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According to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, rents in Fort St. John in spring 2015 were the second highest in B.C. Home prices have also risen in Fort St. John over the past three years. During the first quarter of 2015, homes sold for an average of $416,000.

Dr. Danette Dawkins, a member of the North Peace Division of Family Practice, said one resident doctor was almost at the point of becoming homeless at Christmas because the cost of living was so high compared to her salary. If money hadn't come through to allow her to return, she would have returned home to Saskatchewan.

While the residency program has a retention rate of 70 per cent, according to Dawkins, she noted the practice has lost doctors because of the cost of living, noting one resident who decided to get a cheaper house in Prince George rather than settle in Fort St. John.

There are four resident doctors currently practicing in Fort St. John, and another two practicing in Dawson Creek.

The PRRD has given them some help.

Last year, the district agreed to provide a housing stipend of around $400 a month along with a promise to pay for exam fees, which are $5,000 in the second-year.

Second-year residents who decide to stay in the northeast as family doctors would receive an additional $10,000.

The resident doctors say the financial incentives have made a huge difference, and serve as motivation to explore the region.

“It’s given us some relief, it’s a bit of extra cash to go out and have fun,” said McCoach.

“That's already made a big difference to attract people up here.”

It’s also something McCoach said he can advertise to his friends, who may not even know that Dawson Creek and Fort St. John exists. McCoach said when he first heard about Dawson Creek, he thought it was located in the Yukon, possibly mistaking it for Dawson City.

And despite their low pay across the province, many towns and municipalities want to recruit young doctors, McCoach said.

“Every community has this red carpet policy (for new doctors)…it is a huge competitive thing,” he said. “Everybody is petitioning for you to stay there.” reporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Should a community help out young doctors financially to get them to stay?

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Young professionals struggle when trying to break into the workforce.

It’s a fact of live no matter where you live, or what your chosen profession is.

Although in the north we are struggling to attract doctors, I don’t see how supporting them financially provides any long-term benefit to the city.

Short term it may help the area, but long term, these people are would only be coming here to take advantage of a system that now stands to give them a decided financial break, before returning to a place where they would much rather live.

If it takes a significant financial stipend to keep a doctor in the area, what makes you think they won’t want to get out of dodge the first chance they get?

Secondly, if you can’t learn to live on a wage that you’re being paid, why should the community want to give you a break in the first place?

In the world I live in, you go to where the work is.

It’s an unfortunate miscalculation of our youth to expect otherwise, and providing young doctors with an excuse to live beyond their means before they start making above and beyond the median salary most of us will make in our lives, it stands to reason they shouldn’t need any extra incentive.

Science Matters David Suzuki

You can help bring monarchs back from the brink Jode Roberts has spent a lot of the summer checking out ditches and fields along the sides of roads, railways and trails. At first, he didn’t like what he was seeing. Roberts, who is leading the David Suzuki Foundation’s effort to bring monarchs back from the brink, was searching for signs that the butterflies had visited patches of milkweed plants. Despite the bleak start, he recently hit the jackpot: a half-dozen eggs and a couple of monarch caterpillars, calmly munching on milkweed leaves.

Over the past millennium, eastern monarch butterflies have migrated northward from Mexico in spring, arriving in southern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes in early summer, where they lay eggs on the undersides of milkweed leaves. In the following weeks, their caterpillars hatch and eat

a steady milkweed diet. In late summer, they form chrysalises and undergo the amazing transformation into butterflies. They then begin fattening themselves for the arduous return to the Mexican alpine forests where they overwinter.

Concerned citizens, scientists and conservation groups were starting to think monarchs might largely be a noshow in Canada this summer. The eastern monarch population has plummeted from more than a billion butterflies in the 1990s to an estimated 35 million in 2014 — a drop of more than 95 per cent. They bounced back to about 55 million in Mexico this past winter, but a cool start to their journey northward coupled with the virtual eradication of milkweed plants — mainly thorough widespread use of the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) over the past two decades — left monarch experts wondering whether the butterflies would make it across the border this year.

