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2015 FedEx Cup Playoffs

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2015 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tournament information
DatesAugust 27 –
September 27, 2015
LocationPlainfield Country Club
TPC Boston
Conway Farms Golf Club
East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Field125 for The Barclays
100 for Deutsche Bank Ch.
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 Jordan Spieth
3,800 points
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The 2015 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of four golf tournaments that will determine the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, were played from August 27 to September 27. It included the following four events:

These were the ninth 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 United States Jordan Spieth 4,169 21
2 Australia Jason Day 2,459 16
3 United States Bubba Watson 2,407 15
4 United States Jimmy Walker 2,014 20
5 England Justin Rose 1,742 16
6 United States Robert Streb 1,720 26
7 United States Dustin Johnson 1,718 17
8 United States Patrick Reed 1,593 23
9 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 1,567 9
10 New Zealand Danny Lee 1,561 32

For the full list see here.

The Barclays

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The Barclays was played August 27–30. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, five did not enter: Rory McIlroy (ranked 9), Louis Oosthuizen (28), Sergio García (31), Francesco Molinari (99) and Retief Goosen (111).[1] Of the 120 entrants, 72 made the second-round cut at 142 (+2).

Jason Day won by six strokes over Henrik Stenson and moved from second place to first place in the standings.[2] The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Deutsche Bank Championship. This included eight players who were outside the top 100 prior to The Barclays: Zac Blair (ranked 106th to 45th), Spencer Levin (115 to 80), Jason Dufner (103 to 82), Carlos Ortiz (112 to 83), Mark Wilson (114 to 85), Luke Donald (119 to 87), Johnson Wagner (101 to 92) and Camilo Villegas (123 to 99). Eight players started the tournament within the top 100 but ended the tournament outside the top 100, ending their playoff chances: Pádraig Harrington (ranked 87th to 103rd), Greg Owen (90 to 104), John Peterson (93 to 105), Adam Scott (94 to 106), Adam Hadwin (95 to 107), Charl Schwartzel (96 to 108), John Huh (97 to 110) and Francesco Molinari (99 to 111).[3]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 Australia Jason Day 68-68-63-62=261 −19 1,485,000 1 2
2 Sweden Henrik Stenson 68-66-67-66=267 −13 891,000 4 41
3 United States Bubba Watson 65-68-67-69=269 −11 561,000 3 3
T4 United States Zac Blair 69-68-67-66=270 −10 363,000 45 106
United States Zach Johnson 69-65-67-69=270 5 11
T6 South Korea Bae Sang-moon 69-67-63-72=271 −9 276,375 23 34
United States Ryan Palmer 69-67-65-70=271 33 56
United States Daniel Summerhays 67-70-68-66=271 40 66
T9 United States Jason Bohn 71-64-72-65=272 −8 231,000 24 33
United States Dustin Johnson 70-70-67-65=272 6 7
  • Par 70 course

Deutsche Bank Championship

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The Deutsche Bank Championship was played September 4–7. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, Sergio García (ranked 43) and Will Wilcox (89) did not play.[4][5] Of the 98 entrants, 75 made the second-round cut at 145 (+3).

Rickie Fowler won by one stroke over Henrik Stenson and moved into third place in the standings.[6] 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 Deutsche Bank Championship: Hunter Mahan (91 to 52), Keegan Bradley (71 to 63), Jerry Kelly (94 to 65), and William McGirt (88 to 68). Four players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Marc Leishman (61 to 72), Jim Herman (64 to 74), Kevin Streelman (65 to 75) and Boo Weekley (70 to 76).[7]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 United States Rickie Fowler 67-67-67-68=269 −15 1,485,000 3 22
2 Sweden Henrik Stenson 67-68-65-70=270 −14 891,000 4 4
3 United States Charley Hoffman 67-63-76-67=273 −11 561,000 6 17
T4 United States Jim Furyk 71-65-70-70=276 −8 311,025 9 11
Australia Matt Jones 67-67-68-74=276 33 57
United States Hunter Mahan 69-73-64-70=276 52 91
United States Sean O'Hair 68-67-67-74=276 38 66
United States Patrick Reed 72-67-67-70=276 10 12
T9 United States Jerry Kelly 71-66-68-72=277 −7 222,750 65 94
United States Matt Kuchar 69-72-65-71=277 20 27
United States Daniel Summerhays 71-68-70-68=277 26 40
  • Par 71 course

BMW Championship

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The BMW Championship was played September 17–20, after a one-week break. All 70 players eligible to play in the event did so, and there was no cut.

