Charley Hoffman’s golf game is more and more getting noticed as well as his flowing blond locks.
The cheerful Californian grabbed the spotlight at the Deutsche Bank Championship on a picture-perfect, late-summer day with some big rewards at stake. His victory Monday not only clinched one of the 70 spots in the BMW Championship starting Thursday, he moved up to No. 2 in the FedEx standings.
Hoffman is 33 years old now,and this is his second victory after the other victory in 2007.Maybe now Hoffman is famous for his skill rather than his long hair style. He said that he guessed golfers tend to sort of all look alike and he tried to stand out a little bit for his sponsors and himself to sort of showcase his personality.
If he had finished fourth, Mickelson would have become No. 1 in the world for the first time in his career instead of Tiger Woods But Mickelson made triple bogey on the 10th hole and double bogey on the 17th. He came in 25th with a final-round 76.
“I shot 1-under on the front (nine) and was going to try to make a move on the back, but it wouldn’t have mattered,” Mickelson said. “Charley played some great golf.”
Hoffman is hurry to lift the winner’s trophy and finished at 22-under 262, matching the tournament record set by Vijay Singh in 2008.
Starting the final round four strokes behind Jason Day, Hoffman had five birdies and two bogeys on the front nine. Then he really started rolling with six birdies and three pars on the back. The crowd cheered when he walked up the 18th fairway. It roared when he sank a 19-inch birdie putt to wrap up a spectacular final round.Hoffman said that he was just trying to keep makin birdies and he knew Jason was playing all right.
Hoffman began the tournament 59th in the FedEx standings. His primary goal was to stay in the top 70. Now he’s No. 2. After the third playoff tournament outside of Chicago this week, the field will be reduced to 30 for the tour championship in Atlanta two weeks later with a $10 million bonus on the line.
Hoffman is playing very well at present, having finished in the Top 10 in four of his last six tournaments to markedly improve his FedEx position.
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