Koepka's world No. 1 takes the championship lead over the weekend

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If we're dealing strictly with bare facts – and obviously that's what Brooks Koepka prefers, then we all know who should win the FedEx Cup this weekend.

In a fair world, Koepka would add another $ 15 million to his 2019 trip, his only concern being to find a tax shelter big enough to accommodate all of this.

If we lived in such a world, where all the rebounds are right and the lies are abundant, all he would have to do to get the end-of-season bonus is to register with the clubhouse keeper. East Lake, to shake some sponsors. spend the rest of the week sipping sweet tea on the sofa in the Bobby Jones Room.

You think the best player of the year should have the biggest prize of the year, right? According to them, the end-of-season FedEx Cup is a matter of consistency, and Koepka has always left thorny traces behind the pretty pants of his contemporaries.

But it's golf, and it's the FedEx Cup, neither of which has a doctrine of fairness. So, Koepka must take care of this last case himself.

And coping with such a heavyweight ranking as a Quentin Tarantino film credits will require the kind of effort that Koepka normally reserves for a major championship.

Koepka ended a second round, delayed by the storm, Friday, the only leader in the outcome of the FedEx Cup, thanks to a small bird that closed the 18th match. He shot 67 goals on Friday, and once the adjustments were made according to the offset time system of this event, he was at 13 cents. And he felt that it might have been better if this annoying rain did not interrupt it between nine o'clock.

"I mean, the head is still beautiful, so I'm going to take that," said Koepka. "I played well today. I put really well. The short game was pretty solid. The rain somehow delays any momentum that I had. I did not feel like I had good golf shots after the rain was late, but it's a part of golf. Everyone has to face the same thing. I just did not run.

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Koepka was better than Justin Thomas (who shot 68 shots on Friday) and Rory McIlroy (67). And just two more on the co-leader of the first round, Xander Schauffele, who needed a pigeon to finish his under-par score for the day (69).

Throw Paul Casey into the mix (he is 9 under in the adjusted score). And you'll be in the top five of the weekend with a total of 40 wins on the PGA Tour, eight major championships and a few FedEx Cup titles. Only Casey, # 21, is not in the top 11 in the world.

Such qualifications suggest a difficult sled for all this weekend.

As he talked about another day of golf / work on Friday, Koepka was greeted by a nude picture of himself posted on his parking spot in East Lake. This is the same as the one published the day before, the one for which he proudly posed during the celebration of the sports body by ESPN. His buddy Dustin Johnson was the author.

Mr. Jones would never have posed for Vanity Fair without his panties and his smile, but times have changed.

Mr. Glutes of Steel was so taken aback by the prank that he came out and did a nerve run that in the last five holes, there were 13-foot and eight-foot putts, as well as A virtual birdie upon arrival. .

For another day at least, the world of golf lined up behind the touring player of the year.

The simple fact that Thomas – and also Patrick Cantlay too – entered this tournament in front of Koepka to score points throughout the season was almost enough to really get a person to dive into the fundamentals of the system in an attempt to understand such a thing could happen. Almost.

Let's compare the seasons of the top two in East Lake.

The PGA Tour wins: Koepka 3; Thomas 1.

Finish in majors (by order of masters, PGA championship, open American, British Open): Koepka 2-1-2-T4; Thomas T12-DNP-Cut-T11.

Top 10 finishes: Koepka 10; Thomas 6.

Average score: Koepka 69.45 (4th on the turn); Thomas 69,48 (5th).

World rank: Koepka 1; Thomas 5.

Money Gains: Koepka $ 9.7 million; Thomas $ 5 million.

The only area in which Koepka is lagging behind with his friend is the bet of the season between the two players who would have the most holes at the end of the game. Thomas is well placed to withdraw a few thousand dollars from Koepka, which the loser will withdraw from petty cash.

That and how both had played the two playoffs leading to East Lake. The finals of the T-30 and T-24 in those who really hurt Koepka in this unstable playoff system. Thomas won last week in Chicago and finished 12th the week before.

Thomas and Koepka both struggled to regain their pace after the rain fell, while they were ready to play the last nine. Thomas was 1 on the back, while Koepka struggled to remain an au pair.

"It would be hard for me to say that it did not stop at all, because I was playing really flawlessly, I felt like I was in nine," said Thomas.

It was McIlroy, coming back after the delay and placing himself behind the back, who took full advantage of his competitor's slow recovery.

As a result, very good players are accumulating as traffic to Hartsfield-Jackson, and only one can land first and beat the remaining $ 15 million.