| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 8–25,2019 |
| Location | Liberty National Golf Club Medinah Country Club East Lake Golf Club |
| Tour | PGA Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Field | 125 forThe Northern Trust 70 forBMW Championship 30 forTour Championship |
| Prize fund | $60 million (bonus money) |
| Winner's share | $15 million (bonus money) |
| Champion | |
| −18 | |
The2019 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of threegolf tournaments that will determine the season champion on the U.S.-basedPGA Tour, was played from August 8–25. It included the following three events:[1]
They were the 13thFedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in2007.
The point distributions can be seenhere.
There were a number of changes in the format compared to previous years.
| Place | Player | Points | Events | Wyndham Rewards Top 10 bonus ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,887 | 18 | 2,000,000 | |
| 2 | 2,315 | 16 | 1,500,000 | |
| 3 | 2,313 | 19 | 1,200,000 | |
| 4 | 1,858 | 18 | 1,100,000 | |
| 5 | 1,795 | 21 | 1,000,000 | |
| 6 | 1,730 | 18 | 850,000 | |
| 7 | 1,686 | 16 | 700,000 | |
| 8 | 1,629 | 20 | 600,000 | |
| 9 | 1,619 | 18 | 550,000 | |
| 10 | 1,447 | 17 | 500,000 |
Source:[2]
The Northern Trust was played August 8–11. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, four did not play:Paul Casey (ranked 8th),Rafa Cabrera-Bello (59),Henrik Stenson (85) andSam Burns (89), reducing the field to 121. 85 players made the second-round cut at 141 (−1).
Patrick Reed won by a stroke overAbraham Ancer. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship.[3] This included four players who were outside the top 70 prior to The Northern Trust:Troy Merritt (ranked 72nd to 59th),Joaquín Niemann (74 to 70),Wyndham Clark (90 to 68), andHarold Varner III (102 to 29). Four players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances:Sergio García (ranked 65th to 72nd),Danny Lee (66 to 73),Kevin Streelman (68 to 75), andMatthew Wolff (70 to 74).[4]
| FedEx Cup rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Winnings ($) | After | Before |
| 1 | 66-66-67-69=268 | −16 | 1,665,000 | 2 | 50 | |
| 2 | 67-65-68-69=269 | −15 | 999,000 | 8 | 67 | |
| T3 | 64-68-69-69=270 | −14 | 536,500 | 5 | 10 | |
| 67-67-68-68=270 | 29 | 102 | ||||
| 5 | 68-69-69-65=271 | −13 | 370,000 | 14 | 21 | |
| T6 | 65-68-70-69=272 | −12 | 299,469 | 3 | 2 | |
| 68-65-70-69=272 | 28 | 51 | ||||
| 71-67-63-71=272 | 22 | 33 | ||||
| 67-64-74-67=272 | 44 | 69 | ||||
| T10 | 68-66-71-68=273 | −11 | 240,500 | 43 | 60 | |
| 65-68-69-71=273 | 12 | 11 | ||||
The BMW Championship was played August 15–18. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, onlyKevin Na (ranked 55th) did not play, reducing the field to 69. There was no second-round cut.