The good news is that citizen scientists and backyard butterfly lovers from across the northeastern U.S. and southern Canada have reported through social media that monarch butterflies are arriving and laying a remarkable number of eggs. But it’s too early to gauge whether the numbers will meet already low expectations.

While monarch enthusiasts are breathing a momentary sigh of relief,

When most of us think of doctors, green is the first thing to come to mind. Green with envy at a career with enough cash for a lavish home, maybe a lavish getaway vacation home, and a plush retirement plan.

But a trio of young, graduating doctors brought those thoughts back down to reality last week as they described to local politicians the struggles they face trying to get a secure foothold in our community.

Nevermind struggling to stay afloat and meeting expensive student loan obligations, these doctors are struggling to pay rent or qualify for a mortgage. Indeed, one doctor nearly went homeless this past Christmas. We’re a short step away from these doctors slinging drinks at the bar or delivering pizza on the side to help make ends meet.

Our doctors, especially in the north, are our most vital service. And it is on life support.

The regional district has already extended a few olive branches to help these young doctors, from housing stipends to paying for expensive exam fees to help the finish their certification.

This support must continue if we want to turn the tide on the doctor shortage in the region. But while cash from the local taxpayer is part of the solution, we must go beyond that. Local government must create a climate for a more stable, affordable housing market. The provincial government must review its collective agreement to ensure these doctors are making more than $50,000 a year. Finally, the federal government must, at the very least, maintain current levels of healthcare funding to the provinces if not boosting its investment.

Roberts and colleagues have launched the Monarch Manifesto, encouraging people throughout the monarchs’ path to pledge to do their part to ensure the butterflies continue to recover. Visit davidsuzuki.org/monarchmanifesto to sign.

Participants are asked to commit to do three simple things this summer: grow milkweed, report monarch sightings and avoid using pesticides on their properties. They also commit to two simple tasks for the fall: reach out to at least one neighbourhood school, faith group, business or other institution about planting a butterfly garden and call local garden centres or nurseries to ask them to order native milkweed plants for next spring. Manifesto signatories will receive information and tips on how to begin these conversations.

The Monarch Manifesto is part of a growing movement to bring back monarch butterflies and help other important pollinators, like honeybees and wild bees. If all goes well, we’ll see thousands of participants, hundreds of new butterfly gardens and more local milkweed sources next spring.

The backyard and urban-focused campaign is bolstered by research by University of Delaware entomologist Douglas Tallamy, who found monarchs lay more eggs on garden plants than on milkweed in meadows. The

campaign also complements a research project the David Suzuki Foundation will launch this fall, in partnership with University of Guelph researchers Tyler Flockhart and Ryan Norris, examining best practices for cultivating milkweed and encouraging monarch populations along rail and hydro lines, roadways and trails.

What can you do to help? An easy first step is to sign the Monarch Manifesto, which includes information on how to attract butterflies to your neighbourhood. If you already have milkweed in your garden or on your balcony, consider collecting seeds this fall and sharing them with friends and neighbours. If you don’t have a garden or balcony, you can look for places where you live, work and play that could become new butterfly garden patches.

While Roberts continues his hopeful hunt for signs of monarchs this summer, I hope you’ll join thousands of people who are taking action, adding pollinator-friendly plants to their yards, spurring butterfly gardens in their neighbourhoods and transforming a multitude of spaces into safe havens for bees and butterflies.

Together, we can bring monarch butterflies back from the brink.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Homegrown National Park Project Manager Jode Roberts.

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Demolition crews tore down a vacant, burned out home on 96 Street last week. The house caught fire June 21, with firefighters spending 11 hours

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From the P harmacist’s File Alzheimers

The first thing many of us think of when we start to forget things as we get older is that we have Alzheimer’s disease. More people seem to be affected nowadays by this well-known form of dementia because our population is aging.

Fortunately, Alzheimer’s is less common than some people think; it is not a normal function of aging. Only 1 in 13 Canadians over 65 have the disease, although the proportion does change with the years until it reaches nearly 1 in 2 people over the age of 85.

