2014 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2014 FedEx Cup Playoffs was the series of four golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour. It was played from August 21 to September 14 and comprised the following four events:

• The Barclays – Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, New Jersey
• Deutsche Bank Championship – TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts
• BMW Championship – Cherry Hills Country Club, Englewood, Colorado
• Tour Championship – East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia

2014 FedEx Cup Playoffs

Tournament information
Dates	August 21 – September 14, 2014
Location	Ridgewood Country Club TPC Boston Cherry Hills Country 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
Billy Horschel
4,750 points
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These were the eighth FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

Place	Player	Points	Events
1	Rory McIlroy	2,582	13
2	Jimmy Walker	2,493	23
3	Bubba Watson	2,173	17
4	Matt Kuchar	1,921	20
5	Jim Furyk	1,851	17
6	Dustin Johnson	1,769	17
7	Sergio García	1,700	13
8	Jordan Spieth	1,692	23
9	Patrick Reed	1,666	24
10	Chris Kirk	1,571	24

The Barclays

The Barclays was played August 21–24. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, three did not enter: Dustin Johnson (ranked 6), Jason Dufner (57) and Steve Stricker (103).^[1] Of the 122 entrants, 79 made the second-round cut at 143 (+1). With more than 78 players making the cut the field was further reduced to 70 after the third round.

Hunter Mahan won by two strokes over Stuart Appleby, Jason Day, and Cameron Tringale and moved from 62nd place to first place in the standings.^[2] The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Deutsche Bank Championship. This included seven players who were outside the top 100 prior to The Barclays: Bo Van Pelt (ranked 104th to 73rd), Stewart Cink (109 to 77), Andrés Romero (110 to 92), Danny Lee (116 to 96), Paul Casey (118 to 85), Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (119 to 81), and Morgan Hoffmann (124 to 72). Seven players started the tournament within the top 100 but ended the tournament outside the top 100, ending their playoff chances: Jonas Blixt (ranked 92nd to 102nd), Kevin Kisner (93 to 104), Nick Watney (94 to 105), Luke Guthrie (95 to 106), Retief Goosen (96 to 103), Rory Sabbatini (97 to 108), and Brian Davis (100 to 110).^[3]

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Hunter Mahan	66-71-68-65=270	−14	1,440,000	1	62
T2	Stuart Appleby	73-66-68-65=272	−12	597,333	19	98
	Jason Day	72-64-68-68=272			7	34
	Cameron Tringale	66-68-72-66=272			10	61
T5	Ernie Els	68-68-71-66=273	−11	292,000	39	91
	Matt Kuchar	68-70-68-67=273			4	4
	William McGirt	68-71-68-66=273			35	81
8	Jim Furyk	66-69-69-70=274	−10	248,000	6	5
T9	Rickie Fowler	68-73-67-67=275	−9	208,000	11	16
	Morgan Hoffmann	70-70-66-69=275			72	124
	Kevin Na	70-66-70-69=275			13	20
	Patrick Reed	71-66-73-65=275			8	9

• Par 71 course

Deutsche Bank Championship

The Deutsche Bank Championship was played August 29 – September 1. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, seven did not play: Dustin Johnson (ranked 14), Sergio García (15), Justin Rose (20), Tim Clark (38), Graeme McDowell (40), Jason Dufner (74), and Paul Casey (85).^[4][5] Of the 93 entrants, 80 made the second-round cut at 145 (+3). The field was further reduced to 73 after the third round.

Chris Kirk won by two strokes over Russell Henley, Billy Horschel, and Geoff Ogilvy and moved into first place in the standings.^[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 Deutsche Bank Championship: Horschel (82 to 20), Ogilvy (100 to 24), Chesson Hadley (84 to 57), Carl Pettersson (93 to 66), Morgan Hoffmann (72 to 68), and Ben Crane (78 to 69). Six players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Ryo Ishikawa (56 to 72), Justin Hicks (58 to 75), Ben Martin (63 to 76), Scott Langley (65 to 77), Shawn Stefani (67 to 83), and Scott Brown (70 to 85).^[7]

