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NORTON, Mass. – Justin Thomas added another big title to a season filled with big moments by outlasting Jordan Spieth and Marc Leishman on the back nine of the TPC Boston to win the Dell Technologies Championship. Two shots behind at the turn, Thomas surged ahead with a short birdie and a 6-foot par save while limiting the mistakes that cost his challengers. He closed with a 5-under 66 for a three-shot victory that was much tighter than the margin suggested. Spieth wasted a start that riled up the Labor Day crowd — birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie — with too many mistakes on the back nine. He fell out of a share of the lead by missing the 14th green with a 5-iron from the fairway. Needing an eagle on the par-5 18th to stay in the game, he pushed a 4-iron into a tough lie in the bunker, blasted over the green and closed with a bogey for a 67. Spieth was runner-up for the second straight week in the FedExCup Playoffs, though that was enough to move up to No. 1 in the standings with one more event before the $10 million prize is decided at the TOUR Championship. Leishman shot 30 on the front to build a two-shot lead, only for it to vanish quickly. He had to save bogey on No. 10 after an errant drive. He three-putted from long range for bogey on the 11th. He found a bunker on the 12th for a third straight bogey. And then he closed with two bogeys that only cost him money. Leishman shot 70. For the 24-year-old Thomas, his breakthrough season just keeps getting better. He won for the fifth time this season, including the PGA Championship for his first major. This one might make him a shoo-in for PGA TOUR Player of the Year unless Spieth, The Open champion, were to win the final two events for the FedEx Cup title. “We’ve just had a great year,” Thomas said. “Obviously, there are two more events to finish it off.” Thomas moves to No. 4 in the world. Top-ranked Dustin Johnson, coming off his fourth victory of the season last week on Long Island, started the final round three shots behind and was one of the few players who was never in contention. He took two to get out of a fairway bunker and made bogey on the par-5 second hole, and he closed with a 73 to finish 10 behind. Spieth was simply dynamic at the start, with no putt longer than 12 feet in going 5 under for the opening four holes to briefly take the lead. Leishman, who won at Bay Hill in March, kept stride with six birdies on the front nine to match Spieth’s 30 and take the lead. Thomas did his part to stay in the game. He could hear the crowd celebrating Spieth’s short birdie on the fourth hole, and then Thomas belted a low slider of a drive that barely cleared the deep bunker, hit into the shaggy collar and hopped onto the fringe. He holed that 30-footer for an eagle, and the race was on. Phil Mickelson birdied three of his opening four holes. He couldn’t keep pace. Neither could Jon Rahm or Paul Casey. The final round was so tight that Thomas, Spieth and Leishman were tied for the lead with seven holes to play. But then it all changed when Spieth missed the green at No. 14, did well to hit a flop shot to 15 feet and narrowly missed his par putt. Thomas steadied himself after his lone bogey on the par-3 11th. Equipped with a one-shot lead because of Spieth’s bogey, Thomas hit a sand wedge to 4 feet on the 15th for a birdie and a two-shot lead. Equally important was his pitch out of deep rough to the right of the 16th to a green that ran away from him. He managed to hit it 6 feet and twice clutched his fist when it dropped for par. Spieth grazed the edge of the cup with a 10-foot birdie attempt on the 17th, and then lost all hope with his approach into the bunker. It was the first time Spieth has finished runner-up to Thomas, his best friend in golf since they were teenagers. Kevin Chappell bogeyed his last hole and still managed to nudge Charley Hoffman by a fraction of a point to earn the 10th and final automatic spot on the U.S. team for the Presidents Cup. Stewart Cink closed with a 68 to finish 12th, more than enough for him to advance to the third FedExCup Playoff event outside Chicago for the first time in seven years. Emiliano Grillo and Rafa Cabrera Bello also moved into the top 70 to advance to the BMW Championship in two weeks.

