2017 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2017 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of four golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 24 to September 24. It included the following four events:

2017 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tournament information
DatesAugust 24 – September 24, 2017
LocationGlen Oaks Club
TPC Boston
Conway Farms Golf Club
East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Field125 for The Northern Trust
100 for Dell Technologies Championship
70 for BMW Championship
30 for Tour Championship
Prize fund$35,000,000 bonus money
Winner's share$10,000,000 bonus money
Champion
Justin Thomas
3,000 points

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

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

#PlayerCountryPointsEvents
1Hideki Matsuyama Japan2,86918
2Justin Thomas United States2,68921
3Jordan Spieth United States2,67119
4Dustin Johnson United States2,46616
5Rickie Fowler United States1,83217
6Jon Rahm Spain1,75419
7Brooks Koepka United States1,73620
8Daniel Berger United States1,62322
9Kevin Kisner United States1,61224
10Brian Harman United States1,55726

The Northern Trust

The Northern Trust was played August 24–27. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, five did not enter: Sergio García (ranked 22), Brandt Snedeker (64), Adam Scott (66), Scott Piercy (85), and Dominic Bozzelli (115).[1] Of the 120 entrants, 70 made the second-round cut at 142 (+2).

Dustin Johnson won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff over Jordan Spieth.[2] The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Dell Technologies Championship. This included three players who were outside the top 100 prior to The Northern Trust: Bubba Watson (ranked 113th to 72nd), David Lingmerth (122 to 88), and Harold Varner III (123 to 91). Three players started the tournament within the top 100 but ended the tournament outside the top 100, ending their playoff chances: An Byeong-hun (ranked 96th to 102nd), Robert Garrigus (99 to 109), and Noh Seung-yul (100 to 110).[3]

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Dustin Johnson United States65-69-67-66=267−131,575,00014
2Jordan Spieth United States69-65-64-69=267945,00023
T3Jon Rahm Spain68-68-67-68=271−9507,50056
Jhonattan Vegas Venezuela69-65-72-65=2711029
5Paul Casey England69-68-66-71=274−6350,0001218
T6Kevin Chappell United States68-73-64-70=275−5283,2811730
Jason Day Australia69-71-68-67=2752949
Webb Simpson United States73-66-71-65=2751625
Justin Thomas United States68-69-69-69=27532
T10Patrick Cantlay United States67-70-69-70=276−4187,5005078
Matt Kuchar United States71-64-68-73=2761515
Louis Oosthuizen South Africa67-72-68-69=2762635
Chez Reavie United States69-68-69-70=2764063
Justin Rose England68-68-69-71=2762432
Robert Streb United States71-70-66-69=2765179
Bubba Watson United States67-68-71-70=27672113
  • Par 70 course

Dell Technologies Championship

The Dell Technologies Championship was played September 1–4. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, four did not enter: Henrik Stenson (ranked 22), Brandt Snedeker (68), J. B. Holmes (86), and Scott Piercy (94).[4] Of the 96 entrants, 79 made the second-round cut at 145 (+3).

Justin Thomas won by three strokes over Jordan Spieth. It was Thomas's fifth win of the season and Spieth's second runner-up finish of the 2017 playoffs. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included three players who were outside the top 70 prior to the Dell Technologies Championship: Stewart Cink (81 to 57), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (80 to 60), and Emiliano Grillo (77 to 62). Three players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Russell Knox (65 to 71), Kelly Kraft (64 to 72), and Brandt Snedeker (68 to 73).[5]

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Justin Thomas United States71-67-63-66=267−171,575,00023
2Jordan Spieth United States72-65-66-67=270−14945,00012
3Marc Leishman Australia67-69-65-70=271−13595,000720
T4Paul Casey England70-65-67-70=272−12385,000812
Jon Rahm Spain67-66-71-68=27255
T6Phil Mickelson United States69-67-69-68=273−11283,2813658
Kevin Na United States68-69-70-66=2734063
Pat Perez United States72-67-67-67=2731014
Patrick Reed United States71-67-69-66=2732233
T10Bill Haas United States71-70-68-65=274−10227,5003039
Justin Rose England72-65-69-68=2741724
  • Par 71 course

BMW Championship

The BMW Championship was played September 14–17, after a one-week break. All 70 players eligible to play in the event did so, and there was no cut.