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Chris Kirk	73-66-64-66=269	−15	1,440,000	1	17
T2	Russell Henley	70-66-65-70-271	−13	597,333	14	62
	Billy Horschel	69-66-67-69=271			20	82
	Geoff Ogilvy	70-71-65-65=271			24	100
T5	Rory McIlroy	70-69-64-70=273	−11	304,000	2	2
	John Senden	69-71-67-66=273			16	28
T7	Jason Day	66-68-69-71=274	−10	258,000	7	7
	Martin Kaymer	71-66-70-67=274			15	23
T9	Bill Haas	67-69-70-69=275	−9	185,143	17	21
	Chesson Hadley	66-73-67-69=275			57	84
	Seung-Yul Noh	69-68-68-70=275			36	47
	Carl Pettersson	67-73-69-66=275			66	93
	Webb Simpson	66-70-68-71=275			19	22
	Robert Streb	73-67-67-68=275			71	97
	Jimmy Walker	70-70-68-67=275			4	3

• Par 71 course

BMW Championship

The BMW Championship was played September 4–7. Of the 70 players eligible to play in the event, only one, Dustin Johnson (ranked 22), did not play.^[8] There was no cut.

Billy Horschel won by two strokes over Bubba Watson and moved to second on the points list. Two players played their way into the Tour Championship: Morgan Hoffmann (ranked 68 to ranked 21) and Ryan Palmer (37 to 23). Two players played their way out of the Tour Championship: Stuart Appleby (26 to 31) and Keegan Bradley (28 to 33).^[9] Hoffmann, who started the playoffs ranked 124th, played his way into each playoff event.^[10]

The top 30 players in FedEx Cup points after this event advanced to the Tour Championship and also earned spots in the 2015 Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, and (British) Open Championship.

The FedEx Cup points were reset after the BMW Championship. Points were allocated according to a player's position in the standings. The player in first place has 2,500 points, and the player in 30th has 210.^[11] This means that all 30 remaining players will have at least a mathematical chance to secure the season crown, and any of the top five players can claim the FedEx Cup with a win in the Tour Championship.

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Billy Horschel	68-66-63-69=266	−14	1,440,000	2	20
2	Bubba Watson	70-66-66-66=268	−12	864,000	3	6
3	Morgan Hoffmann	72-72-62-63=269	−11	544,000	21	68
T4	Rickie Fowler	71-66-66-68=271	−9	319,000	9	10
	Jim Furyk	70-68-67-66=271			7	8
	Sergio García	68-64-72-67=271			13	23
	Ryan Palmer	69-64-67-71=271			23	37
T8	Rory McIlroy	67-67-72-66=272	−8	232,000	4	2
	Adam Scott	71-66-69-66=272			12	13
	Jordan Spieth	67-70-68-67=272			11	9

• Par 72 course

Reset points

The points were reset after the BMW Championship.

Place	Player	Points	Reset points	Events
1	Chris Kirk	4,314	2,500	27
2	Billy Horschel	4,305	2,250	26
3	Bubba Watson	4,058	2,000	20
4	Rory McIlroy	3,735	1,800	16
5	Hunter Mahan	3,363	1,600	24
6	Jimmy Walker	3,073	1,400	26
7	Jim Furyk	3,073	1,200	20
8	Matt Kuchar	2,736	1,000	23
9	Rickie Fowler	2,631	800	25
10	Jason Day	2,549	600	14

Tour Championship

The Tour Championship was played September 11−14. Of the 30 players eligible to play in the event, only one, Dustin Johnson (ranked 30), did not play.^[11] There was no cut. Billy Horschel won the tournament by three strokes over Jim Furyk and Rory McIlroy.^[12] After starting the playoffs in 69th place and missing the cut in the first playoff tournament, Horschel finished T-2, win, and win in the next three events to win the FedEx Cup.^[13][14]

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Billy Horschel	66-66-69-68=269	−11	1,440,000	1	2
T2	Jim Furyk	67-69-67-69=272	−8	708,000	4	7
	Rory McIlroy	69-65-67-71=272			3	4
T4	Jason Day	67-67-70-69=273	−7	343,333	10	10
	Chris Kirk	66-68-71-68=273			2	1
	Justin Rose	72-66-66-69=273			11	26
7	Ryan Palmer	69-67-69-69=274	−6	275,000	14	23
8	Rickie Fowler	69-68-67-71=275	−5	260,000	9	9
T9	Sergio García	69-71-70-66=276	−4	231,667	13	13
	Adam Scott	69-72-65-70=276			12	12
	Gary Woodland	71-75-63-67=276			22	29

