PGA Tour FedEx Cup Playoffs: 2 Adjustments That Still Need to Be Made

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Published: August 25, 2012

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Jason Dufner, the third-ranked player in the FedEx Cup point standings, is absent this week at The Barclays.

“Need a week off,” Dufner said at last week’s Wyndham Championship, where he recorded his eighth top-10 finish of the season.

“Playing the Tour Championship and then the weeks before, after that the Ryder Cup. It's big events with me for the rest of the year. Going to get a little bit of rest and get fresh for the first two events that I'll be playing in The Playoffs and really look forward to the Tour Championship and playing in the Ryder Cup,” Dufner continued.

Sergio Garcia, who is currently leading The Barclays, has already announced that he will not be attending next week’s Deutsche Bank Championship.

“I need to take a week off somewhere, and unfortunately that’s the only one that I can think of,” Garcia said yesterday afternoon at The Barclays, via pgatour.com.

It would come as no surprise whatsoever if Tiger Woods, who spent five hours yesterday afternoon struggling through lower back pain, announced that he too will not be making the trip north to Boston next week.

Many people will be quick to leap to the conclusion that even a $10 million payday isn’t enough to get these multimillionaires out of their mansions to play several weeks in a row.  

But, that might not necessarily be the case. Ten million dollars is a lot of money to any player out there, including the likes of Woods and Phil Mickelson. There are also numerous other titles still up for grabs, including the Vardon Trophy, the Player of the Year award, the money title and, of course, the FedEx Cup title.

The issue is neither the money nor the lack of desire on the part of players to win the FedEx Cup title.

The issue comes down to scheduling and a playoff point system that still needs some work.

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