When Sunday’s Tour winner removes the trophy, he will have something in common with Tiger Woods 2007: he will leave East Lake Golf Club with a FedEx cup in $ 10 million appreciate.
But another whole has changed. The places are different. The fields are reduced. And it looks very different from the beginning. Let’s make a quick story of FedEx Cup Play off. No money is included.
2007 – Playoffs FedEx Cup 1.0
Price: 35 million dollars First place check: $ 10 mil
Format notes: PGA Tour first released her plans for a play off in November 2005, to be distributed for the 2007 season. That first year of Play off was a four -shift composition; 144 qualified players for the first event, Barclays, before cutting to 120 for the Deutsche Bank championship, 70 for the Championship BMW and 30 for the Tour Championship.
Entertainment: Looking back, waiting for these first three events outside the New York (Westchester Country Club), Boston (TPC Boston) and Chicago (Cog Hill) before going to Atlanta for the Tour Championship looks like a simple winning formula. Also probably didn’t hurt that Phil Mickelson won Deutsche Bank and Tiger Woods won BMW AND Tour championship.
2008 – Playoffs FedEx Cup 2.0 and 3.0
Price: 35 million dollars First place check: $ 10 mil
Format notes: At the beginning of 2008, the changes were announced in the Playoff Points system, essentially by languishing points and punishing players who may think of going through the first event. (Woods had overlooked the first Play Off’s event, Barclays, a year ago.)
Subsequently Playoffs in 2008, further points changes were announced for the 2009 season to guarantee that what had happened in 2008 – Vijay Singh building such a large lead that FedEx Cup was set before they even make it in the tour championship – would not happen again. The field for the first event was reduced to 125 players, followed by 100, 70 and 30.
Entertainment: Coming Looking back on the first two winners, Woods and Singh, who ended with 123.033 and 125,101 points FedEx Cup, respectively; No one hit the 5,000 -point marker in the decade that followed.
2019 – Playoffs FedEx Cup 4.0
Price Fund: $ 60 mil First place control: $ 15 million
Format notes: Here’s where everything changed. (Again.) The tournament reduced its number of events from four to three and moved the dates of the play off, ending the last week of August and avoiding football in the process. This meant that the Dell Technologies championship (held in Boston) was awarded. While 125 players still do play -off, they cut from 125 to 70 and then to 30.
This was also the beginning of the “Start Strokes” era, in which the highest rank player entered the Tour Championship won an advantage to start the week, starting from 10 below the same time while second place would begin at 8 below, the fourth, the fourth under and down at all.
FACT FACT: Remember when Tiger Woods won the Tour Championship in 2018 – and then that same night got on a flight to France for Ryder Cup 2019? This kind of thing no longer happens because the play off -ends end a month ago.
2022 – Playoffs FedEx Cup 5.0
Price Fund: $ 75 million First place check: $ 18 mil dollars
Format notes: No significant change in the format, but 2022 was evident because it was the first Liv Golf season, the players were defecting left and right and PGA Tour responded with other Format changes in his schedule (write signature events) as well as different ways to get his players more money. This meant a $ 75m collision for FedEx Cup, meant growth of bags and mean the increase in the player impact program (PIP) which would eventually swell in $ 100 million. (Also, for 2023, the field for the first event of the Play off was reduced to 70.)
FACT FACT: Some of the Liv players PGA Tour’s lawsuit for keeping them out of FedEx Cup Play off. Three players – Talor Gooch, Hudson Swaford and Matt Jones – tried to receive a temporary restriction order to play the championship FedEx St. Jude. Ultimately denied.
2024 – Playoffs FedEx Cup 6.0
Price Fund: $ 100 million First place control: $ 25 million
Format notes: If you raise price money anywhere else (as with signature events) you will better leave the Play off money to keep the pace. Thanks in part for the sunset of the player’s influence program, the tournament scored its money even further, sending $ 25 million to winner Scottie Scheffler.
FACT FACT: $ 25 million is just a lot of money to earn a golf tournament.
2025 – Playoffs FedEx Cup 7.0
Price Fund: $ 100 million First place control: $ 10 mil (ex)
Format notes: The tour rejected the “Starting Strokes” and introduced a new format of FedEx finals that was a very terrible as the pre-playoff of the Tour championship: 30 players, a low score win.
But because FedEx Cup is designed to reward the long season game, they spread payments through some shifts instead of plunging at the end of the season. This meant that Scheffler ranked 1 got home $ 10 million at the end of the regular season, plus $ 8 million to earn Top 10 Comcast Business. And he will have a chance of another $ 10 million if the winner can come out at the end of the tournament.
FACT FACT: Beautiful job, if you can get it.
A partial salary list is in the graph below; You can see the entire tour champion bag here.
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