Furyk awaits win @ BMW Championship

September 16, 2013. The rain laden day at the Conway Farms thwarted Jim Furyk’s  wish to overcome the three year draught of a PGA TOUR victory.

The final round of the BMW Championship was withheld until Monday because of steady rain that left too much water on Conway Farms. Furyk, the 2010 FedExCup champion who has a one-shot lead over Steve Stricker, was still about two hours away from even teeing off.

“The bad news — obviously, I’m anxious to get out there and play, as is everyone else,” Furyk said. “But the good news is no one wants to go out and play in this and slop it around in bad weather on a golf course where we’re playing the ball down and it’s probably a little too wet out there.”

Rory McIlroy  had one solace to the end of his PGA TOUR season — he was one of six players who finished. McIlroy had yet another double bogey — that’s 12 double bogeys and a triple bogey in three FedExCup Playoffs events — but holed out from 164 yards for eagle on the 12th hole and had his second straight 68.

It was the first time he had back-to-back rounds in the 60s in the same tournament this year on the PGA TOUR.

Brandt Snedeker trailed two shots behind at 202, followed by Zach Johnson at 203 and Tiger Woods at 204. Woods was penalized two shots on Friday when his ball moved as he was removing a small branch next to it behind the first green.

Dustin Johnson closed with a 72 and has to wait to make sure no one knocks him out of the top 30 in the FedExCup, which would keep him from the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola.

Everyone else was to return to Conway Farms on Monday morning and act like Sunday never happened.

“I think we got the better end of the deal by not even playing in it,” Stricker said.

Among 48 players who at least teed off, none were within 10 shots of the lead when they started.

The final round was to resume at 8 a.m. local time with a reasonable forecast.