'Six Feet For Everything' - Davis Thompson 3-Putted On 18 Yesterday To Miss The FedEx Cup Playoffs, Lost Out On Thousands Of Dollars

Yesterday was the final day of the regular season on the PGA Tour. A fairly simple concept where the top-70 in the standings move onto next week, then 50 and then the Tour Championship being the top-30 in the standings. Again, I say a fairly simple concept because you have the hard numbers and it's always fluctuating who is inside the number and not. That was Davis Thompson yesterday who made that putt on 15 to put himself in the right spot.

That is, until he got to 18: 

This is where we need the PGA Tour to embrace more of this. Cam Young ran away with the Tournament and sure getting his first win on Tour is a massive story, but this is way more entertaining. But if you search Davis Thompson on social media and you can't currently find his putts on 18. There's a couple blurbs on the miss, but imagine if this was a team event and a team blew a lead in the 4th quarter or 3rd period or whatever sport you want to bring up. It'd be all over the place. 

[Source] - As Thompson prepared to his a 6-footer for par, CBS announcer Jim Nantz was on the call: “Oh boy, 6 feet for everything.”

Thompson’s ball missed left, not even touching the hole.

“That was a pretty big pull,” added analyst Trevor Immelman. “Set up right edge and started left edge. … That stings.”

Was it the easiest 2-putt? No, he had 46 feet and missed his par putt from 6 feet out. It's brutal, heartbreaking, whatever word you want here, but it's what makes sports entertaining. It's why I agree with Nate when he brought up the idea of having payouts next to each player on the leaderboard. I want to see what sort of swings we're talking about here not just from a tournament basis but a season basis.

For Davis Thompson it's at least $40,000 considering that's what last place at the FedEx St. Jude Championship gets paid. Is it life changing money? Of course not. But it's $40,000 and a chance to try and jump 20 spots in the next event to make even more money. Oh, then you factor in he would have made another 50ish thousand by finishing this tournament at -13 and now you're up to about $100,000 riding on a 6 foot putt. 

I don't know the answer, I'm not smart enough to develop a TV show. But, there has to be something better than what we currently have. I want to see these live swings of guys who grind away at every tournament, hoping to make the playoffs and then have it ripped from them because of a 3-putt. The announcers will bring it up on the call from time to time, not a lot of graphics or anything, so start there. If it's a runaway like yesterday's event with Cam Young, give me a live feed of these guys and put up what's at stake. We need to know if a putt matters to advance or if they are eliminated from the playoffs by the time the round starts.

There's a reason dads everywhere dropped the line 'drive for show, putt for dough' yesterday during this.