• Par 70 course

Final leaderboard

Place	Player	Points	Winnings ($)
1	Billy Horschel	4,750	10,000,000
2	Chris Kirk	3,100	3,000,000
3	Rory McIlroy	3,050	2,000,000
4	Jim Furyk	2,450	1,500,000
5	Bubba Watson	2,285	1,000,000
6	Hunter Mahan	1,835	800,000
7	Jimmy Walker	1,668	700,000
8	Matt Kuchar	1,300	600,000
9	Rickie Fowler	1,225	550,000
10	Jason Day	1,200	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
	Rory McIlroy	2,582	1	T22	2	T5	2	T8	4	1,800	T2	3
	Jimmy Walker	2,493	2	CUT	3	T9	4	T20	6	1,400	T17	7
	Bubba Watson	2,173	3	T30	5	T29	6	2	3	2,000	14	5
	Matt Kuchar	1,921	4	T5	4	T29	5	T46	8	1,000	13	8
	Jim Furyk	1,851	5	8	6	T23	8	T4	7	1,200	T2	4
	Dustin Johnson	1,769	6	DNP	14	DNP	22	DNP	30	210	DNP	30
	Sergio García	1,700	7	T57	15	DNP	23	T4	13	440	T9	13
	Jordan Spieth	1,692	8	T22	9	T29	9	T8	11	480	T27	15
	Patrick Reed	1,666	9	T9	8	T74†	12	T53	18	340	T19	21
	Chris Kirk	1,571	10	T53	17	1	1	T36	1	2,500	T4	2
	Zach Johnson	1,552	11	T22	12	T16	11	T43	15	400	21	18
	Brendon Todd*	1,542	12	T46	18	CUT	25	T36	27	240	T17	27
	Webb Simpson	1,536	13	CUT	22	T9	19	T53	22	290	T23	25
	Martin Kaymer	1,525	14	CUT	23	T7	15	T16	14	420	T23	16
	Adam Scott	1,479	15	T15	16	T16	13	T8	12	460	T9	12
	Rickie Fowler	1,471	16	T9	11	T23	10	T4	9	800	8	9
	Harris English	1,469	17	CUT	25	CUT	31	T31	32	–	–	32
	Justin Rose	1,447	18	T30	20	DNP	27	35	26	250	T4	11
	Ryan Moore	1,421	19	CUT	26	73	34	T50	39	–	–	39
	Kevin Na	1,413	20	T9	13	CUT	21	T46	24	270	T19	24
	Brian Harman	1,349	21	T57	27	T65	33	T43	36	–	–	36
	Hideki Matsuyama*	1,287	22	T30	24	T57	30	T20	28	230	22	28
	Keegan Bradley	1,278	23	T53	29	T16	28	WD	33	–	–	33
	Bill Haas	1,268	24	T15	21	T9	17	T16	16	380	16	16
	Matt Every	1,250	25	CUT	32	80†	39	T50	45	–	–	45
	John Senden	1,157	26	T22	28	T5	16	T23	17	360	26	23
	Marc Leishman	1,137	27	CUT	36	T65	47	T53	58	–	–	58
	Graham DeLaet	1,113	28	CUT	37	T50	43	11	37	–	–	37
	Tim Clark	1,111	29	WD	38	DNP	51	T36	54	–	–	54
	Ryan Palmer	1,068	30	T74†	43	T16	37	T4	23	280	7	14
	Kevin Stadler	1,067	31	T46	34	T16	32	T50	38	–	–	38
	Gary Woodland	1,059	32	T13	30	T29	29	T23	29	220	T9	22
	Charles Howell III	1,042	33	T22	31	T35	35	T36	34	–	–	34
	Jason Day	1,028	34	T2	7	T7	7	WD	10	600	T4	10
	Charley Hoffman	1,026	35	T30	33	CUT	41	T53	53	–	–	53
	J. B. Holmes	1,007	36	CUT	48	T35	46	T12	42	–	–	42
	Camilo Villegas	1,002	37	CUT	49	T50	54	T20	48	–	–	48
	Freddie Jacobson	987	38	CUT	51	79†	63	T53	66	–	–	66
	Kevin Streelman	972	39	T46	42	T26	38	T59	44	–	–	44
	Matt Jones	970	40	CUT	54	78†	67	T53	67	–	–	67
	George McNeill	962	41	CUT	55	T29	48	T31	46	–	–	46