Memory loss or Alzheimer’s?

A certain amount of memory loss is normal as we age, especially from what’s called our “recent memory” banks, which include, for example, what we watched on television the night before. Aging, however, does not normally affect short-term memory (as in the name of the person we met moments ago) or remote memory (as in childhood memories). So while it may be frustrating when you can’t recall a word you know, this kind of memory lapse is not usually serious.

If you feel that your lapses of memory are causing you difficulties in your day-to-day living - and particularly if you feel the lapses are getting more frequent over time -consult your family doctor. Forgetting where you put your car keys is irritating, but discovering that you put the keys in the sugar bowl is disturbing - and may indicate a more serious problem.

Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s is a fatal, degenerative disorder characterized by changes in the structure and chemistry of the brain. The appearance of protein plaques between the nerve cells in the brain tissue is modified. Symptoms of the disease advance in stages, moving from mild memory loss to a deterioration in intellectual and thinking abilities (cognitive function) to abnormal changes in personality and behaviour.

The progression of Alzheimer’s varies from

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person to person and the time course ranges from 5 to 20 years.

The person may exhibit speech problems, choosing the wrong words, for instance, or not understanding simple sentences. Later, the person may get easily disoriented or confused; anxiety may make the person restless and sleepless at night. He or she will be unable to speak or move, so that even the notion of self-care will be lost. People with Alzheimer’s generally die of some kind of infection.

Causes Although our understanding of Alzheimer’s has increased in leaps and bounds recently, we still don’t know what causes this disease or how to stop its progression.

Diagnosis There is no one test to diagnose Alzheimer’s, so doctors cannot make a definite diagnosis until they examine the affected brain tissue after death. In the meantime, however, doctors are able to come up with a “probable” diagnosis by ruling out other possibilities for the decline in brain function.

Treatment Alzheimer’s has no cure yet. For now, the goal is to help the affected person maintain his or her mental and physical function as much and as long as possible.

Various medications are being explored in the treatment of the disease. Some medications (i .e., Aricept™, Exelon™, Reminyl™) are believed to slow memory loss in the early stages of the disease. Others are used to reduce anxiety, agitation, and depression. While these drugs may help with some of the symptoms, they are not a cure because they do not stop the underlying progression of the disease.

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The 9th annual Tournament of Hope Red-Eye Slo-Pitch Tournament was another huge success in 2015, raising over $10,000 for families in North Peace.

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B yron Hackett

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Red eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.

Maybe that wasn’t the moniker for the 9th annual Tournament of Hope, but if Coach Taylor from the TV show Friday Night Lights saw the red eyes on Sunday morning, he might just have adjusted the phrase for the occasion.

Hearts were full and eyes were most definitely red at the event that is now known better for the format in which the games are played, the red-eye slo-pitch tournament, where teams play around the clock from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.

The weekend tournament has become a landmark event at the Taylor baseball diamonds since 2006, growing from 12 teams in its first year, to a full stock of 32 teams in the current version and a massive fundraiser for a few special families.

That was the vision tournament founder Allen Lafleur and although he passed away

in 2008, his family has continued to run the event in his honour ever since.

Allen was Bradi Willich’s uncle, and she said he would have been proud of what the event has become.

“There was always a hope and a wish that this would be what it is for his memory,” she said.

“This is something he would be so proud of and for it to be this big is pretty unreal. You know that he has to be helping from up there and pushing it along and this is something he would have always wanted it to be, this big and this much fun and this many people together.”

Although Allen passed away several years ago, the tournament has lived on with his vision in mind, including continuing the tradition of raising funds for a local family who has been stricken by cancer.

This year it was Jordan Jones, who is now

in his third battle with cancer and the Mahood family who will receive a donation from the event.

As of Saturday afternoon Jackie Lafleur, Allen’s daughter who is a co-organizer of the event said the tournament had already surpassed a fundraising goal of $10,000 and was hoping to get near $15,000 by the end of the day Sunday.

She also explained that the money raised at this year’s event had surpassed all but the original tournament.