Justin Thomas won by 3 strokes fromPatrick Cantlay. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to the Tour Championship. This included three players who were outside the top 30 prior to the BMW Championship:Jason Kokrak (ranked 32nd to 30th),Hideki Matsuyama (33 to 15), andLucas Glover (41 to 29). Three players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances:Shane Lowry (25 to 33),Harold Varner III (29 to 38) andAndrew Putnam (30 to 34).[5]
| FedEx Cup rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Winnings ($) | After | Before |
| 1 | 65-69-61-68=263 | −25 | 1,665,000 | 1 | 15 | |
| 2 | 66-67-68-65=266 | −22 | 999,000 | 2 | 6 | |
| 3 | 69-63-73-63=268 | −20 | 629,000 | 15 | 33 | |
| 4 | 67-66-68-69=270 | −18 | 444,000 | 12 | 19 | |
| T5 | 68-69-66-69=272 | −16 | 351,500 | 6 | 5 | |
| 66-71-67-68=272 | 18 | 22 | ||||
| T7 | 69-66-69-69=273 | −15 | 298,312 | 23 | 27 | |
| 66-69-69-69=273 | 29 | 41 | ||||
| T9 | 68-68-69-69=274 | −14 | 259,000 | 20 | 21 | |
| 67-71-69-67=274 | 13 | 14 | ||||
| Place | Player | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,475 | 19 | |
| 2 | 3,157 | 20 | |
| 3 | 3,119 | 20 | |
| 4 | 2,946 | 24 | |
| 5 | 2,842 | 18 | |
| 6 | 2,517 | 19 | |
| 7 | 2,339 | 21 | |
| 8 | 2,030 | 20 | |
| 9 | 1,946 | 20 | |
| 10 | 1,940 | 26 |
The Tour Championship was played August 22–25. 30 golfers qualified for the tournament. There was no second-round cut.Rory McIlroy won the event, finishing four strokes ahead ofXander Schauffele. McIlroy had started the tournament at −5, a one stroke advantage over Schauffele who started at −4.[6]
| Place | Player | Round scores | Starting score | Final score | FedEx Cup rank | Winnings ($) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After | Before | ||||||
| 1 | 66-67-68-66=267 | −5 | −18 | 1 | 5 | 15,000,000 | |
| 2 | 64-69-67-70=270 | −4 | −14 | 2 | 8 | 5,000,000 | |
| T3 | 67-67-68-72=274 | −7 | −13 | T3 | 3 | 3,500,000 | |
| 70-68-71-68=277 | −10 | 1 | |||||
| 5 | 66-67-68-72=273 | −2 | −9 | 5 | 16 | 2,500,000 | |
| 6 | 68-70-71-66=275 | −3 | −8 | 6 | 13 | 1,900,000 | |
| 7 | 70-69-70-67=276 | −3 | −7 | 7 | 12 | 1,300,000 | |
| 8 | 71-64-70-70=275 | −1 | −6 | 8 | 25 | 1,100,000 | |
| T9 | 71-70-68-68=277 | −2 | −5 | T9 | 20 | 843,333 | |
| 66-75-66-71=278 | −3 | 15 | |||||
| 70-70-73-68=281 | −6 | 4 | |||||
For the full listsee here.
Table key:
| Player | Pre-Playoffs | The Northern Trust | BMW Championship | Tour Championship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Finish | Rank after | Finish | Rank after | Starting score[7] | Final score | Final rank | ||
| Brooks Koepka | 2,887 | 1 | T30 | 1 | T24 | 3 | −7 | −13 | T3 | |
| Rory McIlroy | 2,315 | 2 | T6 | 3 | T19 | 5 | −5 | −18 | 1 | |
| Matt Kuchar | 2,313 | 3 | CUT | 4 | T52 | 7 | −4 | −1 | T16 | |
