The FedEx Cup Playoff format has been amended more than a conference law.
It started with a poor point system that allowed a dominant Vijay Singh in 2008 to essentially win the title before he had even made a single shot at the Tour Championship. That algorithm gave way to a complicated matrix that required fearless golf channel reporter Steve Sands to explain to viewers what happened on the rankings in the same way that cable-dins reporters split voting results on the election evening.
The next major iteration of the play -offs came in 2018 when the PGA Tour rolled out a format “Start Sleek” that strokes assigned to players based on their Fedex Cup rank. That system was still a year ago when Tommy Fleetwood started the tour championship on one under par, nine back of Fedex Cup leader Scottie Scheffler.
Scheffler giving a runway with nine shots is a 30-meter lead in the 100-meter dashboard as giving Noah Lyles. Good luck with catching him. And indeed, Fleetwood catch Scheffler, who ended his triumphant week in East Lake at the age of 30 – 20 shots Free from the lush Englishman.
This year, however, Fleetwood’s prospects were much brighter in the Fedex final. First of all, he had been on a stove, with three top 5 finishes in his last five starts, including in each of the first two playoff events. For one more thing, the Tour for 2025 had re -changed the FedEx Cup -Playoff format, in particular by scrapping start strokes to East Lake. The 30 players in the field would start the week on a level playing field. Old-school Golf: lowest score over 72 holes wins.
Fleetwood was empty in 163 previous PGA Tour -Starts. But in Atlanta on Sunday he would not be denied. Even in the face of a few shaky swings and panic thoughts on the front nine, he made three Birdies and turned 33. Fleetwood opened the second nine with a bad hook in the left rough and made Bogey, but recovered with Birdies at 12 and 13.
By 18 it was anything but over: with a three-shot benefit compared to his nearest pursuer playing partner Patrick Cantlay-Kon Fleetwood playing the 72nd hole just as conservative as he liked. He parredified the PAR-5, signed for a semi-under 68 for the day and 18-under 262 for the week. No whiteboard explanation required. Fleetwood was your tour championship winner and Fedex Cup champion.
Yet the investigation of spirits could not help to wonder, would he have been the champion if starting strokes was still present this year?
Of course impossible to say, but for what it is worth, if strokes were assigned at the beginning of the week and the field had posted the same scores it did, Scheffler who would have had a five shots over Fleetwood to start the week by a overfletwood. We acknowledge that this is a foolish exercise, given that Fleetwood would certainly have played the last piece differently if he knew he was chasing. However, there is still little doubt that the new Fleetwood format benefited.
Tommy Fleetwood’s profit told us something that his losses could not
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Josh Schrock
Just ask Fleetwood.
“A nice change of control this year,” he said with a bitter smile on the NBC broadcast just after winning, “I have long been a PGA Tour winner -it has just been in my mind. To finally do it in reality, it feels great.”
The Wild Nature of Fleetwood wins its first PGA Tour title And The FedEx Cup on the same Sunday was not lost with him. As he had said earlier in the week: “I think it would be pretty funny if I won this week and then also get the FedExcup.”
Funny, certainly – but also lucrative.
Fleetwood’s Double was good for $ 10 million, which pushed its season dependence to more than $ 18 million. Not bad for a year of one win.
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