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2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs

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2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tournament information
DatesAugust 11–28, 2022
LocationTPC Southwind
Wilmington Country Club
East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Field125 for FedEx St. Jude Championship
70 for BMW Championship
30 for Tour Championship
Prize fund$75 million (bonus money)
Winner's share$18 million (bonus money)
Champion
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy
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The 2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of three golf tournaments that determined the 2021–22 season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 11–28. It included the following three events:

They were the 16th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

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The leading 10 players in the FedEx Cup regular season standings qualified for a share of the $20 million Comcast Business Tour top 10 bonus.

Place Player Points Events Bonus ($)
1 United States Scottie Scheffler 3,556 22 4,000,000
2 Australia Cameron Smith 2,335 16 3,000,000
3 United States Sam Burns 2,275 21 2,400,000
4 United States Xander Schauffele 2,153 18 2,200,000
5 United States Patrick Cantlay 2,108 17 2,000,000
6 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 2,104 13 1,700,000
7 United States Tony Finau 1,912 22 1,400,000
8 United States Justin Thomas 1,783 18 1,200,000
9 United States Cameron Young 1,774 22 1,100,000
10 South Korea Im Sung-jae 1,733 23 1,000,000

Source:[1]

Playoffs eligibility list

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With several players having been suspended from the tour mid-season after participating in LIV Golf events without receiving a release to do so, the tour created a FedExCup Playoffs Eligibility ranking list which excluded them.[2] Ten players who finished inside the top-125 of the standard FedExCup Standings were excluded: Talor Gooch, Jason Kokrak, Matt Jones, Hudson Swafford, Matthew Wolff, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Brooks Koepka, Charles Howell III, Pat Perez. Three of these (Gooch, Jones and Swafford) failed in their attempt to gain a temporary restraining order to allow them to compete in the playoffs.[3][4] Despite this, Gooch finished 29th in the standings after the first two playoff events, which would normally have qualified him for the Tour Championship.[5]

FedEx St. Jude Championship

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The FedEx St. Jude Championship was played August 11–14. 125 players were eligible to play in the event. Five players withdrew before the start, reducing the field to 120. Tommy Fleetwood (ranked 47) did not play for personal reasons.[6] Lanto Griffin (ranked 69),[7] Daniel Berger (ranked 78), and Nate Lashley (ranked 98) did not play due to injury.[8] Hideki Matsuyama (ranked 11) withdrew due to a neck injury.[9] 69 players made the second-round cut at 138 (−2).

Will Zalatoris won the event, beating Sepp Straka in a playoff. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included four players who were outside the top 70 prior to The FedEx St. Jude Championship: Lucas Glover (ranked 121st to 34th), Adam Scott (77 to 45), Andrew Putnam (87 to 47), and Wyndham Clark (79 to 70). Four players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Anirban Lahiri (ranked 63rd to 71st), John Huh (67 to 73), Brendon Todd (68 to 74), and Lanto Griffin (69 to 77).

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) Before After
1 United States Will Zalatoris 71-63-65-66=265 −15 2,700,000 12 1
2 Austria Sepp Straka 64-66-68-67=265 1,635,000 35 8
T3 United States Lucas Glover 65-68-69-66=268 −12 885,000 121 34
United States Brian Harman 66-66-69-67=268 55 23
T5 United States Tony Finau 64-68-69-68=269 −11 480,000 7 5
England Matt Fitzpatrick 68-66-67-68=269 14 12
United States Collin Morikawa 67-69-66-67=269 22 20
United States Trey Mullinax 66-67-66-70=269 70 40
United States Andrew Putnam 66-68-67-68=269 87 47
Spain Jon Rahm 67-69-67-66=269 16 14
Australia Adam Scott 66-67-70-66=269 77 45
  • Par 70 course

BMW Championship

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The BMW Championship was played August 18–21. 70 players were eligible to play in the event. There was no second-round cut. Tommy Fleetwood and Cameron Smith did not play, reducing the field to 68.

