2015 FedEx Cup Playoffs

2015 FedEx Cup Playoffs

Tournament information
Dates	August 27 – September 27, 2015
Location	Plainfield Country Club TPC Boston Conway Farms Golf Club East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Field	125 for The Barclays 100 for Deutsche Bank 70 for BMW Championship 30 for Tour Championship
Prize fund	$35,000,000 bonus money
Winner's share	$10,000,000 bonus money
Champion
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:

• The Barclays – Plainfield Country Club, Edison, New Jersey
• Deutsche Bank Championship – TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts
• BMW Championship – Conway Farms Golf Club, Lake Forest, Illinois
• Tour Championship – East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia

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

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

Place	Player	Points	Events
1	Jordan Spieth	4,169	21
2	Jason Day	2,459	16
3	Bubba Watson	2,407	15
4	Jimmy Walker	2,014	20
5	Justin Rose	1,742	16
6	Robert Streb	1,720	26
7	Dustin Johnson	1,718	17
8	Patrick Reed	1,593	23
9	Rory McIlroy	1,567	9
10	Danny Lee	1,561	32

For the full list see here.

The Barclays

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	Jason Day	68-68-63-62=261	−19	1,485,000	1	2
2	Henrik Stenson	68-66-67-66=267	−13	891,000	4	41
3	Bubba Watson	65-68-67-69=269	−11	561,000	3	3
T4	Zac Blair	69-68-67-66=270	−10	363,000	45	106
	Zach Johnson	69-65-67-69=270			5	11
T6	Bae Sang-moon	69-67-63-72=271	−9	276,375	23	34
	Ryan Palmer	69-67-65-70=271			33	56
	Daniel Summerhays	67-70-68-66=271			40	66
T9	Jason Bohn	71-64-72-65=272	−8	231,000	24	33
	Dustin Johnson	70-70-67-65=272			6	7

• Par 70 course

Deutsche Bank Championship

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	Rickie Fowler	67-67-67-68=269	−15	1,485,000	3	22
2	Henrik Stenson	67-68-65-70=270	−14	891,000	4	4
3	Charley Hoffman	67-63-76-67=273	−11	561,000	6	17
T4	Jim Furyk	71-65-70-70=276	−8	311,025	9	11
	Matt Jones	67-67-68-74=276			33	57
	Hunter Mahan	69-73-64-70=276			52	91
	Sean O'Hair	68-67-67-74=276			38	66
	Patrick Reed	72-67-67-70=276			10	12
T9	Jerry Kelly	71-66-68-72=277	−7	222,750	65	94
	Matt Kuchar	69-72-65-71=277			20	27
	Daniel Summerhays	71-68-70-68=277			26	40

• Par 71 course

BMW Championship

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	Jason Day	61-63-69-69=262	−22	1,485,000	1	1
2	Daniel Berger	65-64-70-69=268	−16	891,000	9	46
3	Scott Piercy	67-65-67-70=269	−15	561,000	20	44
T4	Rickie Fowler	69-66-66-69=270	−14	341,000	3	3
	J. B. Holmes	70-65-67-68=270			17	19
	Rory McIlroy	68-65-67-70=270			11	17
T7	Dustin Johnson	71-62-68-70=271	−13	257,125	7	8
	Hideki Matsuyama	72-63-70-66=271			15	16
	Cameron Tringale	72-64-69-66=271			36	55
T10	Kevin Na	65-66-70-71=272	−12	206,250	27	34
	Henrik Stenson	71-63-71-67=272			4	4
	Bubba Watson	65-70-72-65=272			5	5

• Par 71 course

Reset points

The points were reset after the BMW Championship.

