The top five players in the point standings entering The Tour Championship can clinch the FedEx Cup with a victory.
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But, like everything, money eventually won out. On the other hand, there is $10 million on the line at the end of the four-tournament event so it’s probably worth figuring out how it all works.
That’s a lotttttttttttttttttttttttt of cash.
All this has led to more ambiguity than clarity as to who the Player of the Year is heading into Thursday’s opening round of the Barclays at Bethpage Black. That will be cut to 100 for next week’s Deutsche Bank, followed by 70 players for the BMW Championship.
Three captain’s picks will be made by Davis Love following the BMW Championship and one more after the Tour Championship. Vijay Singh is the only player to win The Barclays and go on to win the FedEx Cup.
The Barclays is back in Black.
I’m going to ride Henrik Stenson’s golf game until he no longer does it for me anymore. The Black should still be a major-esque challenge for players. Plays particularly good on Major standard course, which Bethpage certainly is.
Brandt Snedeker lines up his putt on the ninth hole during the final round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. Reed is clinging to the eighth and final automatic qualifying spot. And while the lengthy track might give some shade of Bethpage, that’s about the only place where the tournament reflects the previous week – except for the loud, boisterous Northeastern galleries. It also hosted the U.S. Open in 2002 (Tiger Woods) and 2009 (Lucas Glover). Designed by Arnold Palmer and altered by Gil Hanse, Boston plays as you’d expect a TPC not named Sawgrass to play. To have five wins, and especially two more in the playoffs, will obviously get it done. The PGA Tour playoff system has come a long way in the last decade. “But it’s just not going to happen every year”. “Everyone knows how the FedEx Cup is structured”. It’s that special time of year when the PGA Tour tries to make us care about something that the players wouldn’t care about if there wasn’t a $10 Million Dollar prize to the victor.
Farmington native Danny Summerhays will open the playoffs as a playing partner with Rory McIlroy, and the two are excited to be together. Hideki Matsuyama, the 24-year-old from Japan who finished seventh this spring at the Masters and The Players Championship, is listed at +6600 on the golf betting lines due to a recent slump. That should make for a truly compelling tournament, but in terms of daily fantasy golf, it means there is a ton of value to be had on DraftKings.
“Just sitting back, recognizing that this is a fantastic season”, he told members of the media at East Lake on Monday via satellite.
The Fed Ex Cup Playoffs are good for the players because they are a measuring stick, sure.
Spieth won the FedEx Cup – and the $10million prize that comes with it – last season after a harrowing victory at East Lake in Atlanta.
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Got all that? The difference from some past years is that even if you win the first three playoff events, you can still lose the FedEx Cup Playoffs because the points are reset after Round 3.
