2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2018 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 23 to September 23. It included the following four events:

• The Northern Trust – Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, New Jersey
• Dell Technologies Championship – TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts
• BMW Championship – Aronimink Golf Club, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
• Tour Championship – East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia

2018 FedEx Cup Playoffs

Tournament information
Dates	August 23 – September 23, 2018
Location	Ridgewood Country Club TPC Boston Aronimink Golf Club East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Field	125 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 Rose
2,260 points
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These were the 12th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

Place	Player	Points	Events
1	Dustin Johnson	2,717	16
2	Justin Thomas	2,634	19
3	Brooks Koepka	2,012	13
4	Justin Rose	1,991	14
5	Bubba Watson	1,879	20
6	Jason Day	1,771	16
7	Webb Simpson	1,710	22
8	Francesco Molinari	1,682	17
9	Bryson DeChambeau	1,617	22
10	Patrick Reed	1,555	22

The Northern Trust

The Northern Trust was played August 23–26. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, five did not enter: Rickie Fowler (ranked 17), Rory McIlroy (21), Henrik Stenson (50), Patrick Rodgers (93), and Bud Cauley (122).^[1] Brandt Snedeker (30) was a late withdrawal, reducing the field to 119.^[2] 80 made the second-round cut at 142 (E).

Bryson DeChambeau won by four strokes over Tony Finau.^[3] The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Dell Technologies Championship. This included six players who were outside the top 100 prior to The Northern Trust: Nick Watney (ranked 102nd to 67th), Danny Lee (103 to 98), Scott Stallings (107 to 94), Bronson Burgoon (111 to 73), Brian Stuard (118 to 99) and Jhonattan Vegas (123 to 87). Six players started the tournament within the top 100 but ended the tournament outside the top 100, ending their playoff chances: Patrick Rodgers (ranked 93rd to 104th), Brandon Harkins (94 to 103), Trey Mullinax (95 to 102), Charl Schwartzel (96 to 105), Rory Sabbatini (97 to 109), and Alex Čejka (99 to 108).^[4]

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Bryson DeChambeau	68-66-63-69=266	−18	1,620,000	1	9
2	Tony Finau	69-67-66-68=270	−14	972,000	4	12
T3	Billy Horschel	69-69-65-68=271	−13	522,000	14	41
	Cameron Smith	69-68-65-69=271			16	53
T5	Ryan Palmer	68-67-72-65=272	−12	328,500	50	100
	Adam Scott	69-64-70-69=272			40	73
	Aaron Wise	70-68-67-67=272			15	27
T8	Patrick Cantlay	69-67-68-69=273	−11	261,000	11	14
	Brooks Koepka	67-65-72-69=273			5	3
	Justin Thomas	69-67-69-68=273			3	2

• Par 71 course

Dell Technologies Championship

The Dell Technologies Championship was played August 31 – September 3. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, two did not: Francesco Molinari (ranked 13) and Rickie Fowler (22).^[5] 77 players made the second-round cut at 144 (+2).

Bryson DeChambeau won his second straight playoff event, winning by two strokes over Justin Rose.^[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 Dell Technologies Championship: Pan Cheng-tsung (ranked 72nd to 33rd), Tyrrell Hatton (71 to 54), Abraham Ancer (92 to 56), Brice Garnett (81 to 63), Peter Uihlein (83 to 64), and Keith Mitchell (78 to 66). Six players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Ryan Moore (ranked 60th to 71st), Kim Meen-whee (61 to 72), Stewart Cink (65 to 73), Nick Watney (67 to 74), Jimmy Walker (68 to 75), and Kevin Streelman (70 to 77).^[7]

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Bryson DeChambeau	70-68-63-67=268	−16	1,620,000	1	1
2	Justin Rose	65-67-70-68=270	−14	972,000	3	6
3	Cameron Smith	69-66-67-69=271	−13	612,000	8	16
T4	Tony Finau	69-68-67-68=272	−12	372,000	4	4
	Hideki Matsuyama	71-69-67-65=272			28	58
	Pan Cheng-tsung	69-68-69-66=272			33	72
T7	Abraham Ancer	66-69-65-73=273	−11	261,900	56	92
	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	68-68-69-68=273			37	59
	Emiliano Grillo	72-67-64-70=273			29	48
	Dustin Johnson	68-69-72-64=273			2	2
	Bubba Watson	72-68-67-66=273			7	7

• Par 71 course

BMW Championship

The BMW Championship was played September 6–10. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, only Daniel Berger (ranked 65) did not play.^[8] There was no cut. Due to weather conditions, the fourth round was delayed until September 10.

