Deutsche Bank Championship 2016: Leaderboard Scores, Prize Money Payouts
Rory McIlroy used one of the season's best final-round performances to capture his first PGA Tour win of 2016 with a two-stroke triumph in the Deutsche Bank Championship. He joins Vijay Singh as the only two-time champions in the event.
The Northern Irishman started Monday's round six strokes off the pace before firing a six-under 65 to charge up the leaderboard and into the winner's circle. The victory moved him from 38th to fourth in the FedEx Cup playoffs rankings with two events left.
Let's check out the final leaderboard from TPC Boston:
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And here's a look at the prize money that the top 10 finishers will take home:
| 1 | Rory McIlroy | $1,530,000 |
| 2 | Paul Casey | $918,000 |
| 3 | Jimmy Walker | $578,000 |
| 4 | Adam Scott | $408,000 |
| T-5 | Patrick Reed | $310,250 |
| T-5 | Fabian Gomez | $310,250 |
| T-5 | James Hahn | $310,250 |
| T-8 | Jason Kokrak | $212,500 |
| T-8 | Dustin Johnson | $212,500 |
| T-8 | Billy Hurley III | $212,500 |
| T-8 | David Hearn | $212,500 |
| T-8 | Louis Oosthuizen | $212,500 |
| T-8 | Kevin Chappell | $212,500 |
| T-8 | Ryan Moore | $212,500 |
McIlroy started the week with lingering questions about his putting woes. He missed several short putts at The Barclays last week, and while there were still problems in the opening round, he made steady progress throughout the tournament.
His work with new coach Phil Kenyon seemed to pay serious dividends in a short period of time, as Brian Wacker of Golf Digest noted.
"It's a work in progress but we're just trying to make everything simpler," McIlroy said Saturday. "There were a lot of moving parts in my putting stroke and just trying to simplify it as much as I possibly can."
What made the situation even more frustrating for McIlroy, and his legion of supporters, is the fact the rest of his game was at a level where he should have been competing for wins. His lack of efficiency on the greens held him back for a vast majority of the year.
Suddenly, everything finally came together over the last three rounds. Justin Ray of Golf Channel provided one statistic that summed up how the four-time major champion completed the comeback:
Ewan Murray of the Guardian spotlighted the star's remarkable turnaround after a miserable start:
McIlroy's gain was Paul Casey's loss. The Englishman found himself atop the leaderboard heading into the Labor Day action after posting 66 in each of the first three rounds. He couldn't match that performance in the fourth round, carding a two-over 73 to fall into second place.
Casey owns just a single win on the PGA Tour, which came at the Shell Houston Open all the way back in 2009. He does have 13 victories on the European Tour, but he explained going up against Tiger Woods in his prime made things a lot more difficult in the United States, per Jason Sobel of ESPN.com:
"A lot of the time when I was playing in the U.S., I would only play 15 events and those were majors, World Golf events, Bay Hill, Memorial. Basically, everywhere Tiger was. It was tough. So there wasn't a lot of opportunity is what it felt like. You play some good golf, you get top-10s and just get blown out of the water by what feels like the greatest ever, which I'm fine for that period.
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On Monday, he watched another golfer who possesses the talent to end up among the best ever blow right by him. The story must be growing quite stale for the 39-year-old veteran.
Meanwhile, FedEx Cup leader Patrick Reed finished in a tie for fifth at TPC Boston to remain atop the standings heading into next week's BMW Championship. Jason Day (second), Dustin Johnson (third), McIlroy (fourth) and Adam Scott (fifth) round out the top five.
The biggest question as the players arrive to Indiana's Crooked Stick Golf Club for the season's penultimate event will be whether McIlroy can sustain his putting resurgence. If he does, one could argue he's the championship favorite.
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