tour's mission of bringing diversity to the highest levels of professional golf in conjunction with the PGA TOUR, Farmers Insurance, Lexus and other supporting organizations. Tony Finau, Harold Varner and Joseph Bramlett are among the players who competed on the APGA Tour enroute to careers on the PGA TOUR. The APGA Tour season concludes in October with the APGA Tour Salute to African American Golfers in Los Angeles. The double-tournament includes a seniors competition on Oct. 11-12 and the Lexus Cup Invitational on Oct. 11-13, featuring the top 26 players in the Lexus Cup Point Standings plus four amateurs.

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Keegan Bradley and Xander Schauffele finished first and T3, respectively, at the BMW Championship at Aronimink to crack the all-important FedExCup Top 30 and play their way into the season-ending TOUR Championship at East Lake, Sept. 20-23. Jordan Spieth and Emiliano Grillo were not so lucky, falling out of the Top 30 to miss out. “It’s awesome,â€� said Schauffele, whose victory at last year’s TOUR Championship cemented Rookie of the Year honors. “Been a long week. So, it will settle in on the flight home.â€� How big is getting to East Lake? Even after winning the BMW for his fourth TOUR victory and first in six years, Bradley looked back at a pair of roughly 7-foot par putts he made to finish his third-round 66 on Saturday. They meant he was projected into the Top 30 and would make it to East Lake, which was big because no one knew if the final round would even happen. “Well, I can’t remember a week of playing so solid from start to finish,â€� Bradley said. “It was really all week I’ve played great. That par putt I made (on 18 ) on Saturday night was so huge because — for two reasons: One, I didn’t know if we were coming back and I knew I needed that to make the TOUR Championship. And obviously, now coming back and playing, I needed that putt.â€� He needed every putt, and won with a par in a sudden-death playoff against Justin Rose. Meanwhile, Spieth will miss the TOUR Championship for the first time in his career. The 2015 FedExCup champion, who especially loves East Lake, struggled with his putting all week and came up against an unusually long, soggy Aronimink in the final round, shooting 73 to finish T55. “I was in control of my own destiny and didn’t have it this week,â€� Spieth said. “Riding some momentum but all in all, just game kind of got a little off.â€� After starting on the back nine and struggling with three bogeys, he staged a brief rally with birdies at the third and fifth holes before two more bogeys on 7 and 8 did him in. Still, he faulted his second round for moving him onto the bubble in the first place. Spieth was 0 for 3 on putts from 5-10 feet while shooting a 1-over 71 on Friday, losing 2.75 strokes on the greens in the BMW’s second round. It was his third-worst performance of the season in Strokes Gained: Putting, and he was still thinking about it after the tournament. “You can’t shoot over par here,â€� Spieth said. Top 5 players remain the same: They played musical chairs, but the Top 5 players remain the same. The Top 5 control their own destiny with a win at next week’s TOUR Championship. FedExCup No. 1 Bryson DeChambeau was guaranteed to remain in pole position no matter what, and after admitting to fatigue after winning the first two Playoffs events, he shot a final-round 67 to finish T19 at the BMW. He’ll get some much-needed time off before next week’s season-ending TOUR Championship at East Lake. Justin Thomas, No. 5 in the FedExCup, had no such guarantees but remained in fifth position after a final-round 68 gave him a T12 finish at Aronimink. The result was important because Thomas could become the first back-to-back champion in 12 years of the FedExCup. As for everyone else, there were only subtle shifts: Tony Finau shot a final-round 65(T8) to move from 4th to 3rd; Dustin Johnson, who was FedExCup No. 1 for much of the season, shot 67 for a T24 to move from 2nd to 4th. And playoff runner-up Justin Rose went from 3rd to 2nd. “Yeah, I mean, No. 2 is an incredible spot to be in,â€� Rose said. “It’s a week that there’s many scenarios in play. I think when you go in there 15th, 16th, 17th, you know you have to win, and then you have to hope for a ton of other things to happen.â€� Moving in/out With their results in the BMW Championship, the following players will move into the top 30 in the FedExCup standings and qualify for the season-ending TOUR Championship. Keegan Bradley (1st): From 52nd to 6th Xander Schauffele (T3): From 41st to 18th These players will fall out of the top 30. Jordan Spieth (T55): From 27th to 31st Emiliano Grillo (T61): From 29th to 32nd Biggest movers Biggest moves made in the FedExCup standings after the BMW Championship. Up 46 spots: Keegan Bradley (From 52, entering BMW, to 6) Up 23 spots: Xander Schauffele (From 41 to 18) Up 11 spots: Andrew Putnam (68, T16, from 44 to 33); Adam Hadwin (67, T19, 47 to 36) Bubble boys Gary Woodland, winner of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, started this week clinging to the final berth in the TOUR Championship. After opening with consecutive 66s, Woodland brought it home with a 67 for a T12 finish to move up to 28th. Patton Kizzire, a two-time winner early this season, shot 73 to finish T61 at the BMW. Although it dropped him nine spots down the standings, he’s going to East Lake at 30th. Jordan Spieth, 2015 FedExCup champion, was the odd man out. He started the week 27th, but was on the bubble going into the final round. Five bogeys and a 73 (T55) left him stuck at 31st. Top 5 Watch The top five players in FedExCup points after the BMW Championship will control their own destiny entering the TOUR Championship. A win at East Lake will guarantee any of the top five the FedExCup title. Here’s the current Top Five heading into the TOUR Championship: 1. Bryson DeChambeau (still 1st): After winning the first two events of the FedExCup Playoffs, DeChambeau was guaranteed to take the top spot into East Lake. Fighting fatigue, he never seriously contended at Aronimink but did shoot a final-round 67 for a respectable T19. 2. Justin Rose (was 3rd): Winner of the 2010 Quicken Loans National at Aronimink nearly did it again but bogeyed the 18th hole twice, once in regulation and once in the playoff, to finish second to Keegan Bradley. Rose still moved up a spot, and is also the new world No. 1. 3. Tony Finau (was 4th): Fired a final-round 65 to finish T8 at the BMW, which gave him his 11th top-10 finish this season, tied with Dustin Johnson for the TOUR lead. 4. Dustin Johnson (was 2nd): Never really threatened at Aronimink, but didn’t slide too far down the standings with final-round 67 (T24). 5. Justin Thomas (was 5th): Reigning FedExCup champion shot a final-round 68 for a T12 finish at the BMW, staying in the all-important Top 5. Has an excellent chance to make history as the first back-to-back FedExCup champion since the Playoffs began in 2007.