Marc Leishman won by five strokes from Rickie Fowler and Justin Rose. 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: Tony Finau (39 to 24), Sergio García (34 to 25), Xander Schauffele (32 to 26), and Patrick Cantlay (41 to 29). Four players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Louis Oosthuizen (24 to 31), Henrik Stenson (26 to 32), Brendan Steele (27 to 33) and Bill Haas (30 to 35).[6]

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Marc Leishman Australia62-64-68-67=261−231,575,00047
T2Rickie Fowler United States65-64-70-67=266−18770,00066
Justin Rose England67-68-66-65=266817
4Jason Day Australia64-65-70-69=268−16420,0001528
T5Matt Kuchar United States67-68-67-67=269−15332,5001218
Jon Rahm Spain69-68-65-67=26955
T7Tony Finau United States65-72-70-64=271−13282,1882439
Jordan Spieth United States65-70-71-65=27111
T9Patrick Cantlay United States67-65-70-70=272−12236,2502941
Anirban Lahiri India67-71-68-66=2725170
Webb Simpson United States66-73-65-68=2721621
  • Par 71 course

Reseed points

The points were reset after the BMW Championship.

#PlayerCountryPointsReseed pointsEvents
1Jordan Spieth United States5,4212,00022
2Justin Thomas United States5,0811,80024
3Dustin Johnson United States4,7301,52019
4Marc Leishman Australia4,0841,29624
5Jon Rahm Spain3,3141,28022
6Rickie Fowler United States3,1971,12020
7Hideki Matsuyama Japan3,05896021
8Justin Rose England2,51480017
9Brooks Koepka United States2,17064023
10Paul Casey England2,14548023

Tour Championship

The Tour Championship was played September 21–24. All 30 golfers who qualified for the tournament played, and there was no cut. Xander Schauffele won by one stroke over Justin Thomas but Thomas won the FedEx Cup.[7][8]

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Xander Schauffele United States69-66-65-68=268−121,575,000326
2Justin Thomas United States67-66-70-66=269−11945,00012
T3Russell Henley United States67-71-67-65=270−10511,8751327
Kevin Kisner United States68-68-64-70=2701218
5Paul Casey England66-67-65-73=271−9350,0001110
6Brooks Koepka United States66-69-68-69=272−8315,000109
T7Tony Finau United States68-71-68-66=273−7280,0001924
Jon Rahm Spain67-67-70-69=27355
Jordan Spieth United States67-70-69-67=27321
T10Sergio García Spain73-66-68-67=274−6236,2502125
Matt Kuchar United States69-71-67-67=2741412
Justin Rose England68-66-71-69=27498
  • Par 70 course

Final leaderboard

PlacePlayerCountryPointsMoney ($)
1Justin Thomas United States3,00010,000,000
2Jordan Spieth United States2,3403,000,000
3Xander Schauffele United States2,1512,000,000
4Dustin Johnson United States1,7201,500,000
5Jon Rahm Spain1,6201,000,000
6Marc Leishman Australia1,441800,000
7Rickie Fowler United States1,253700,000
8Hideki Matsuyama Japan1,093600,000
9Justin Rose England1,080550,000
10Brooks Koepka United States1,040500,000

For the full list, see here.

Table of qualifying players

Table key:

  Win
  Top-10 finish
  Did not advance to next tournament
  Played way into next tournament
Player Pre-Playoffs The Northern Trust Dell Technologies BMW Champ. Reseed
points
Tour Champ.
Points Rank Finish Rank after Finish Rank after Finish Rank after Finish Final rank
Hideki Matsuyama 2,869 1 CUT 4 T23 4 T47 7 960 T26 8
Justin Thomas 2,689 2 T6 3 1 2 T47 2 1,800 2 1
Jordan Spieth 2,671 3 2 2 2 1 T7 1 2,000 T7 2
Dustin Johnson 2,466 4 1 1 T18 3 T33 3 1,520 T17 4
Rickie Fowler 1,832 5 T20 6 T13 6 T2 6 1,120 T26 7
Jon Rahm* 1,754 6 T3 5 T4 5 T5 5 1,280 T7 5
Brooks Koepka 1,736 7 T49 7 T18 9 T12 9 640 6 10
Daniel Berger 1,623 8 33 8 T61 11 T33 14 336 15 16
Kevin Kisner 1,612 9 T54 11 T53 14 T67 18 251 T3 12
Brian Harman 1,557 10 CUT 13 T65 15 T40 20 219 T24 25
Charley Hoffman 1,498 11 T17 9 T47 12 T27 13 352 T28 20
Pat Perez 1,461 12 T34 14 T6 10 T12 11 384 16 15
Adam Hadwin 1,347 13 CUT 18 T13 16 T40 21 206 23 26
Marc Leishman 1,324 14 CUT 20 3 7 1 4 1,296 T24 6
Matt Kuchar 1,260 15 T10 15 T56 18 T5 12 368 T10 14
Brendan Steele 1,226 16 CUT 25 T56 27 T44 33 33
Kyle Stanley 1,204 17 T25 19 T25 19 T47 22 194 T20 24
Paul Casey 1,135 18 5 12 T4 8 T33 10 480 5 11
Russell Henley 1,129 19 T25 23 T40 23 T47 27 142 T3 13
Jason Dufner 1,126 20 T20 21 T69 25 T58 30 115 T20 30
Charles Howell III 1,102 21 T62 28 CUT 35 T67 40 40
Sergio García 1,085 22 DNP 30 T35 34 T12 25 161 T10 21
Henrik Stenson 1,079 23 T17 22 DNP 26 T51 32 32
Billy Horschel 1,068 24 CUT 31 CUT 38 62 42 42
Webb Simpson 1,058 25 T6 16 T75 21 T9 16 293 T13 17
Gary Woodland 1,052 26 CUT 34 T18 29 T27 28 133 19 28
Wesley Bryan* 1,046 27 T54 32 T69 37 69 41 41
Tony Finau 1,024 28 T54 35 T65 39 T7 24 170 T7 19
Jhonattan Vegas 1,023 29 T3 10 T65 13 T63 17 272 30 23
Kevin Chappell 1,015 30 T6 17 T35 20 T12 19 231 T28 27
Francesco Molinari 1,010 31 CUT 36 T61 42 T12 37 37
Justin Rose 996 32 T10 24 T10 17 T2 8 800 T10 9
Xander Schauffele* 988 33 T17 27 T53 32 T20 26 151 1 3
Mackenzie Hughes* 974 34 T62 37 T13 31 T44 36 36
Louis Oosthuizen 956 35 T10 26 T30 24 T63 31 31
Bill Haas 946 36 CUT 39 T10 30 T53 35 35
Hudson Swafford 921 37 T43 38 T13 33 T40 38 38
Patrick Reed 896 38 T20 33 T6 22 65 23 182 T13 22
Ollie Schniederjans* 882 39 CUT 42 CUT 50 66 60 60
Cameron Smith* 847 40 CUT 44 CUT 56 T12 46 46
Kim Si-woo 839 41 T43 41 T40 45 T58 54 54
Zach Johnson 839 42 CUT 46 T56 54 T20 48 48
Bryson DeChambeau* 836 43 CUT 48 T30 44 T33 49 49
Rory McIlroy 803 44 T34 43 CUT 51 T58 58 58
Kang Sung-hoon 798 45 CUT 53 T35 52 T53 59 59
Keegan Bradley 794 46 T43 47 T35 48 T27 47 47
Jamie Lovemark 787 47 CUT 54 T40 58 T33 57 57
Ian Poulter 760 48 66 56 T23 47 T40 52 52
Jason Day 756 49 T6 29 T25 28 4 15 314 T17 18
Luke List 741 50 T34 52 T47 55 T20 50 50
Phil Mickelson 734 51 T54 58 T6 36 T20 34 34
Charl Schwartzel 727 52 T29 49 T25 43 T27 44 44
