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Every day, the crew will focus on numerous components of the PGA Tour, LPGA, LIV Golf, and extra.
As we speak, we’re breaking down the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup.
With the playoffs starting this week, I wished to clarify the FedEx Cup and its large purses.
What’s the FedEx Cup?
The FedEx Cup is the PGA Tour’s season-long race. Gamers accumulate factors to make the playoffs, a three-event sequence that determines the FedEx Cup champion.
The 2024 FedEx Cup race started in January and ended after the Wyndham Championship in August. In all, there are 36 occasions that gamers can take part in to earn factors.
Most tournaments award 500 FedEx Cup factors to the winner, however there are exceptions to that quantity. The Zurich Traditional, a staff occasion, awards 400 to every winner.
There are additionally extra occasions that give winners 300 factors.
The PGA Tour has 15 occasions in 2024 that award 700 or extra factors.
Tournaments that award 700+ FedEx Cup factors:
— Gamers Championship (750)
— Masters Match (750)
— PGA Championship (750)
— U.S. Open (750)
— The Open (750)
— All 8 Signature Occasions (700)
— FedEx St. Jude Championship (2,000)
— BMW Championship (2,000)
The FedEx Cup Playoffs
There are three tournaments that make up the FedEx Cup playoffs.
It begins with the Prime 70 gamers within the FedEx Cup standings, and the sector will get progressively smaller.
— FedEx St. Jude Championship (Aug. 15-18); Prime 70 discipline
TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tenn.
— BMW Championship (Aug. 22-25); Prime 50 discipline
Fort Pines Golf Membership, Fort Rock, Col.
— Tour Championship (Aug. 29- Sept. 1); Prime 30 discipline
East Lake Golf Membership, Atlanta, Ga.
The primary two occasions are comparatively regular, however there are not any cuts after 36 holes.
The Tour Championship, although, options FedEx Cup Beginning Strokes. This format is a staggered, stroke-based system representing the place gamers end within the FedEx Prime 30.
How the FedEx Cup Beginning Strokes work:
1. -10
2. -8
3. -7
4. -6
5. -5
6-10. -4
11-15. -3
16-20. -2
21-25. -1
26-30. E
Former FedEx Cup winners:
2023: Viktor Hovland
2022: Rory McIlroy
2021: Patrick Cantlay
2020: Dustin Johnson
2019: Rory McIlroy
2018: Justin Rose
2017: Justin Thomas
2016: Rory McIlroy
2015: Jordan Spieth
2014: Billy Horschel
2013: Henrik Stenson
2012: Brandt Snedeker
2011: Invoice Haas
2010: Jim Furyk
2009: Tiger Woods
2008: Vijay Singh
2007: Tiger Woods
FedEx Cup Playoffs Huge Purses:
There may be over $100 million within the bonus pool for the FedEx Cup playoffs, with the FedEx Cup champion successful $25 million.
For the primary two tournaments, the purse is $20 million.
The cash doesn’t cease there. The Prime 10 within the FedEx Cup standings is the Comcast Enterprise Tour Prime 10, they usually obtain massive bonuses on high of no matter they win within the playoffs.
Comcast Enterprise Tour Prime 10 Bonuses
1: $8 million
2: $6 million
3: $4.8 million
4: $4.4 million
5: $4 million
6: $3.4 million
7: $2.8 million
8: $2.4 million
9: $2.2 million
10: $2 million
FedEx Cup Fall:
The primary FedEx Cup Fall sequence started September 2023. It options seven tournaments to finalize the Prime 125 and decide who will preserve taking part in alternatives on the PGA Tour.
Gamers ranked No. 51 and decrease carry their factors from the common season and first playoff occasion. They may proceed so as to add factors by way of the seven occasions to find out their eligibility for the 2025 season.
The Nos. 51-60 within the standings after the FedEx Cup Fall sequence may also qualify for the primary two Signature Occasions after the Sentry.
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