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Adam Scott’s remarkable run of appearances in the PGA Tour’s season-ending playoffs has come to an end but two Australians – Cam Davis and Jason Day – are into the big-money tournaments beginning this week in Memphis.
Scott only missed his 17th consecutive playoff berth narrowly; he bolted around in 7-under-par 63 to finish tied-seventh at the Wyndham Championships in North Carolina today but fell just short.
Having started the week in 80th spot and needing to get inside the top 70, his ultimate Fedex Cup finish was 72nd.
It is the first year that the tour has mandated that only the top 70 progress to the playoffs. Previously the top 125 on the points list qualified, and Scott’s absence leaves only American Matt Kuchar as having qualified for every edition of the Fedex Cup playoff series.
Scott was philosophical about the end of the…