Everything You Need to Know About How the FedEx Cup Works

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Published: August 22, 2013

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With a $10 million grand prize at stake and multiple millions in event purses, the FedEx Cup could easily be called the pay-offs rather than the playoffs.

As the 2013 FedEx Cup begins its four-event series at The Barclays, we'll take a look at how the 125 participating golfers got there. 

Although not as unwieldy as the World Golf Rankings, the seventh running of pro golf’s player- and dollar-rich playoffs requires knowledge of its progressive system of scoring, standings and purse structure.

Pro golf’s FedEx Cup is a NASCAR-like playoff involving an intricate system of point-accrual and customized point resets to guarantee parity as well as series-long suspense.

Heading into the opening round of The Barclays, Tiger Woods leads, but as history has shown, anything can happen as the playoffs unfold. Last year, Rory McIlroy led the field by 3,000 points, yet Brandt Snedeker snuck in to win the overall TOUR Championship, the Cup and its massive $10 million prize.



Additionally, the 125 players who make the first cut automatically retain their PGA tour card for the following season. How a player does in the FedEx Cup events can also determine whether he plays in the President’s Cup, which occurs in October.

So, get out your program, a calculator and maybe even a crystal ball as we look at how the FedEx Cup champ is determined over the course of four events in the next five weeks.

 

Year-Long Process

The FedEx Cup is the trophy given to the player who accrues the most points in a progressive set of post-season playoffs. But the race for the Cup actually begins in January.

Each event in the “regular” season of this year, from the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii to the Wyndham Championships in North Carolina, offered players a chance to earn points in the FedEx Cup standings....
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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