Golf- The FedEx Cup

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I just couldn't figure out how the fedex cup was going to work so here is a summary from PGA.com

Here's the executive summary on the FedExCup:

-- Points have been awarded from the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship through the Wyndham Championship, with the top 144 players eligible for The Barclays.

-- Points are reset going into the playoffs to keep someone like Woods from having too large of an advantage. Woods finished the regular season about 11,000 points ahead of Vijay Singh. When the playoffs begin, Woods will be the No. 1 seed with 100,000 points, while Singh is No. 2 with 99,000 points. The 144th player starts at 84,700.

-- The winner of each of the first three playoff events gets 9,000 points, with 5,400 points for second on down to 85 points for last place. The TOUR Championship offers 10,300 points for first place.

It's a lot of math for players to digest, especially since they grew up studying a money list that got them into the TOUR Championship.

"I don't know the breakdown of every point total, like what 15th place is, but I've got a general idea of what's going on," Chad Campbell said. "I know if I finish first in the next three events, I'll be doing all right."

I've also gathered that they will drop about 25 players the first week, 50 players the second, and 40 players the third week, till we get to the final "TOUR Championship" of the top 30 players.

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For the players in the 140s to make it to the next round, they will have to finish in the top ten of this first round. For the players in the 100-120, they will have to do the same to make the round of 70, and for those in the 50-70 to make the round of 30, they will need some top tens in the first three rounds.