Bryce Molder is playing after winning his first PGA Tour

Bryce Molder is playing after winning his first PGA Tour


Bryce Molder is playing after winning his first PGA Tour event last week in the Frys.com Open, where he outlasted Briny Baird on the sixth playoff hole. Rickie Fowler also is coming off his first professional win at the Korea Open.Molder has some history at Sea Island. He played in the 2001 Walker Cup, held on the Ocean Forest course, and went unbeaten that week even though the Americans lost the cup. Molder won both singles matches against Graeme McDowell, who also is in the field this week. Bois TaylorMade Still, its all about Simpsons pursuit of Donald - and perhaps an even greater award.The FedEx Cup playoffs were supposed to help decide who might be voted PGA Tour player of the year. Instead, they decided very little. No one has won more than two tournaments on the PGA Tour this year. The four playoff events were won by four players. One of them was Simpson, who has won twice since the PGA Championship ended and lost in a playoff in New Orleans. fers burner 2.0I still need to do a little something more to get player of the year,” Simpson said. “If I could somehow squeak it out and win the money list, that would just help.”Donald could still enter the season-ending tournament next week at Disney if Simpson were to pass him on the money list. The title might be more historic for Donald, as no one has ever won the European Tour and PGA Tour money titles in the same year, club de golf taylormade and the Englishman has a healthy lead in Europe.Money also is significant to 21-year-old Bud Cauley.He is on the verge of becoming on the sixth player to go straight from college to the PGA Tour without having to go through Q-school. Cauley, who left Alabama this summer after his junior season, should be safe. He is equivalent to No. 114 on the money list, and with only two tournaments left, it is unlikely he would fall 11 spots.This is his eighth tournament since he turned pro at the U.S. Open, TaylorMade driverand the first time Cauley knows the golf course, having played Seaside several times in college and as a junior growing up in north Florida.“Its always nice to look back on a good week and take the positives from it,” Cauley said of his third-place finish at the Frys.com Open. “But a quick turnaround, and now Im just focused on this week and trying to play well again.”Thats what Simpson is trying to do, for about 70,000 reasons. He likely would need to finish about 15th or better to pass Donald.