5 Storylines to Follow — BMW Championship

And although his course form here from two years ago is a moderate 50th place, he looks poised to give it a good shot at extending his campaign.

“I am happy to be checking into my hotel, and when they ask what day I am checking out, I can say: ‘I am checking out on Sunday.’ It is nice”, Spieth said. I know that I just have to suck it up for the next two weeks and just go out and play as hard as I can because the off-season is coming up quick for me.

Starting Thursday, the field of 70 players takes aim at Day.

William McGirt, Bryce Molder and George McNeill, Nos.

Jordan Spieth of the USA is relishing the prospect of locking horns with golf’s young guns once more at the BMW Championship this week as he prepares to bounce back from the disappointment of consecutive missed cuts. The 31-year-old secured Top-20s in the first two Playoff events, ranking 10 in ball-striking and ninth in strokes gained putting across the two tournaments. Stenson has not won a PGA Tour event for almost two years but he has so often been in contention that it would not surprise to see him breaking that drought this week. This year it’s in Lake Forest, just north of Chicago.

For the third event in a row, FedEx Cup leaders Day and Spieth will spend some time together, along with Rickie Fowler, who jumped to No. 3 in the FedEx Cup standings with his win at the Deutsche Bank Championship. However, it wasn’t enough as Zach Johnson went on to win the tournament. (The next best score that day: 65.) Zach Johnson’s winning score was a very reasonable 16 under par, and the course has since been toughened up some with more bunkers, new tees, and additional yardage.

Phil Mickelson has plenty to play for, even if he doesn’t feel the need to justify being picked by United States of America captain Jay Haas to play in the upcoming Presidents Cup.

As I do each week, I’ve separated my fantasy golf picks for this week’s tournament into price ranges based on the DraftKings salaries assigned to each player.

Henrik Stenson, the 2013 Fed Ex Cup champion, who has a pair of runner-up finishes in the playoffs, and Bubba Watson, round out the top five. However, Day believes he is the “guy to beat” if he could get the mentality he had when he won his first major title. He needs to finish no worse than third at Conway Farms to crack the top 30.

It does sound silly to suggest that he will use this and the Tour Championship as preps but McIlroy requires gametime and has added his name as well to the field for next month’s Frys.com Open in California.