2021 BMW Championship: Top 10 power rankings at Caves Valley

Abraham Ancer has 68 of the world’s best players to beat this week. Sound familiar?

The BMW Championship has a similar field size and strength to the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational that Ancer won three weeks ago in Memphis.

The maiden PGA Tour win was a long time coming for a guy who owns four second-place finishes.

Ancer couldn’t keep up the pace last week at The Northern Trust, but some FedEx Cup points are better than none as he grinded out T-64th.

The former Oklahoma Sooner has five top-fives in 2021. They’re a big reason why he’s en route to qualifying for his third straight Tour Championship.

The 30-year-old has made it a priority this year to have gas left in the tank to power through the end of the season. Without the Ryder Cup to pace himself for, Ancer can lay it all out there in the next couple of weeks.

"“…physically one of my goals with my trainer was to feel better and fresher at the end of the season,” Ancer was quoted by ASAP Sports prior to The Northern Trust. “Maybe I wouldn’t feel it much more this week because I had a week off, but like Tour Championship, the two previous years that I played it, I felt like a little bit tired, and I feel like I’m a little bit gassed. That’s exactly where you should be feeling the opposite. You should be feeling great and ready to go. “So we worked a lot on that, feeling fresher towards these last two months of play, and I feel like that plays a big part on a good result coming down the stretch.”"

Ancer ranks in the top 34 in all strokes gained categories except for around the green, where he’s still a net positive. You’d think that would have to be a strength of his given how he’s 160th on the PGA Tour in driving distance (290.2), but really it’s his accuracy off the tee, iron play and putting that separates him.