2020 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2020 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of three golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 20 to September 7. It included the following three events:

2020 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tournament information
DatesAugust 20 – September 7, 2020
LocationTPC Boston
Olympia Fields Country Club
East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Field125 for The Northern Trust
70 for BMW Championship
30 for Tour Championship
Prize fund$60 million (bonus money)
Winner's share$15 million (bonus money)
Champion
Dustin Johnson
−21

This was the 14th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

#PlayerCountryPointsEventsWyndham Rewards
Top 10 bonus ($)
1Justin Thomas United States2,458152,000,000
2Collin Morikawa United States1,902181,500,000
3Webb Simpson United States1,878121,200,000
4Bryson DeChambeau United States1,657141,100,000
5Im Sung-jae South Korea1,633231,000,000
6Patrick Reed United States1,42617850,000
7Daniel Berger United States1,34714700,000
8Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland1,32712600,000
9Brendon Todd United States1,31622550,000
10Jon Rahm Spain1,29512500,000

Source:[1]

The Northern Trust

The Northern Trust was played August 20–23. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, two did not play: Vaughn Taylor (ranked 75th) withdrew with a rib injury and Brooks Koepka (ranked 97th) withdrew with knee and hip injuries, reducing the field to 123.[2] Scottie Scheffler scored 59 for his second round, becoming the 11th player to score under 60 in a PGA Tour event. Dustin Johnson led after two rounds after a second round 60, two ahead of Scheffler and Cameron Davis.[3] 70 players made the second-round cut at 139 (−3).

Dustin Johnson won by 11 strokes over Harris English after further rounds of 64 and 63.[4] 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 Northern Trust: Alex Norén (ranked 78th to 47th), Harry Higgs (72 to 48), Russell Henley (101 to 61), Robby Shelton (81 to 62), Jason Kokrak (90 to 66), and Louis Oosthuizen (99 to 70). Six players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Doc Redman (ranked 60th to 71st), Kang Sung-hoon (61 to 72), Denny McCarthy (65 to 73), Phil Mickelson (67 to 75), Henrik Norlander (68 to 76), and Zhang Xinjun (70 to 78).

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Dustin Johnson United States67-60-64-63=254−301,710,000115
2Harris English United States64-66-66-69=265−191,035,500627
3Daniel Berger United States66-66-67-67=266−18655,50047
T4Kevin Kisner United States65-66-70-66=267−17427,5002340
Scottie Scheffler United States70-59-67-71=2671424
T6Jon Rahm Spain69-67-67-65=268−16332,500910
Webb Simpson United States70-64-68-66=26833
T8Russell Henley United States64-67-70-68=269−15277,87561101
Alex Norén Sweden69-68-64-68=2694778
Ryan Palmer United States67-67-68-67=2692229
  • Par 71 course

BMW Championship

The BMW Championship was played August 27–30. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, one did not play: Webb Simpson (ranked 3rd) withdrew to rest, reducing the field to 69. He was already guaranteed a place in the Tour Championship. There was no second-round cut.

Jon Rahm beat Dustin Johnson with a birdie at the first playoff hole after the two had tied at 276, 4-under-par. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to the Tour Championship. This included two players who were outside the top 30 prior to the BMW Championship: Joaquín Niemann (ranked 31st to 18th) and Mackenzie Hughes (36 to 28). Two players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Adam Long (27 to 31) and Kevin Streelman (28 to 32).

FedEx Cup rank
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parWinnings ($)AfterBefore
1Jon Rahm Spain75-71-66-64=276−41,710,00029
2Dustin Johnson United States71-69-69-67=2761,026,00011
T3Hideki Matsuyama Japan67-73-69-69=278−2551,0001018
Joaquín Niemann Chile72-71-68-67=2781831
5Tony Finau United States70-71-73-65=279−1384,7502029
T6Matthew Fitzpatrick England70-75-68-67=280E337,2503660
Jason Kokrak United States74-71-69-66=2804266
T8Sebastián Muñoz Colombia70-75-67-69=281+1285,0001516
Brendon Todd United States73-68-71-69=2811113
T10Lanto Griffin United States70-73-70-69=282+2247,0001615
Mackenzie Hughes Canada69-73-69-71=2822836
  • Par 70 course

Points after BMW Championship

#PlayerCountryPointsEvents
1Dustin Johnson United States3,47113
2Jon Rahm Spain3,08014
3Justin Thomas United States2,57017
4Webb Simpson United States2,16313
5Collin Morikawa United States2,02520
6Daniel Berger United States2,00716
7Harris English United States1,80519
8Bryson DeChambeau United States1,68216
9Im Sung-jae South Korea1,65025
10Hideki Matsuyama Japan1,58719

Tour Championship

The Tour Championship was played September 4–7 and was contested by the leading 30 players in the FedEx Cup points standings after the BMW Championship, with 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 started at even par. The winner of the Tour Championship wins the FedEx Cup. For the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, points are awarded based on aggregate scores (total strokes taken, ignoring any starting scores).

