2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs
The 2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of three golf tournaments that determined the 2021–22 season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 11–28. It included the following three events:
- FedEx St. Jude Championship – TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee
- BMW Championship – Wilmington Country Club, Wilmington, Delaware
- Tour Championship – East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia
Tournament information | |
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Dates | August 11–28, 2022 |
Location | TPC Southwind Wilmington Country Club East Lake Golf Club |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Statistics | |
Field | 125 for FedEx St. Jude Championship 70 for BMW Championship 30 for Tour Championship |
Prize fund | $75 million (bonus money) |
Winner's share | $18 million (bonus money) |
Champion | |
Rory McIlroy | |
−21 | |
They were the 16th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.
The point distributions can be seen here.
Regular season rankings
The leading 10 players in the FedEx Cup regular season standings qualified for a share of the $20 million Comcast Business Tour top 10 bonus.
Place | Player | Points | Events | Bonus ($) |
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1 | Scottie Scheffler | 3,556 | 22 | 4,000,000 |
2 | Cameron Smith | 2,335 | 16 | 3,000,000 |
3 | Sam Burns | 2,275 | 21 | 2,400,000 |
4 | Xander Schauffele | 2,153 | 18 | 2,200,000 |
5 | Patrick Cantlay | 2,108 | 17 | 2,000,000 |
6 | Rory McIlroy | 2,104 | 13 | 1,700,000 |
7 | Tony Finau | 1,912 | 22 | 1,400,000 |
8 | Justin Thomas | 1,783 | 18 | 1,200,000 |
9 | Cameron Young | 1,774 | 22 | 1,100,000 |
10 | Im Sung-jae | 1,733 | 23 | 1,000,000 |
Source:[1]
Playoffs eligibility list
With several players having been suspended from the tour mid-season after participating in LIV Golf events without receiving a release to do so, the tour created a FedExCup Playoffs Eligibility ranking list which excluded them.[2] Ten players who finished inside the top-125 of the standard FedExCup Standings were excluded: Talor Gooch, Jason Kokrak, Matt Jones, Hudson Swafford, Matthew Wolff, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Brooks Koepka, Charles Howell III, Pat Perez. Three of these (Gooch, Jones and Swafford) failed in their attempt to gain a temporary restraining order to allow them to compete in the playoffs.[3][4] Despite this, Gooch finished 29th in the standings after the first two playoff events, which would normally have qualified him for the Tour Championship.[5]
FedEx St. Jude Championship
The FedEx St. Jude Championship was played August 11–14. 125 players were eligible to play in the event. Five players withdrew before the start, reducing the field to 120. Tommy Fleetwood (ranked 47) did not play due to personal reasons.[6] Lanto Griffin (ranked 69),[7] Daniel Berger (ranked 78), and Nate Lashley (ranked 98) did not play due to injury.[8] Hideki Matsuyama (ranked 11) withdrew due to a neck injury.[9] 69 players made the second-round cut at 138 (−2).
Will Zalatoris won the event, beating Sepp Straka in a playoff. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included four players who were outside the top 70 prior to The FedEx St. Jude Championship: Lucas Glover (ranked 121st to 34th), Adam Scott (77 to 45), Andrew Putnam (87 to 47), and Wyndham Clark (79 to 70). Four players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Anirban Lahiri (ranked 63rd to 71st), John Huh (67 to 73), Brendon Todd (68 to 74), and Lanto Griffin (69 to 77).
FedEx Cup rank | ||||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Winnings ($) | Before | After |
1 | Will Zalatoris | 71-63-65-66=265 | −15 | 2,700,000 | 12 | 1 |
2 | Sepp Straka | 64-66-68-67=265 | 1,635,000 | 35 | 8 | |
T3 | Lucas Glover | 65-68-69-66=268 | −12 | 885,000 | 121 | 34 |
Brian Harman | 66-66-69-67=268 | 55 | 23 | |||
T5 | Tony Finau | 64-68-69-68=269 | −11 | 480,000 | 7 | 5 |
Matt Fitzpatrick | 68-66-67-68=269 | 14 | 12 | |||
Collin Morikawa | 67-69-66-67=269 | 22 | 20 | |||
Trey Mullinax | 66-67-66-70=269 | 70 | 40 | |||
Andrew Putnam | 66-68-67-68=269 | 87 | 47 | |||
Jon Rahm | 67-69-67-66=269 | 16 | 14 | |||
Adam Scott | 66-67-70-66=269 | 77 | 45 |
- Par 70 course
BMW Championship
The BMW Championship was played August 18–21. 70 players were eligible to play in the event. There was no second-round cut. Tommy Fleetwood and Cameron Smith did not play, reducing the field to 68.