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

Tour Championship

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	Jordan Spieth	68-66-68-69=271	−9	1,485,000	1	2
T2	Danny Lee	69-72-69-65=275	−5	618,750	9	19
	Justin Rose	70-68-71-66=275			8	12
	Henrik Stenson	63-68-72-72=275			2	4
T5	Paul Casey	65-70-71-70=276	−4	302,500	13	22
	Dustin Johnson	69-72-71-64=276			7	7
	Bubba Watson	70-71-68-67=276			5	5
T8	J. B. Holmes	68-72-68-69=277	−3	255,750	14	17
	Zach Johnson	66-70-71-70=277			6	6
T10	Jason Day	69-71-70-68=278	−2	228,525	3	1
	Matt Kuchar	71-70-69-68=278			19	21

• Par 70 course

Final leaderboard

Place	Player	Points	Winnings ($)
1	Jordan Spieth	3,800	10,000,000
2	Henrik Stenson	2,307	3,000,000
3	Jason Day	2,290	2,000,000
4	Rickie Fowler	1,838	1,500,000
5	Bubba Watson	1,680	1,000,000
6	Zach Johnson	1,450	800,000
7	Dustin Johnson	1,360	700,000
8	Justin Rose	1,235	600,000
9	Danny Lee	1,123	550,000
10	Charley Hoffman	992	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 Barclays		Deutsche Bank		BMW Champ.		Reset points	Tour Champ.
		Points	Rank	Finish	Rank after	Finish	Rank after	Finish	Rank after		Finish	Final rank
	Jordan Spieth	4,169	1	CUT	2	CUT	2	T13	2	1,800	1	1
	Jason Day	2,459	2	1	1	T12	1	1	1	2,000	T10	3
	Bubba Watson	2,407	3	3	3	T29	5	T10	5	1,280	T5	5
	Jimmy Walker	2,014	4	T69	7	CUT	11	T32	13	352	T18	T16
	Justin Rose	1,742	5	T16	8	CUT	13	T13	12	368	T2	8
	Robert Streb	1,720	6	T39	9	T39	12	T23	14	336	T18	18
	Dustin Johnson	1,718	7	T9	6	T44	8	T7	7	960	T5	7
	Patrick Reed	1,593	8	T62	12	T4	10	T28	10	480	27	12
	Rory McIlroy	1,567	9	DNP	15	T29	17	T4	11	384	T16	15
	Danny Lee	1,561	10	T30	10	T33	14	T47	19	256	T2	9
	Zach Johnson	1,559	11	T4	5	T22	7	T13	6	1,120	T8	6
	Brooks Koepka *	1,544	12	CUT	16	CUT	21	T49	25	208	T18	24
	Brandt Snedeker	1,537	13	CUT	18	T44	18	66	23	224	T22	23
	Charley Hoffman	1,512	14	T62	17	3	6	T53	8	800	T22	10
	Rickie Fowler	1,498	15	CUT	22	1	3	T4	3	1,600	T12	4
	J. B. Holmes	1,484	16	T58	19	T44	19	T4	17	288	T8	14
	Kevin Kisner	1,416	17	T20	13	T12	15	T41	18	272	28	21
	Jim Furyk	1,401	18	T11	11	T4	9	WD	16	304	DNP	29
	Paul Casey	1,389	19	T39	21	WD	24	T23	22	232	T5	13
	Hideki Matsuyama	1,374	20	T13	14	T25	16	T7	15	320	T12	T16
	David Lingmerth	1,305	21	CUT	26	CUT	31	T49	37	–	–	37
	Steven Bowditch	1,287	22	T13	20	CUT	22	T41	24	216	T12	20
	Bill Haas	1,281	23	T53	25	T60	27	T19	26	200	26	27
	Ben Martin	1,217	24	68	29	T25	25	T68	35	–	–	35
	Ryan Moore	1,208	25	CUT	31	CUT	39	T28	39	–	–	39
	Matt Kuchar	1,164	26	T39	27	T9	20	T41	21	240	T10	19
	Scott Piercy	1,127	27	T62	34	CUT	44	3	20	248	25	22
	Louis Oosthuizen	1,088	28	DNP	38	T12	30	T19	29	176	WD	30
