2019 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2019 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of three golf tournaments that will determine the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 8–25. It included the following three events:[1]

2019 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tournament information
DatesAugust 8–25, 2019
LocationLiberty National Golf Club
Medinah Country Club
East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Field125 for The Northern Trust
70 for BMW Championship
30 for Tour Championship
Prize fund$60 million (bonus money)
Winner's share$15 million (bonus money)
Champion
Rory McIlroy
−18

They were the 13th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Changes for 2019

There were a number of changes in the format compared to previous years.

  • The playoffs were moved to an earlier date, finishing by the end of August rather than in late September.
  • There were only 3 events rather than 4, with the Dell Technologies Championship being dropped. The leading 70 players after The Northern Trust qualified for the BMW Championship whereas previously the leading 100 qualified for the Dell Technologies Championship, after which the leading 70 qualified for the BMW Championship.
  • An additional bonus pool, the Wyndham Rewards Top 10, was distributed among the leading 10 players after the Wyndham Championship which ended the regular season. The pool was $10 million with the leader receiving $2 million.[2]
  • The FedEx Cup bonus pool was increased from $35 to $60 million, with the winner's share increasing from $10 to $15 million.
  • Major changes were made to the Tour Championship format. In the new system players will receive a stroke advantage based on their position in the FedEx Cup rankings after the BMW Championship. The FedExCup leader will start the Tour Championship at −10, number two at −8, number three at −7, number four at −6 and number five at −5. Players ranked 6 to 10 will start at −4, 11 to 15 at −3, 16 to 20 at −2, 21 to 25 at −1 and 26 to 30 will start from 0. The winner of the Tour Championship will be the FedEx Cup winner.
    (Previously each player's points total was reset after the BMW Championship based on their position in the rankings at that stage. These reset points, added to the points earned in the Tour Championship, determined the final FedEx Cup rankings.)
  • For the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, the stroke advantages in the Tour Championship were ignored.

Regular season rankings

#PlayerCountryPointsEventsWyndham Rewards
Top 10 bonus ($)
1Brooks Koepka United States2,887182,000,000
2Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland2,315161,500,000
3Matt Kuchar United States2,313191,200,000
4Xander Schauffele United States1,858181,100,000
5Gary Woodland United States1,795211,000,000
6Patrick Cantlay United States1,73018850,000
7Dustin Johnson United States1,68616700,000
8Paul Casey England1,62920600,000
9Webb Simpson United States1,61918550,000
10Jon Rahm Spain1,44717500,000

Source:[2]

The Northern Trust

The Northern Trust was played August 8–11. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, four did not play: Paul Casey (ranked 8th), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (59), Henrik Stenson (85) and Sam Burns (89), reducing the field to 121. 85 players made the second-round cut at 141 (−1).

Patrick Reed won by a stroke over Abraham Ancer. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship.[3] This included four players who were outside the top 70 prior to The Northern Trust: Troy Merritt (ranked 72nd to 59th), Joaquín Niemann (74 to 70), Wyndham Clark (90 to 68), and Harold Varner III (102 to 29). Four players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Sergio García (ranked 65th to 72nd), Danny Lee (66 to 73), Kevin Streelman (68 to 75), and Matthew Wolff (70 to 74).[4]

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Patrick Reed United States66-66-67-69=268−161,665,000250
2Abraham Ancer Mexico67-65-68-69=269−15999,000867
T3Jon Rahm Spain64-68-69-69=270−14536,500510
Harold Varner III United States67-67-68-68=27029102
5Adam Scott Australia68-69-69-65=271−13370,0001421
T6Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland65-68-70-69=272−12299,46932
Louis Oosthuizen South Africa68-65-70-69=2722851
Brandt Snedeker United States71-67-63-71=2722233
Jordan Spieth United States67-64-74-67=2724469
T10Ian Poulter England68-66-71-68=273−11240,5004360
Justin Rose England65-68-69-71=2731211
  • Par 71 course

BMW Championship

The BMW Championship was played August 15–18. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, only Kevin Na (ranked 55th) did not play, reducing the field to 69. There was no second-round cut.

Justin Thomas won by 3 strokes from Patrick Cantlay. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to the Tour Championship. This included three players who were outside the top 30 prior to the BMW Championship: Jason Kokrak (ranked 32nd to 30th), Hideki Matsuyama (33 to 15), and Lucas Glover (41 to 29). Three players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Shane Lowry (25 to 33), Harold Varner III (29 to 38) and Andrew Putnam (30 to 34).[5]

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Justin Thomas United States65-69-61-68=263−251,665,000115
2Patrick Cantlay United States66-67-68-65=266−22999,00026
3Hideki Matsuyama Japan69-63-73-63=268−20629,0001533
4Tony Finau United States67-66-68-69=270−18444,0001219
T5Jon Rahm Spain68-69-66-69=272−16351,50065
Brandt Snedeker United States66-71-67-68=2721822
T7Corey Conners Canada69-66-69-69=273−15298,3122327
Lucas Glover United States66-69-69-69=2732941
T9Kevin Kisner United States68-68-69-69=274−14259,0002021
Adam Scott Australia67-71-69-67=2741314
  • Par 72 course

