But when he isn't signing autographs at the Barclays Classic, he will be honing his game for the Open at Winged Foot.

He won the Barclays Classic in June, but he has been shut out since then.

But the Barclays Classic has been beset by especially odd and untimely departures.

Vijay Singh, the winner of last week's Barclays Classic, headlined a group of eight players at 71.

Brad Faxon entered this week's Barclays Classic at Westchester Country Club enmeshed in the most prolonged slump of his career.

"The whole year has been a struggle," said Singh, whose victory came at the Barclays Classic in June.

CBS will carry the first of the four events, the Barclays Classic, with NBC showing the final three.

The top 125 players on the points list are entered in the Barclays Classic.

But after the first round of the Barclays Classic at the Westchester Country Club on Thursday, Furyk held a three-shot lead.

Last year, the Barclays Classic was a week before the United States Open.