	Noh Seung-yul	950	42	T53	47	T9	36	T23	35	–	–	35
	Graeme McDowell	948	43	T38	40	DNP	53	T36	56	–	–	56
	Justin Hicks	923	44	CUT	58	CUT	75	–	–	–	–	75
	Phil Mickelson	921	45	78†	57	T45	56	WD	68	–	–	68
	Will MacKenzie	920	46	CUT	59	T45	58	T59	65	–	–	65
	Brian Stuard	891	47	T74†	64	T16	49	T36	51	–	–	51
	Russell Knox*	885	48	T38	46	T26	40	T23	40	–	–	40
	Daniel Summerhays	869	49	T46	52	T57	60	T29	57	–	–	57
	Russell Henley	864	50	T61	62	T2	14	T59	20	310	12	19
	Chris Stroud	834	51	T19	41	T45	42	T43	47	–	–	47
	Steven Bowditch	828	52	T22	44	T45	45	T63	59	–	–	59
	Scott Brown	816	53	CUT	70	77†	85	–	–	–	–	85
	K. J. Choi	814	54	T71†	69	T35	65	T63	69	–	–	69
	Brandt Snedeker	812	55	CUT	71	CUT	86	–	–	–	–	86
	Ángel Cabrera	807	56	T22	45	CUT	59	T12	50	–	–	50
	Jason Dufner	798	57	DNP	74	DNP	90	–	–	–	–	90
	Ben Martin*	789	58	T46	63	CUT	76	–	–	–	–	76
	Jason Bohn	784	59	T61	68	T35	64	66	70	–	–	70
	Charl Schwartzel	783	60	T30	53	T43	52	T12	43	–	–	43
	Cameron Tringale	781	61	T2	10	T69	18	T31	19	320	15	20
	Hunter Mahan	776	62	1	1	64	3	T59	5	1,600	T23	6
	Ben Crane	774	63	CUT	78	T29	69	T23	60	–	–	60
	Jerry Kelly	765	64	T38	60	T57	70	T29	62	–	–	62
	Erik Compton	745	65	T19	50	CUT	62	T46	64	–	–	64
	Luke Donald	743	66	CUT	80	T57	89	–	–	–	–	89
	Brendan Steele	729	67	T57	76	T50	79	–	–	–	–	79
	Kevin Chappell	723	68	T30	61	T50	61	T16	55	–	–	55
	Billy Horschel	722	69	CUT	82	T2	20	1	2	2,250	1	1
	Henrik Stenson	720	70	T38	66	T26	55	T23	52	–	–	52
	Brendon de Jonge	717	71	T61	79	T74†	91	–	–	–	–	91
	Chesson Hadley*	705	72	70	84	T9	57	T12	49	–	–	49
	Scott Langley	686	73	T30	65	T65	77	–	–	–	–	77
	Pat Perez	682	74	CUT	87	WD	98	–	–	–	–	98
	Ryo Ishikawa*	681	75	T19	56	CUT	72	–	–	–	–	72
	Robert Garrigus	678	76	CUT	88	CUT	99	–	–	–	–	99
	Scott Stallings	668	77	CUT	90	T35	84	–	–	–	–	84
	Ian Poulter	657	78	CUT	91	T23	78	–	–	–	–	78
	Carl Pettersson	650	79	CUT	93	T9	66	T31	63	–	–	63
	Andrew Svoboda*	647	80	CUT	94	T57	94	–	–	–	–	94
	William McGirt	646	81	T5	35	T69	50	65	61	–	–	61
	David Hearn	645	82	T38	75	T43	74	–	–	–	–	74
	Shawn Stefani*	640	83	T30	67	68	83	–	–	–	–	83
	Robert Streb*	635	84	CUT	97	T9	71	–	–	–	–	71
	Jason Kokrak	632	85	T61	89	T16	73	–	–	–	–	73
	Jeff Overton	631	86	T53	83	T69	92	–	–	–	–	92
	Billy Hurley III*	630	87	CUT	98	T57	97	–	–	–	–	97
	Vijay Singh	625	88	T68	95	T35	87	–	–	–	–	87
	Michael Putnam	618	89	CUT	99	T50	93	–	–	–	–	93
	Geoff Ogilvy	611	90	CUT	100	T2	24	T36	25	260	29	29
	Ernie Els	610	91	T5	39	T50	44	T16	41	–	–	41
	Jonas Blixt	599	92	CUT	102	–	–	–	–	–	–	102
	Kevin Kisner*	587	93	CUT	104	–	–	–	–	–	–	104
