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The FedExCup Playoffs will decide the year’s PGA TOUR champion, but how does it work, who qualifies and what events are featured? The FedExCup series covers the final month of each season with four events making up the end-of-season Playoffs. The series having decided the annual winner since 2007, the year the FedExCup was first introduced.
When is the FedEx playoffs?
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How does the FedEx Cup final tournament work?
The top 30 in the FedExCup standings following the BMW Championship will advance to the TOUR Championship, where the final leaderboard will represent the final FedExCup standings for the top 30 players. Stroke play will be used to determine the champion of the PGA TOUR's season-long points race.Aug 26, 2021
What is the FedEx Cup playoff schedule?
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2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 19 – September 5, 2021 |
| Location | Liberty National Golf Club Caves Valley Golf Club East Lake Golf Club |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Statistics | |
Who will win FedEx Cup 2021?
How does the PGA Tour work?
Who won the FedEx Cup in 2008?
In 2008 Camilo Villegas won the BMW Championship and Tour Championship but Vijay Singh won the FedEx Cup. In 2009 Phil Mickelson won the Tour Championship but Tiger Woods took home the FedEx Cup.
Who won the 2009 FedEx Cup?
In 2009 Phil Mickelson won the Tour Championship but Tiger Woods took home the FedEx Cup. It's a bit complex, yes, but that year-end Tour Championship with, presumably, the 30 best golfers on the PGA Tour is quite the event.
2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs format
The latest FedEx Cup Playoffs system first debuted in 2019. With the changes, the playoffs were reduced from four tournaments to three.
How the Tour Championship works
The FedEx Cup standings are then used to set starting positions at the Tour Championship for the 30 players that make it that far. No. 1 in the standings begins the Tour Championship at 10 under, No. 2 at eight under, and so on. Players ranked 26-30 start the finale at even par.
What was the previous FedEx Cup Play-offs format?
The previous format saw each player’s FedEx Cup points reset heading to East Lake for the Tour Championship with the player in first position being reset to 2,000, second reset to 1,800 and so on.
So what is the current Fedex Cup Play-offs format?
The PGA Tour have revamped the format meaning that instead of the FedEx Cup points resetting after the penultimate play-off event, all players will no longer start on the same score at the Tour Championship.
How to qualify
As has been the case since the start of the FedEx Cup, the entire PGA Tour regular season leads to the FedEx Cup playoffs, with each official PGA Tour event offering points to players who made the 36-hole cut based on a standardized system. For each regular PGA Tour event, the winner earns 500 FedEx Cup points.
FedEx Cup playoff events and cuts
Three FedEx Cup playoff events will be played (instead of what had been four). The FedEx Cup playoff events whittle a field of 125 down to 30 for the final event at the Tour Championship. The points are increased by a factor of four from the regular season events, with a winner picking up 2,000 FedEx Cup points in the first two playoff events.
Tour Championship format
Starting in 2019, the Tour Championship format in Atlanta will represent a wiping of the slate of FedEx Cup points.