Keegan Bradley won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with Justin Rose. 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: Bradley (ranked 52 to 6) and Xander Schauffele (41 to 18). Two players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Jordan Spieth (27 to 31) and Emiliano Grillo (29 to 32).^[9]

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Keegan Bradley	66-64-66-64=260	−20	1,620,000	6	52
2	Justin Rose	66-63-64-67=260		972,000	2	3
T3	Billy Horschel	64-67-66-64=261	−19	522,000	9	15
	Xander Schauffele	63-64-67-67=261			18	41
5	Rory McIlroy	62-69-63-68=262	−18	360,000	17	24
T6	Webb Simpson	66-67-65-65=263	−17	312,750	11	11
	Tiger Woods	62-70-66-65=263			20	25
T8	Tony Finau	68-64-67-65=264	−16	252,000	3	4
	Tommy Fleetwood	71-62-62-69=264			19	20
	Rickie Fowler	65-65-65-69=264			23	26
	Francesco Molinari	70-63-64-67=264			13	14

• Par 70 course

Reset points

The points were reset after the BMW Championship.

Place	Player	Points	Reset points	Events
1	Bryson DeChambeau	5,789	2,000	25
2	Justin Rose	4,391	1,800	17
3	Tony Finau	3,479	1,520	27
4	Dustin Johnson	3,425	1,296	19
5	Justin Thomas	3,327	1,280	22
6	Keegan Bradley	2,979	1,120	26
7	Brooks Koepka	2,723	960	16
8	Bubba Watson	2,481	800	23
9	Billy Horschel	2,260	640	26
10	Cameron Smith	2,247	480	23

Tour Championship

The Tour Championship was played September 20–23. All 30 golfers that qualified for the tournament played, and there was no cut. Tiger Woods won by two strokes over Billy Horschel, to finish second in the FedEx Cup rankings.^[10] Justin Rose finished tied for fourth place and took the FedEx Cup, 41 points ahead of Woods.^[11] He became the first player to win the FedEx Cup without winning any of the four events in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Bryson DeChambeau, who led the rankings before the event, finished in 19th place and dropped to third place in the final rankings.

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Tiger Woods	65-68-65-71=269	−11	1,620,000	2	20
2	Billy Horschel	71-65-69-66=271	−9	972,000	5	9
3	Dustin Johnson	69-70-67-67=273	−7	621,000	4	4
T4	Hideki Matsuyama	72-66-71-65=274	−6	372,000	13	27
	Justin Rose	66-67-68-73=274			1	2
	Webb Simpson	69-70-68-67=274			11	11
T7	Rickie Fowler	65-72-73-65=275	−5	279,900	17	23
	Rory McIlroy	67-68-66-74=275			13	17
	Xander Schauffele	68-70-68-69=275			15	18
	Justin Thomas	67-69-70-69=275			7	5

• Par 70 course

Final leaderboard

Place	Player	Points	Winnings ($)
1	Justin Rose	2,260	10,000,000
2	Tiger Woods	2,219	3,000,000
3	Bryson DeChambeau	2,188	2,000,000
4	Dustin Johnson	2,056	1,500,000
5	Billy Horschel	1,840	1,000,000
6	Tony Finau	1,732	800,000
7	Justin Thomas	1,610	700,000
8	Keegan Bradley	1,253	600,000
9	Brooks Koepka	1,093	550,000
10	Bubba Watson	918	500,000