Patrick Cantlay won the event, beating Scott Stallings by one stroke. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to the Tour Championship. This included four players who were outside the top 30 prior to the BMW Championship: Scott Stallings (ranked 46th to 12th), Lee Kyoung-hoon (33 to 26), Adam Scott (45 to 29), and Aaron Wise (31 to 30). Four players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Tom Kim (25 to 34), Davis Riley (26 to 35), Kevin Kisner (28 to 38), and J. J. Spaun (30 to 33).

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 United States Patrick Cantlay 68-68-65-69=270 −14 2,700,000 2 7
2 United States Scott Stallings 68-68-66-69=271 −13 1,620,000 12 46
T3 United States Xander Schauffele 67-69-66-71=273 −11 870,000 4 6
United States Scottie Scheffler 68-67-68-70=273 1 2
T5 Canada Corey Conners 68-67-70-69=274 −10 547,500 24 29
South Korea Lee Kyoung-hoon 68-70-71-65=274 26 33
Australia Adam Scott 65-69-69-71=274 29 45
T8 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 68-68-70-69=275 −9 420,000 7 9
Chile Joaquín Niemann 69-68-68-70=275 19 19
Canada Taylor Pendrith 71-68-67-69=275 46 67
Spain Jon Rahm 73-70-65-67=275 11 14
  • Par 71 course

Tour Championship

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The Tour Championship was played August 25–28. 30 golfers qualified for the tournament. Will Zalatoris did not play due to a back injury, reducing the field to 29.[10] There was no second-round cut.

Players were allocated a starting score relative to par based on their position in the standings after the BMW Championship. The points leader started the tournament at 10 under par, number two at 8 under par, number three at 7 under par, number four at 6 under par and number five at 5 under par. Players ranked 6 to 10 started at 4 under par, 11 to 15 at 3 under par, 16 to 20 at 2 under par, 21 to 25 at 1 under par and 26 to 30 start at even par. The winner of the Tour Championship wins the FedEx Cup.[11] For the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, points are awarded based on aggregate scores (total strokes taken, ignoring any starting scores).

Rory McIlroy won by one stoke over Im Sung-jae and Scottie Scheffler. He also had the best 72-hole aggregate score of 263. It was his third Tour Championship win and third FedEx Cup win.[12]

Place Player Round scores Starting
score
Final
score
FedEx Cup rank Winnings ($)
After Before
1 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 67-67-63-66=263 −4 −21 1 7 18,000,000
T2 South Korea Im Sung-jae 67-65-66-66=264 −4 −20 T2 10 5,750,000
United States Scottie Scheffler 65-66-66-73=270 −10 1
4 United States Xander Schauffele 66-63-70-69=268 −6 −18 4 4 4,000,000
T5 United States Max Homa 71-62-66-66=265 −2 −17 T5 16 2,750,000
United States Justin Thomas 67-68-63-68=266 −3 13
T7 United States Patrick Cantlay 70-66-66-70=272 −8 −16 T7 2 1,750,000
Austria Sepp Straka 68-68-64-68=268 −4 9
9 United States Tony Finau 72-66-67-64=269 −4 −15 9 8 1,250,000
10 United States Tom Hoge 66-66-66-69=267 −1 −14 10 23 1,000,000
  • Par 70 course

Table of qualified players

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Table key:

