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KAPALUA, Hawaii – Fans of Jordan Spieth will have to wait a few weeks longer than expected to see the 11-time PGA TOUR winner in 2020 after he withdrew from the Sony Open with a cold. RELATED: Players to Watch in 2020: Jordan Spieth Spieth had previously committed to the trip to Honolulu next week but has pushed his return to competition to the Farmers Insurance Open on Jan. 23-26 after battling illness. The 2015 FedExCup champion hasn’t won since the 2017 Open Championship and sits 97th in the FedExCup standings with a T8 at THE CJ CUP @NINE BRIDGES the best of his three starts. The 26-year-old has missed the TOUR Championship over the past two seasons but still has never finished worse than 44th (last season) in the FedExCup since coming on to the TOUR in 2013. In the 2017-18 season Spieth struggled with his putter, ranking 123rd on TOUR in Strokes Gained: Putting. But in 2018-19 he rebounded on the greens to be second on TOUR only to see his ball striking fall back. Spieth was 176th on TOUR in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee and 145th in Strokes Gained: Approach the Green. He is hopeful of bringing everything back together in 2020. “I’m actually really confident about what 2020 holds for me,â€� Spieth said late last year at the Hero World Challenge where he was 16th of 18 players. “I feel things starting to get on the right track, it’s just timing stuff and again some visuals … The toughest part is kind of trying to wrap my brain around where things are, thinking so much about the swing over the last year … like constantly thinking about how to get it back on track. “I see light at the end of the tunnel to where I could be able to just feel like I’m in control of the club the whole time, like it’s in front of me and I don’t feel like I have to save it every shot.â€�

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rory McIlroy finished the year as Europe’s top-ranked golfer for the fourth time – and first since 2015 – despite Jon Rahm winning the DP World Tour Championship on Sunday. The Spaniard’s two-shot victory over England’s Tyrrell Hatton and Sweden’s Alex Noren was his third in six years at Jumeirah Golf Estates. But McIlroy finished the season top of the DP World rankings after Matt Fitzpatrick, his only rival for the Harry Vardon Trophy, blew up around the turn. The U.S. Open champion needed to win and McIlroy to not finish runner-up, or to finish second and the Northern Irishman to be outside the top seven. But neither of those scenarios transpired as Fitzpatrick, three off the lead when playing the eighth, double-bogeyed and then dropped another shot at the 10th to end his chances. McIlroy did not need any of the fireworks of the previous day, when he powered himself into contention with a 65, and while he could have tied Rahm on 20 under had he eagled the last he could only manage par for a 68 that included six birdies and four bogeys to finish fourth. “It means a lot. It’s been seven years since I’ve last done it. I’ve won three FedExCups since I last won,” McIlroy, who lifted his third PGA TOUR FedExCup in August, told Sky Sports television. “It would have been nice to get one win in there at the end of the year but Jon played an incredible tournament and fully deserved it.” Rahm, who became the first player to win the tournament three times, began the final day with a one-shot lead and opened with two successive birdies to double his advantage. Fitzpatrick’s 28-foot birdie at the third got him to 15 under and within two but things started to unravel with a bogey at the short sixth and even though he immediately clawed back that dropped shot, the calamitous eighth ultimately did for his hopes. His drive landed in a deep rut in a waste area, his out shot failed to clear the rough and having flown the green and duffed his chip he two-putted from the fringe for a six. That put him five behind and after missing the fairway at the 10th he dropped another shot and his challenge was over as he finished 13 under, seven adrift. The only trouble McIlroy, who had three birdies and a bogey in his first four holes, had at the eighth came from the flagstick which kept out his 56ft birdie effort. He three-putted the ninth green but was not the only one as Hatton did the same for his only bogey in a round of 66.

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2021 PGA Championship, Round 2 Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Louis Oosthuizen (T1, -5, 19.4%) 2. Brooks Koepka (3, -4, 11.2%) 3. Hideki Matsuyama (T4, -3, 9.9%) 4. Phil Mickelson (T1, -5, 8.0%) 5. Corey Conners (T7, -2, 4.9%) 6. Bryson DeChambeau (T12, -1, 4.7%) 7. Paul Casey (T7, -2, 3.9%) 8. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (T4, -3, 3.4%) 9. Sungjae Im (T7, -2, 3.4%) 10. Joaquin Niemann (T12, -1, 3.0%) Top Strokes-Gained Performers from Round 2: Putting: Brian Gay +4.1 Around the Green: Tyrrell Hatton +4.2 Approach the Green: Antoine Rozner +5.0 Off-the-tee: Joaquin Niemann +2.3 Total: Louis Oosthuizen +7.5 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 PGA Championship, 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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