FedEx Cup – Say What?
Overview
Tim Finchem, the PGA Tour commissioner finally announced the long-awaited details of the FedEx Cup for 2007. Here’s the gist of the upcoming season:
Next year’s PGA tour season will comprise three distinct parts:
| Part 1 | FedEx Regular Season | Runs from January through late August |
| Part 2 | FedEx Playoffs | Runs from late August through mid-September |
| Part 3 | Fall Series | Runs from mid-September through December |
Regular Season
For each regular-season event, the Fedex Cup will award 25,000 points with the winner of each event earning 4500 points, 2nd place will earn 2700 points, and so on. The four majors and the WGC events will award 27,500 and 26,250 points respectively to each tournament.
The FedEx Cup Playoffs
After the regular season concludes, the point totals for alll the players will be totaled and this number will be used as the players seed for the playoffs. 144 players will be eligible for the playoffs but their regular season point totals will be reset heading into the playoffs. (Confused yet?)
Four tournaments (actually three plus the “finals”) make up the playoffs with 50,000 points available for distribution. The final playoff event will only consist of the top-30 players that made it through the first round of playoffs. (Really confused?)
The motive behind the FedEx Cup was simple. Entice more of the games top players to play more often and give them a monetary incentive at the end of the season for hanging around. 144 players will make the FedEx Cup, so that means you have to be a complete and thorough hack NOT to make the FedEx Cup preliminary rounds. And if that’s the case, just skip the “regular season” and jump right into the playoffs.
Just tracking the stats next year might prove interesting, but we’ll have to wait and see how it plays out.