PGA power rankings: The 2019 BMW championship

PGA Power Rankings: The BMW Championship

5. Justin Rose – (4)

Rose stays inside the top-five in the PGA Power Rankings as we head into the BMW Championship, as he notched his fifth straight top-20 finish with a T-10 at the Northern Trust last week.

After an early win at the Farmers Insurance Open, Rose played sparingly all season long, and despite playing just 15 total FedEx Cup events, he is still right in the thick of things in 12th place in the standings. On a more impressive note, he has a total of seven top-tens in those 15 starts.

Considering his current run, Rose is arguably in some of the best overall consistent form coming in. Obviously the top-five here are all playing pretty well, and Rose is another bomber among the rest who will have an advantage off the tee with his 300+ yard drives.

4. Patrick Reed – (15)

Reed was hot coming in last week, and he took it to another level finishing 16-under par grabbing his first victory since his memorable win at the 2018 Masters. The 2000 FedEx Cup points skyrocketed him up the standings as expected, as he shot all the way up from 50th to 2nd place.

Although Reed is a big guy, he is not as long off the tee as you might assume. He is averaging just under 296 yards per drive, and that puts him T-80th in that stat on the season. Despite that, with his continued solid play over the last two months plus, he deserves a huge bump in the rankings this week.

3. Jon Rahm – (5)

I talked about recent form with Justin Thomas especially with his four straight solid finishes, but Rahm easily is the best in this department at the moment.

He T-3 last week at the Northern Trust finishing 14-under par, and he now has gone six straight events with a finish no worse than 11th. In fact, the T-3 last week gave him four top-three or better finishes in that span as well.

Rahm has done this all season long. With 18 FedEx Cup event starts, he has notched 11 top-tens, and the quadruple points last week was enough to give him a huge boost in the standings as we are now down to 70 remaining golfers. He jumped from 10th up to 5th, and he also moved up a couple of spots in the OWGR this week as well.

2. Rory McIlroy – (3)

While I love the way Rahm is playing, Rory has also been solid in his bounce-back effort from the opening hole fiasco at Royal Portrush. He followed up his T-4 at the St. Jude Invitational with a T-6 at the Northern Trust last week, and he still sits in a prime position for a huge payday in 3rd place in the current FedEx Cup standings.

I understand it is points-based, but the fact that McIlroy has not passed D.J in the OWGR yet seems odd. Rory has two victories this season, with the most recent coming at the RBC Canadian Open, and he has a total of 13 top-tens in just 17 FedEx Cup events this season.

The longer the golf course the better for McIlroy, as he hits among the furthest off the tee on tour, and Medinah is a beast. On top of that, he is first on tour in SG: T2G this season.

1. Brooks Koepka – (1)

McIlroy and Rahm are threatening that number one spot here in the PGA Power Rankings as the season winds down, but Brooks Koepka will barely hold it down for at least one more week.

Anyone who as followed golf long enough knows that winning back-to-back weeks on tour is a tough feat, and even though Koepka T-30 at the Northern Trust coming off of his win at the St. Jude Invitational, he still has the top spot in FedEx Cup standings with just two weeks to play.

Koepka wasn’t bad, and he actually played way better than his finish would suggest. He shot two rounds of 69 and two rounds of 70, and while he wasn’t at his best throughout the entirety of the tournament, he did enough to prove to me he still is the man to beat this week at the BMW Championship.

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