That first event came to being because of the Allen’s willingness to give and help out, and has been running ever since and continues to blossom in his honour.

“He was the type of man that would give the shirt off his back, he was always worried about other people before himself. Family and friends came first, very unselfish man and when he found out there was a little boy

that had cancer and they needed money— they needed money for travelling. He [Allen] threw a tournament together in no time he was able to give a shoebox of money to the family,” Willich recalled. ”That’s when he said to Velma, ‘we need to do this every year’. From there it’s just continued to grow and bigger and better every year.”

With the continued support, Willich is sure the tournament will be a staple at the Taylor baseball diamonds for years to come.

“The people coming out to support, the droves of teams, people will tell you it’s the only tournament they do the whole year,” she said. “Most of them are from Taylor and Fort St. John, there are three teams from elsewhere.

Just knowing that everyone in the area is supporting such a good cause is wonderful.”

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Hi its Leigh reportage for the beaten Community 4-H Club and I am going to update you on what has happened since my last report. On June 27th we had an event which had a dance, raffle, silent auction and a potluck. We raised a lot of money and I would like to thank all of our sponsors and everyone who came to our event.

Our next event was achievement days July 16-18 which all the clubs in Fort St John attended. July 7 we had a fairground clean up to clean out the stalls for our horses for achievement days. July 12 we had a ride to prep for the achievement days and learn to groom our horses. To clean out our stalls more and bring some of our horses we came July 16. That day we also decorated our stalls as our theme trappers cabin. It wasn't that harsh of a day of those that would come next.

July 17 we had to prep for the show for the next day and Im sure everyone was tired that night. In the morning we practiced our patterns and checked of any slots to finish our assessment booklets to complete what level we are in. At 12 we had Glen Stuart, to come out and do a show and teach our members some stuff that would be helpful to us and other people about horse. Around 3 we washed our horses for the show the next day. Later that night we did some games and fed and watered our horses all day and cleaned out their stalls.

July 18 was a busy day we had lots going on because it was the show day. We had a judge come out and judge our activities. The activities we did that day were, unit class, western/ english equitation western/english pleasure and a costume class at the end where we got dressed up and rode around the arena. We got lots of prizes!!! Later that night we did more games and got more prizes.

Awards night is September 18th and we are helping organize it!!! Now its time for the record books!! And I hope all you 4-Hers have been keeping track of your activities I know I haven't … oops of course I have.. anyways have a great summer and I'll keep you updated at my next report.

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Legion’s Poppy Fund helps Hospital Foundation The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 102 named the Fort St. John Hospital Foundation as one of many non-profits in the community that will benefit from their Poppy Fund. Members presented executive director of the Foundation, Ashley Bentley, with a cheque for $6,000 on Tuesday June, 23. Their donation was directed to the Foundation’s “Where the Need is Greatest” fund, which purchases equipment for all departments of the Fort St. John Hospital and Peace Villa. Their donation will help to enhance patient care and comfort.

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Arrow Insurance Employee targets Foundation The Fort St. John Hospital Foundation was the recipient of a $1,000 donation thanks to a monthly draw hosted by Arrow Insurance Agency. Every month employees of Arrow Insurance put their names in a draw, and the winner gets to allocate the donation to the charity of their choice. In June, staff winner Nicole Clarke (left) chose the FSJ Hospital Foundation as the recipient of the $1,000 donation. Thank you Nicole and Arrow Insurance!

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W E E K LY P R O R A C I N G U P D AT E Racing News, Stats & Trivia

2015 Standings Sprint Cup Series Top Ten 1) Kevin Harvick

Race Det Race Detail tail ils s

Location: Plymouth, Wis. Date: Aug. 29th, 3:00 p.m.

