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2014 FedEx Cup Playoffs

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2014 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tournament information
DatesAugust 21 – September 14, 2014
LocationRidgewood Country Club
TPC Boston
Cherry Hills Country Club
East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Field125 for The Barclays
100 for Deutsche Bank
70 for BMW Championship
30 for Tour Championship
Prize fund$35,000,000 bonus money
Winner's share$10,000,000 bonus money
Champion
United States Billy Horschel
4,750 points
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The 2014 FedEx Cup Playoffs was the series of four golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour. It was played from August 21 to September 14 and comprised the following four events:

These were the eighth FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

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Place Player Points Events
1 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 2,582 13
2 United States Jimmy Walker 2,493 23
3 United States Bubba Watson 2,173 17
4 United States Matt Kuchar 1,921 20
5 United States Jim Furyk 1,851 17
6 United States Dustin Johnson 1,769 17
7 Spain Sergio García 1,700 13
8 United States Jordan Spieth 1,692 23
9 United States Patrick Reed 1,666 24
10 United States Chris Kirk 1,571 24

The Barclays

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The Barclays was played August 21–24. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, three did not enter: Dustin Johnson (ranked 6), Jason Dufner (57) and Steve Stricker (103).[1] Of the 122 entrants, 79 made the second-round cut at 143 (+1). With more than 78 players making the cut the field was further reduced to 70 after the third round.

Hunter Mahan won by two strokes over Stuart Appleby, Jason Day, and Cameron Tringale and moved from 62nd place to first place in the standings.[2] The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Deutsche Bank Championship. This included seven players who were outside the top 100 prior to The Barclays: Bo Van Pelt (ranked 104th to 73rd), Stewart Cink (109 to 77), Andrés Romero (110 to 92), Danny Lee (116 to 96), Paul Casey (118 to 85), Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (119 to 81), and Morgan Hoffmann (124 to 72). Seven players started the tournament within the top 100 but ended the tournament outside the top 100, ending their playoff chances: Jonas Blixt (ranked 92nd to 102nd), Kevin Kisner (93 to 104), Nick Watney (94 to 105), Luke Guthrie (95 to 106), Retief Goosen (96 to 103), Rory Sabbatini (97 to 108), and Brian Davis (100 to 110).[3]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 United States Hunter Mahan 66-71-68-65=270 −14 1,440,000 1 62
T2 Australia Stuart Appleby 73-66-68-65=272 −12 597,333 19 98
Australia Jason Day 72-64-68-68=272 7 34
United States Cameron Tringale 66-68-72-66=272 10 61
T5 South Africa Ernie Els 68-68-71-66=273 −11 292,000 39 91
United States Matt Kuchar 68-70-68-67=273 4 4
United States William McGirt 68-71-68-66=273 35 81
8 United States Jim Furyk 66-69-69-70=274 −10 248,000 6 5
T9 United States Rickie Fowler 68-73-67-67=275 −9 208,000 11 16
United States Morgan Hoffmann 70-70-66-69=275 72 124
United States Kevin Na 70-66-70-69=275 13 20
United States Patrick Reed 71-66-73-65=275 8 9
  • Par 71 course

Deutsche Bank Championship

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The Deutsche Bank Championship was played August 29 – September 1. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, seven did not play: Dustin Johnson (ranked 14), Sergio García (15), Justin Rose (20), Tim Clark (38), Graeme McDowell (40), Jason Dufner (74), and Paul Casey (85).[4][5] Of the 93 entrants, 80 made the second-round cut at 145 (+3). The field was further reduced to 73 after the third round.

