BRANSON MO NEWS: Scott McCarron enters the Scwab Cup playoffs on a hot streak, and the former UCLA standout hopes to have a strong performance at Sherwood Country Club this weekend.(Photo: JARED WICKERHAM/GETTY IMAGES)It happens all the time. A team or player gets hot toward the latter part of the season, rides that momentum into the playoffs and all the way to a championship.With a string of top-10 finishes over the last half of the 2016 regular season, including his first win as a member of the PGA Champions Tour, Scott McCarron qualifies as a red-hot player.The former UCLA Bruin is feeling good about his chances in the new Schwab Cup playoffs, which kicks off this week with the PowerShares QQQ Championship at Sherwood Country Club.Patterned after the PGA Tour’s FedEx playoffs, the Schwab Cup playoffs consist of three events. The PowerShares QQQ Championship is the first of three season-ending events and features the top 72 money winners for the 2016 season.The top 54 will move on to the Dominion Charity Classic in Richmond, Virginia, before the season culminates with the final 36 at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Scottsdale, Arizona.McCarron starts the playoffs ranked eighth.“I …
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