Patrick Cantlay won the event, beating Scott Stallings by one stroke. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to the Tour Championship. This included four players who were outside the top 30 prior to the BMW Championship: Scott Stallings (ranked 46th to 12th), Lee Kyoung-hoon (33 to 26), Adam Scott (45 to 29), and Aaron Wise (31 to 30). Four players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Tom Kim (25 to 34), Davis Riley (26 to 35), Kevin Kisner (28 to 38), and J. J. Spaun (30 to 33).
FedEx Cup rank | ||||||
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Place | Player | Score | To par | Winnings ($) | After | Before |
1 | Patrick Cantlay | 68-68-65-69=270 | −14 | 2,700,000 | 2 | 7 |
2 | Scott Stallings | 68-68-66-69=271 | −13 | 1,620,000 | 12 | 46 |
T3 | Xander Schauffele | 67-69-66-71=273 | −11 | 870,000 | 4 | 6 |
Scottie Scheffler | 68-67-68-70=273 | 1 | 2 | |||
T5 | Corey Conners | 68-67-70-69=274 | −10 | 547,500 | 24 | 29 |
Lee Kyoung-hoon | 68-70-71-65=274 | 26 | 33 | |||
Adam Scott | 65-69-69-71=274 | 29 | 45 | |||
T8 | Rory McIlroy | 68-68-70-69=275 | −9 | 420,000 | 7 | 9 |
Joaquín Niemann | 69-68-68-70=275 | 19 | 19 | |||
Taylor Pendrith | 71-68-67-69=275 | 46 | 67 | |||
Jon Rahm | 73-70-65-67=275 | 11 | 14 |
- Par 71 course
Tour Championship
The Tour Championship was played August 25–28. 30 golfers qualified for the tournament. Will Zalatoris did not play due to a back injury, reducing the field to 29.[10] There was 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 start at even par. The winner of the Tour Championship wins the FedEx Cup.[11] For the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, points are awarded based on aggregate scores (total strokes taken, ignoring any starting scores).
Rory McIlroy won by one stoke over Im Sung-jae and Scottie Scheffler. He also had the best 72-hole aggregate score of 263. It was his third Tour Championship win and third FedEx Cup win.[12]
Place | Player | Round scores | Starting score | Final score | FedEx Cup rank | Winnings ($) | |
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After | Before | ||||||
1 | Rory McIlroy | 67-67-63-66=263 | −4 | −21 | 1 | 7 | 18,000,000 |
T2 | Im Sung-jae | 67-65-66-66=264 | −4 | −20 | T2 | 10 | 5,750,000 |
Scottie Scheffler | 65-66-66-73=270 | −10 | 1 | ||||
4 | Xander Schauffele | 66-63-70-69=268 | −6 | −18 | 4 | 4 | 4,000,000 |
T5 | Max Homa | 71-62-66-66=265 | −2 | −17 | T5 | 16 | 2,750,000 |
Justin Thomas | 67-68-63-68=266 | −3 | 13 | ||||
T7 | Patrick Cantlay | 70-66-66-70=272 | −8 | −16 | T7 | 2 | 1,750,000 |
Sepp Straka | 68-68-64-68=268 | −4 | 9 | ||||
9 | Tony Finau | 72-66-67-64=269 | −4 | −15 | 9 | 8 | 1,250,000 |
10 | Tom Hoge | 66-66-66-69=267 | −1 | −14 | 10 | 23 | 1,000,000 |
- Par 70 course