Chris Kirk won by two strokes over Russell Henley, Billy Horschel, and Geoff Ogilvy and moved into first place in the standings.[6] The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included six players who were outside the top 70 prior to the Deutsche Bank Championship: Horschel (82 to 20), Ogilvy (100 to 24), Chesson Hadley (84 to 57), Carl Pettersson (93 to 66), Morgan Hoffmann (72 to 68), and Ben Crane (78 to 69). Six players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Ryo Ishikawa (56 to 72), Justin Hicks (58 to 75), Ben Martin (63 to 76), Scott Langley (65 to 77), Shawn Stefani (67 to 83), and Scott Brown (70 to 85).[7]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 United States Chris Kirk 73-66-64-66=269 −15 1,440,000 1 17
T2 United States Russell Henley 70-66-65-70-271 −13 597,333 14 62
United States Billy Horschel 69-66-67-69=271 20 82
Australia Geoff Ogilvy 70-71-65-65=271 24 100
T5 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 70-69-64-70=273 −11 304,000 2 2
Australia John Senden 69-71-67-66=273 16 28
T7 Australia Jason Day 66-68-69-71=274 −10 258,000 7 7
Germany Martin Kaymer 71-66-70-67=274 15 23
T9 United States Bill Haas 67-69-70-69=275 −9 185,143 17 21
United States Chesson Hadley 66-73-67-69=275 57 84
South Korea Seung-Yul Noh 69-68-68-70=275 36 47
Sweden Carl Pettersson 67-73-69-66=275 66 93
United States Webb Simpson 66-70-68-71=275 19 22
United States Robert Streb 73-67-67-68=275 71 97
United States Jimmy Walker 70-70-68-67=275 4 3
  • Par 71 course

BMW Championship

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The BMW Championship was played September 4–7. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, only one, Dustin Johnson (ranked 22), did not play.[8] There was no cut.

Billy Horschel won by two strokes over Bubba Watson and moved to second on the points list. Two players played their way into the Tour Championship: Morgan Hoffmann (ranked 68 to ranked 21) and Ryan Palmer (37 to 23). Two players played their way out of the Tour Championship: Stuart Appleby (26 to 31) and Keegan Bradley (28 to 33).[9] Hoffmann, who started the playoffs ranked 124th, played his way into each playoff event.[10]

The top 30 players in FedEx Cup points after this event advanced to the Tour Championship and also earned spots in the 2015 Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, and (British) Open Championship.

The FedEx Cup points were reset after the BMW Championship. Points were allocated according to a player's position in the standings. The player in first place has 2,500 points, and the player in 30th has 210.[11] This means that all 30 remaining players will have at least a mathematical chance to secure the season crown, and any of the top five players can claim the FedEx Cup with a win in the Tour Championship.

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 United States Billy Horschel 68-66-63-69=266 −14 1,440,000 2 20
2 United States Bubba Watson 70-66-66-66=268 −12 864,000 3 6
3 United States Morgan Hoffmann 72-72-62-63=269 −11 544,000 21 68
T4 United States Rickie Fowler 71-66-66-68=271 −9 319,000 9 10
United States Jim Furyk 70-68-67-66=271 7 8
Spain Sergio García 68-64-72-67=271 13 23
United States Ryan Palmer 69-64-67-71=271 23 37
T8 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 67-67-72-66=272 −8 232,000 4 2
Australia Adam Scott 71-66-69-66=272 12 13
United States Jordan Spieth 67-70-68-67=272 11 9
  • Par 72 course

Reset points

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The points were reset after the BMW Championship.

Place Player Points Reset points Events
1 United States Chris Kirk 4,314 2,500 27
2 United States Billy Horschel 4,305 2,250 26
3 United States Bubba Watson 4,058 2,000 20
4 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 3,735 1,800 16
5 United States Hunter Mahan 3,363 1,600 24
6 United States Jimmy Walker 3,073 1,400 26
7 United States Jim Furyk 3,073 1,200 20
8 United States Matt Kuchar 2,736 1,000 23
9 United States Rickie Fowler 2,631 800 25
10 Australia Jason Day 2,549 600 14