Jason Day won by six strokes over Daniel Berger.[8] 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: Daniel Berger (46 to 9), Scott Piercy (44 to 20), Kevin Na (34 to 27), and Harris English (32 to 30). Four players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Daniel Summerhays (26 to 31), Russell Knox (29 to 34), Ben Martin (25 to 35) and Jason Bohn (28 to 40).[9]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 Australia Jason Day 61-63-69-69=262 −22 1,485,000 1 1
2 United States Daniel Berger 65-64-70-69=268 −16 891,000 9 46
3 United States Scott Piercy 67-65-67-70=269 −15 561,000 20 44
T4 United States Rickie Fowler 69-66-66-69=270 −14 341,000 3 3
United States J. B. Holmes 70-65-67-68=270 17 19
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 68-65-67-70=270 11 17
T7 United States Dustin Johnson 71-62-68-70=271 −13 257,125 7 8
Japan Hideki Matsuyama 72-63-70-66=271 15 16
United States Cameron Tringale 72-64-69-66=271 36 55
T10 United States Kevin Na 65-66-70-71=272 −12 206,250 27 34
Sweden Henrik Stenson 71-63-71-67=272 4 4
United States Bubba Watson 65-70-72-65=272 5 5
  • Par 71 course

Reset points

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The points were reset after the BMW Championship.

Place Player Points Reset points Events
1 Australia Jason Day 6,680 2,000 19
2 United States Jordan Spieth 4,392 1,800 24
3 United States Rickie Fowler 3,958 1,600 20
4 Sweden Henrik Stenson 3,632 1,440 15
5 United States Bubba Watson 3,609 1,280 18
6 United States Zach Johnson 2,464 1,120 24
7 United States Dustin Johnson 2,454 960 20
8 United States Charley Hoffman 2,364 800 27
9 United States Daniel Berger 2,320 640 30
10 United States Patrick Reed 2,205 480 26

Tour Championship

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The Tour Championship was played September 24–27. Of the 30 golfers qualified for the tournament, only Jim Furyk (wrist injury), did not play.[10] There was no cut.

Jordan Spieth won the tournament and the FedEx Cup, beating Danny Lee, Justin Rose, and Henrik Stenson by four strokes.[11]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1 United States Jordan Spieth 68-66-68-69=271 −9 1,485,000 1 2
T2 New Zealand Danny Lee 69-72-69-65=275 −5 618,750 9 19
England Justin Rose 70-68-71-66=275 8 12
Sweden Henrik Stenson 63-68-72-72=275 2 4
T5 England Paul Casey 65-70-71-70=276 −4 302,500 13 22
United States Dustin Johnson 69-72-71-64=276 7 7
United States Bubba Watson 70-71-68-67=276 5 5
T8 United States J. B. Holmes 68-72-68-69=277 −3 255,750 14 17
United States Zach Johnson 66-70-71-70=277 6 6
T10 Australia Jason Day 69-71-70-68=278 −2 228,525 3 1
United States Matt Kuchar 71-70-69-68=278 19 21
  • Par 70 course

Final leaderboard

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Place Player Points Winnings ($)
1 United States Jordan Spieth 3,800 10,000,000
2 Sweden Henrik Stenson 2,307 3,000,000
3 Australia Jason Day 2,290 2,000,000
4 United States Rickie Fowler 1,838 1,500,000
5 United States Bubba Watson 1,680 1,000,000
6 United States Zach Johnson 1,450 800,000
7 United States Dustin Johnson 1,360 700,000
8 England Justin Rose 1,235 600,000
9 New Zealand Danny Lee 1,123 550,000
10 United States Charley Hoffman 992 500,000