Table of qualified players
Table key:
Player | Pre-Playoffs | FedEx St. Jude Championship |
BMW Championship |
Tour Championship | ||||||
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Points | Rank | Finish | Rank after |
Finish | Rank after |
Starting score[11] |
Final score |
Final rank | ||
Scottie Scheffler | 3,556 | 1 | CUT | 2 | T3 | 1 | −10 | −20 | T2 | |
Cameron Smith | 2,335 | 2 | T13 | 3 | DNP | 6 | −4 | −9 | 20 | |
Sam Burns | 2,275 | 3 | T20 | 4 | T19 | 5 | −5 | −7 | 24 | |
Xander Schauffele | 2,153 | 4 | T57 | 6 | T3 | 4 | −6 | −18 | 4 | |
Patrick Cantlay | 2,108 | 5 | T57 | 7 | 1 | 2 | −8 | −16 | T7 | |
Rory McIlroy | 2,104 | 6 | CUT | 9 | T8 | 7 | −4 | −21 | 1 | |
Tony Finau | 1,912 | 7 | T5 | 5 | T28 | 8 | −4 | −15 | 9 | |
Justin Thomas | 1,783 | 8 | T13 | 10 | T52 | 13 | −3 | −17 | T5 | |
Cameron Young* | 1,774 | 9 | T31 | 13 | T23 | 14 | −3 | −10 | 19 | |
Im Sung-jae | 1,733 | 10 | 12 | 11 | T15 | 10 | −4 | −20 | T2 | |
Hideki Matsuyama | 1,697 | 11 | DNP | 15 | T35 | 17 | −2 | −13 | T11 | |
Will Zalatoris* | 1,680 | 12 | 1 | 1 | WD | 3 | −7 | DNP | 30 | |
Max Homa | 1,625 | 13 | T42 | 16 | T23 | 16 | −2 | −17 | T5 | |
Matt Fitzpatrick | 1,596 | 14 | T5 | 12 | T48 | 15 | −3 | −11 | T15 | |
Jordan Spieth | 1,574 | 15 | CUT | 17 | T19 | 18 | −2 | −12 | T13 | |
Jon Rahm | 1,449 | 16 | T5 | 14 | T8 | 11 | −3 | −11 | T15 | |
Tom Hoge | 1,424 | 17 | CUT | 21 | T48 | 23 | −1 | −14 | 10 | |
Billy Horschel | 1,403 | 18 | CUT | 22 | T35 | 22 | −1 | −8 | T21 | |
Viktor Hovland | 1,314 | 19 | T20 | 18 | T35 | 20 | −2 | −11 | T15 | |
Joaquín Niemann | 1,228 | 20 | T13 | 19 | T8 | 19 | −2 | −13 | T11 | |
J. T. Poston | 1,146 | 21 | T20 | 24 | T35 | 27 | E | −11 | T15 | |
Collin Morikawa | 1,089 | 22 | T5 | 20 | T44 | 21 | −1 | −8 | T21 | |
Davis Riley* | 1,045 | 23 | T31 | 26 | T54 | 35 | – | – | 35 | |
Séamus Power | 990 | 24 | CUT | 36 | 65 | 42 | – | – | 42 | |
J. J. Spaun | 985 | 25 | T42 | 30 | T23 | 33 | – | – | 33 | |
Cameron Tringale | 957 | 26 | CUT | 39 | 63 | 47 | – | – | 47 | |
Aaron Wise | 952 | 27 | T31 | 31 | T15 | 30 | E | −12 | T13 | |
Shane Lowry | 942 | 28 | T46 | 37 | T12 | 31 | – | – | 31 | |
Luke List | 938 | 29 | CUT | 42 | T61 | 51 | – | – | 51 | |
Corey Conners | 936 | 30 | T28 | 29 | T5 | 24 | −1 | −3 | 26 | |
Maverick McNealy | 936 | 31 | T31 | 32 | T32 | 37 | – | – | 37 | |
Russell Henley | 934 | 32 | CUT | 43 | T35 | 44 | – | – | 44 | |
Keegan Bradley | 925 | 33 | CUT | 44 | T58 | 53 | – | – | 53 | |
Tom Kim* | 917 | 34 | T13 | 25 | T54 | 34 | – | – | 34 | |
Sepp Straka | 909 | 35 | 2 | 8 | T28 | 9 | −4 | −16 | T7 | |
Kevin Kisner | 906 | 36 | T20 | 28 | T48 | 38 | – | – | 38 | |
Keith Mitchell | 888 | 37 | T31 | 38 | T32 | 39 | – | – | 39 | |
Mito Pereira* | 888 | 38 | T42 | 41 | T54 | 49 | – | – | 49 | |