Dustin Johnson won by three strokes from Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas. Schauffele, who had started 7 strokes behind Johnson, had the best 72-hole aggregate score of 265, three better than Scottie Scheffler and four better than Johnson and Thomas.[5]

#PlayerCountryRound scoresStarting
score
Final
score
FedEx Cup RankWinnings ($)
AfterBefore
1Dustin Johnson United States67-70-64-68=269−10−211115,000,000
T2Xander Schauffele United States67-65-67-66=265−3−18T2144,500,000
Justin Thomas United States66-71-66-66=269−73
4Jon Rahm Spain65-74-66-66=271−8−17423,000,000
5Scottie Scheffler United States71-66-66-65=268−2−145172,500,000
6Collin Morikawa United States71-65-67-69=272−5−13651,900,000
7Tyrrell Hatton England67-66-71-66=270−2−127191,300,000
T8Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland64-71-70-67=272−3−11T812960,000
Sebastián Muñoz Colombia71-65-70-66=272−315
Patrick Reed United States71-66-70-65=272−313
  • Par 70 course

For the full list see here.

Table of qualified players

Table key:

  Win
  Top-10 finish
  Did not advance to next tournament
  Played way into next tournament
Player Pre-Playoffs The Northern Trust BMW
Championship
Tour Championship
Points Rank Finish Rank
after
Finish Rank
after
Starting
score[6]
Final
score
Final
rank
Justin Thomas 2,458 1 T49 2 T25 3 −7 −18 T2
Collin Morikawa 1,902 2 CUT 5 T20 5 −5 −13 6
Webb Simpson 1,878 3 T6 3 DNP 4 −6 −9 T12
Bryson DeChambeau 1,657 4 CUT 7 50 8 −4 −3 22
Im Sung-jae 1,633 5 CUT 8 T56 9 −4 −10 11
Patrick Reed 1,426 6 T49 10 T40 13 −3 −11 T8
Daniel Berger 1,347 7 3 4 T25 6 −4 −7 T15
Rory McIlroy 1,327 8 T65 12 T12 12 −3 −11 T8
Brendon Todd 1,316 9 64 13 T8 11 −3 −4 T20
Jon Rahm 1,295 10 T6 9 1 2 −8 −17 4
Xander Schauffele 1,258 11 T25 11 T25 14 −3 −18 T2
Lanto Griffin* 1,159 12 T58 15 T10 16 −2 −5 T18
Abraham Ancer 1,099 13 CUT 19 T33 22 −1 −5 T18
Marc Leishman 1,086 14 CUT 20 69 25 −1 +2 29
Dustin Johnson 1,071 15 1 1 2 1 −10 −21 1
Sebastián Muñoz 1,045 16 T18 16 T8 15 −3 −11 T8
Kevin Na 1,036 17 T39 21 T51 24 −1 +1 T27
Hideki Matsuyama 1,030 18 T29 18 T3 10 −4 −7 T15
Tyrrell Hatton 1,025 19 T25 17 T16 19 −2 −12 7
Cameron Champ 951 20 CUT 25 T65 29 E E T24
Adam Long 912 21 T49 27 T56 31 31
Kevin Streelman 909 22 T61 28 T51 32 32
Tony Finau 907 23 CUT 29 5 20 −2 −6 17
Scottie Scheffler* 900 24 T4 14 T20 17 −2 −14 5
Billy Horschel 893 25 CUT 30 T33 30 E +4 30
Joaquín Niemann 878 26 CUT 31 T3 18 −2 +1 T27
Harris English 867 27 2 6 T40 7 −4 −9 T12
Viktor Hovland* 842 28 T18 24 T40 27 E −4 T20
Ryan Palmer 838 29 T8 22 T40 23 −1 E T24
Cameron Smith 807 30 T18 26 T20 26 E E T24
An Byeong-hun 765 31 CUT 35 T12 33 33
Patrick Cantlay 745 32 CUT 37 T12 34 34
Gary Woodland 741 33 CUT 39 T33 43 43
Matthew Wolff 739 34 T44 33 T16 35 35
Tyler Duncan 736 35 T29 32 T48 40 40
Adam Scott 726 36 T58 38 T25 41 41
Nick Taylor 720 37 CUT 40 T51 48 48
Joel Dahmen 720 38 CUT 41 T20 38 38
Tom Hoge 716 39 CUT 43 T65 50 50
Kevin Kisner 710 40 T4 23 T25 21 −1 −1 23
Richy Werenski 703 41 68 44 T20 39 39
Mark Hubbard 701 42 T29 34 T51 44 44
Brendan Steele 669 43 T44 45 T33 47 47
Adam Hadwin 654 44 CUT 49 T40 54 54
Jason Day 653 45 CUT 50 64 57 57
Michael Thompson 647 46 CUT 51 T59 59 59
Carlos Ortiz 630 47 CUT 56 T25 51 51
Andrew Landry 626 48 67 53 68 61 61
Tiger Woods 604 49 T58 57 T51 63 63