	Nick Watney	584	94	CUT	105	–	–	–	–	–	–	105
	Luke Guthrie	575	95	T71†	106	–	–	–	–	–	–	106
	Retief Goosen	569	96	T66	103	–	–	–	–	–	–	103
	Rory Sabbatini	567	97	CUT	108	–	–	–	–	–	–	108
	Stuart Appleby	554	98	T2	19	CUT	26	T46	31	–	–	31
	John Huh	544	99	T38	86	T69	96	–	–	–	–	96
	Brian Davis	534	100	T74†	110	–	–	–	–	–	–	110
	Martin Flores	530	101	79†	112	–	–	–	–	–	–	112
	Aaron Baddeley	528	102	CUT	114	–	–	–	–	–	–	114
	Steve Stricker	519	103	DNP	116	–	–	–	–	–	–	116
	Bo Van Pelt	518	104	T13	73	T57	81	–	–	–	–	81
	Ricky Barnes	518	105	T68	113	–	–	–	–	–	–	113
	Michael Thompson	515	106	CUT	117	–	–	–	–	–	–	117
	Lee Westwood	514	107	T57	107	–	–	–	–	–	–	107
	Jhonattan Vegas	505	108	T66	115	–	–	–	–	–	–	115
	Stewart Cink	504	109	T15	77	T50	80	–	–	–	–	80
	Andrés Romero	503	110	T38	92	76†	100	–	–	–	–	100
	Troy Merritt*	499	111	T46	101	–	–	–	–	–	–	101
	David Toms	498	112	T74†	118	–	–	–	–	–	–	118
	Boo Weekley	496	113	T61	111	–	–	–	–	–	–	111
	Tim Wilkinson	494	114	T71†	119	–	–	–	–	–	–	119
	Justin Leonard	491	115	CUT	120	–	–	–	–	–	–	120
	Danny Lee*	490	116	T38	96	T35	88	–	–	–	–	88
	Brice Garnett*	488	117	CUT	121	–	–	–	–	–	–	121
	Paul Casey	471	118	T22	85	DNP	95	–	–	–	–	95
	Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño*	470	119	T15	81	T45	82	–	–	–	–	82
	Bae Sang-moon	466	120	CUT	122	–	–	–	–	–	–	122
	James Hahn	456	121	CUT	123	–	–	–	–	–	–	123
	Bryce Molder	455	122	T46	109	–	–	–	–	–	–	109
	Louis Oosthuizen	453	123	CUT	124	–	–	–	–	–	–	124
	Morgan Hoffmann	448	124	T9	72	T35	68	3	21	300	T27	26
	Robert Allenby	438	125	CUT	125	–	–	–	–	–	–	125

* First-time Playoffs participant
^† MDF – made cut, did not finish (i.e. cut after third round)

References

1. Shain, Jeff (16 August 2014). "First Look: The Barclays". PGA Tour.
2. "Hunter Mahan birdies his way to win". ESPN. Associated Press. 24 August 2014.
3. Wacker, Brian (25 August 2014). "FedExCup update: Seven earn Deutsche Bank spots". PGA Tour.
4. Harig, Bob (24 August 2014). "Four players to pass on TPC Boston". ESPN.
5. Ross, Helen (28 August 2014). "Tim Clark (elbow) withdraws from Deutsche Bank". PGA Tour.
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7. "Bubble Busters: Who's moving on?". PGA Tour. 2 September 2014.
8. "FedExCup scenarios: BMW Championship". PGA Tour. 2 September 2014.
9. "Billy Horschel wins BMW title". ESPN. Associated Press. 7 September 2014.
10. "Morgan Hoffmann to play in Atlanta". ESPN. 7 September 2013.
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External links

• Coverage on the PGA Tour's official site