FedEx Farce?

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fedexcuplogo.jpgJohn Hawkins points out the many flaws and overall silliness of the Tour's recently announced FedEx vision. Namely, that the system will not genuinely reward those who play often and consistently because the playoffs take 144 players and attempt to give them all a shot at winning "the Cup."

It also remains somewhat fascinating (as far as FedEx Cup discussions go) why there is no cut of any kind over the course of these faux playoffs.

But back to the topic of Hawkins' post. As you know, reader MacDuff has been tracking 2006 using a points system that distributes points equally from event to event. The Tour unveiled it's points system that adds extra points for The Players Championship THE PLAYERS, WGC's and majors.

So here's what the PGA Tour's Top 25 looks like (with MacDuff's rankings in parentheses).

1 (1)      Phil Mickelson         17,483.0 
2 (4)     Geoff Ogilvy             15,797.5    
3 (3)      Jim Furyk                14,898.0    
4 (2)       Vijay Singh             13,663.6    
5 (14)    Stuart Appleby         12,132.3
6  (48)    Tiger Woods            11,362.4
7  (19)    Rory Sabbatini         11,214.3
8 (5)        David Toms            11,192.7
9 (10)    Chad Campbell         11,014.3
10 (17)    Adam Scott             10,705.6
11 (12)     Luke Donald           9,489.8
12 (16)    Rod Pampling         8,831.7    
13 (54)    Brett Wetterich         8,805.9
14 (15)    Arron Oberholser     8,610.0
15 (23)    Trevor Immelman     8,604.3
16 (9)    Carl Pettersson          8,445.0
17(18) Jose Maria Olazabal     8,339.1
18 (24)    Zach Johnson         8,126.315
19 (45)   Stephen Ames         7,912.3    
20 (25)    Retief Goosen         7,744.7
21 (11)    Tom Pernice, Jr.     7,400.2
22 (8)    Lucas Glover            6,719.1    
23 (39)    Tim Herron             6,581.2    
24 (31)    Tim Clark                6,395.2
25 (73)    Jeff Maggert            6,353.3

Note the leaps made by Woods and Ames thanks to the added points for the Players and majors.

And even as the system does offer obvious reward for those playing regularly and doing it well, I still wonder what the point of the "race" is if 144 players get into the "playoffs" and once there, the season points have little meaning?

NASCAR doesn't do it that way, and yet it was used as the model?