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He and his wife, Mandy, who have two girls under 2, started a foundation to help underprivileged kids in Nashville. He does all of the right stuff. He earns it every day. It was Anderson who needed the support of that brotherhood last September when his year-old son, Tucker, was involved in a single-car accident in Florida that left him with critical injuries to his head and back.

Tucker Anderson survived and returned home from the hospital last month. He is walking and talking, but has much more rehab to accomplish. Coming back from offseason hip surgery, Snedeker opened the season by overcoming a seven-shot deficit on Sunday to beat Kyle Stanley in a playoff at Torrey Pines.

He cracked a rib in the U. That push vaulted Snedeker to his current career-best standing at No. The only higher American is Woods at No. Easily the high point of the season was the Sunday of the Tour Championship. Snedeker had never won a tournament with a hole lead and world No. Snedeker shut them down with a 68, while Woods could only manage 72 and McIlroy faded with But I knew I was going to win somehow. To have that kind of confidence was huge.

Larry Snedeker said he played a round with his son over the holidays and saw almost an athletic arrogance in Brandt. He had no fear. Beyond the aw-shucks grins and the nice-guy tendencies, Brandt Snedeker still wants to step on your neck on the golf course. His brother, Haymes, was four years his senior and Brandt was always battling to catch up.

He was a two-time high school state champion and got the first full-ride golf scholarship Vandy ever handed out. The first big national victory came in the U. Amateur Public Links. Then he played in the Masters the following year, and after finishing 41st as an amateur Snedeker turned pro. He played only two full seasons on the Web. San Diegans, of course, first got a glimpse of his strawberry blond hair and freckled face in his third overall start in that first season, when Snedeker tied the North Course record with an under 61 in the first round of the Farmers Open.

The Southern kid loves Torrey Pines. He has four tops on the regular tour here, including a win, a second and a third, and he tied for ninth on the South in the U. I love that. I accept that. Snedeker, who Anderson calls one of the best green readers in the world, ranked No. To know him as well as I do and to see him like that was hard.

Not that the FedEx Cup waters were completely clear of muddy math when points leader Rory McIlroy played his first seven holes in 4 over. The possibility of a victory by Rose or Ryan Moore , who tied Snedeker for the lead with a footer for birdie at the 15th hole, was enough to keep the Tour statisticians busy grinding out all manner of projections and scenarios, but Snedeker mercifully nixed the drama before it reached a confusing crescendo. Snedeker also had the benefit of a leaderboard that, outside of Moore, featured mostly one-way traffic — that is to say south.

Tiger Woods , second in the FedEx Cup points race to begin the week, played his first six holes on Sunday in 4 over. Unless he adds a fall start, which seems unlikely, Woods will finish the season with three Tour victories and no majors, leaving McIlroy — four tilts and his second major — the clubhouse leader for the Player of the Year hardware.

Forgive the Ulsterman, however, if he left his first Tour Championship feeling a tad pencil-whipped. When McIlroy bolted Crooked Stick following his second consecutive playoff victory he was 3, points clear of No. Before he picked up his courtesy car in Atlanta that lead had been reset to and , respectively. Call it the math of diminishing returns, but the world No.

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