This Week: The Barclays Opens FedEx "Playoffs"
The FedEx Cup point series now moves into the "playoffs" portion of its schedule, with PGA Tour golfers seeded from one to 144 based on their "regular season" finish, and now embarking on the first of four playoff tournaments.
The Barclays leads off the playoff schedule, with a field of 144. One-hundred 20 players move on to the Deutsche Bank Championship, then 70 to the BMW Championship, and finally 30 to the Tour Championship.
The No. 1 player in FedEx Cup points won't be playing any of them. Because the No. 1 player is still Tiger Woods. Check out the full FedEx Cup points standings on pgatour.com.
The Tour tweaked the points formula for the playoffs this year after 2007's playoffs failed to produce much movement in the week-to-week standings. The two changes made should result in a few more players moving up the standings each week, more players falling down the standings when they fail to perform, and a few more players having a chance to win it all by the time of the Tour Championship. See the explanation of changes, and some examples of how they would have changed 2007's results.
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The only way to make the playoffs worthwhile was to hope and pray that you would get to see some fine golf and with one round left and the likes of Vijay Singh, Casey, Weir and Garcia just one shot behind, you surely could not have much to complain about at this week’s Barclay Championship.
The most interesting name I find on the leaderboard right now is the young Australian Jason Day. It wasn’t long ago that this talented youngster from Queensland had expressed his desire to topple Tiger Woods from the throne. A statement that met with a fair share of raised eyebrows, but that is the Australian style isn’t it? Fiercely Aggressive and extremely determined. Of course, it is extremely important to be able to back up that kind of confidence with some really good performance. So while Tiger tends to his knee, if Jason Day could break out from the pack we would have another young member in the group of “Maybe someday they would Challenge Tiger list”
Kenny Perry obviously is doing his cause no harm with another good showing and is placed in a good position to launch a final day attack for another win for him.