Dylan Frittelli 604 50 CUT 59 T33 58 58
Matthew Fitzpatrick* 602 51 CUT 60 T6 36 36
Mackenzie Hughes 597 52 T13 36 T10 28 E −8 14
Danny Lee 588 53 T18 42 T33 45 45
Jim Herman 581 54 CUT 63 T40 64 64
Paul Casey 559 55 T49 64 T16 49 49
Corey Conners 535 56 T25 54 T33 53 53
Max Homa 526 57 CUT 68 T59 70 70
Maverick McNealy* 523 58 T61 67 T40 68 68
J. T. Poston 516 59 T39 65 T59 67 67
Doc Redman* 514 60 CUT 71 71
Kang Sung-hoon 512 61 CUT 72 72
Talor Gooch 508 62 T18 52 T65 60 60
Matt Kuchar 502 63 T18 55 T59 62 62
Charles Howell III 492 64 T44 69 T48 69 69
Denny McCarthy 489 65 T49 73 73
Bubba Watson 489 66 T18 58 T16 46 46
Phil Mickelson 488 67 CUT 75 75
Henrik Norlander* 483 68 CUT 76 76
Brian Harman 480 69 T11 46 T12 37 37
Zhang Xinjun* 474 70 CUT 78 78
Sepp Straka 466 71 CUT 79 79
Harry Higgs* 465 72 T11 48 T56 55 55
Harold Varner III 457 73 CUT 80 80
Bud Cauley 443 74 CUT 83 83
Vaughn Taylor 442 75 DNP 85 85
Brian Stuard 438 76 CUT 87 87
Patrick Rodgers 431 77 70 86 86
Alex Norén 428 78 T8 47 T40 52 52
Pat Perez 421 79 WD 90 90
Troy Merritt 419 80 T29 74 74
Robby Shelton* 417 81 T13 62 T59 66 66
Kim Si-woo 409 82 T39 81 81
Chez Reavie 408 83 T49 89 89
Nate Lashley 395 84 CUT 96 96
Ian Poulter 392 85 T39 88 88
Matt Jones 388 86 69 95 95
Cameron Tringale 381 87 T29 82 82
Rickie Fowler 381 88 T49 94 94
Tommy Fleetwood 380 89 T44 92 92
Jason Kokrak 376 90 T13 66 T6 42 42
Cameron Davis* 374 91 T29 84 84
Emiliano Grillo 373 92 T44 93 93
Matthew NeSmith* 372 93 CUT 100 100
Scott Harrington* 370 94 T65 98 98
Ryan Armour 366 95 CUT 101 101
Ryan Moore 360 96 WD 103 103
Brooks Koepka 360 97 DNP 104 104
Brandt Snedeker 358 98 CUT 106 106
Louis Oosthuizen 354 99 T13 70 T25 65 65
Jordan Spieth 354 100 CUT 107 107
Russell Henley 352 101 T8 61 T25 56 56
Sam Ryder 349 102 CUT 108 108
Sam Burns 345 103 CUT 111 111
Zach Johnson 337 104 T49 105 105
Keith Mitchell 328 105 T61 112 112
Zac Blair 324 106 CUT 113 113
Scott Brown 323 107 CUT 114 114
Brian Gay 323 108 CUT 115 115
Justin Rose 313 109 T25 91 91
Lee Kyoung-hoon 312 110 T29 97 97
Charley Hoffman 311 111 T13 77 77
Keegan Bradley 309 112 T29 99 99
Graeme McDowell 305 113 CUT 117 117
Adam Schenk 304 114 T39 109 109
Lucas Glover 303 115 CUT 118 118
Luke List 297 116 CUT 119 119
Scott Stallings 296 117 CUT 120 120
Brice Garnett 294 118 CUT 121 121
Scott Piercy 291 119 T29 102 102
Rory Sabbatini 291 120 CUT 122 122
Beau Hossler 286 121 T49 116 116
Shane Lowry 283 122 CUT 123 123
Tom Lewis* 281 123 CUT 124 124
Bo Hoag* 281 124 CUT 125 125
Wyndham Clark 276 125 T29 110 110

* First-time Playoffs qualifier

References

  1. "Justin Thomas earns top spot in Wyndham Rewards Top 10". PGA Tour. August 17, 2020.
  2. Dusek, David (August 19, 2020). "Brooks Koepka withdraws from Northern Trust due to knee, hip injuries". Golfweek.
  3. "Rookie Scottie Scheffler shoots 59 at TPC Boston". ESPN. August 21, 2020.
  4. "Dustin Johnson dominates to win Northern Trust by 11 shots". Los Angeles Times. August 23, 2020.
  5. "Dustin Johnson Completes Long Climb to Win FedEx Cup". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 7, 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  6. "How it works: Tour Championship". PGA Tour. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
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