TOUR Championship 2021, East Lake GC, Atlanta, GA: 2-5 September
Cam Smith is the sole Australian at this year's TOUR Championship
From Fox Sports, by Jacob Polychronis:
Cameron Smith heads to the Tour Championship at East Lake this week with a monkey on his back worth nearly $3 million.
The 28-year-old is enjoying the best season of his career, but a second win, and his first outside of a team event in 2020-21, has proven frustratingly elusive in recent weeks...
Nonetheless, there are plenty of reasons to still be excited about Smith’s chances of becoming Australia’s first-ever winner of the tournament. Read more
Collin Morikawa is back, after injury
In February 2021 Collin Morikawa won the WGC-Workday Championship. In July he won The Open at Royal St George's. In August he was in Tokyo, competing at the Olympics, when he experienced a back injury. He spoke about it to Golf Channel after leaving the Northern Trust early. Now, he is heading into the TOUR Championship.
From Golf Digest, by Joel Beall:
Collin Morikawa finished the regular season atop the FedEx Cup standings. Two weeks later he arrives to East Lake G.C. in 11th place. But it’s not necessarily that Morikawa had two rough outings to begin the playoffs, but how he’s looked in the process, an uncomfortability stemming from a lingering back injury.
However, when speaking to the media ahead of this week’s Tour Championship, Morikawa said the issue is, well, no longer an issue. Read more
From Golfweek, by Adam Schupak:
In just two weeks, Collin Morikawa went from the penthouse to the outhouse – albeit a pretty fancy one where he still has a shot at FedEx Cup riches. Read more
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