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.		Reset points	Tour Champ.
		Points	Rank	Finish	Rank after	Finish	Rank after	Finish	Rank after		Finish	Final rank
	Dustin Johnson	2,717	1	T11	2	T7	2	T24	4	1,296	3	4
	Justin Thomas	2,634	2	T8	3	T24	5	T12	5	1,280	T7	7
	Brooks Koepka	2,012	3	T8	5	T12	6	T19	7	960	T26	9
	Justin Rose	1,991	4	CUT	6	2	3	2	2	1,800	T4	1
	Bubba Watson	1,879	5	T34	7	T7	7	T16	8	800	29	10
	Jason Day	1,771	6	T20	8	CUT	10	T24	12	368	18	16
	Webb Simpson	1,710	7	T28	9	T49	11	T6	11	384	T4	11
	Francesco Molinari	1,682	8	CUT	13	DNP	14	T8	13	352	T21	T17
	Bryson DeChambeau	1,617	9	1	1	1	1	T19	1	2,000	19	3
	Patrick Reed	1,555	10	T25	12	T35	13	T19	15	314	28	22
	Phil Mickelson	1,546	11	T15	10	T12	9	T58	14	336	30	21
	Tony Finau	1,509	12	2	4	T4	4	T8	3	1,520	T15	6
	Jon Rahm	1,430	13	CUT	17	T43	19	T24	24	170	T11	23
	Patrick Cantlay	1,388	14	T8	11	T24	12	T55	16	293	T21	20
	Patton Kizzire	1,386	15	T60	18	T71	21	T61	30	115	T21	30
	Paul Casey	1,319	16	T60	20	T21	17	WD	26	151	T11	25
	Rickie Fowler	1,302	17	DNP	22	DNP	26	T8	23	182	T7	T17
	Kyle Stanley	1,198	18	T28	21	T12	16	T45	25	161	T15	27
	Kevin Na	1,183	19	T15	19	CUT	23	T12	22	194	25	28
	Tiger Woods	1,162	20	T40	25	T24	25	T6	20	219	1	2
	Rory McIlroy	1,154	21	DNP	28	T12	24	5	17	272	T7	T13
	Marc Leishman	1,148	22	T34	24	T21	22	T41	29	124	T21	29
	Tommy Fleetwood*	1,130	23	T20	23	T24	20	T8	19	231	T11	19
	Chesson Hadley	1,122	24	T56	29	CUT	36	T61	44	–	–	44
	Pat Perez	1,116	25	T40	27	WD	34	T55	39	–	–	39
	Andrew Landry*	1,116	26	T76	30	T58	35	T35	37	–	–	37
	Aaron Wise*	1,086	27	T5	15	T69	18	T16	21	206	T15	24
	Xander Schauffele	1,081	28	CUT	34	T49	41	T3	18	251	T7	15
	Luke List	1,080	29	T48	31	CUT	40	T45	45	–	–	45
	Brandt Snedeker	1,077	30	DNP	35	T31	32	67	40	–	–	40
	Austin Cook*	1,060	31	T60	36	T62	42	T29	38	–	–	38
	Brian Harman	1,056	32	T48	32	T49	38	67	48	–	–	48
	Gary Woodland	1,044	33	T48	37	T24	30	T12	28	133	T11	26
	Ian Poulter	1,030	34	T48	38	CUT	45	T51	50	–	–	50
	Andrew Putnam*	1,026	35	T78	39	T49	44	T16	33	–	–	33
	Chez Reavie	1,020	36	T20	26	CUT	31	T38	34	–	–	34
	Ryan Armour	1,006	37	T78	41	T35	43	T51	49	–	–	49
	Brendan Steele	998	38	CUT	42	CUT	51	64	56	–	–	56
	Alex Norén*	989	39	CUT	43	T43	50	T24	43	–	–	43
	Kevin Kisner	971	40	T73	44	T24	39	T58	47	–	–	47
	Billy Horschel	960	41	T3	14	WD	15	T3	9	640	2	5
	Beau Hossler*	957	42	T60	45	T35	49	T33	46	–	–	46
	Jordan Spieth	945	43	T25	33	T12	27	T55	31	–	–	31
	An Byeong-hun	913	44	T40	46	T31	46	T29	42	–	–	42
	Emiliano Grillo	901	45	T48	48	T7	29	T61	32	–	–	32
	Kim Si-woo	893	46	T76	49	T35	53	T41	55	–	–	55
	Charles Howell III	885	47	CUT	54	T58	57	T24	53	–	–	53
	Brian Gay	880	48	70	51	T62	55	T45	59	–	–	59
	Keegan Bradley	872	49	T34	47	T49	52	1	6	1,120	T26	8
	Henrik Stenson	868	50	DNP	55	T69	60	T29	57	–	–	57
	J. J. Spaun	849	51	T60	56	T66	62	T45	62	–	–	62
	Zach Johnson	839	52	T40	53	CUT	59	T33	58	–	–	58
	Cameron Smith	821	53	T3	16	3	8	T65	10	480	20	12
	Scott Piercy	802	54	T48	57	DQ	68	T45	68	–	–	68
	Ryan Moore	795	55	CUT	60	T71	71	–	–	–	–	71
	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	784	56	T60	59	T7	37	T41	41	–	–	41
	Kim Meen-whee	764	57	T48	61	75	72	–	–	–	–	72
	Stewart Cink	758	58	CUT	65	T62	73	–	–	–	–	73
