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ATLANTA — On a wet, dark and difficult Sunday, it all came down to making a par at the last hole. A mere par, from the deep greenside bunker at East Lake Golf Club, and Jim Furyk would win it all — The Tour Championship, the FedEx Cup, all the money, his career-best third PGA Tour title of the year and, perhaps, the player-of-the-year award.

If ever there was a task that matched the man, this was it: a tough, blue-collar day at The Tour Championship, with rain falling and grips slipping and throats tightening and players faltering. And there was Furyk, having stoically fought the elements all day, a man who was disqualified from the first playoff event for missing his pro-am starting time because an alarm didn’t go off. He was standing on wet sand with a 60-degree wedge and needed to get up and down to win $11.35 million.

That was what he did. With slightly more than 18 yards to the hole, Furyk’s shot from the sand came out low and spinning. It bounced twice, grabbed the wet green and skidded to a stop 2 ½ feet past the hole, leaving him a tap-in the 40-year-old would call “just about dummy proof.”

A soaked Furyk, his cap spun backward, brushed in the putt and let out two whoops.

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By DOUG FERGUSON LEMONT, Ill.

Dustin Johnson believes the fourth win of his young career are happy about where they’re going, even if the itinerary is entirely different was the best one. Thats mainleybecause of the players he beat Sunday in the BMW Championship.

And a big part of it is timing

This had been one big summer of Sunday disapointments

It started with the 82 he shot in the final round of the U.S. Openat Pebble Beach.  Then came the shock at Whistling Straits when Johnson didn’t know he was in one of a thousand bunkers on the 18th hole and was given a two-shot penalty for touching the sand with his club, knocking him out of the playoff at the PGA Championship.

Even in the FedEx Cup, he was in the last group at The Barclays three weeks ago only to shoot 72 and tie for nineth

This one turned out diffrently.

Tied for the lead with two holes to play,  knowing the 405-yard 17th hole that bends to the right with bunkers protecting the left side, Johnson reached for his driver and blasted his biggested shot of final round at Cogbill.

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NORTON, MASS. (AP)

Charley Hoffman was rolling in so many putts he lost track of how many birdies he made Monday. His final stroke on a Labor Day masterpiece was his 11th birdie, more than enough to win the Deutsche Bank Championship.

The question is whether it was enough to make him a last-minute pick for the Ryder Cup.

”Hopefully, I’m on the real short list,” he said.

Hoffman ran off four straight birdies early to erase a four-shot deficit, seized control by holing a bunker shot on the 13th and closed with a 9-under 62 on the TPC Boston for a five-shot victory over Geoff Ogilvy, Jason Day and Luke Donald.

Tiger Woods had three rounds in the 60s for the first time this year. He closed with a 69 to tie for 11th, and kept his No. 1 ranking in the world when Phil Mickelson imploded again.

Mickelson needed only to finish fourth to become No. 1 for the first time in his career. Instead, he opened the back nine with a triple bogey, made a double bogey on the 17th and shot 76 to finish 15 shots behind in a tie for 25th. A month ago, Mickelson had an equally good chance at Firestone and shot 78.

Even if he doesn’t make the Ryder Cup, the FedEx Cup is looking pretty good for Hoffman.