TV: NBCSN Last Year’s Pole: Alex Tagliani - 108.420 mph Last Year’s Winner: Brendan Gaughan

2) Joey Logano

Points: 865 Wins: 3 Top 5: 14 Top 10: 18

3) Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Points: 819 Wins: 2 Top 5: 11 Top 10: 15

Driver 1) Chris Buescher 2) Ty Dillon 3) Chase Elliott 4) Regan Smith 5) Elliott Sadler 6) Daniel Suarez 7) Darrell Wallace Jr. 8) Brian Scott 9) Brendan Gaughan 10) Ryan Reed

4) Brad Keselowski Points: 793 Wins: 1 Top 5: 5

Top 10: 16

5) Jimmie Johnson

Points: 792 Wins: 4 Top 5: 11 Top 10: 16

6) Martin Truex Jr. Road America had held a Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) race in 1956 that was won by Tim Flock. The track held its first Xfinity event in 2010 after the Milwaukee Mile’s race was moved to the track. Carl Edwards won the inaugural 50-lap race, named the Bucyrus 200, after holding off Canadian road course ringers, Jacques Villeneuve and Ron Fellows.

This year, the race has been moved from June to the last weekend of August and is taking place during an off-weekend for the Sprint Cup Series. The race has also been reduced from 200 miles to 180 miles.

Points: 771 Wins: 1 Top 5: 7

Top 10: 16

7) Matt Kenseth Points: 753 Wins: 3 Top 5: 9

Points: 713 Wins: 2 Top 5: 8

Top 10: 13

9) Denny Hamlin Points: 712 Wins: 1 Top 5: 8

Top 10: 11

10) Jamie McMurray Points: 696 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2

Racing News Four months after learning that GoDaddy would leave NASCAR after this season, Danica Patrick and her No. 10 Chevy team have landed Nevada-based food company Nature’s Bakery as their new primary sponsor. The sponsorship agreement will cover 28 races a season, beginning in 2016. Patrick’s SHR co-owner Tony Stewart also announced even more stability for Patrick in the form of a new multiyear contract.

Top 10: 15

8) Kurt Busch

Top 10: 7

Points 800 781 777 749 718 697 697 681 676 606

Racing Trivia Why is Darlington Raceway egg-shaped and smaller at one end than the other?

Last Weekend’s Race: Joey Logano won the Irwin Tools Night Race Irwin Tools Night Race Top 10 Driver Points Joey Logano 47 Kevin Harvick 42 Denny Hamlin 42 Jimmie Johnson 40 Clint Bowyer 39 Brad Keselowski 39 Carl Edwards 38 Kyle Busch 38 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 35 Ryan Newman 34

With Kevin Harvick hounding him mercilessly for 63 laps, Joey Logano kept his No. 22 Team Penske Ford out front after taking the lead on a Lap 438 restart and held on to win Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Successfully defending last year’s victory at Thunder Valley, Logano won his third race of the season, his second at the .533-mile short track and the 11th of his career. Harvick recovered from two pit-road penalties to finish second, a mere .220 seconds behind Logano. Polesitter Denny Hamlin ran third, and Clint Bowyer got a much-needed fourth place result in his No. 15 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota. It was a fascinating chase over the final 63 laps, as Harvick would bury his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet into the corner at the top of the track, catch Logano in the turns and watch as Logano dived to the bottom on corner exit and pull away.

Joey Logano Born: May 24, 1990 Crew Chief: Todd Gordon Car: Ford

Year 2015 Career

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Answer: Track developer Harold Brasington bought 70 acres of land from local farmer Sherman Ramsey, on which he planned to build his track. But as part of the deal, Brasington had to promise Ramsey that he wouldn’t disturb the minnow pond to the west side of the property.

Hence, Turns 1 and 2 on the west side are tighter in radius than Turns 3 and 4.

Shape: Road Course Distance: 4.05 miles

Road America

Points: 908 Wins: 2 Top 5: 17 Top 10: 21

Xfinity Series Top Ten

Wins 3 11

Top 10s 18 100

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PRO GOLF WEEKLY UPDATE

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Golf News, Tips, Trivia & Stats

This Week: The Barclays

The Barclays is the first tournament of the FedEx Cup Playoff. The Barclays has been a fixture on the PGA Tour since 1967. The inaugural event was Defending: Hunter Mahan won by Jack Nicklaus when it was Winning Score: 11-under par known as the Westchester Classic.