Points after BMW Championship

#PlayerCountryPointsEvents
1Justin Thomas United States3,47519
2Patrick Cantlay United States3,15720
3Brooks Koepka United States3,11920
4Patrick Reed United States2,94624
5Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland2,84218
6Jon Rahm Spain2,51719
7Matt Kuchar United States2,33921
8Xander Schauffele United States2,03020
9Webb Simpson United States1,94620
10Abraham Ancer Mexico1,94026

Tour Championship

The Tour Championship was played August 22–25. 30 golfers qualified for the tournament. There was no second-round cut. Rory McIlroy won the event, finishing four strokes ahead of Xander Schauffele. McIlroy had started the tournament at −5, a one stroke advantage over Schauffele who started at −4.[6]

#PlayerCountryRound scoresStarting
score
Final
score
FedEx Cup RankWinnings ($)
AfterBefore
1Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland66-67-68-66=267−5−181515,000,000
2Xander Schauffele United States64-69-67-70=270−4−14285,000,000
T3Brooks Koepka United States67-67-68-72=274−7−13T333,500,000
Justin Thomas United States70-68-71-68=277−101
5Paul Casey England66-67-68-72=273−2−95162,500,000
6Adam Scott Australia68-70-71-66=275−3−86131,900,000
7Tony Finau United States70-69-70-67=276−3−77121,300,000
8Chez Reavie United States71-64-70-70=275−1−68251,100,000
T9Kevin Kisner United States71-70-68-68=277−2−5T920843,333
Hideki Matsuyama Japan66-75-66-71=278−315
Patrick Reed United States70-70-73-68=281−64
  • Par 70 course

For the full list see here.

Table of qualified players

Table key:

  Win
  Top-10 finish
  Did not advance to next tournament
  Played way into next tournament
Player Pre-Playoffs The Northern Trust BMW
Championship
Tour Championship
Points Rank Finish Rank
after
Finish Rank
after
Starting
score[7]
Final
score
Final
rank
Brooks Koepka 2,887 1 T30 1 T24 3 −7 −13 T3
Rory McIlroy 2,315 2 T6 3 T19 5 −5 −18 1
Matt Kuchar 2,313 3 CUT 4 T52 7 −4 −1 T16
Xander Schauffele 1,858 4 CUT 7 T19 8 −4 −14 2
Gary Woodland 1,795 5 T52 9 T31 11 −3 −2 15
Patrick Cantlay 1,730 6 T12 6 2 2 −8 +1 T21
Dustin Johnson 1,686 7 T24 10 T57 14 −3 +10 T29
Paul Casey 1,629 8 DNP 13 T24 16 −2 −9 5
Webb Simpson 1,619 9 T18 11 T24 9 −4 −1 T16
Jon Rahm 1,447 10 T3 5 T5 6 −4 −4 T12
Justin Rose 1,423 11 T10 12 T52 17 −2 +3 T26
Marc Leishman 1,415 12 CUT 16 T19 21 −1 +2 T24
Rickie Fowler 1,391 13 CUT 17 T11 19 −2 E T19
Chez Reavie 1,309 14 T38 18 T57 25 −1 −6 8
Charles Howell III 1,279 15 CUT 23 T37 28 E +4 28
Tony Finau 1,279 16 T30 19 4 12 −3 −7 7
Justin Thomas 1,247 17 T12 15 1 1 −10 −13 T3
Bryson DeChambeau 1,203 18 T24 20 T48 26 E −4 T12
Tommy Fleetwood 1,193 19 T43 24 T11 22 −1 −1 T16
Shane Lowry 1,137 20 T52 25 T48 33 33
Adam Scott 1,124 21 5 14 T9 13 −3 −8 6
Kevin Kisner 1,098 22 T12 21 T9 20 −2 −5 T9
Im Sung-jae* 1,097 23 T38 26 T11 24 −1 E T19
Ryan Palmer 1,088 24 T77 31 T43 35 35
Francesco Molinari 1,054 25 82 34 T61 40 40
Scott Piercy 1,025 26 T67 35 T37 39 39
J. T. Poston 1,015 27 T59 36 T16 32 32
Tiger Woods 1,003 28 WD 38 T37 42 42
Kang Sung-hoon 986 29 CUT 42 T63 45 45
Hideki Matsuyama 969 30 T30 33 3 15 −3 −5 T9
Corey Conners 962 31 T21 27 T7 23 −1 +3 T26
Lucas Glover 947 32 T43 41 T7 29 E +10 T29
Brandt Snedeker 934 33 T6 22 T5 18 −2 +2 T24
Phil Mickelson 903 34 T71 46 T48 47 47
Pan Cheng-tsung 900 35 T24 37 T31 37 37
Rory Sabbatini 895 36 T43 45 T16 36 36
Keith Mitchell 884 37 T64 47 T52 50 50
Andrew Putnam 873 38 T12 30 T43 34 34
Jim Furyk 865 39 T52 48 T57 51 51
Jason Day 865 40 CUT 50 T52 54 54
Kevin Tway 863 41 T24 40 T11 31 31
Jason Kokrak 854 42 T12 32 T19 30 E −3 14
Nate Lashley* 836 43 CUT 54 69 57 57
Billy Horschel 835 44 T21 39 T37 43 43
Kim Si-woo 832 45 84 53 T28 46 46
Adam Hadwin 818 46 T43 51 T43 52 52
J. B. Holmes 815 47 T52 52 T65 56 56
Kevin Na 815 48 T77 55 DNP 61 61
Collin Morikawa* 780 49 T52 57 T48 59 59
Patrick Reed 774 50 1 2 T19 4 −6 −5 T9
Louis Oosthuizen 754 51 T6 28 T11 27 E +1 T21
Max Homa* 742 52 T38 56 T61 60 60
Dylan Frittelli* 735 53 T43 60 T52 63 63
Graeme McDowell 729 54 CUT 64 T57 68 68
Adam Long* 719 55 CUT 65 T65 69 69
Joel Dahmen 716 56 T67 63 T24 55 55
An Byeong-hun 710 57 T38 61 T28 53 53
Keegan Bradley 700 58 T64 66 T43 66 66
Rafa Cabrera-Bello 696 59 DNP 67 T63 70 70
Ian Poulter 690 60 T10 43 T31 41 41
Ryan Moore 690 61 T18 49 T37 48 48
Emiliano Grillo 673 62 CUT 69 T31 65 65
Vaughn Taylor 641 63 T30 62 T16 49 49
Cameron Champ* 639 64 T21 58 T65 62 62
Sergio García 637 65 CUT 72 72
Danny Lee 625 66 81 73 73
Abraham Ancer 622 67 2 8 T28 10 −4 +1 T21
Kevin Streelman 609 68 CUT 75 75
Jordan Spieth 605 69 T6 44 T37 44 44
Matthew Wolff* 602 70 T71 74 74
Bubba Watson 572 71 CUT 81 81
Troy Merritt 569 72 T12 59 T43 58 58
Charley Hoffman 567 73 T77 78 78
Joaquín Niemann* 566 74 T30 70 T31 67 67
Matt Every 561 75 CUT 86 86
Kiradech Aphibarnrat* 558 76 T71 83 83
Tyrrell Hatton 555 77 T59 79 79
Brian Stuard 547 78 T52 82 82
Cameron Smith 547 79 T59 84 84
Jhonattan Vegas 538 80 T38 76 76
Russell Henley 534 81 T59 87 87
Chesson Hadley 532 82 T43 80 80
Michael Thompson 527 83 CUT 89 89
Adam Schenk* 524 84 T24 71 71
Henrik Stenson 523 85 DNP 90 90
Brian Harman 509 86 T52 88 88
Luke List 497 87 T77 92 92
Branden Grace 495 88 T30 77 77
Sam Burns* 493 89 DNP 94 94
Wyndham Clark* 491 90 T18 68 T31 64 64
Roger Sloan* 489 91 T64 93 93
Bud Cauley 482 92 WD 95 95
J. J. Spaun 479 93 CUT 99 99
Chris Stroud 473 94 WD 102 102
Brice Garnett 466 95 CUT 104 104
Mackenzie Hughes 466 96 T67 98 98
Talor Gooch* 463 97 T71 101 101
Kyle Stanley 460 98 T71 103 103
Nick Watney 460 99 T59 97 97
Patrick Rodgers 459 100 CUT 105 105
Cameron Tringale 459 101 CUT 106 106
Harold Varner III 458 102 T3 29 68 38 38
Sam Ryder 458 103 CUT 107 107
Lee Kyoung-hoon* 453 104 CUT 108 108
Scott Stallings 452 105 CUT 109 109
Russell Knox 452 106 CUT 110 110
Denny McCarthy* 443 107 CUT 111 111
Ryan Armour 434 108 T43 100 100
Scott Brown 433 109 76 112 112
Danny Willett 432 110 T24 85 85
Sepp Straka* 432 111 CUT 115 115
Aaron Baddeley 428 112 WD 116 116
Carlos Ortiz 428 113 T67 113 113
Peter Malnati 423 114 CUT 118 118
Matt Jones 423 115 T30 91 91
Brian Gay 415 116 CUT 119 119
Nick Taylor 408 117 CUT 120 120
Patton Kizzire 406 118 CUT 122 122
Martin Laird 401 119 83 121 121
Aaron Wise 400 120 T43 114 114
Kelly Kraft 399 121 CUT 123 123
Jonas Blixt 392 122 CUT 124 124
Andrew Landry 388 123 T30 96 96
Sebastián Muñoz* 383 124 T43 117 117
Pat Perez 376 125 CUT 125 125

* First-time Playoffs qualifier

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