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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW 2017 CHARLES SCHWAB CUP PLAYOFFS, PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS Oct. 20-22: Top 72 on Champions regular-season money list are eligible for Dominion Charity Classic, Country Club of Virginia, Richmond, Va. (Scott McCarron defending champion) Oct. 27-29: Top 54 on money list advance to Power Shares QQQ Championship, Sherwood Country Club, Thousand Oaks. (Tom Pernice Jr. defending champion) Nov. 6-12: Top 36 on money list advance to Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Phoenix Country Club in Arizona. (Paul Goydos defending champion) "Every time you win, the last one feels the best because you don't know if there's going to be a next one," he said. "I really haven't played well, last year or this year, except for three or four weeks. When I did play well, I won. I've actually struggled the last couple years more than I did the first couple of years (on the Champions Tour). "I haven't putted well. And then when I did have a good week (on the greens), it was one of the most ridiculous weekends of my life: I had 30 putts in one 27-hole stretch. At the end of the day, you need to make putts, and I haven't been doing that (consistently). That tends to wear on you. "And if I go over my whole career, that's the way it's been. It's not necessarily that I haven't played well, it's that my ego thinks I should play well every week. The ego tends to get in the way. My expectations are that I should play well every week, and when I don't, that's your ego getting in the way of yourself. You work hard on letting things happen, but that's an eas- ier thing to say than to do." That is vintage "Sunshine." And he wasn't done. The week before he won the 3M at 20- under par, he struggled mightily and brought up the rear (T73) at the Senior British Open in Wales. "It's not often you go 20-over (par) one week and minus-20 the next week," he said. "Overall, I've struggled this year and I'm still in the top 15 in the Schwab Cup (race). So I guess you re- ally can't evaluate your year until the year is over. "My ego is the biggest problem there – not necessarily my golf game." There's an actual ray of sunshine. continued from previous screen >> PEOPLE SoCal GOLF INSIDER One of Paul Goydos' two career victories on the PGA Tour came at the 2007 Sony Open of Hawaii.