Sahith Theegala* | 886 | 39 | T13 | 27 | T15 | 28 | E | +1 | 28 | |
Lee Kyoung-hoon | 853 | 40 | T20 | 33 | T5 | 26 | E | −1 | 27 | |
Scott Stallings | 852 | 41 | CUT | 46 | 2 | 12 | −3 | +3 | 29 | |
Denny McCarthy | 842 | 42 | T20 | 35 | T28 | 36 | – | – | 36 | |
Kurt Kitayama* | 839 | 43 | CUT | 48 | T19 | 40 | – | – | 40 | |
Lucas Herbert* | 796 | 44 | CUT | 54 | T15 | 43 | – | – | 43 | |
Sebastián Muñoz | 795 | 45 | T46 | 49 | T35 | 54 | – | – | 54 | |
Mackenzie Hughes | 783 | 46 | T46 | 52 | T58 | 56 | – | – | 56 | |
Tommy Fleetwood | 766 | 47 | DNP | 56 | DNP | 62 | – | – | 62 | |
Kim Si-woo | 751 | 48 | T42 | 53 | 67 | 57 | – | – | 57 | |
Tyrrell Hatton | 749 | 49 | T31 | 50 | T23 | 48 | – | – | 48 | |
Adam Hadwin | 721 | 50 | 69 | 59 | T44 | 61 | – | – | 61 | |
Chez Reavie | 715 | 51 | T51 | 58 | T54 | 63 | – | – | 63 | |
Chris Kirk | 707 | 52 | CUT | 61 | T61 | 66 | – | – | 66 | |
Christiaan Bezuidenhout* | 698 | 53 | T64 | 60 | T12 | 50 | – | – | 50 | |
Matt Kuchar | 696 | 54 | CUT | 63 | T35 | 64 | – | – | 64 | |
Brian Harman | 694 | 55 | T3 | 23 | T35 | 25 | −1 | −8 | T21 | |
Emiliano Grillo | 691 | 56 | T31 | 55 | T19 | 52 | – | – | 52 | |
Brendan Steele | 689 | 57 | CUT | 64 | T32 | 59 | – | – | 59 | |
Harold Varner III | 682 | 58 | CUT | 65 | T48 | 67 | – | – | 67 | |
Alex Norén | 681 | 59 | WD | 66 | T52 | 68 | – | – | 68 | |
Taylor Pendrith* | 663 | 60 | 68 | 67 | T8 | 46 | – | – | 46 | |
Alex Smalley* | 658 | 61 | CUT | 69 | T44 | 69 | – | – | 69 | |
Marc Leishman | 656 | 62 | T64 | 68 | T28 | 58 | – | – | 58 | |
Anirban Lahiri | 642 | 63 | CUT | 71 | – | – | – | – | 71 | |
Troy Merritt | 639 | 64 | T28 | 57 | T58 | 60 | – | – | 60 | |
Taylor Moore* | 623 | 65 | T31 | 62 | T44 | 65 | – | – | 65 | |
Cameron Davis | 614 | 66 | T13 | 51 | T35 | 55 | – | – | 55 | |
John Huh | 612 | 67 | WD | 73 | – | – | – | – | 73 | |
Brendon Todd | 592 | 68 | 67 | 74 | – | – | – | – | 74 | |
Lanto Griffin | 592 | 69 | DNP | 77 | – | – | – | – | 77 | |
Trey Mullinax | 590 | 70 | T5 | 40 | T12 | 32 | – | – | 32 | |
Brandon Wu* | 586 | 71 | CUT | 78 | – | – | – | – | 78 | |
Matthew NeSmith | 576 | 72 | CUT | 79 | – | – | – | – | 79 | |
Gary Woodland | 573 | 73 | T51 | 75 | – | – | – | – | 75 | |
Beau Hossler | 572 | 74 | T57 | 76 | – | – | – | – | 76 | |
Chad Ramey* | 568 | 75 | CUT | 80 | – | – | – | – | 80 | |
Adam Long | 564 | 76 | CUT | 81 | – | – | – | – | 81 | |
Adam Scott | 551 | 77 | T5 | 45 | T5 | 29 | E | −4 | 25 | |
Daniel Berger | 529 | 78 | DNP | 86 | – | – | – | – | 86 | |
Wyndham Clark | 527 | 79 | T28 | 70 | 64 | 70 | – | – | 70 | |
Joel Dahmen | 524 | 80 | CUT | 87 | – | – | – | – | 87 | |
Patrick Rodgers | 517 | 81 | CUT | 90 | – | – | – | – | 90 | |
Russell Knox | 514 | 82 | CUT | 91 | – | – | – | – | 91 | |