  Win
  Top-10 finish
  Did not advance to next tournament
  Played way into next tournament
Player Pre-Playoffs FedEx St. Jude
Championship
BMW
Championship
Tour Championship
Points Rank Finish Rank
after
Finish Rank
after
Starting
score[11]
Final
score
Final
rank
United States Scottie Scheffler 3,556 1 CUT 2 T3 1 −10 −20 T2
Australia Cameron Smith 2,335 2 T13 3 DNP 6 −4 −9 20
United States Sam Burns 2,275 3 T20 4 T19 5 −5 −7 24
United States Xander Schauffele 2,153 4 T57 6 T3 4 −6 −18 4
United States Patrick Cantlay 2,108 5 T57 7 1 2 −8 −16 T7
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 2,104 6 CUT 9 T8 7 −4 −21 1
United States Tony Finau 1,912 7 T5 5 T28 8 −4 −15 9
United States Justin Thomas 1,783 8 T13 10 T52 13 −3 −17 T5
United States Cameron Young* 1,774 9 T31 13 T23 14 −3 −10 19
South Korea Im Sung-jae 1,733 10 12 11 T15 10 −4 −20 T2
Japan Hideki Matsuyama 1,697 11 DNP 15 T35 17 −2 −13 T11
United States Will Zalatoris* 1,680 12 1 1 WD 3 −7 DNP 30
United States Max Homa 1,625 13 T42 16 T23 16 −2 −17 T5
England Matt Fitzpatrick 1,596 14 T5 12 T48 15 −3 −11 T15
United States Jordan Spieth 1,574 15 CUT 17 T19 18 −2 −12 T13
Spain Jon Rahm 1,449 16 T5 14 T8 11 −3 −11 T15
United States Tom Hoge 1,424 17 CUT 21 T48 23 −1 −14 10
United States Billy Horschel 1,403 18 CUT 22 T35 22 −1 −8 T21
Norway Viktor Hovland 1,314 19 T20 18 T35 20 −2 −11 T15
Chile Joaquín Niemann 1,228 20 T13 19 T8 19 −2 −13 T11
United States J. T. Poston 1,146 21 T20 24 T35 27 E −11 T15
United States Collin Morikawa 1,089 22 T5 20 T44 21 −1 −8 T21
United States Davis Riley* 1,045 23 T31 26 T54 35 35
Republic of Ireland Séamus Power 990 24 CUT 36 65 42 42
United States J. J. Spaun 985 25 T42 30 T23 33 33
United States Cameron Tringale 957 26 CUT 39 63 47 47
United States Aaron Wise 952 27 T31 31 T15 30 E −12 T13
Republic of Ireland Shane Lowry 942 28 T46 37 T12 31 31
United States Luke List 938 29 CUT 42 T61 51 51
Canada Corey Conners 936 30 T28 29 T5 24 −1 −3 26
United States Maverick McNealy 936 31 T31 32 T32 37 37
United States Russell Henley 934 32 CUT 43 T35 44 44
United States Keegan Bradley 925 33 CUT 44 T58 53 53
South Korea Tom Kim* 917 34 T13 25 T54 34 34
Austria Sepp Straka 909 35 2 8 T28 9 −4 −16 T7
United States Kevin Kisner 906 36 T20 28 T48 38 38
United States Keith Mitchell 888 37 T31 38 T32 39 39
Chile Mito Pereira* 888 38 T42 41 T54 49 49
United States Sahith Theegala* 886 39 T13 27 T15 28 E +1 28
South Korea Lee Kyoung-hoon 853 40 T20 33 T5 26 E −1 27
United States Scott Stallings 852 41 CUT 46 2 12 −3 +3 29
United States Denny McCarthy 842 42 T20 35 T28 36 36
United States Kurt Kitayama* 839 43 CUT 48 T19 40 40
Australia Lucas Herbert* 796 44 CUT 54 T15 43 43
Colombia Sebastián Muñoz 795 45 T46 49 T35 54 54
Canada Mackenzie Hughes 783 46 T46 52 T58 56 56
England Tommy Fleetwood 766 47 DNP 56 DNP 62 62
South Korea Kim Si-woo 751 48 T42 53 67 57 57
England Tyrrell Hatton 749 49 T31 50 T23 48 48
Canada Adam Hadwin 721 50 69 59 T44 61 61
United States Chez Reavie 715 51 T51 58 T54 63 63
United States Chris Kirk 707 52 CUT 61 T61 66 66
South Africa Christiaan Bezuidenhout* 698 53 T64 60 T12 50 50
United States Matt Kuchar 696 54 CUT 63 T35 64 64
United States Brian Harman 694 55 T3 23 T35 25 −1 −8 T21
Argentina Emiliano Grillo 691 56 T31 55 T19 52 52
United States Brendan Steele 689 57 CUT 64 T32 59 59
United States Harold Varner III 682 58 CUT 65 T48 67 67
Sweden Alex Norén 681 59 WD 66 T52 68 68
Canada Taylor Pendrith* 663 60 68 67 T8 46 46
United States Alex Smalley* 658 61 CUT 69 T44 69 69
Australia Marc Leishman 656 62 T64 68 T28 58 58
India Anirban Lahiri 642 63 CUT 71 71
United States Troy Merritt 639 64 T28 57 T58 60 60