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
United States Jordan Spieth 4,169 1 CUT 2 CUT 2 T13 2 1,800 1 1
Australia Jason Day 2,459 2 1 1 T12 1 1 1 2,000 T10 3
United States Bubba Watson 2,407 3 3 3 T29 5 T10 5 1,280 T5 5
United States Jimmy Walker 2,014 4 T69 7 CUT 11 T32 13 352 T18 T16
England Justin Rose 1,742 5 T16 8 CUT 13 T13 12 368 T2 8
United States Robert Streb 1,720 6 T39 9 T39 12 T23 14 336 T18 18
United States Dustin Johnson 1,718 7 T9 6 T44 8 T7 7 960 T5 7
United States Patrick Reed 1,593 8 T62 12 T4 10 T28 10 480 27 12
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 1,567 9 DNP 15 T29 17 T4 11 384 T16 15
New Zealand Danny Lee 1,561 10 T30 10 T33 14 T47 19 256 T2 9
United States Zach Johnson 1,559 11 T4 5 T22 7 T13 6 1,120 T8 6
United States Brooks Koepka* 1,544 12 CUT 16 CUT 21 T49 25 208 T18 24
United States Brandt Snedeker 1,537 13 CUT 18 T44 18 66 23 224 T22 23
United States Charley Hoffman 1,512 14 T62 17 3 6 T53 8 800 T22 10
United States Rickie Fowler 1,498 15 CUT 22 1 3 T4 3 1,600 T12 4
United States J. B. Holmes 1,484 16 T58 19 T44 19 T4 17 288 T8 14
United States Kevin Kisner 1,416 17 T20 13 T12 15 T41 18 272 28 21
United States Jim Furyk 1,401 18 T11 11 T4 9 WD 16 304 DNP 29
England Paul Casey 1,389 19 T39 21 WD 24 T23 22 232 T5 13
Japan Hideki Matsuyama 1,374 20 T13 14 T25 16 T7 15 320 T12 T16
Sweden David Lingmerth 1,305 21 CUT 26 CUT 31 T49 37 37
Australia Steven Bowditch 1,287 22 T13 20 CUT 22 T41 24 216 T12 20
United States Bill Haas 1,281 23 T53 25 T60 27 T19 26 200 26 27
United States Ben Martin 1,217 24 68 29 T25 25 T68 35 35
United States Ryan Moore 1,208 25 CUT 31 CUT 39 T28 39 39
United States Matt Kuchar 1,164 26 T39 27 T9 20 T41 21 240 T10 19
United States Scott Piercy 1,127 27 T62 34 CUT 44 3 20 248 25 22
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 1,088 28 DNP 38 T12 30 T19 29 176 WD 30
United States Chris Kirk 1,087 29 CUT 39 T29 37 T60 44 44
United States Kevin Na 1,062 30 T20 28 T60 34 T10 27 192 T16 25
Spain Sergio García 1,051 31 DNP 43 DNP 54 T39 53 53
United States Gary Woodland 1,037 32 CUT 44 T12 36 T60 41 41
United States Jason Bohn 1,037 33 T9 24 CUT 28 T64 40 40
South Korea Bae Sang-moon 1,025 34 T6 23 T39 23 T53 28 184 T18 26
United States James Hahn 1,012 35 T58 42 CUT 53 T32 51 51
United States Justin Thomas* 1,007 36 T16 30 T56 35 T13 32 32
United States Shawn Stefani 987 37 T39 36 T65 45 59 54 54
United States Russell Henley 986 38 72 49 CUT 58 T49 63 63
United States Tony Finau* 985 39 T16 32 CUT 41 T47 43 43
United States Webb Simpson 953 40 T30 37 T44 42 T64 48 48
Sweden Henrik Stenson 952 41 2 4 2 4 T10 4 1,440 T2 2
United States Harris English 932 42 T30 41 T12 32 T19 30 168 T22 28
United States Troy Merritt 930 43 T53 48 T39 47 T62 56 56
Scotland Russell Knox 914 44 T20 35 T12 29 T45 34 34
United States Billy Horschel 903 45 CUT 53 72 67 T32 66 66
United States Daniel Berger* 899 46 CUT 54 T12 46 2 9 640 T12 11
United States Brendan Steele 895 47 CUT 55 T44 60 T13 50 50
Zimbabwe Brendon de Jonge 892 48 CUT 56 T22 49 T32 47 47
Canada David Hearn 890 49 T45 50 CUT 59 T28 55 55
Australia Marc Leishman 854 50 CUT 61 CUT 72 72
United States Phil Mickelson 849 51 T50 52 T65 61 T32 61 61
United States Nick Watney 847 52 CUT 63 T44 64 T19 58 58
United States Brendon Todd 831 53 T24 47 T44 48 T23 46 46
United States Pat Perez 825 54 T20 46 T29 43 T45 45 45
Australia Matt Jones 821 55 T53 57 T4 33 T32 33 33
United States Ryan Palmer 817 56 T6 33 T65 40 T23 38 38
United States Cameron Tringale 816 57 T30 51 T44 55 T7 36 36
Argentina Fabián Gómez* 797 58 71 67 T33 62 T39 64 64
England Ian Poulter 777 59 CUT 69 T33 66 T53 67 67
United States Boo Weekley 776 60 CUT 70 T56 76 76
United States Kevin Streelman 771 61 T53 65 T69 75 75
United States Keegan Bradley 759 62 CUT 71 T25 63 T28 60 60
Germany Alex Čejka 739 63 CUT 73 T39 71 71
United States Matt Every 727 64 CUT 75 CUT 89 89