Winning Share: $1,440,000 Nicklaus is one of five players to win this event on two separate occassions along with Seve Ballesteros, Ernie Els and Sergio Garcia. The most frequent winner of the tournament is Vijay Singh, who has won the event four times. The 1982 champion, Bob Gilder, holds the tournament record for this event. Gilder fired a 21-under total of 261 to win the title over Peter Jacobsen and Tom Kite.

Plainfield CC Edison, NJ 7,091 yards, Par 72

Golf TV Schedule

Last Week: Davis Love III won the Wyndham Championship

Davis Love III won the Tournament Results Wyndham Championship on 1. Davis Love III Score: -17 Sunday to become the thirdEarnings: $972,000 oldest winner in PGA Tour 2. Jason Gore Score: -16 history. The 51-year-old Love closed Earnings: $583,200 with a six-under-par 64 for a one- Player Score Earnings -15 $280,800 stroke victory over Jason Gore. “Any T-3. Charl Schwartzel T-3. Paul Casey -15 $280,800 victory now is going to be really sweet T-3. Scott Brown -15 $280,800 when you’re over 50,” Love said. At 51 years, 4 months, 10 days, Love trails only Sam Snead and Art Wall on the tour’s age list. Tiger Woods was poised to challenge Sunday, but finished four strokes back and did not qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Golfing News

Last week’s winner, Davis Love III, and four other players moved into Network the top 125 and qualified for the first GOLF round of the FedEx Cup playoffs with GOLF their performances in Greensboro. Jason Gore’s CBS second-place fi nish was good enough to bump CBS him up 68 spots from 166th to 98th. Jonas Blixt Golf Trivia finished T10 and that was just enough for him to slide into the top 125, as he jumped 14 spots from Since 1960, only Tiger Woods and 135th to 121st. Camilo Villegas finished T26 and one other golfer have won nine PGA that was enough to push him from 129th to 123rd tournaments in a season. Who is the and into the field at the Barclays. Ryo Ishikawa other golfer? also finished T26 and moved up from 130th to a) Phil Mickelson c) Arnold Palmer 124th. The top 100 players will advance on to the b) Rory McIlory d) Vijay Singh Deutsche Bank Championship, with the top 70 Answer: d) Vijay Singh won nine tournaments in the making the field at the BMW Championship and then the top 30 get to go to the Tour Championship.

2004 PGA Tour season.

PGA Event: The Barclays Day Time Thu, 8/27 2pm-6pm Fri, 8/28 2pm-6pm Sat, 8/29 3pm-6pm Sun, 8/30 2pm-6pm

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Lessons from the Golf Pro We are used to practicing shots from the fairway, sand or rough to try things on different surfaces, but one of the areas that most golfers have little to no practice on is some hard pan. Hard pan refers to a path of rock-hard ground where there is no grass for the ball to prop up on. This shot is very difficult because we try to be too cute and the predominant shot is skulled and runs forever. To play the shot correctly, a sand or pitching wedge is the club of choice according to the trajectory you desire.

The trajectory is solely determined by the position of the ball in your stance. For a high soft shot, place the ball forward. A standard pitch requires the ball in the center of the stance. If you are looking to hit a low, running shot, place the ball back in your stance.

Player Profile

Davis Love III

Turned Professional: 1985 World Ranking: 136th FedEx Cup Standing: 76th PGA Tour Wins: 21

FedEx Cup Standings Through Aug. 23, 2015

1) Jordan Spieth 4,169 pts. / 14 top tens

2) Jason Day

2,459 pts. / 8 top tens

3) Bubba Watson 2,407 pts. / 7 top tens

4) Jimmy Walker 2,014 pts. / 6 top tens

5) Justin Rose 1,742 pts. / 7 top tens

FedEx Cup Standings continued...

Player Points 6) Robert Streb 1,720 7) Dustin Johnson 1,718 8) Patrick Reed 1,593 9) Rory McIlroy 1,567 10) Danny Lee 1,561

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