Another PGA Tour season is in the books and once again the format of the FedEx Cup finale has been questioned.
Scottie Scheffler called the format “silly” last month, where the leader begins the 72-hole Tour Championship at 10-under-par with a two-stroke lead over the second-placed golfer.
Scheffler pointed out that Will Zalatoris finished 30th in the FedEx Cup in 2022 after withdrawing before the Tour Championship, where he would have started in 3rd-place and just three back of the lead.
The format was changed to the new staggered start in 2019 to try and improve the entertainment value of the final event and ensure that there was just one winner.
The previous format, where just the top-five in the standings had a chance of lifting the FedEx Cup, had been criticised before and the new one has also been divisive.
Is it time to change it again? Three of our writers discuss…
The climax of the PGA Tour season should be a must-watch, but in my opinion the current format actually takes away from what should be a brilliant tournament.
The Tour Championship at East Lake is a prestigious event in its own right, and I feel that the PGA Tour should go back to how it used to be where we could have separate winners of the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup.
It’s what the DP World Tour, LPGA Tour and LIV Golf do.
Collin Morikawa won the tournament according his Official World Golf Ranking page yet his PGA Tour page makes no mention of it. It’s the complete reverse for Scottie Scheffler who started at 10-under-par.
Morikawa called it a “fake leaderboard” and the whole thing is slightly confusing when you consider that golfers are measured on how many wins they accrue in their careers. Who won the 2024 Tour Championship, Scheffler or Morikawa? You can make a case for each.
On that same point, an example could be if Tommy Fleetwood won the ‘OWGR’ tournament, so he had the lowest score for four days but didn’t win the FedEx Cup, would that have counted as his first ever PGA Tour victory? Not according to the records, although the OWGR would have awarded him the points as he’d have finished 1st in a 72-hole PGA Tour event. It’s just confusing.
The upcoming LIV Golf individual finale is very fair and easy to understand. It’s Niemann vs Rahm because they both are far out at the top of the…
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