ATLANTA -- Even now, Gary Finau can't explain it. He's walking down the perfectly manicured 18th fairway at East Lake Golf Club, host of this week's Tour Championship, where the FedEx Cup champion will receive an eight-figure paycheck and even the last-place finisher will bank a total well into the six digits while pocketing invitations into each of next year's major championships. His son, Tony, the third-oldest of eight children who grew up in their Rose Park, Utah, home, is just a few yards away, taking a mighty lash at his golf ball toward the final green.
It's a scene Gary has been watching for 20 years.