The Tour Championship

[Hoganman1]

Does anyone else not like the Tour Championship format? It seems like they change the FedEx Cup every year. I used to like the tournament because I love East Lake and having only 30 players is kind of cool. However, when they went to the thing where the number one point guy starts at ten under they lost me. I guess some people like it, but it seems contrived. Granted some great players have won but for me winning majors is still the ultimate. I guess they're trying to insure that whomever wins at East Lake is also the FedEx Cup winner. It was weird when there were two champions sometimes. Anyway, I'll probably watch because there's no college football yet

 

[BigJim13]

I honestly really haven’t paid attention to the FedEx cup standings or so called playoffs since they started. I didn’t get it, doesn’t make sense to me and it will never take the place in terms of importance as winning a major. It’s like winning the money list, great but did you win a major? I bet Monty would trade all 7 (or however many) Order I’d Merit titles for one major.

I think we all know which players had a great year, I don’t need FedEx point standings to tell me.

 

[Hoganman1]

It is all about money. This may change, but golfers are not remembered for their career earnings. Look how long it has taken for The Players Championship to even be mentioned in the same sentence as the majors. Plus the funky format is just weird. I guess the person with the highest point total does deserve something, but I doubt if we will ever see a champion come from the last ten slots. Why is Billy Horschel even playing? Answer: he gets a check for showing up.

 

[bdcrowe]

Yah. The ten stroke head start doesn't sit well with me for some reason.

 

[ualtim]

It doesn’t bother me as much as it used to. If you want the person who wins the tournament to be named the Champion, you have to give some kind of advantage to those had a better regular season. NASCAR does something similar, but it goes beyond a single event. I guess the only way to do it without adding strokes would be to make it match play with seedlings, but then you would be limited to 16 participants for a four day event.

 

[Hoganman1]

Another way to view this is: what if DJ doesn't win even with a two shot lead going into the tournament? Will this be viewed as another epic failure?

 

[MCDavis]

It's purely about money...sponsor's money, making more money off the tour, not player's income. The Best of the Year should simply be the player who made the most money during the year, period, regardless of where they won it. Yes, that means no preference for majors, but majors factor into GOAT which I think is enough.