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Collin Morikawa BMW Championship: 6th at -10
By Smacktok
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Collin Morikawa BMW Championship Sunday is a solo sixth at 10-under 200. He shot a 3-under 67 on Saturday at Bellerive (68-65-67), the PGA Tour board and Sports Illustrated both had it, and he tees off at 1:28 p.m. ET with Gary Woodland, Golf.com listed. Golf Digest had him projected to keep one of the six automatic U.S. Presidents Cup spots after Sunday. Wyndham Clark leads by five at 17 under. Morikawa is seven back, two behind the group at 12 under.
This is his best position through 54 holes in seven BMW starts. Sports Illustrated noted he had never finished better than a tie for 25th here. He began the week ninth in the FedEx Cup, already inside the East Lake 30. The other list is the one he is playing for: the top six in U.S. Presidents Cup standings lock after this round.
Collin Morikawa BMW Championship board: 67, 10 under, 1:28 with Woodland
Morikawa made five birdies and two bogeys Saturday and went 3 under on the back nine, SI wrote. He was briefly tied for fourth. He is two strokes out of second. Clark shot 65 after a double bogey on No. 1 and sits at 17-under 193. Rory McIlroy (65) and Patrick Cantlay (66) are at 12 under. Woodland (70) and Chris Gotterup (68) are 11 under. Sungjae Im is 9 under. That is why Woodland and Morikawa are grouped at 1:28, one pairing in front of Cantlay-Gotterup and two in front of Clark-McIlroy at 1:50.
Wyndham Clark's five-shot lead is the Sunday story on the first page of the board. Gary Woodland's 11-under week is the pairing. Morikawa is the one in between, with a clean card relative to the chaos above him and a Presidents Cup math problem that Golf Digest says he is currently solving.
Presidents Cup auto spot, and what 10 under can still do
Golf Digest: only the top six in the U.S. standings after Sunday earn automatic berths. Morikawa entered the week No. 6. He is solo sixth on the BMW board at 10 under and projected to keep the spot. Chris Gotterup's T-4 at 11 under is the player who jumped the line from the other side. Ben Griffin, who started the week fifth, is T-35 at 1 under and projected to fall to eighth. A high finish Sunday would pad Morikawa's margin. A collapse would not automatically spit him out, but it would put the captains' room back on the clock.
Bellerive is a par 70. A 67 is 3 under. Morikawa's 200 is 10 under through 54. He is not chasing Clark. He is chasing a first BMW top-10, a FedEx Cup cushion he already has, and a team berth that is his to lose. 1:28 p.m. ET. Woodland on the other tee. CBS from 2 p.m.
Collin Morikawa BMW Championship FAQ
Where is Collin Morikawa on the BMW Championship leaderboard? Solo sixth at 10-under 200 after a 67, per the PGA Tour board and Sports Illustrated. His rounds are 68-65-67.
When does Collin Morikawa tee off Sunday? 1:28 p.m. ET with Gary Woodland, Golf.com and Golfweek listed. Clark and McIlroy go off at 1:50 in the last group.
Is Collin Morikawa in the Presidents Cup automatic six? Golf Digest said he is solo sixth on the BMW board at 10 under and projected to keep the U.S. team auto spot after Sunday. Six berths lock at the end of this tournament.