Tony Finau's Ryder Cup reality: 'Probably on the outside looking in'
Tony Finau arrived in Minnesota this week on two ends of an 利益／興味ing 視野.
On one 手渡す, he's the defending 3M Open 支持する／優勝者 and the second-highest 階級d player in this week's field at No. 19. That was the first of four 勝利，勝つs Finau has 地位，任命するd over the past 13 months.
The most 最近の of those （機の）カム just three months ago at the Mexico Open, when he 丸天井d to No. 11 in the world and was considered one of the hottest players in the world.
However, Finau's game has fallen on 堅い times since. In seven starts since that 勝利 in Mexico, where he held off Jon Rahm, Finau has three 行方不明になるd 削減（する）s and no 最高の，を越す-20 finishes. He failed to make the 週末 at his 肩書を与える 弁護 at the ロケット／急騰する Mortgage Classic and then again at last week's Open 選手権 before 長，率いるing to Minnesota.
"It's やめる a funny game we play, isn't it?" Finau said on Tuesday. "(Mexico is) the best ゴルフ I've played this year and 港／避難所't been in that form really since. It's hard to put my finger on it.
"The game 現在のs challenges at every turn no 事柄 what, no 事柄 what 行う／開催する／段階 of your career you're in. I'm at a 行う／開催する／段階 where I have had some nice 勝利，勝つs, but 港／避難所't had the consistency that I would like to see from myself over the years."
The 3M Open is one of two events remaining before the start of the FedEx Cup プレーオフs. 儀礼 of his two 勝利，勝つs earlier this season, Finau is in good position in 10th place in the standings にもかかわらず his 最近の struggles.
Of more 関心 is his chances of making the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs Ryder Cup team. Finau 現在／一般に sits in 19th place in the U.S. team standings, 井戸／弁護士席 out of the 最高の，を越す six (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs on captain Zach Johnson's team.
Finau has two Ryder Cups under his belt, and is hoping that experience will count 堅固に in his 好意 when Johnson makes his six captain's 選ぶs next month. Having been a captain's 選ぶ twice before already, Finau understands he needs to make the most of every 適切な時期 between now and then.
"I've been in this type of position before, you know, where probably on the outside looking in," he said. "Going to have to play some good ゴルフ over these next few weeks and make my 事例／患者."
"I think if winning and experience 持つ／拘留するs a lot of 負わせる, then I feel like I've done enough. If consistency and form is the 決まり文句／製法 that the captains are looking for, then the answer's probably no.
"That's how I see it, I'm looking at it."
Johnson hasn't spoken 特に on the 基準 that will 重さを計る most ひどく on his 決定／判定勝ち（する）. He does have a very 深い group of talented players to choose from, and that pool only got deeper when Wyndham Clark won the U.S. Open to （人命などを）奪う，主張する an (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 位置／汚点／見つけ出す and with Rickie Fowler's resurgence moving him to 12th in the standings.
Other Ryder Cup 退役軍人s who don't 現在／一般に have an (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 位置／汚点／見つけ出す but are ahead of Finau in the standings 含む Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas -- although Finau's 最近の struggles pale in comparison to Thomas'.
"The 広大な／多数の／重要な thing for me is the 選ぶs aren't tomorrow, the 選ぶs are still in about a month," Finau said. "I've got four tournaments to make my 事例／患者 if there is a question and that's what I ーするつもりである to do."
--Field Level マスコミ