United States Taylor Moore* 623 65 T31 62 T44 65 65
Australia Cameron Davis 614 66 T13 51 T35 55 55
United States John Huh 612 67 WD 73 73
United States Brendon Todd 592 68 67 74 74
United States Lanto Griffin 592 69 DNP 77 77
United States Trey Mullinax 590 70 T5 40 T12 32 32
United States Brandon Wu* 586 71 CUT 78 78
United States Matthew NeSmith 576 72 CUT 79 79
United States Gary Woodland 573 73 T51 75 75
United States Beau Hossler 572 74 T57 76 76
United States Chad Ramey* 568 75 CUT 80 80
United States Adam Long 564 76 CUT 81 81
Australia Adam Scott 551 77 T5 45 T5 29 E −4 25
United States Daniel Berger 529 78 DNP 86 86
United States Wyndham Clark 527 79 T28 70 64 70 70
United States Joel Dahmen 524 80 CUT 87 87
United States Patrick Rodgers 517 81 CUT 90 90
Scotland Russell Knox 514 82 CUT 91 91
United States Kevin Streelman 509 83 CUT 93 93
United States Mark Hubbard 508 84 CUT 94 94
United States David Lipsky* 505 85 T46 84 84
United States Peter Malnati 501 86 CUT 95 95
United States Andrew Putnam 498 87 T5 47 T23 45 45
England Aaron Rai* 491 88 T51 88 88
New Zealand Danny Lee 490 89 CUT 96 96
Canada Adam Svensson* 483 90 T51 92 92
Germany Stephan Jäger* 480 91 T46 89 89
Taiwan Pan Cheng-tsung 473 92 CUT 99 99
United States Adam Schenk 461 93 T31 85 85
England Justin Rose 458 94 CUT 100 100
United States Hayden Buckley* 456 95 T61 98 98
United States Vince Whaley* 438 96 CUT 103 103
Venezuela Jhonattan Vegas 428 97 CUT 105 105
United States Nate Lashley 427 98 DNP 106 106
United States Lee Hodges* 424 99 T13 72 72
Scotland Martin Laird 421 100 T57 101 101
United States Sam Ryder 412 101 T51 102 102
United States Scott Piercy 410 102 WD 110 110
United States Michael Thompson 406 103 T31 97 97
England Callum Tarren* 405 104 CUT 111 111
United States Max McGreevy* 404 105 CUT 112 112
United States Chesson Hadley 404 106 CUT 113 113
South Africa Dylan Frittelli 401 107 T20 82 82
United States James Hahn 400 108 T61 107 107
United States Greyson Sigg* 397 109 T61 108 108
United States Ryan Palmer 391 110 T20 83 83
United States Nick Watney 387 111 CUT 114 114
United States Robert Streb 385 112 T51 109 109
Australia Jason Day 385 113 CUT 115 115
United States Doug Ghim 385 114 CUT 116 116
United States Stewart Cink 376 115 CUT 117 117
United States Kevin Tway 361 116 CUT 118 118
United States Ryan Brehm* 359 117 CUT 119 119
United States Tyler Duncan 355 118 T31 104 104
Austria Matthias Schwab* 353 119 CUT 120 120
United States Patton Kizzire 351 120 CUT 121 121
United States Lucas Glover 349 121 T3 34 66 41 41
United States Webb Simpson 346 122 CUT 122 122
Canada Nick Taylor 333 123 CUT 124 124
United States Kramer Hickok 328 124 CUT 125 125
United States Rickie Fowler 324 125 T64 123 123

* First-time Playoffs qualifier
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew

References

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  1. ^ "2022 FedEx Cup season standings". PGA Tour. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  2. ^ Hoggard, Rex (July 26, 2022). "PGA Tour creates playoff 'eligibility list' to remove suspended players". Golf Channel. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
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  6. ^ Romine, Brentley. "Tommy Fleetwood appears to be skipping FedExCup Playoffs after tweet". Golf Channel. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  7. ^ Romine, Brentley. "Lanto Griffin likely out until 2023 after back surgery". Golf Channel. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  8. ^ "FedEx. St Jude Championship field set at 122 players – for now". Golf Channel. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
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