2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of three golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 19 – September 5.[1][2] It included the following three events:

2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs
Tournament information
DatesAugust 19 – September 5, 2021
LocationLiberty National Golf Club
Caves Valley Golf Club
East Lake Golf Club
Tour(s)PGA Tour
Statistics
Field125 for The Northern Trust
70 for BMW Championship
30 for Tour Championship
Prize fund$60 million (bonus money)
Winner's share$15 million (bonus money)
Champion
United States Patrick Cantlay
−21
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This was the 15th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

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The leading 10 players in the FedEx Cup regular season standings qualified for a share of the $10 million Comcast Business Tour top 10 bonus.[4]

Place Player Points Events Bonus ($)
1   Collin Morikawa 2,171 20 2,000,000
2   Jordan Spieth 2,139 22 1,500,000
3   Patrick Cantlay 2,056 21 1,200,000
4   Harris English 2,039 23 1,100,000
5   Jon Rahm 2,003 19 1,000,000
6   Abraham Ancer 1,926 24 850,000
7   Bryson DeChambeau 1,910 19 700,000
8   Louis Oosthuizen 1,877 19 600,000
9   Justin Thomas 1,758 20 550,000
10   Sam Burns 1,721 23 500,000

Source:[5]

The Northern Trust

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The Northern Trust was scheduled for August 19–22. The leading 125 players in the FedEx Cup regular season standings are eligible to play in the event. Louis Oosthuizen (ranked 8) and Patrick Reed (22) did not play, reducing the field to 123. 75 players made the second-round cut at 141 (−1). The final round was delayed until Monday August 23 because of Hurricane Henri.

Tony Finau won the event, beating Cameron Smith in a playoff.[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 The Northern Trust: Alex Norén (ranked 91st to 47th), Erik van Rooyen (76 to 45), Tom Hoge (108 to 48), Harold Varner III (72 to 56), Keith Mitchell (101 to 63), and Harry Higgs (80 to 69). Six players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Matthew Wolff (ranked 59th to 71st), Matt Fitzpatrick (60 to 73), Tyrrell Hatton (63 to 74), Martin Laird (65 to 75), Troy Merritt (69 to 78), and J. T. Poston (70 to 79).[7]

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1   Tony Finau 67-64-68-65=264 −20 1,710,000 1 23
2   Cameron Smith 69-68-60-67=264 1,035,500 3 16
3   Jon Rahm 63-67-67-69=266 −18 655,500 2 5
T4   Tom Hoge 69-64-67-69=269 −15 399,792 48 108
  Alex Norén 69-64-70-66=269 43 91
  Justin Thomas 63-69-67-70=269 5 9
7   Erik van Rooyen 69-67-62-72=270 −14 320,625 45 76
T8   Corey Conners 70-69-62-70=271 −13 277,875 20 28
  Keith Mitchell 68-64-70-69=271 63 101
  Kevin Na 67-66-70-68=271 18 24
  • Par 71 course

BMW Championship

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The BMW Championship was played August 26–29. 70 players were eligible to play in the event. There was no second-round cut. Patrick Reed withdrew, reducing the field to 69.

Patrick Cantlay won the event, beating Bryson DeChambeau in a playoff.[8] 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: Erik van Rooyen (ranked 45th to 27th) and Sergio García (44 to 28). Two players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Charley Hoffman (29 to 32) and Max Homa (30 to 35).

FedEx Cup rank
Place Player Score To par Winnings ($) After Before
1   Patrick Cantlay 66-63-66-66=261 −27 1,710,000 1 4
2   Bryson DeChambeau 68-60-67-66=261 1,026,000 3 9
3   Im Sung-jae 67-65-66-67=265 −23 646,000 12 25
4   Rory McIlroy 64-70-65-67=266 −22 456,000 16 28
5   Erik van Rooyen 67-68-67-65=267 −21 380,000 27 45
T6   Sergio García 65-67-67-69=268 −20 330,125 28 44
  Dustin Johnson 67-70-65-66=268 15 22
8   Sam Burns 64-70-65-70=269 −19 294,500 10 12
T9   Abraham Ancer 65-67-67-69=270 −18 256,500 8 10
  Alex Norén 71-66-67-66=270 33 43
  Jon Rahm 64-66-70-70=270 4 2
  • Par 72 course

Tour Championship

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The Tour Championship was played September 2–5 and was contested by the leading 30 players in the FedEx Cup points standings after the BMW Championship, with no second-round cut. Players were allocated a starting score relative to par based on their position in the standings after the BMW Championship. The points leader started the tournament at 10 under par, number two at 8 under par, number three at 7 under par, number four at 6 under par and number five at 5 under par. Players ranked 6 to 10 started at 4 under par, 11 to 15 at 3 under par, 16 to 20 at 2 under par, 21 to 25 at 1 under par and 26 to 30 started at even par. The winner of the Tour Championship won the FedEx Cup. For the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, points were awarded based on aggregate scores (total strokes taken, ignoring any starting scores).