Tour Championship

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The Tour Championship was played September 11−14. Of the 30 players eligible to play in the event, only one, Dustin Johnson (ranked 30), did not play.[11] There was no cut. Billy Horschel won the tournament by three strokes over Jim Furyk and Rory McIlroy.[12] After starting the playoffs in 69th place and missing the cut in the first playoff tournament, Horschel finished T-2, win, and win in the next three events to win the FedEx Cup.[13][14]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 United States Billy Horschel 66-66-69-68=269 −11 1,440,000 1 2
T2 United States Jim Furyk 67-69-67-69=272 −8 708,000 4 7
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 69-65-67-71=272 3 4
T4 Australia Jason Day 67-67-70-69=273 −7 343,333 10 10
United States Chris Kirk 66-68-71-68=273 2 1
England Justin Rose 72-66-66-69=273 11 26
7 United States Ryan Palmer 69-67-69-69=274 −6 275,000 14 23
8 United States Rickie Fowler 69-68-67-71=275 −5 260,000 9 9
T9 Spain Sergio García 69-71-70-66=276 −4 231,667 13 13
Australia Adam Scott 69-72-65-70=276 12 12
United States Gary Woodland 71-75-63-67=276 22 29
  • Par 70 course

Final leaderboard

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Place Player Points Winnings ($)
1 United States Billy Horschel 4,750 10,000,000
2 United States Chris Kirk 3,100 3,000,000
3 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 3,050 2,000,000
4 United States Jim Furyk 2,450 1,500,000
5 United States Bubba Watson 2,285 1,000,000
6 United States Hunter Mahan 1,835 800,000
7 United States Jimmy Walker 1,668 700,000
8 United States Matt Kuchar 1,300 600,000
9 United States Rickie Fowler 1,225 550,000
10 Australia Jason Day 1,200 500,000

For the full list see here.

