Fascinating end to PGA season

Patrick Cantlay en route to the Tour Championship title and FedExCup victory at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. - Getty Images/AFP

THE Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia brought the curtain down on the US PGA Tour’s season in what turned out to be a fascinating and closely fought duel between two of the most in-form players in the world this year.

At the end of it all, Patrick Cantlay narrowly held off the protracted challenge of world number one Jon Rahm last Sunday, to win both the Tour Championship title and the season-long FedEx Cup, which duly earned him the US$15mil first prize. He finished with a 21-under total at East Lake to pip Rahm by a single stroke.