Saturday, August 13, 2011

2010 FedExCup Champion Jim Furyk to play Wyndham

2010 FedExCup champion Jim Furyk will play in the 2011 Wyndham Championship. He joins a field including Paul Casey, Ian Poulter, Kyung-Tae Kim, David Toms, Lucas Glover, Webb Simpson, Bill Haas, Camilo Villegas, Trevor Immelman, Carl Pettersson, Vijay Singh, Angel Cabrera, Brandt Snedeker, Justin Leonard, Louis Oosthuizen, Anthony Kim, Rocco Mediate and Davis Love III, Boo Weekley, John Daly, Tommy “two gloves” Gainey and defending champion Arjun Atwal.

Furyk won the TOUR Championship and clinched the FedExCup title, he joined previous FedExCup winners Tiger Woods (2007, ’09) and Vijay Singh(2008). He was named the 2010 PGA TOUR player of the year. With Furyk and Singh in the field, the Wyndham now boasts two of the three previous champions of the FedExCup.

Furyk is 25th in the official world golf rankings and 73rd in the current FedExCup point standings. He has two top-10 finishes among his 13 made cuts in 20 events this season. This year’s appearance will be Furyk’s 12th Wyndham Championship. He played 11 consecutive years from 1994 through 2004. His best finish came in 1999 when he finished in second place

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