Finchem Vows Playoffs Will Go On In Spite Of Vijay's Elimination

It is hard to imagine, but one of the great ratings draws will not be moving on to Cog Hill and East Lake. Some people might rejoice when hearing they are being spared two weeks of Rees Jones redesigns, but not when you're defending FedEx Cup champion. It didn't help that the PGATour.com team didn't even list you in the "Fell Out Of The Top 70" list, but big guy, we remembered to look you up here at GS.com. **Reader JT reminds that Vijay never got to the top 70, so how could they list him?

Jason Sobel reports on Steve Stricker's exciting win at TPC Boston and what it all means.

The numbers back up such a claim. With his seventh career victory -- and his first with Tiger Woods in the field -- Stricker passed the 14-time major champion in the current FedEx Cup points standings and, more importantly, is expected to move up to No. 2 in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Not bad for a guy who lost his PGA Tour playing privileges just four years ago, huh?

Steve Elling on why Stricker's winning ways could continue:

For the third consecutive week, on Thursday and Friday, he will play alongside Tiger Woods, except that this time, Woods is chasing him. Stricker will surely be backed by a few of his vocal Wisconsin homeboys, too. Moreover, Stricker attended the University of Illinois, and Cog Hill is located three hours to the southwest of Madison, where he now resides.

"I will be double-dipping," he said.

Better still, Stricker won at Cog Hill in 1996, the second of his seven tour titles, and though the course has been reworked since it last served as a tour site in 2007, any residual karma is worth something in terms of positivity.