	Chris Kirk	1,087	29	CUT	39	T29	37	T60	44	–	–	44
	Kevin Na	1,062	30	T20	28	T60	34	T10	27	192	T16	25
	Sergio García	1,051	31	DNP	43	DNP	54	T39	53	–	–	53
	Gary Woodland	1,037	32	CUT	44	T12	36	T60	41	–	–	41
	Jason Bohn	1,037	33	T9	24	CUT	28	T64	40	–	–	40
	Bae Sang-moon	1,025	34	T6	23	T39	23	T53	28	184	T18	26
	James Hahn	1,012	35	T58	42	CUT	53	T32	51	–	–	51
	Justin Thomas *	1,007	36	T16	30	T56	35	T13	32	–	–	32
	Shawn Stefani	987	37	T39	36	T65	45	59	54	–	–	54
	Russell Henley	986	38	72	49	CUT	58	T49	63	–	–	63
	Tony Finau *	985	39	T16	32	CUT	41	T47	43	–	–	43
	Webb Simpson	953	40	T30	37	T44	42	T64	48	–	–	48
	Henrik Stenson	952	41	2	4	2	4	T10	4	1,440	T2	2
	Harris English	932	42	T30	41	T12	32	T19	30	168	T22	28
	Troy Merritt	930	43	T53	48	T39	47	T62	56	–	–	56
	Russell Knox	914	44	T20	35	T12	29	T45	34	–	–	34
	Billy Horschel	903	45	CUT	53	72	67	T32	66	–	–	66
	Daniel Berger *	899	46	CUT	54	T12	46	2	9	640	T12	11
	Brendan Steele	895	47	CUT	55	T44	60	T13	50	–	–	50
	Brendon de Jonge	892	48	CUT	56	T22	49	T32	47	–	–	47
	David Hearn	890	49	T45	50	CUT	59	T28	55	–	–	55
	Marc Leishman	854	50	CUT	61	CUT	72	–	–	–	–	72
	Phil Mickelson	849	51	T50	52	T65	61	T32	61	–	–	61
	Nick Watney	847	52	CUT	63	T44	64	T19	58	–	–	58
	Brendon Todd	831	53	T24	47	T44	48	T23	46	–	–	46
	Pat Perez	825	54	T20	46	T29	43	T45	45	–	–	45
	Matt Jones	821	55	T53	57	T4	33	T32	33	–	–	33
	Ryan Palmer	817	56	T6	33	T65	40	T23	38	–	–	38
	Cameron Tringale	816	57	T30	51	T44	55	T7	36	–	–	36
	Fabián Gómez *	797	58	71	67	T33	62	T39	64	–	–	64
	Ian Poulter	777	59	CUT	69	T33	66	T53	67	–	–	67
	Boo Weekley	776	60	CUT	70	T56	76	–	–	–	–	76
	Kevin Streelman	771	61	T53	65	T69	75	–	–	–	–	75
	Keegan Bradley	759	62	CUT	71	T25	63	T28	60	–	–	60
	Alex Čejka	739	63	CUT	73	T39	71	–	–	–	–	71
	Matt Every	727	64	CUT	75	CUT	89	–	–	–	–	89
	Carl Pettersson	723	65	CUT	77	T44	77	–	–	–	–	77
	Daniel Summerhays	720	66	T6	40	T9	26	T41	31	–	–	31
	Sean O'Hair	719	67	T45	66	T4	38	T53	42	–	–	42
	George McNeill	715	68	T30	59	CUT	70	T13	62	–	–	62
	Brian Harman	704	69	T30	62	T12	50	T53	57	–	–	57
	Charles Howell III	692	70	T58	74	T56	79	–	–	–	–	79
	Scott Brown	690	71	CUT	84	T69	94	–	–	–	–	94
	Rory Sabbatini	678	72	T24	60	T22	56	67	65	–	–	65
	Chad Campbell	670	73	CUT	86	CUT	96	–	–	–	–	96
	William McGirt	652	74	CUT	88	T12	68	T49	69	–	–	69
	Will Wilcox *	649	75	CUT	89	DNP	97	–	–	–	–	97
	Davis Love III	649	76	CUT	90	T44	86	–	–	–	–	86
	Hunter Mahan	648	77	CUT	91	T4	52	T32	49	–	–	49
	Scott Pinckney *	645	78	T50	76	T60	83	–	–	–	–	83
	Jerry Kelly	632	79	CUT	94	T9	65	T62	68	–	–	68
	Colt Knost	628	80	CUT	95	T44	91	–	–	–	–	91
