Professional athletes have long been known to give boring answers to the media, and professional golfers are no different. That is unless you ask PGA Tour players how they feel about the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Then they’ll really break it down for you.
Such was the case for last year’s defending champion Patrick Cantlay and U.S. Open champions Jon Rahm (2021) and Matt Fitzpatrick (2022) ahead of this week’s 2022 BMW Championship, the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs held this year at Wilmington Country Club in Delaware.
All three players spoke to the media on Tuesday, and each was asked how they feel about the season-long race for the cup. The trio gave constructive criticism while critiquing the format, even noting they don’t have the answers to fix the issues. Here’s what they had to say.
Patrick Cantlay, 2021 FedEx Cup winner
Q. What do you think makes a perfect post season for the PGA Tour? What do you envision of what this could look like?
“Well, (the playoff format has) changed so many times I’m not sure anyone has got the perfect formula yet. I’m not sure. It’s hard to do Playoffs in golf. I think we’ve seen that.
“I’m not really sure. I think there’s got to be smarter people than me that have more experience putting this on than — it seems to get tweaked every year, and I’m not necessarily sure why. We went to the everyone starts at a different score to par a couple years ago. That still feels strange to me. It is a little clearer to watch on TV because you only have the one tournament going on, but you lose — the fact that it’s the Tour Championship is kind of gone, which I think is a shame really.
“I actually liked it when it was the points and you kind of knew if you were in the top 5 and you won that you had control of your own destiny, and if not it was up to whatever Steve Sands said (laughter). I kind of liked it. If you were following it, you definitely knew what was going on. We would have never had Tiger winning the Tour Championship if it weren’t for that two-event style championship down the stretch. Tiger would have just finished eighth in the FedEx Cup. That would have been weird, considering the scene we saw around that green.
“Like I said, Playoffs is obviously a challenge in golf, and I’m not sure anyone has figured it out, the perfect formula yet.
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