On any of the prior Saturday’s Seamus Power has competed at the Wyndham Championship the Irishman would have good cause to be really disappointed.
Saying that, walking off with a third round two-over par 72 on this, his fifth visit to Sedgefield Country Club, was not part of the script for the reigning Barbasol Championship champion.
Seamus Power clearly very proud of himself in making the cut in the 2018 $US9m Northern Trust (Photo – www.golfbytourmiss.com)
It was a second highest round in 16 loops of the Greensboro layout and two fewer than a 74 in missing the third round cut in his 2017 debut in the event while Power also shot a 74 on day one a year later to eventually miss the halfway cut.
This year it really doesn’t matter he shot a ‘moving day’ 72 and dropping some 12 spots to head to day four at just one-under par.
You only need to take your eyes further right on the PGATour.com website page line showing Power’s scores for the three rounds to note, in the bigger Play-Off picture, that he is projected to drop one place to 74th on the FedEx Cup standings.
In three of his last four visits to the Wyndham those following Power’s progress, in what is the final event in the ‘regular’ season event, would be fixated on his FedEx Cup projection.
Once only was there a real genuine nail-biting weekend and that was the scenario bizarrely when he’d missed the cut back in 2018.
The funny thing was that Power was back in his Charlotte residence and also on the edge of his seat watching TV coverage of the closing two rounds and thinking that arriving at the Wyndham at 123rd on the FedEx Cup, and now having missed the cut, it was the end of his year.
It didn’t happen and with Sergio Garcia, as the 2017 Masters champion, delivering Power his 2018/19 membership lifeline when the Spaniard taking a double near the end of his final round that saw Power secure the magical 125th place cut-off place on the standings and earn full PGA Tour membership in that manner for a first time in his Tour career.
But alas, no biting of nails this year despite Power’s disappointing day in continuing meltdown conditions and signing for a card that included three birdies, among them a six-footer on 18, but also three bogeys and a 15th hole double-bogey where he found the water guarding the green with his second.
Put the round down to a combination of maybe not having played for three weeks and the sapping heat and humidity.
Here’s betting Power’s enormous Irish pride will come to the fore for the final round of the ‘regular’ season as later this week he’s got a Thursday tee-time at Liberty National for only a second showing his career at the Northern Trust.