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RENO, Nevada — During a post-round conversation on Thursday lasting slightly less than four brutally honest minutes, Bill Haas pulled no punches when describing the current state of his golf game. The sound bites included such things as: “I’m frustrated.� “It’s been a disappointing year in a lot of ways.� “This year I’ve been below average.� “I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.� Haas has every justification for feeling this way. Regarded as one of the PGA TOUR’s most consistent performers during the last decade, the 2011 FedExCup champ is experiencing his first sub-par season. Consider this: Just one top-10 finish in 22 starts, the fewest since his rookie season in 2007. Three top-25 finishes, the fewest ever since joining the PGA TOUR. Nine missed cuts, most since 2009. That year was the last time he did not play in the Masters and The Open Championship — until this year. It was also the last time he failed to qualify for the majority of the World Golf Championships events. As a result, Haas entered this week’s Barracuda Championship with his FedExCup Playoffs streak in jeopardy. He’s one of 13 players who have made the Playoffs in each of the first 11 years, but right now he’s 145th in points and needs a big move down the stretch to climb inside the top 125 following the Wyndham Championship. Just as alarming, Haas is in danger of losing his full status on TOUR. His five-year exemption for winning the FedExCup expired two years ago, and his exemption for his last TOUR win (in 2015) expired last season. Unless he makes the Playoffs this season, he’d have to play out of the Past Champion category — or he could try to regain his card through the Web.com Tour Finals. “My goal obviously is to try to make the Playoffs and do some good there,� the 36-year-old Haas said. “But I just haven’t played well enough to put myself in a good position to do that. That’s the reason I’m here. “Hopefully these next couple of weeks, I can figure something out.� He’s been trying to do that for quite some time now, alas with no success. Some may point to the mid-February car crash during Genesis Open week when Haas’ golf game started to suffer. Haas was a passenger in a car driven by a member of the host family in which he was staying that week. The driver, 71-year-old Mark Gibello, died on the scene, and Haas immediately withdrew from the tournament, to heal the physical wounds to his legs as well as the mental wounds from the tragic death of a friend. Haas returned a month later and soon posted his only top-10 of the season, a T-7 at the RBC Heritage. He said Thursday that his current struggles have nothing to do with the accident. “Nothing that certainly give me a reason I shouldn’t be able to play good golf,� he said. “I don’t think I was the same right afterwards physically, but I think I’ve worked my way through that.� In truth, his results had been trending poorly before the accident. He missed his last cut of the 2017 calendar year at The RSM Classic (perhaps a foreshadow, as he usually plays well in that event), then missed his first two cuts upon resuming his schedule in 2018. Generally a fast starter, he was already outside the top 125 bubble going into Riviera; never before in his FedExCup career had he been lower than 70 at that point of the season. As to what specifically has gone wrong in Haas’ game, well, pretty much everything. In Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, he currently ranks 107th. In the previous five seasons, he’s never ranked lower than 34th, and in his career, he’s previous low ranking was 75th. He also ranks 161st in Strokes Gained: Putting, again his career-worst ranking in that category. “The putting hasn’t been good, without question,� Haas said. “This year, I have not been sharp hitting the golf ball. If you don’t hit it good and you don’t putt well, then you’re not going to do well. It’s just something I’m trying to work through and figure out. But if I knew the answer, I wouldn’t do it. I would do better. “I’ve always been average at everything, you know? I’ve always been pretty good. But this year, I’ve been below average at my iron game, my putting, my chipping hasn’t been as good. I think there was one year my irons weren’t as sharp, but I was one of the top ones in scrambling. If you hit bad irons but scramble well, it doesn’t really matter. But when all facets of your game are struggling, it adds up to some missed cuts.� Adding to his frustration is that he’s not even seeing incremental improvement, despite all the time and energy he’s devoted to finding a solution. “I feel like I’ve worked harder this year than I’ve ever worked and I haven’t seen the results,� Haas said. “That’s been the hardest thing and that’s what I’m struggling with. I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but that’s the reason I’m going to keep working at it today and tomorrow and hopefully something clicks.� Unfortunately, it did not click for Haas on Thursday. His round started out promising — two birdies in his first three holes, as he knocked his tee shot at the par-3 11th to 10 feet, then hit his approach at the par-4 12th to inside 6 feet. But he couldn’t ride the momentum, failing to capitalize on a couple of other opportunities. His round then stalled before losing steam completely at the finish, with two bogeys in his last three holes. On his last hole of the day, the par-4 ninth, he hit a terrific drive, 304 yards to the middle of the fairway. But with a sand wedge from 123 yards, he found a greenside bunker and failed to get up and down. Finishing with five points in the Modified Stableford scoring system, he’ll have to make up ground Friday in order to reach the weekend. Otherwise, he’ll leave Montreux with no FedExCup points and presumably drop a few more spots in the standings. All in all, Thursday pretty much reflected the entire frustrating, perplexing season for one of the TOUR’s most consistent and gentlemanly players. “It’s golf,� Haas said, throwing one last punch at himself, “and it’s beating me right now.�

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