Golf Question of the Week: How Do You Fix the FedEx Cup?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/2982454615_09e71e2299_m.jpgThe 2008 FedEx Cup? Sorting my sock drawer was more compelling. Two years into the implementation of the PGA TOUR’s multi-million-dollar playoff system, each year’s champion (Tiger Woods, 2007; Vijay Singh, 2008) has been virtually determined less than halfway through.
So does the FedEx Cup need a Band-Aid, or a tourniquet? Here’s what some of the pundits would do:
From Jeff Rude, Golfweek:
“The best plan: Play the Tour Championship on Wednesday-Saturday and award the tournament winner the trophy and $1.26 million check. Then the top four players in FedEx Cup points at that point start from scratch and play 18 holes Sunday for the current mega-bonuses, including $10 million for first.”
From GolfChannel’s ”Tour Insider”:
“One solution that appears to be getting a lot of attention is not to reset the points until the Tour Championship, which could mean any of the 30 players at East Lake would have a chance to win. Plus, it would be decided over 72 holes and protect the integrity of the competition.”
From Jason Sobel, ESPN.com:
“ … a format in which points are awarded in incremental increases for each of the four rounds, meaning a seventh-place finish at the opening Barclays would count less than a seventh-place finish at the Deutsche Bank Championship, which would count less than one at the BMW, which would ultimately count less than such a result at the Tour Championship.”
From Bob Weeks, ScoreGolf.com:
“Build to a Match Play Final: Not that I think for a minute they’d ever consider this, but it would be a great way to ensure a grand finale. Use the first three events to get qualifiers for the match play final. The more points you have the more byes you receive, i.e. if you were Vijay, you might go right to the quarter final while the last qualifier might have to start in the round of 64.”
How would you fix it? Or do you think it even needs to be fixed in the first place?
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