	Martin Laird	628	81	CUT	96	CUT	99	–	–	–	–	99
	Morgan Hoffmann	627	82	T39	72	73	85	–	–	–	–	85
	Chesson Hadley	626	83	CUT	97	74	98	–	–	–	–	98
	Kyle Reifers *	626	84	CUT	98	T25	78	–	–	–	–	78
	J. J. Henry	620	85	T45	78	CUT	90	–	–	–	–	90
	Jason Kokrak	614	86	CUT	100	CUT	100	–	–	–	–	100
	Pádraig Harrington	610	87	CUT	103	–	–	–	–	–	–	103
	John Senden	610	88	T45	81	T33	73	–	–	–	–	73
	Jim Herman *	610	89	T13	64	CUT	74	–	–	–	–	74
	Greg Owen	608	90	CUT	104	–	–	–	–	–	–	104
	Kevin Chappell	602	91	T24	68	T12	57	T23	52	–	–	52
	Bryce Molder	595	92	T11	58	CUT	69	T68	70	–	–	70
	John Peterson *	588	93	CUT	105	–	–	–	–	–	–	105
	Adam Scott	585	94	CUT	106	–	–	–	–	–	–	106
	Adam Hadwin *	584	95	CUT	107	–	–	–	–	–	–	107
	Charl Schwartzel	584	96	CUT	108	–	–	–	–	–	–	108
	John Huh	565	97	CUT	110	–	–	–	–	–	–	110
	Jason Gore	564	98	T30	79	CUT	92	–	–	–	–	92
	Francesco Molinari *	558	99	DNP	111	–	–	–	–	–	–	111
	Hudson Swafford *	554	100	T50	93	T33	81	–	–	–	–	81
	Johnson Wagner	551	101	T45	92	T44	87	–	–	–	–	87
	Nick Taylor *	549	102	T53	101	–	–	–	–	–	–	101
	Jason Dufner	546	103	T30	82	T60	88	–	–	–	–	88
	Graham DeLaet	545	104	CUT	112	–	–	–	–	–	–	112
	Jon Curran *	540	105	CUT	113	–	–	–	–	–	–	113
	Zac Blair *	538	106	T4	45	T60	51	T53	59	–	–	59
	Steve Wheatcroft *	536	107	CUT	114	–	–	–	–	–	–	114
	Andres Gonzales *	531	108	CUT	115	–	–	–	–	–	–	115
	Chris Stroud	531	109	CUT	116	–	–	–	–	–	–	116
	Lee Westwood	530	110	T58	109	–	–	–	–	–	–	109
	Retief Goosen	519	111	DNP	118	–	–	–	–	–	–	118
	Carlos Ortiz *	515	112	T24	83	T65	93	–	–	–	–	93
	Chad Collins	504	113	CUT	120	–	–	–	–	–	–	120
	Mark Wilson	497	114	T24	85	T69	95	–	–	–	–	95
	Spencer Levin	496	115	T16	80	T56	82	–	–	–	–	82
	Stewart Cink	494	116	T39	102	–	–	–	–	–	–	102
	Ken Duke	493	117	T62	117	–	–	–	–	–	–	117
	Vijay Singh	490	118	T66	119	–	–	–	–	–	–	119
	Luke Donald	484	119	T24	87	T39	80	–	–	–	–	80
	Tim Clark	481	120	CUT	121	–	–	–	–	–	–	121
	Jonas Blixt	471	121	CUT	123	–	–	–	–	–	–	123
	Erik Compton	471	122	WD	124	–	–	–	–	–	–	124
	Camilo Villegas	467	123	T30	99	T33	84	–	–	–	–	84
	Ryo Ishikawa	458	124	T66	122	–	–	–	–	–	–	122
	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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2. Sobel, Jason (August 30, 2015). "Jason Day's killer instinct shining through in win". ESPN.
3. Wacker, Brian (August 30, 2015). "Fine line between moving on, going home in FedExCup race". PGA Tour.
4. Shain, Jeff (August 28, 2015). "Preview of the Deutsche Bank Championship". PGA Tour.
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External links

• Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site