	Chris Kirk	756	59	T78	64	T35	67	T41	66	–	–	66
	Ted Potter Jr.	744	60	T40	62	T66	70	T35	65	–	–	65
	Jimmy Walker	719	61	T71	68	T71	75	–	–	–	–	75
	Jason Kokrak	700	62	T40	66	T24	61	T19	52	–	–	52
	Pan Cheng-tsung	693	63	T60	72	T4	33	T38	35	–	–	35
	Matt Kuchar	679	64	T60	74	T43	76	–	–	–	–	76
	Joel Dahmen*	676	65	CUT	76	CUT	80	–	–	–	–	80
	Michael Kim	675	66	CUT	77	CUT	81	–	–	–	–	81
	Kevin Streelman	673	67	T40	70	CUT	77	–	–	–	–	77
	Keith Mitchell*	659	68	CUT	78	20	66	T45	67	–	–	67
	J. B. Holmes	640	69	CUT	80	T49	82	–	–	–	–	82
	Adam Hadwin	638	70	T11	52	T21	47	T19	36	–	–	36
	Brice Garnett	634	71	CUT	81	T12	63	T35	61	–	–	61
	Kelly Kraft	627	72	CUT	82	CUT	90	–	–	–	–	90
	Adam Scott	623	73	T5	40	T49	48	T51	51	–	–	51
	Louis Oosthuizen	620	74	T28	69	T31	69	T58	69	–	–	69
	Troy Merritt	616	75	CUT	84	CUT	91	–	–	–	–	91
	Hideki Matsuyama	607	76	T15	58	T4	28	15	27	142	T4	T13
	Satoshi Kodaira*	600	77	CUT	85	CUT	94	–	–	–	–	94
	Kevin Chappell	597	78	CUT	88	T35	83	–	–	–	–	83
	James Hahn	596	79	CUT	89	T35	84	–	–	–	–	84
	Tom Hoge*	594	80	CUT	90	T66	92	–	–	–	–	92
	Peter Uihlein*	593	81	T48	83	T12	64	T38	64	–	–	64
	Branden Grace	590	82	CUT	91	T43	88	–	–	–	–	88
	Abraham Ancer*	589	83	CUT	92	T7	56	T51	60	–	–	60
	Russell Knox	585	84	CUT	93	T43	89	–	–	–	–	89
	Kevin Tway	577	85	T56	86	T43	87	–	–	–	–	87
	Jamie Lovemark	576	86	T34	79	76	85	–	–	–	–	85
	Ollie Schniederjans	573	87	CUT	95	CUT	98	–	–	–	–	98
	Russell Henley	569	88	CUT	96	T58	96	–	–	–	–	96
	Daniel Berger	565	89	T15	63	T35	65	DNP	70	–	–	70
	Jason Dufner	557	90	CUT	100	CUT	100	–	–	–	–	100
	Anirban Lahiri	555	91	T71	97	CUT	99	–	–	–	–	99
	Tyrrell Hatton*	550	92	T20	71	T12	54	T29	54	–	–	54
	Patrick Rodgers	541	93	DNP	104	–	–	–	–	–	–	104
	Brandon Harkins*	528	94	T60	103	–	–	–	–	–	–	103
	Trey Mullinax*	528	95	T56	102	–	–	–	–	–	–	102
	Charl Schwartzel	528	96	CUT	105	–	–	–	–	–	–	105
	Rory Sabbatini	521	97	CUT	109	–	–	–	–	–	–	109
	Charley Hoffman	515	98	T20	75	74	79	–	–	–	–	79
	Alex Čejka	502	99	T56	108	–	–	–	–	–	–	108
	Ryan Palmer	500	100	T5	50	CUT	58	T65	63	–	–	63
	Richy Werenski	498	101	CUT	110	–	–	–	–	–	–	110
	Nick Watney	491	102	T11	67	T62	74	–	–	–	–	74
	Danny Lee	481	103	T34	98	T49	97	–	–	–	–	97
	Kang Sung-hoon	480	104	75	111	–	–	–	–	–	–	111
	John Huh	480	105	CUT	112	–	–	–	–	–	–	112
	Harold Varner III	474	106	T40	107	–	–	–	–	–	–	107
	Scott Stallings	470	107	T28	94	T49	93	–	–	–	–	93
	Tyler Duncan*	457	108	CUT	113	–	–	–	–	–	–	113
	William McGirt	449	109	CUT	116	–	–	–	–	–	–	116
	J. T. Poston*	448	110	CUT	117	–	–	–	–	–	–	117
	Bronson Burgoon*	446	111	T11	73	T58	78	–	–	–	–	78
	Vaughn Taylor	445	112	CUT	118	–	–	–	–	–	–	118
	Martin Laird	443	113	T73	115	–	–	–	–	–	–	115
	Sam Ryder*	442	114	T28	101	–	–	–	–	–	–	101
	Grayson Murray	438	115	WD	119	–	–	–	–	–	–	119
	Ryan Blaum	433	116	CUT	121	–	–	–	–	–	–	121
	Scott Brown	422	117	CUT	122	–	–	–	–	–	–	122
	Brian Stuard	421	118	T25	99	T31	86	–	–	–	–	86
	Nick Taylor	420	119	CUT	123	–	–	–	–	–	–	123
	Sam Saunders*	420	120	T60	120	–	–	–	–	–	–	120
	Sean O'Hair	417	121	T28	106	–	–	–	–	–	–	106
	Bud Cauley	405	122	DNP	124	–	–	–	–	–	–	124
	Jhonattan Vegas	394	123	T15	87	CUT	95	–	–	–	–	95
	Harris English	383	124	CUT	125	–	–	–	–	–	–	125
	Séamus Power*	377	125	T34	114	–	–	–	–	–	–	114