| Xander Schauffele | 1,858 | 4 | CUT | 7 | T19 | 8 | −4 | −14 | 2 | |
| Gary Woodland | 1,795 | 5 | T52 | 9 | T31 | 11 | −3 | −2 | 15 | |
| Patrick Cantlay | 1,730 | 6 | T12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | −8 | +1 | T21 | |
| Dustin Johnson | 1,686 | 7 | T24 | 10 | T57 | 14 | −3 | +10 | T29 | |
| Paul Casey | 1,629 | 8 | DNP | 13 | T24 | 16 | −2 | −9 | 5 | |
| Webb Simpson | 1,619 | 9 | T18 | 11 | T24 | 9 | −4 | −1 | T16 | |
| Jon Rahm | 1,447 | 10 | T3 | 5 | T5 | 6 | −4 | −4 | T12 | |
| Justin Rose | 1,423 | 11 | T10 | 12 | T52 | 17 | −2 | +3 | T26 | |
| Marc Leishman | 1,415 | 12 | CUT | 16 | T19 | 21 | −1 | +2 | T24 | |
| Rickie Fowler | 1,391 | 13 | CUT | 17 | T11 | 19 | −2 | E | T19 | |
| Chez Reavie | 1,309 | 14 | T38 | 18 | T57 | 25 | −1 | −6 | 8 | |
| Charles Howell III | 1,279 | 15 | CUT | 23 | T37 | 28 | E | +4 | 28 | |
| Tony Finau | 1,279 | 16 | T30 | 19 | 4 | 12 | −3 | −7 | 7 | |
| Justin Thomas | 1,247 | 17 | T12 | 15 | 1 | 1 | −10 | −13 | T3 | |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 1,203 | 18 | T24 | 20 | T48 | 26 | E | −4 | T12 | |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 1,193 | 19 | T43 | 24 | T11 | 22 | −1 | −1 | T16 | |
| Shane Lowry | 1,137 | 20 | T52 | 25 | T48 | 33 | – | – | 33 | |
| Adam Scott | 1,124 | 21 | 5 | 14 | T9 | 13 | −3 | −8 | 6 | |
| Kevin Kisner | 1,098 | 22 | T12 | 21 | T9 | 20 | −2 | −5 | T9 | |
| Im Sung-jae* | 1,097 | 23 | T38 | 26 | T11 | 24 | −1 | E | T19 | |
| Ryan Palmer | 1,088 | 24 | T77 | 31 | T43 | 35 | – | – | 35 | |
| Francesco Molinari | 1,054 | 25 | 82 | 34 | T61 | 40 | – | – | 40 | |
| Scott Piercy | 1,025 | 26 | T67 | 35 | T37 | 39 | – | – | 39 | |
| J. T. Poston | 1,015 | 27 | T59 | 36 | T16 | 32 | – | – | 32 | |
| Tiger Woods | 1,003 | 28 | WD | 38 | T37 | 42 | – | – | 42 | |
| Kang Sung-hoon | 986 | 29 | CUT | 42 | T63 | 45 | – | – | 45 | |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 969 | 30 | T30 | 33 | 3 | 15 | −3 | −5 | T9 | |
| Corey Conners | 962 | 31 | T21 | 27 | T7 | 23 | −1 | +3 | T26 | |
| Lucas Glover | 947 | 32 | T43 | 41 | T7 | 29 | E | +10 | T29 | |
| Brandt Snedeker | 934 | 33 | T6 | 22 | T5 | 18 | −2 | +2 | T24 | |
| Phil Mickelson | 903 | 34 | T71 | 46 | T48 | 47 | – | – | 47 | |
| Pan Cheng-tsung | 900 | 35 | T24 | 37 | T31 | 37 | – | – | 37 | |
| Rory Sabbatini | 895 | 36 | T43 | 45 | T16 | 36 | – | – | 36 | |
| Keith Mitchell | 884 | 37 | T64 | 47 | T52 | 50 | – | – | 50 | |
| Andrew Putnam | 873 | 38 | T12 | 30 | T43 | 34 | – | – | 34 | |
| Jim Furyk | 865 | 39 | T52 | 48 | T57 | 51 | – | – | 51 | |
| Jason Day | 865 | 40 | CUT | 50 | T52 | 54 | – | – | 54 | |
| Kevin Tway | 863 | 41 | T24 | 40 | T11 | 31 | – | – | 31 | |
| Jason Kokrak | 854 | 42 | T12 | 32 | T19 | 30 | E | −3 | 14 | |
