Furyk disqualified from Barclays for sleeping in

PARAMUS, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – American Jim Furyk  was disqualified from the first of four lucrative FedExCup  playoff events after sleeping late and missing his tee at the  Barclays Pro-Am  yesterday.

Furyk, number three on the FedExCup points list, said his  cellphone alarm lost power during the night and he only woke up  seven minutes before his 7:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) start time on a  rainy day at Ridgewood Country Club.

“I overslept,” Furyk told officials. “I always use my phone  as an alarm and it had no power this morning.”

Furyk said he bolted from his room with no belt, socks and  untied shoes but arrived in the locker room five minutes after  his start time on the 11th tee.

Slugger White, the U.S. PGA Tour vice president of rules  and competitions, said there was no time to get Furyk out to  his group on the 11th tee and that an alternate was sent out.

“The rules are the rules,” said Furyk.

The disqualification will not keep Furyk out of the second  event of the series, the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston.

The worst Furyk could wind up following the Barclays would  be 19th place on the points list, a U.S. PGA Tour official  said, and the top 100 players advance.

The overall points leader after the four playoff events in  which the field is whittled to 70 for the BMW Championship and  then 30 for the Tour Championship wins a $10 million bonus.

Furyk’s disqualification shrank the field to 121 for this  week’s event, which begins  today on the tree-lined course  some 30 minutes from midtown Manhattan.