JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Golf is a fickle game – one day you’re Collin Morikawa, on top of the FedEx Cup point standings, or Dustin Johnson, the defending tournament champion, or Kevin Kisner, the winner of last week’s tournament and more than a million dollars.
On Friday, all three had missed the cut at the Northern Trust. In all, 75 of the 123 players at Liberty National Golf Club made the weekend with scores of 1-under 141 or better.
But the trio of Morikawa, Johnson and Kisner can take solace that while they will have the weekend off, at least they live to play another week in the playoffs as they are safely inside the top 70 who will advance to next week’s BMW Championship. In other words, we’re saying they still have a chance at the pot of gold at the end of the FedEx Cup rainbow in Atlanta.