Table of qualifying 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 The Barclays Deutsche Bank BMW Champ. Reset
points
Tour Champ.
Points Rank Finish Rank after Finish Rank after Finish Rank after Finish Final rank
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 2,582 1 T22 2 T5 2 T8 4 1,800 T2 3
United States Jimmy Walker 2,493 2 CUT 3 T9 4 T20 6 1,400 T17 7
United States Bubba Watson 2,173 3 T30 5 T29 6 2 3 2,000 14 5
United States Matt Kuchar 1,921 4 T5 4 T29 5 T46 8 1,000 13 8
United States Jim Furyk 1,851 5 8 6 T23 8 T4 7 1,200 T2 4
United States Dustin Johnson 1,769 6 DNP 14 DNP 22 DNP 30 210 DNP 30
Spain Sergio García 1,700 7 T57 15 DNP 23 T4 13 440 T9 13
United States Jordan Spieth 1,692 8 T22 9 T29 9 T8 11 480 T27 15
United States Patrick Reed 1,666 9 T9 8 T74 12 T53 18 340 T19 21
United States Chris Kirk 1,571 10 T53 17 1 1 T36 1 2,500 T4 2
United States Zach Johnson 1,552 11 T22 12 T16 11 T43 15 400 21 18
United States Brendon Todd* 1,542 12 T46 18 CUT 25 T36 27 240 T17 27
United States Webb Simpson 1,536 13 CUT 22 T9 19 T53 22 290 T23 25
Germany Martin Kaymer 1,525 14 CUT 23 T7 15 T16 14 420 T23 16
Australia Adam Scott 1,479 15 T15 16 T16 13 T8 12 460 T9 12
United States Rickie Fowler 1,471 16 T9 11 T23 10 T4 9 800 8 9
United States Harris English 1,469 17 CUT 25 CUT 31 T31 32 32
England Justin Rose 1,447 18 T30 20 DNP 27 35 26 250 T4 11
United States Ryan Moore 1,421 19 CUT 26 73 34 T50 39 39
United States Kevin Na 1,413 20 T9 13 CUT 21 T46 24 270 T19 24
United States Brian Harman 1,349 21 T57 27 T65 33 T43 36 36
Japan Hideki Matsuyama* 1,287 22 T30 24 T57 30 T20 28 230 22 28
United States Keegan Bradley 1,278 23 T53 29 T16 28 WD 33 33
United States Bill Haas 1,268 24 T15 21 T9 17 T16 16 380 16 16
United States Matt Every 1,250 25 CUT 32 80 39 T50 45 45
Australia John Senden 1,157 26 T22 28 T5 16 T23 17 360 26 23
Australia Marc Leishman 1,137 27 CUT 36 T65 47 T53 58 58
Canada Graham DeLaet 1,113 28 CUT 37 T50 43 11 37 37
South Africa Tim Clark 1,111 29 WD 38 DNP 51 T36 54 54
United States Ryan Palmer 1,068 30 T74 43 T16 37 T4 23 280 7 14
United States Kevin Stadler 1,067 31 T46 34 T16 32 T50 38 38
United States Gary Woodland 1,059 32 T13 30 T29 29 T23 29 220 T9 22
United States Charles Howell III 1,042 33 T22 31 T35 35 T36 34 34
Australia Jason Day 1,028 34 T2 7 T7 7 WD 10 600 T4 10
United States Charley Hoffman 1,026 35 T30 33 CUT 41 T53 53 53
United States J. B. Holmes 1,007 36 CUT 48 T35 46 T12 42 42
Colombia Camilo Villegas 1,002 37 CUT 49 T50 54 T20 48 48
Sweden Freddie Jacobson 987 38 CUT 51 79 63 T53 66 66
United States Kevin Streelman 972 39 T46 42 T26 38 T59 44 44
Australia Matt Jones 970 40 CUT 54 78 67 T53 67 67
United States George McNeill 962 41 CUT 55 T29 48 T31 46 46
South Korea Noh Seung-yul 950 42 T53 47 T9 36 T23 35 35
Northern Ireland Graeme McDowell 948 43 T38 40 DNP 53 T36 56 56
United States Justin Hicks 923 44 CUT 58 CUT 75 75
United States Phil Mickelson 921 45 78 57 T45 56 WD 68 68
United States Will MacKenzie 920 46 CUT 59 T45 58 T59 65 65
United States Brian Stuard 891 47 T74 64 T16 49 T36 51 51
Scotland Russell Knox* 885 48 T38 46 T26 40 T23 40 40
United States Daniel Summerhays 869 49 T46 52 T57 60 T29 57 57
United States Russell Henley 864 50 T61 62 T2 14 T59 20 310 12 19
United States Chris Stroud 834 51 T19 41 T45 42 T43 47 47
Australia Steven Bowditch 828 52 T22 44 T45 45 T63 59 59
United States Scott Brown 816 53 CUT 70 77 85 85
South Korea K. J. Choi 814 54 T71 69 T35 65 T63 69 69
United States Brandt Snedeker 812 55 CUT 71 CUT 86 86
Argentina Ángel Cabrera 807 56 T22 45 CUT 59 T12 50 50
United States Jason Dufner 798 57 DNP 74 DNP 90 90