* First-time Playoffs participant

References

1. Harig, Bob (August 21, 2018). "Tiger, Rickie, Rory and Jordan all enter FedEx Cup with question marks". ESPN.
2. Beall, Joel (August 23, 2018). "Brandt Snedeker withdraws from Northern Trust with injury (Update)". Golf Digest.
3. "Bryson DeChambeau tops FedEx Cup standings after Northern Trust win". ESPN. Associated Press. August 26, 2018.
4. Everill, Ben (August 26, 2018). "FedExCup Update: DeChambeau takes top spot". PGA Tour.
5. Harig, Bob (August 27, 2018). "Rickie Fowler to skip Dell Technologies Championship with oblique injury". ESPN.
6. "Bryson DeChambeau wins at Dell for 2nd straight FedEx Cup playoff victory". ESPN. Associated Press. September 3, 2018.
7. McAllister, Mike (September 3, 2018). "FedExCup update: Uihlein, Mitchell crack the top 70 bubble with late birdies". PGA Tour.
8. Glasscott, Mike (September 4, 2018). "Confidence Factor: BMW Championship". PGA Tour.
9. "Keegan Bradley beats Justin Rose in playoff to win at Aronimink". ESPN. Associated Press. September 10, 2018.
10. Harig, Bob (September 23, 2018). "Tiger Woods caps comeback by winning Tour Championship". ESPN.
11. "Justin Rose ties for fourth at finale, wins $10 million FedEx Cup". ESPN. September 23, 2018.

External links

• Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site