Johnson, Chappell tied for Tour Championship lead

A McIlroy victory would result in his name going on the FedEx Cup, but a win for Moore or Chappell would hand the prize to Dustin Johnson, who ended up in a tie for sixth after sleeping on a share of the 54-hole lead.

The series features the top 75 players from the Web.com regular-season money list, Nos.

Moore, also in the FedExCup hunt, said it would be important to focus on golf and put the possible playoff scenarios out of his mind.

“I’ve obviously never gone into a Ryder Cup with this much excitement coming off the back of something like this”. But he answered with a 4-iron over the water to a peninsula green on the par-3 15th to 15 feet for birdie.

Johnson was second in the FedEx Cup and received a $3 million bonus.

McIlroy still has a shot, if he can win his first Tour Championship crown and Johnson falters. He said he was a little out of sync with his upper and lower body.

“This course is very hard off the tee and I missed a couple of drives on the back nine and made a couple of bogeys and a bad double bogey there on 17″, he said before accentuating the positives.

” I just want to be a part of it”, he added.

Johnson, in the midst of the best year of his career, has been on a tear since missing the cut at the PGA Championship, and particularly in September.

There certainly wasn’t a shortage of drama as the 2015-16 PGA Tour season came to end today at the Tour Championship. That year afforded us one of the game’s most awkward photos of all time, with Tiger Woods holding his FedEx Cup trophy while standing next to Phil Mickelson holding his Tour Championship trophy.

Bubba Watson, the highest ranked American not in next week’s Ryder Cup team, did nothing to enhance his chances of being at Hazeltine by falling to five over par overall after a 73. It was his eighth consecutive round under par and his 10th in his last 11 rounds.

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Patrick Reed won The Barclays in late August; Rory McIlroy, the Deutsche Bank in early September; and Johnson, the BMW Championship two weeks ago. Birdies on Nos. 10 and 11 were followed by four straight pars before McIlroy jarred his approach on No. 16 for eagle.

“I promise you, I’ll be watching Dustin”, Chappell said. “The holed shots from the fairway, it’s part skill, but there’s an epic part of luck in there as well, and I took advantage of it and made birdie at the last”. He two-putted from 20 feet and finished with a par.

“I knew if I hit a good putt it had a great chance of going in”.

Also in that bracket were Australians Adam Scott (third) and Jason Day (fourth).

“It gets me closer to what I need to do”. So everything just sort of aligned for me. “I hit 17 of 18 greens and didn’t make many mistakes”.

Returning to the 18th, McIlroy missed an 18-foot birdie putt for the win.

Moore still made him work for it, holing a 15-foot par putt that force McIlroy to make his from about the same distance, and he did.

McIlroy let out a scream of exultation as the putt dropped. “One thing, it’s not like it was right behind it”.

Mark Russell, the vice president of rules and competition for the tour, said, the wind was light and the ball had been at rest “for quite some time”.