Patrick Cantlay won by a stroke from Jon Rahm. Rahm and Kevin Na had the best 72-hole aggregate scores of 266, three better than Cantlay.

Place Player Round scores Starting
score
Final
score
FedEx Cup rank Winnings ($)
After Before
1   Patrick Cantlay 67-66-67-69=269 −10 −21 1 1 15,000,000
2   Jon Rahm 65-65-68-68=266 −6 −20 2 4 5,000,000
3   Kevin Na 66-67-66-67=266 −2 −16 3 19 4,000,000
4   Justin Thomas 67-67-65-70=269 −4 −15 4 6 3,000,000
T5   Viktor Hovland 66-68-70-65=269 −3 −14 T5 13 2,200,000
  Xander Schauffele 68-69-67-64=268 −2 17
7   Bryson DeChambeau 69-67-72-66=274 −7 −13 7 3 1,300,000
8   Dustin Johnson 68-69-68-67=272 −3 −11 8 15 1,100,000
T9   Abraham Ancer 69-70-65-70=274 −4 −10 T9 8 890,000
  Billy Horschel 65-68-67-70=270 E 29
  • Par 70 course

For the full list see here.

Table of qualified 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 Northern Trust BMW
Championship
Tour Championship
Points Rank Finish Rank
after
Finish Rank
after
Starting
score[9]
Final
score
Final
rank
  Collin Morikawa 2,171 1 CUT 6 T63 11 −3 E T26
  Jordan Spieth 2,139 2 73 7 T34 9 −4 −4 T20
  Patrick Cantlay 2,056 3 T11 4 1 1 −10 −21 1
  Harris English 2,039 4 T31 8 T26 7 −4 −6 T18
  Jon Rahm 2,003 5 3 2 T9 4 −6 −20 2
  Abraham Ancer 1,926 6 T64 10 T9 8 −4 −10 T9
  Bryson DeChambeau 1,910 7 T31 9 2 3 −7 −13 7
  Louis Oosthuizen 1,877 8 DNP 11 T38 14 −3 −7 T14
  Justin Thomas 1,758 9 T4 5 T22 6 −4 −15 4
  Sam Burns 1,721 10 T21 12 8 10 −4 −6 T18
  Viktor Hovland 1,717 11 T43 14 T17 13 −3 −14 T5
  Jason Kokrak 1,631 12 CUT 17 T15 18 −2 −8 T11
  Xander Schauffele 1,623 13 T16 13 T49 17 −2 −14 T5
  Hideki Matsuyama 1,594 14 T43 16 T46 22 −1 E T26
  Brooks Koepka 1,562 15 T31 15 T22 20 −2 WD 30
  Cameron Smith 1,539 16 2 3 T34 5 −5 −7 T14
  Dustin Johnson 1,510 17 CUT 22 T6 15 −3 −11 8
  Joaquín Niemann 1,491 18 T47 21 T29 24 −1 +4 29
  Stewart Cink 1,445 19 T21 19 T38 23 −1 E T26
  Daniel Berger 1,444 20 T56 23 T26 26 E −8 T11
  Scottie Scheffler 1,409 21 T43 24 T22 25 −1 −3 T22
  Patrick Reed 1,381 22 DNP 26 DNP 30 E −2 25
  Tony Finau 1,348 23 1 1 T15 2 −8 −8 T11
  Kevin Na 1,308 24 T8 18 T17 19 −2 −16 3
  Billy Horschel 1,292 25 T31 27 T52 29 E −10 T9
  Rory McIlroy 1,291 26 T43 28 4 16 −2 −7 T14
  Max Homa 1,220 27 T47 30 T63 35 35
  Corey Conners 1,212 28 T8 20 T22 21 −1 −3 T22
  Kevin Kisner 1,200 29 CUT 31 T66 38 38
  Kim Si-woo 1,187 30 CUT 33 T29 34 34
  Im Sung-jae 1,185 31 T16 25 3 12 −3 −4 T20
  Charley Hoffman 1,127 32 T21 29 T38 32 32
  Marc Leishman 1,103 33 T47 35 51 42 42
  Lee Kyoung-hoon 1,064 34 T47 37 T12 31 31
  Brian Harman 1,052 35 75 39 T29 41 41
  Cameron Davis 1,052 36 T31 36 T29 37 37
  Carlos Ortiz 1,044 37 T47 38 T66 48 48
  Lucas Glover 1,044 38 CUT 41 T38 46 46
  Matt Jones 1,033 39 CUT 42 T38 47 47
  Sergio García 1,020 40 CUT 44 T6 28 E −7 T14
  Cameron Tringale 986 41 T21 34 T52 43 43
  Branden Grace 955 42 CUT 51 T52 55 55
  Keegan Bradley 941 43 T11 32 T60 39 39
  Russell Henley 939 44 T56 50 T60 56 56
  Paul Casey 932 45 T64 54 T38 52 52