Sweden Carl Pettersson 723 65 CUT 77 T44 77 77
United States Daniel Summerhays 720 66 T6 40 T9 26 T41 31 31
United States Sean O'Hair 719 67 T45 66 T4 38 T53 42 42
United States George McNeill 715 68 T30 59 CUT 70 T13 62 62
United States Brian Harman 704 69 T30 62 T12 50 T53 57 57
United States Charles Howell III 692 70 T58 74 T56 79 79
United States Scott Brown 690 71 CUT 84 T69 94 94
South Africa Rory Sabbatini 678 72 T24 60 T22 56 67 65 65
United States Chad Campbell 670 73 CUT 86 CUT 96 96
United States William McGirt 652 74 CUT 88 T12 68 T49 69 69
United States Will Wilcox* 649 75 CUT 89 DNP 97 97
United States Davis Love III 649 76 CUT 90 T44 86 86
United States Hunter Mahan 648 77 CUT 91 T4 52 T32 49 49
United States Scott Pinckney* 645 78 T50 76 T60 83 83
United States Jerry Kelly 632 79 CUT 94 T9 65 T62 68 68
United States Colt Knost 628 80 CUT 95 T44 91 91
Scotland Martin Laird 628 81 CUT 96 CUT 99 99
United States Morgan Hoffmann 627 82 T39 72 73 85 85
United States Chesson Hadley 626 83 CUT 97 74 98 98
United States Kyle Reifers* 626 84 CUT 98 T25 78 78
United States J. J. Henry 620 85 T45 78 CUT 90 90
United States Jason Kokrak 614 86 CUT 100 CUT 100 100
Republic of Ireland Pádraig Harrington 610 87 CUT 103 103
Australia John Senden 610 88 T45 81 T33 73 73
United States Jim Herman* 610 89 T13 64 CUT 74 74
England Greg Owen 608 90 CUT 104 104
United States Kevin Chappell 602 91 T24 68 T12 57 T23 52 52
United States Bryce Molder 595 92 T11 58 CUT 69 T68 70 70
United States John Peterson* 588 93 CUT 105 105
Australia Adam Scott 585 94 CUT 106 106
Canada Adam Hadwin* 584 95 CUT 107 107
South Africa Charl Schwartzel 584 96 CUT 108 108
United States John Huh 565 97 CUT 110 110
United States Jason Gore 564 98 T30 79 CUT 92 92
Italy Francesco Molinari* 558 99 DNP 111 111
United States Hudson Swafford* 554 100 T50 93 T33 81 81
United States Johnson Wagner 551 101 T45 92 T44 87 87
Canada Nick Taylor* 549 102 T53 101 101
United States Jason Dufner 546 103 T30 82 T60 88 88
Canada Graham DeLaet 545 104 CUT 112 112
United States Jon Curran* 540 105 CUT 113 113
United States Zac Blair* 538 106 T4 45 T60 51 T53 59 59
United States Steve Wheatcroft* 536 107 CUT 114 114
United States Andres Gonzales* 531 108 CUT 115 115
United States Chris Stroud 531 109 CUT 116 116
England Lee Westwood 530 110 T58 109 109
South Africa Retief Goosen 519 111 DNP 118 118
Mexico Carlos Ortiz* 515 112 T24 83 T65 93 93
United States Chad Collins 504 113 CUT 120 120
United States Mark Wilson 497 114 T24 85 T69 95 95
United States Spencer Levin 496 115 T16 80 T56 82 82
United States Stewart Cink 494 116 T39 102 102
United States Ken Duke 493 117 T62 117 117
Fiji Vijay Singh 490 118 T66 119 119
England Luke Donald 484 119 T24 87 T39 80 80
South Africa Tim Clark 481 120 CUT 121 121
Sweden Jonas Blixt 471 121 CUT 123 123
United States Erik Compton 471 122 WD 124 124
Colombia Camilo Villegas 467 123 T30 99 T33 84 84
Japan Ryo Ishikawa 458 124 T66 122 122
United States Jeff Overton 458 125 T69 125 125

* First-time Playoffs participant

22 players extended their streak of reaching the FedExCup Playoffs every year: Bill Haas, Jeff Overton, Matt Kuchar, Ian Poulter, John Senden, Ryan Moore, Charley Hoffman, Pat Perez, Nick Watney, Bubba Watson, Jerry Kelly, Luke Donald, Brandt Snedeker, Charles Howell III, Justin Rose, Hunter Mahan, Adam Scott, Jim Furyk, Sergio Garcia, Zach Johnson, Rory Sabbatini and Phil Mickelson.[12]

Eight players failed to advance to the FedExCup Playoffs for the first time: Freddie Jacobson, Brian Davis, Bo Van Pelt, Ernie Els, Geoff Ogilvy, Aaron Baddeley, K. J. Choi, and Steve Stricker.

Nine rookies finished inside the top 125: Justin Thomas (36), Tony Finau (39), Daniel Berger (46), Scott Pinckney (78), Adam Hadwin (95), Nick Taylor (102), Jon Curran (105), Zac Blair (106) and Carlos Ortiz (112).

References

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