In March we discuss whether men’s golf needs a fifth Major before moving on to May where we question the PGA Championship’s lack of identity and its spot in the golfing schedule.
It’s now August, which means we question the FedEx Cup Playoffs format – and that’s exactly what I’ll being doing.
The FedEx Cup Playoffs format has changed this year to get rid of the manufactured starting strokes, where the leader began the final tournament at 10-under-par. This made things confusing and was also unfair on the player leading the FedEx Cup heading into the Tour Championship.
A single out-of-bounds tee shot or early double bogey and suddenly the lead they had worked all season to build would have disappeared. It’s something Scottie Scheffler labelled as “silly” last year.
It also caused confusion over who won the actual tournament. Scottie Scheffler is credited with the 2025 Tour Championship even though Collin Morikawa shot the lowest 72-hole score.
Look it up on the PGA Tour website and it will tell you that Scheffler won, whereas the Official World Golf Ranking site has Morikawa as the 72-hole victor credited with the winner’s share of points.
Collin Morikawa shot the lowest 72-hole score at East Lake last year
(Image credit: Getty Images)
For 2025, the top 30 will make it to East Lake and the man who shoots the lowest score over 72 holes will earn the right to call themselves FedEx Cup champion – which essentially earns you the label as the PGA Tour’s champion golfer of the year.
It means that the player entering the week in 30th position can get hot for four days and lift the trophy, which certainly adds some intrigue to the event but is grossly unfair on Scheffler, who is almost 1,400 points clear at the top of the FedEx Cup standings.
That’s part of the reason why Scheffler was rewarded with $18m this past week from both the FedEx Cup standings and Comcast Business Tour Top 10.
Scheffler has a big lead at the top of the FedEx Cup standings after four wins this year, including two Majors
(Image credit: Getty Images)
Regular tournaments offer 500 points to the winner whereas the points are quadrupled during the first two Playoffs events, meaning Scheffler could be overtaken over the next two weeks.
The World No.1 could, as he has said before, pull a muscle on…
..
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at Latest from Golf Monthly…