James Hahn 711 53 CUT 60 T75 64 T33 68 68
Sean O'Hair 707 54 69 59 CUT 65 T20 62 62
Lucas Glover 706 55 T40 57 T30 53 T12 43 43
Danny Lee 697 56 CUT 62 CUT 69 WD 70 70
Martin Laird 676 57 T20 45 T40 49 T44 56 56
Kelly Kraft* 672 58 70 64 WD 72 72
Ryan Moore 671 59 T49 61 WD 67 T20 64 64
Russell Knox 669 60 CUT 65 T61 71 71
Anirban Lahiri 667 61 CUT 66 T56 70 T9 51 51
Bud Cauley 666 62 CUT 67 T47 68 T27 65 65
Chez Reavie 666 63 T10 40 T61 46 T12 39 39
Brandt Snedeker 663 64 DNP 68 DNP 73 73
Scott Brown 646 65 T25 55 T65 61 T20 55 55
Adam Scott 642 66 DNP 73 CUT 79 79
Graham DeLaet 640 67 WD 74 T75 76 76
Patrick Rodgers 639 68 CUT 75 T73 78 78
Grayson Murray* 638 69 T62 70 T25 63 T51 66 66
Rod Pampling 630 70 T54 71 79 74 74
Chris Stroud 627 71 CUT 78 CUT 84 84
Kevin Tway* 619 72 T43 69 T40 66 T53 69 69
Chad Campbell 616 73 T67 76 CUT 83 83
Rafa Cabrera-Bello* 615 74 CUT 80 T18 60 T33 61 61
Kevin Na 584 75 T29 63 T6 40 T53 45 45
Stewart Cink 583 76 CUT 81 12 57 T27 53 53
Jonas Blixt 578 77 CUT 84 T40 82 82
Patrick Cantlay* 578 78 T10 50 T13 41 T9 29 124 T20 29
Robert Streb 577 79 T10 51 T73 59 T53 63 63
Morgan Hoffmann 565 80 T67 83 T40 81 81
Jim Herman 553 81 CUT 86 T69 91 91
J. B. Holmes 543 82 CUT 88 DNP 95 95
Kevin Streelman 541 83 CUT 90 T35 86 86
Nick Taylor 532 84 CUT 92 T56 93 93
Scott Piercy 532 85 DNP 94 DNP 98 98
Pan Cheng-tsung* 527 86 T49 85 T47 88 88
Patton Kizzire 519 87 CUT 97 CUT 99 99
Emiliano Grillo 518 88 T29 77 22 62 T58 67 67
Cody Gribble* 514 89 CUT 98 T30 87 87
Branden Grace 510 90 CUT 99 T25 80 80
J. J. Spaun* 510 91 T54 93 T75 97 97
Kim Meen-whee* 505 92 T34 82 CUT 89 89
William McGirt 499 93 T54 96 T30 85 85
Jason Kokrak 490 94 T25 79 T53 77 77
Michael Kim 483 95 CUT 100 CUT 100 100
An Byeong-hun* 468 96 CUT 102 102
Chris Kirk 467 97 T40 95 T47 92 92
Camilo Villegas 464 98 T34 89 CUT 96 96
Robert Garrigus 448 99 CUT 109 109
Noh Seung-yul 446 100 CUT 110 110
Jimmy Walker 439 101 CUT 111 111
Scott Stallings 438 102 T43 101 101
David Lingmerth 437 103 T29 87 CUT 94 94
D. A. Points 435 104 T54 104 104
Ryan Blaum* 434 105 T62 107 107
Brian Gay 426 106 CUT 112 112
Luke Donald 424 107 T49 105 105
Richy Werenski* 423 108 T49 106 106
Brandon Hagy* 419 109 CUT 113 113
Steve Stricker 410 110 CUT 115 115
Derek Fathauer 408 111 CUT 116 116
Tyrone van Aswegen 407 112 CUT 117 117
Bubba Watson 397 113 T10 72 T69 75 75
Harris English 397 114 CUT 118 118
Dominic Bozzelli* 394 115 DNP 119 119
Geoff Ogilvy 390 116 T40 108 108
Nick Watney 386 117 CUT 120 120
Martin Flores 383 118 T34 103 103
John Huh 382 119 CUT 121 121
Blayne Barber 381 120 CUT 122 122
Ben Martin 378 121 CUT 123 123
Rory Sabbatini 375 122 CUT 124 124
Harold Varner III 375 123 T20 91 T47 90 90
Vaughn Taylor 369 124 T43 114 114
J. J. Henry 365 125 CUT 125 125

* First-time Playoffs qualifier

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