Kevin Streelman | 509 | 83 | CUT | 93 | – | – | – | – | 93 | |
Mark Hubbard | 508 | 84 | CUT | 94 | – | – | – | – | 94 | |
David Lipsky* | 505 | 85 | T46 | 84 | – | – | – | – | 84 | |
Peter Malnati | 501 | 86 | CUT | 95 | – | – | – | – | 95 | |
Andrew Putnam | 498 | 87 | T5 | 47 | T23 | 45 | – | – | 45 | |
Aaron Rai* | 491 | 88 | T51 | 88 | – | – | – | – | 88 | |
Danny Lee | 490 | 89 | CUT | 96 | – | – | – | – | 96 | |
Adam Svensson* | 483 | 90 | T51 | 92 | – | – | – | – | 92 | |
Stephan Jäger* | 480 | 91 | T46 | 89 | – | – | – | – | 89 | |
Pan Cheng-tsung | 473 | 92 | CUT | 99 | – | – | – | – | 99 | |
Adam Schenk | 461 | 93 | T31 | 85 | – | – | – | – | 85 | |
Justin Rose | 458 | 94 | CUT | 100 | – | – | – | – | 100 | |
Hayden Buckley* | 456 | 95 | T61 | 98 | – | – | – | – | 98 | |
Vince Whaley* | 438 | 96 | CUT | 103 | – | – | – | – | 103 | |
Jhonattan Vegas | 428 | 97 | CUT | 105 | – | – | – | – | 105 | |
Nate Lashley | 427 | 98 | DNP | 106 | – | – | – | – | 106 | |
Lee Hodges* | 424 | 99 | T13 | 72 | – | – | – | – | 72 | |
Martin Laird | 421 | 100 | T57 | 101 | – | – | – | – | 101 | |
Sam Ryder | 412 | 101 | T51 | 102 | – | – | – | – | 102 | |
Scott Piercy | 410 | 102 | WD | 110 | – | – | – | – | 110 | |
Michael Thompson | 406 | 103 | T31 | 97 | – | – | – | – | 97 | |
Callum Tarren* | 405 | 104 | CUT | 111 | – | – | – | – | 111 | |
Max McGreevy* | 404 | 105 | CUT | 112 | – | – | – | – | 112 | |
Chesson Hadley | 404 | 106 | CUT | 113 | – | – | – | – | 113 | |
Dylan Frittelli | 401 | 107 | T20 | 82 | – | – | – | – | 82 | |
James Hahn | 400 | 108 | T61 | 107 | – | – | – | – | 107 | |
Greyson Sigg* | 397 | 109 | T61 | 108 | – | – | – | – | 108 | |
Ryan Palmer | 391 | 110 | T20 | 83 | – | – | – | – | 83 | |
Nick Watney | 387 | 111 | CUT | 114 | – | – | – | – | 114 | |
Robert Streb | 385 | 112 | T51 | 109 | – | – | – | – | 109 | |
Jason Day | 385 | 113 | CUT | 115 | – | – | – | – | 115 | |
Doug Ghim | 385 | 114 | CUT | 116 | – | – | – | – | 116 | |
Stewart Cink | 376 | 115 | CUT | 117 | – | – | – | – | 117 | |
Kevin Tway | 361 | 116 | CUT | 118 | – | – | – | – | 118 | |
Ryan Brehm* | 359 | 117 | CUT | 119 | – | – | – | – | 119 | |
Tyler Duncan | 355 | 118 | T31 | 104 | – | – | – | – | 104 | |
Matthias Schwab* | 353 | 119 | CUT | 120 | – | – | – | – | 120 | |
Patton Kizzire | 351 | 120 | CUT | 121 | – | – | – | – | 121 | |
Lucas Glover | 349 | 121 | T3 | 34 | 66 | 41 | – | – | 41 | |
Webb Simpson | 346 | 122 | CUT | 122 | – | – | – | – | 122 | |
Nick Taylor | 333 | 123 | CUT | 124 | – | – | – | – | 124 | |
Kramer Hickok | 328 | 124 | CUT | 125 | – | – | – | – | 125 | |
Rickie Fowler | 324 | 125 | T64 | 123 | – | – | – | – | 123 |
* First-time Playoffs qualifier
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
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