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We have ourselves a golf tournament, people. Finally.

Dustin Johnson shot a 1-under 69 on Saturday in the third round of the Tour Championship but was caught at the end by Kevin Chappell, who shot 68 and nearly caught by Ryan Moore and Rory McIlroy, both of whom shot 66.

Johnson and Chappell (8 under) co-lead by two strokes over McIlroy and Moore (6 under) going into the last round of the 2015-16 PGA Tour season on Sunday. There will be plenty at stake, too. The Tour Championship purse is nearly $9 million on its own, but when you combine it with the outrageous FedEx Cup Playoffs purse ($35 million), there is going to be some serious money on the line in the final round.

You thought that putt for $5 at your local municipal course on Saturday was nervy? Some of these golfers could be putting for (literally) $5 million on Sunday at the very end.

Johnson had a wild day on Saturday that included three bogeys, a double bogey and six birdies. Even then, everything was going fairly smoothly for him until he came to the 17th hole late in his round. He pushed his drive into the right rough and could only muster a double bogey. Chappell, who has never won a PGA Tour event, made birdie and took a one-stroke lead going to the final hole where Johnson birdied to tie it back up.

It was one of just two birdies on the day for Chappell (to no bogeys). The other came on this chip on the par-4 12th hole. He said after his round that he was really proud of the way he ground out par after par (16 in all) to stay even with the monstrous-hitting D.J. all day.

McIlroy added his first bogey-free round ever at the Tour Championship, and Moore shot a 31 on the front nine. Everybody was locked in.

So the question becomes whether Johnson can hang on for his fourth win on the season and round out what has been pretty easily the best year of his career. He showed some guts hanging in at the end of Round 3, but he also lost his lead to somebody (Chappell) who is playing some pretty great golf. (Chappell only has one bogey through his first 54 holes.)

We got the perfect ending to the season last year when the best player of 2015 (Jordan Spieth) touched off the season with a Tour Championship (and FedEx Cup) win. There was a nice symmetry to it. It felt right, and it would make sense if Johnson could do the same because he has pretty clearly been the best golfer of 2016. But Chappell and his colleagues are coming.

Hideki Matsuyama and Jason Dufner are just behind these four, but barring something unforeseen, one of Moore, Johnson, McIlroy or Chappell should probably win the tournament on Sunday.

Each has something different at stake, too.

Chappell is looking to become just the second golfer ever to get his first win at the Tour Championship. Moore is trying to sneak onto the Ryder Cup team in that last captain's pick spot (Chappell might be as well). McIlroy is hoping for one of the only items besides the Masters not on his resume: a FedEx Cup title. And Johnson is attempting his first four-win season, which would place him next to Tiger Woods as the only golfer to win a major, a WGC event and the Tour Championship in the same year.


Johnson has been here many times before finishing in the top five in each of the last two Tour Championships. McIlroy has obviously won his fair share of big-boy events. This will be rare air for Moore and Chappell, though. It will be fascinating to see how they all handle it.

Four golfers playing for so much money and history in the last 18 holes of the year. There are Ryder Cup implications, legacy implications and -- of course -- large bank account implications. This is the juice the FedEx Cup (and Tour Championship) needed. Sunday should rock a little bit at East Lake.