  Webb Simpson 920 46 T47 52 T12 40 40
  Emiliano Grillo 920 47 CUT 55 T46 59 59
  Lee Westwood 867 48 T27 46 T34 50 50
  Jhonattan Vegas 866 49 CUT 61 T38 61 61
  Charl Schwartzel 857 50 CUT 62 T17 51 51
  Chris Kirk 853 51 T56 60 48 62 62
  Cameron Champ 839 52 T27 49 T66 57 57
  Kevin Streelman 837 53 T64 64 T52 64 64
  Maverick McNealy 830 54 T27 53 T63 58 58
  Ryan Palmer 812 55 CUT 68 T57 69 69
  Hudson Swafford 804 56 T11 40 T17 36 36
  Patton Kizzire 802 57 T56 66 T34 63 63
  Phil Mickelson 791 58 CUT 70 T66 70 70
  Matthew Wolff 772 59 CUT 71 71
  Matt Fitzpatrick 748 60 CUT 73 73
  Aaron Wise 741 61 T21 58 T17 49 49
  Sebastián Muñoz 740 62 T21 59 T29 53 53
  Tyrrell Hatton 739 63 CUT 74 74
  Talor Gooch 739 64 T31 67 T57 68 68
  Martin Laird 734 65 CUT 75 75
  Shane Lowry 727 66 T11 47 T26 45 45
  Mackenzie Hughes 719 67 T27 65 T52 67 67
  Robert Streb 710 68 T16 57 T60 60 60
  Troy Merritt 700 69 CUT 78 78
  J. T. Poston 697 70 CUT 79 79
  Bubba Watson 685 71 CUT 81 81
  Harold Varner III 674 72 T11 56 T12 44 44
  Séamus Power 670 73 T31 72 72
  Brandon Hagy 660 74 CUT 84 84
  Andrew Putnam 648 75 T56 82 82
  Erik van Rooyen* 648 76 7 45 5 27 E −3 T22
  Joel Dahmen 646 77 T31 76 76
  Adam Long 636 78 CUT 85 85
  Ian Poulter 628 79 T31 77 77
  Harry Higgs 614 80 T16 69 T38 66 66
  Wyndham Clark 609 81 CUT 87 87
  Adam Scott 604 82 CUT 90 90
  Peter Malnati 602 83 T47 86 86
  Lanto Griffin 593 84 T64 89 89
  Brian Stuard 592 85 CUT 92 92
  Doug Ghim* 587 86 T31 83 83
  Henrik Norlander 586 87 CUT 93 93
  Doc Redman 580 88 CUT 94 94
  Brian Gay 579 89 CUT 95 95
  Kramer Hickok* 574 90 T56 91 91
  Alex Norén 567 91 T4 43 T9 33 33
  Roger Sloan 565 92 CUT 96 96
  Hank Lebioda* 564 93 CUT 98 98
  Tyler McCumber* 551 94 CUT 99 99
  Brendon Todd 544 95 CUT 101 101
  Adam Hadwin 540 96 CUT 103 103
  Denny McCarthy 538 97 T71 100 100
  Brendan Steele 536 98 CUT 105 105
  Sepp Straka 533 99 CUT 106 106
  Brandt Snedeker 533 100 T47 97 97
  Keith Mitchell 532 101 T8 63 T57 65 65
  Luke List 531 102 70 102 102
  Adam Schenk 530 103 T31 88 88
  Garrick Higgo* 515 104 T64 107 107
  James Hahn 508 105 T71 108 108
  Russell Knox 507 106 CUT 110 110
  Matt Wallace* 502 107 WD 111 111
  Tom Hoge 502 108 T4 48 T49 54 54
  Sam Ryder 499 109 CUT 112 112
  Jason Day 489 110 CUT 114 114
  Pat Perez 489 111 T16 80 80
  Matthew NeSmith 485 112 CUT 115 115
  Zach Johnson 485 113 T47 109 109
  Gary Woodland 484 114 74 113 113
  Kyle Stanley 477 115 CUT 117 117
  Scott Piercy 470 116 T64 116 116
  Richy Werenski 467 117 CUT 120 120
  Pan Cheng-tsung 466 118 CUT 121 121
  Chez Reavie 457 119 T31 104 104
  Matt Kuchar 456 120 CUT 122 122
  Anirban Lahiri 455 121 T56 118 118
  Dylan Frittelli 453 122 T56 119 119
  Brice Garnett 452 123 CUT 123 123
  Scott Stallings 447 124 CUT 124 124
  Chesson Hadley 440 125 CUT 125 125

* First-time Playoffs qualifier
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew

References

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