How the FedEx Cup playoffs work
Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008
During the PGA Tour season, golfers earn points based on how they perform at each event.
Today’s event, The Barclays in Paramus, N. J., features the top 144 players in the season-long FedEx Cup standings. However, the points are reset going into the season’s final four events.
For example, Tiger Woods, who led the FedEx Cup standings with 22, 695 points, starts the four-week playoff with 100, 000 points. Lee Janzen, the final player into the playoffs at No. 144, had 1, 721 points. He’ll start the four-week playoff with 92, 070 points.
Just like the regular season, players will earn points for how they perform; however, the field will shrink each week.
After The Barclays, the field will be reduced to 120 players for the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Mass and then to 70 for the BMW Championship in St. Louis and then to 30 for the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Most PGA Tour events are worth 25, 000 points with 4, 500 going to the winner. The exceptions are the four majors, (Masters, U. S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship ) which are worth 27, 000 points, the World Golf Championship events, which are worth 26, 250, and the U. S. Bank Championship, Reno-Tahoe Open, Puerto Rico Open and Mayakoba, which are worth 12, 500 because those events were held opposite the WGC events and the British Open. The first three events in the playoffs are worth 190, 001 points, with 11, 000 going to the winner. The Tour Championship is worth 110, 000, with 12, 500 going to the winner.
At the end of the four-week playoff, the golfer with the most points will win the FedEx Cup.
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