| Nate Lashley* | 836 | 43 | CUT | 54 | 69 | 57 | – | – | 57 | |
| Billy Horschel | 835 | 44 | T21 | 39 | T37 | 43 | – | – | 43 | |
| Kim Si-woo | 832 | 45 | 84 | 53 | T28 | 46 | – | – | 46 | |
| Adam Hadwin | 818 | 46 | T43 | 51 | T43 | 52 | – | – | 52 | |
| J. B. Holmes | 815 | 47 | T52 | 52 | T65 | 56 | – | – | 56 | |
| Kevin Na | 815 | 48 | T77 | 55 | DNP | 61 | – | – | 61 | |
| Collin Morikawa* | 780 | 49 | T52 | 57 | T48 | 59 | – | – | 59 | |
| Patrick Reed | 774 | 50 | 1 | 2 | T19 | 4 | −6 | −5 | T9 | |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 754 | 51 | T6 | 28 | T11 | 27 | E | +1 | T21 | |
| Max Homa* | 742 | 52 | T38 | 56 | T61 | 60 | – | – | 60 | |
| Dylan Frittelli* | 735 | 53 | T43 | 60 | T52 | 63 | – | – | 63 | |
| Graeme McDowell | 729 | 54 | CUT | 64 | T57 | 68 | – | – | 68 | |
| Adam Long* | 719 | 55 | CUT | 65 | T65 | 69 | – | – | 69 | |
| Joel Dahmen | 716 | 56 | T67 | 63 | T24 | 55 | – | – | 55 | |
| An Byeong-hun | 710 | 57 | T38 | 61 | T28 | 53 | – | – | 53 | |
| Keegan Bradley | 700 | 58 | T64 | 66 | T43 | 66 | – | – | 66 | |
| Rafa Cabrera-Bello | 696 | 59 | DNP | 67 | T63 | 70 | – | – | 70 | |
| Ian Poulter | 690 | 60 | T10 | 43 | T31 | 41 | – | – | 41 | |
| Ryan Moore | 690 | 61 | T18 | 49 | T37 | 48 | – | – | 48 | |
| Emiliano Grillo | 673 | 62 | CUT | 69 | T31 | 65 | – | – | 65 | |
| Vaughn Taylor | 641 | 63 | T30 | 62 | T16 | 49 | – | – | 49 | |
| Cameron Champ* | 639 | 64 | T21 | 58 | T65 | 62 | – | – | 62 | |
| Sergio García | 637 | 65 | CUT | 72 | – | – | – | – | 72 | |
| Danny Lee | 625 | 66 | 81 | 73 | – | – | – | – | 73 | |
| Abraham Ancer | 622 | 67 | 2 | 8 | T28 | 10 | −4 | +1 | T21 | |
| Kevin Streelman | 609 | 68 | CUT | 75 | – | – | – | – | 75 | |
| Jordan Spieth | 605 | 69 | T6 | 44 | T37 | 44 | – | – | 44 | |
| Matthew Wolff* | 602 | 70 | T71 | 74 | – | – | – | – | 74 | |
| Bubba Watson | 572 | 71 | CUT | 81 | – | – | – | – | 81 | |
| Troy Merritt | 569 | 72 | T12 | 59 | T43 | 58 | – | – | 58 | |
| Charley Hoffman | 567 | 73 | T77 | 78 | – | – | – | – | 78 | |
| Joaquín Niemann* | 566 | 74 | T30 | 70 | T31 | 67 | – | – | 67 | |
| Matt Every | 561 | 75 | CUT | 86 | – | – | – | – | 86 | |
| Kiradech Aphibarnrat* | 558 | 76 | T71 | 83 | – | – | – | – | 83 | |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 555 | 77 | T59 | 79 | – | – | – | – | 79 | |
| Brian Stuard | 547 | 78 | T52 | 82 | – | – | – | – | 82 | |
| Cameron Smith | 547 | 79 | T59 | 84 | – | – | – | – | 84 | |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 538 | 80 | T38 | 76 | – | – | – | – | 76 | |
| Russell Henley | 534 | 81 | T59 | 87 | – | – | – | – | 87 | |
| Chesson Hadley | 532 | 82 | T43 | 80 | – | – | – | – | 80 | |
| Michael Thompson | 527 | 83 | CUT | 89 | – | – | – | – | 89 | |