United States Ben Martin* 789 58 T46 63 CUT 76 76
United States Jason Bohn 784 59 T61 68 T35 64 66 70 70
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 783 60 T30 53 T43 52 T12 43 43
United States Cameron Tringale 781 61 T2 10 T69 18 T31 19 320 15 20
United States Hunter Mahan 776 62 1 1 64 3 T59 5 1,600 T23 6
United States Ben Crane 774 63 CUT 78 T29 69 T23 60 60
United States Jerry Kelly 765 64 T38 60 T57 70 T29 62 62
United States Erik Compton 745 65 T19 50 CUT 62 T46 64 64
England Luke Donald 743 66 CUT 80 T57 89 89
United States Brendan Steele 729 67 T57 76 T50 79 79
United States Kevin Chappell 723 68 T30 61 T50 61 T16 55 55
United States Billy Horschel 722 69 CUT 82 T2 20 1 2 2,250 1 1
Sweden Henrik Stenson 720 70 T38 66 T26 55 T23 52 52
Zimbabwe Brendon de Jonge 717 71 T61 79 T74 91 91
United States Chesson Hadley* 705 72 70 84 T9 57 T12 49 49
United States Scott Langley 686 73 T30 65 T65 77 77
United States Pat Perez 682 74 CUT 87 WD 98 98
Japan Ryo Ishikawa* 681 75 T19 56 CUT 72 72
United States Robert Garrigus 678 76 CUT 88 CUT 99 99
United States Scott Stallings 668 77 CUT 90 T35 84 84
England Ian Poulter 657 78 CUT 91 T23 78 78
Sweden Carl Pettersson 650 79 CUT 93 T9 66 T31 63 63
United States Andrew Svoboda* 647 80 CUT 94 T57 94 94
United States William McGirt 646 81 T5 35 T69 50 65 61 61
Canada David Hearn 645 82 T38 75 T43 74 74
United States Shawn Stefani* 640 83 T30 67 68 83 83
United States Robert Streb* 635 84 CUT 97 T9 71 71
United States Jason Kokrak 632 85 T61 89 T16 73 73
United States Jeff Overton 631 86 T53 83 T69 92 92
United States Billy Hurley III* 630 87 CUT 98 T57 97 97
Fiji Vijay Singh 625 88 T68 95 T35 87 87
United States Michael Putnam 618 89 CUT 99 T50 93 93
Australia Geoff Ogilvy 611 90 CUT 100 T2 24 T36 25 260 29 29
South Africa Ernie Els 610 91 T5 39 T50 44 T16 41 41
Sweden Jonas Blixt 599 92 CUT 102 102
United States Kevin Kisner* 587 93 CUT 104 104
United States Nick Watney 584 94 CUT 105 105
United States Luke Guthrie 575 95 T71 106 106
South Africa Retief Goosen 569 96 T66 103 103
South Africa Rory Sabbatini 567 97 CUT 108 108
Australia Stuart Appleby 554 98 T2 19 CUT 26 T46 31 31
United States John Huh 544 99 T38 86 T69 96 96
England Brian Davis 534 100 T74 110 110
United States Martin Flores 530 101 79 112 112
Australia Aaron Baddeley 528 102 CUT 114 114
United States Steve Stricker 519 103 DNP 116 116
United States Bo Van Pelt 518 104 T13 73 T57 81 81
United States Ricky Barnes 518 105 T68 113 113
United States Michael Thompson 515 106 CUT 117 117
England Lee Westwood 514 107 T57 107 107
Venezuela Jhonattan Vegas 505 108 T66 115 115
United States Stewart Cink 504 109 T15 77 T50 80 80
Argentina Andrés Romero 503 110 T38 92 76 100 100
United States Troy Merritt* 499 111 T46 101 101
United States David Toms 498 112 T74 118 118
United States Boo Weekley 496 113 T61 111 111
New Zealand Tim Wilkinson 494 114 T71 119 119
United States Justin Leonard 491 115 CUT 120 120
New Zealand Danny Lee* 490 116 T38 96 T35 88 88
United States Brice Garnett* 488 117 CUT 121 121
England Paul Casey 471 118 T22 85 DNP 95 95
Spain Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño* 470 119 T15 81 T45 82 82
South Korea Bae Sang-moon 466 120 CUT 122 122
United States James Hahn 456 121 CUT 123 123
United States Bryce Molder 455 122 T46 109 109
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 453 123 CUT 124 124
United States Morgan Hoffmann 448 124 T9 72 T35 68 3 21 300 T27 26
Australia Robert Allenby 438 125 CUT 125 125

* First-time Playoffs participant
MDF – made cut, did not finish (i.e. cut after third round)

References

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