When the winner of the Tour Championship on Sunday lifts the trophy, he has something in common with Tiger Woods 2007: he runs away from East Lake Golf Club with a $ 10 million Fedex Cup price of $ 10 million.
But a lot differently has changed. The locations are different. The fields have shrunk. And it looks very different than in the beginning. Let us bow through a rapid history of the FedEx Cup -Play -Offs. No prize money included.
2007 – FedEx Cup Playoffs 1.0
Price fund: $ 35 mil
First place check: $ 10 mil
Format notes: The PGA Tour brought its plans for a play-off in November 2005 for the first time, to be rolled out for the 2007 season. That first Playoff year was a four-tournament setup; 144 players qualified for the first event, the Barclays, before they cut up to 120 for the Deutsche Bank Championship, 70 for the BMW championship and 30 for the Tour Championship.
Leisure: Looking back, organizing these first three events outside of New York (Westchester Country Club), Boston (TPC Boston) and Chicago (COG Hill) before he goes to Atlanta for the Tour Championship, seems like a simple winning formula. It also probably didn’t hurt that Phil Mickelson won the Deutsche Bank and Tiger Woods won the BMW And Tour championship.
2008 – FedEx Cup Playoffs 2.0 and 3.0
Price fund: $ 35 mil
First place check: $ 10 mil
Format notes: At the beginning of 2008, changes were announced to the PlayOFF Points system, essentially the points and punishing players who may think of skipping to skip the first event. (Woods had skipped the very first playoff event, the Barclays, the year before.)
After The Play -offs of 2008, further points changes were announced for the 2009 season to guarantee what had happened in 2008 – Vijay Singh built such a big lead that the FedEx Cup was decided before they would even clean it up at the Tour Championship – would not happen again. The field for the first event was reduced to 125 players, followed by 100, 70 and 30.
Leisure: Looking back on the first two winners, Woods and Singh, which ended with 123.033 and 125.101 Fedex Cup points respectively; Nobody cracked the 5000-point marker in the decade that followed.
2019 – FedEx Cup Playoffs 4.0
Prices fund: $ 60 mil
First place check: $ 15 mil
Format notes: Everything changed here. (Again.) The Tour reduced the number of events from four to three and moved the data from the Play -off, ended the last week of August and avoided football. That meant that the Dell Technologies Championship (held in Boston) was exhibited. While 125 players still made the play -offs, they cut from 125 to 70 and then to 30.
This was also the start of the era of the “starting regions”, in which the top player who entered the Tour Championship yielded an advantage to start the week, starting at 10 under par, while second place would start at 8 below, third in 7, fourth in 6 below and on even par.
Fun fact: Do you remember when Tiger Woods won the Tour Championship in 2018 – and then the same night came a flight to France for the Ryder Cup 2019? Things like that no longer happen, because the play -offs finish a month earlier.
2022 – FedEx Cup Playoffs 5.0
Prices fund: $ 75 Mil
First place check: $ 18 mil
Format notes: No significant classification changes, but 2022 was remarkable because it was the first season of Liv Golf, players were left and right over and the PGA Tour responded with other Format changes in his schedule (enter signature events) and different ways to get his players more money. That meant a bump up to $ 75 million for the FedEx Cup, it meant raised purses and it meant that the Player Impact Program (PIP) was increased, which would eventually swell to $ 100 million in itself. (Also before 2023 the field was reduced to 70 for the first play -off event.
Fun fact: Various Liv players sued the PGA Tour to keep them out of the play -offs of Fedex Cup. Three players – Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones – tried to get a temporary house ban to play the Fedex St. Jude Championship. It was eventually denied.
2024 – FedEx Cup Playoffs 6.0
Prices fund: $ 100 mil
First place check: $ 25 mil
Format notes: If you increase the prize money everywhere elsewhere (as with the characteristic events), you can make the play -off money better to keep pace. Thanks in part to the sunset of the Player Impact Program, the Tour has solved its prize money even further and sent $ 25 million to the winner Scottie Scheffler.
Fun fact: $ 25 million is just a lot of money for winning a golf tournament.
2025 – FedEx Cup Playoffs 7.0
Prices fund: $ 100 mil
First place check: $ 10 mil (ISH)
Format notes: The Tour joined “Start Sleek” and introduced a new FedEx final layout that was a lot like the pre-play-off edition of the Tour Championship: 30 players, low score wins.
But because the FedEx Cup has been designed to reward the seasonal game, they distribute the payment over different tournaments instead of just handing it out at the end of the season. That meant that the number 1 arranged Scheffler took home $ 10 million at the end of the regular season, plus $ 8 million for winning the Comcast Business Tour Top 10. Scheffler achieved a $ 5 million bonus for staying on that number 1 place after the BMW championship. And he gets a chance for another $ 10 million if he can stand up at the end of the Tour Championship.
Fun fact: Good job, if you can get it.
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