| Adam Schenk* | 524 | 84 | T24 | 71 | – | – | – | – | 71 | |
| Henrik Stenson | 523 | 85 | DNP | 90 | – | – | – | – | 90 | |
| Brian Harman | 509 | 86 | T52 | 88 | – | – | – | – | 88 | |
| Luke List | 497 | 87 | T77 | 92 | – | – | – | – | 92 | |
| Branden Grace | 495 | 88 | T30 | 77 | – | – | – | – | 77 | |
| Sam Burns* | 493 | 89 | DNP | 94 | – | – | – | – | 94 | |
| Wyndham Clark* | 491 | 90 | T18 | 68 | T31 | 64 | – | – | 64 | |
| Roger Sloan* | 489 | 91 | T64 | 93 | – | – | – | – | 93 | |
| Bud Cauley | 482 | 92 | WD | 95 | – | – | – | – | 95 | |
| J. J. Spaun | 479 | 93 | CUT | 99 | – | – | – | – | 99 | |
| Chris Stroud | 473 | 94 | WD | 102 | – | – | – | – | 102 | |
| Brice Garnett | 466 | 95 | CUT | 104 | – | – | – | – | 104 | |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 466 | 96 | T67 | 98 | – | – | – | – | 98 | |
| Talor Gooch* | 463 | 97 | T71 | 101 | – | – | – | – | 101 | |
| Kyle Stanley | 460 | 98 | T71 | 103 | – | – | – | – | 103 | |
| Nick Watney | 460 | 99 | T59 | 97 | – | – | – | – | 97 | |
| Patrick Rodgers | 459 | 100 | CUT | 105 | – | – | – | – | 105 | |
| Cameron Tringale | 459 | 101 | CUT | 106 | – | – | – | – | 106 | |
| Harold Varner III | 458 | 102 | T3 | 29 | 68 | 38 | – | – | 38 | |
| Sam Ryder | 458 | 103 | CUT | 107 | – | – | – | – | 107 | |
| Lee Kyoung-hoon* | 453 | 104 | CUT | 108 | – | – | – | – | 108 | |
| Scott Stallings | 452 | 105 | CUT | 109 | – | – | – | – | 109 | |
| Russell Knox | 452 | 106 | CUT | 110 | – | – | – | – | 110 | |
| Denny McCarthy* | 443 | 107 | CUT | 111 | – | – | – | – | 111 | |
| Ryan Armour | 434 | 108 | T43 | 100 | – | – | – | – | 100 | |
| Scott Brown | 433 | 109 | 76 | 112 | – | – | – | – | 112 | |
| Danny Willett | 432 | 110 | T24 | 85 | – | – | – | – | 85 | |
| Sepp Straka* | 432 | 111 | CUT | 115 | – | – | – | – | 115 | |
| Aaron Baddeley | 428 | 112 | WD | 116 | – | – | – | – | 116 | |
| Carlos Ortiz | 428 | 113 | T67 | 113 | – | – | – | – | 113 | |
| Peter Malnati | 423 | 114 | CUT | 118 | – | – | – | – | 118 | |
| Matt Jones | 423 | 115 | T30 | 91 | – | – | – | – | 91 | |
| Brian Gay | 415 | 116 | CUT | 119 | – | – | – | – | 119 | |
| Nick Taylor | 408 | 117 | CUT | 120 | – | – | – | – | 120 | |
| Patton Kizzire | 406 | 118 | CUT | 122 | – | – | – | – | 122 | |
| Martin Laird | 401 | 119 | 83 | 121 | – | – | – | – | 121 | |
| Aaron Wise | 400 | 120 | T43 | 114 | – | – | – | – | 114 | |
| Kelly Kraft | 399 | 121 | CUT | 123 | – | – | – | – | 123 | |
| Jonas Blixt | 392 | 122 | CUT | 124 | – | – | – | – | 124 | |
| Andrew Landry | 388 | 123 | T30 | 96 | – | – | – | – | 96 | |
| Sebastián Muñoz* | 383 | 124 | T43 | 117 | – | – | – | – | 117 | |
| Pat Perez | 376 | 125 | CUT | 125 | – | – | – | – | 125 | |
* First-time Playoffs qualifier