Five matters from WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Barracuda Championship

3. Van Rooyen catapults himself into FedExCup Playoffs

Erik van Rooyen was 139th in the FedExCup standings when he headed to Tahoe figuring out it would take some thing particular to prolong his PGA TOUR period.

The South African shipped with victory in the Barracuda Championship, scoring an extraordinary 16 details in the closing spherical of the modified stableford structure.

His 5-issue victory was completed with an exclamation level birdie on the final and sees him move to 78th in the year extended standings with just a week of the typical period still left ahead of the leading 125 do battle in the FedExCup Playoffs.

“It’s significant. It is enormous,” van Rooyen reported. “It’s been a hard sort of 18 months for me golfing-intelligent. I have not been taking part in properly. There is been glimpses of it the past 6 months. But I have not been in a

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