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Russell Knox … It’s not often that a PGA TOUR member cracks this field by winning an event on another tour, but that’s what the Scot achieved when he prevailed in his homeland three weeks ago. It chased a co-runner-up finish in Paris the week prior. Despite a leaking Official World Golf Ranking that reached a nadir of 145th in the second week of June, he’s been showing promise time and again en route to a series of top 20s, which served as his calling card when he crashed on TOUR four years ago. He’s also reconnected with an elevated level of tee-to-green proficiency and now sits 54th in the OWGR. With all of that serving as the foundation for this week, there’s also the not-so-insignificant fact that he placed T5 at Firestone last year while mired in a slump during which it was his only top-25 finish from late April through early November. Austin Cook … It’s an achievement for any true PGA TOUR rookie to gain entry into the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. Because of the longer-term success required to qualify via the Official World Golf Ranking or earn a coveted spot in the last team competition that triggers an exemption, the easiest – and certainly fastest – path is to win a qualifying tournament. And, of course, that’s not easy. Yet, here he is at Firestone. A year ago at this time, Xander Schauffele was a winner (Greenbrier) with three top 10s and positioned at 31st in the FedExCup standings. Today, Cook is a winner (RSM) with three top 10s and slotted 27tn in the FedExCup. While he doesn’t motor it off the tee like last season’s Rookie of the Year, Cook’s bag is as balanced as any veteran would want while sizing up his first go at this week’s test. Andrew Landry … No profile is airtight, but the first-timer at Firestone is a solid fit as an emerging tough-track specialist. When he broke through for victory at the Valero Texas Open and later en route to a T8 at the Quicken Loans National (where it’d be unfair to use runaway winner Francesco Molinari as a good example of the challenge of TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm), Landry’s tee-to-green game was on point. He also flashed a taut game around the greens and didn’t do any damage with his putter. That blend of skills will work just fine in Akron. Brendan Steele … The winner of the season-opening Safeway Open is 30th in the FedExCup standings, so he’s in a great place with the Playoffs on the horizon. He has seven top 20s in 2017-18, but it’s been almost five months since his last in stroke-play individual competition (T20, WGC-Mexico). At T25 in total driving and ninth in greens hit, he’s poised for another top 20 this week. The 35-year-old came within a stroke of that bubble at Firestone last year and placed T24. Ryuko Tokimatsu … The 24-year-old from Japan qualified when he won the Bridgestone Open on his home circuit last October. The tournament was limited to just 36 holes due to inclement weather, but he won again in May and added a runner-up finish at the JGT Championship two weeks later to climb inside the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking at the time. He leads the Japan Golf Tour in earnings and ranks second in par-5 scoring despite his profile as a ball-striker.

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