A Big Change I would like to see to the FedEx Cup

I came up with a radical idea. Hold tight. Important golf tournaments should reward more FedEx Cup points.

FedEx Cup points should have a higher allocation for more impactful events. Woah. That’s crazy.

When you think of the most important events in a golf season, the answer is easy. We focus so much on the majors all season, and the players do as well.

Just ask Brooks Koepka. He doesn’t really practice before regular events, and only breaks out the clubs to prep for majors.

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Explain to me why any of the events over the next two-three months, the “Fall Schedule”, will be giving out 500 points to the winner when the depth of the field and the viewership are some of the shallowest and lowest it will be all year.

You compare that to any of the majors. You would think that we would reward a major winner with a much higher amount of points. They are the four most important events of the year and are the ones that everyone gears up for.

Look at Tiger Woods and the previous year’s Masters. He gave everything he had in order to win that tournament, and it took a lot out of him. In fact, he wasn’t even ready by the time he got to the British Open, as he himself admitted.

I don’t disagree with how much Tiger gave to win The Masters. Maybe you aren’t in the same camp as me on this, but I definitely feel like he wanted to do this for his kids, to show them dad wasn’t just a washed-up past his prime golfer. One who if they wanted to see him dominate, would have to go to Youtube to see. If you didn’t tear up when he hugged his son, you’ve failed the Turing Test.

Okay, before this turns into a Tiger Woods lovefest, back to the original point of the article. For winning a major, which is what we judge a golfer’s career success by, they should earn more than 600 points. You’re telling me that the Masters is only 16% or so more important than winning the Sanderson Farms Championship next week?

Not a chance.

Majors should be worth much more. I would say winning a major should be worth 1000 FedEx Cup points. You could make the argument for more, but we don’t want to swing too far the other way and have the regular season mean nothing at all. *Cough* NBA *Cough*

Look at the FedEx Cup standings heading into the Tour Championship last year. Counting the first two playoff events, 45 players had 1,000 points or more. If you win a major, you should be rewarded with nearly a guaranteed shot at the Tour Championship. Neither Tiger Woods or Shane Lowry made it there this year. Give them those extra 400 points and they easily make it.

This is before you get into the argument of how overpowered the first two playoff events are. Yes, players should be rewarded for winning one of them. The fact that the 125th ranked player could win the first event and hop to the top 10 in the FedEx Cup rankings seems a little overpowered. Winning the Northern Trust is worth more than winning The Masters, The U.S. Open, and The British Open… combined.

I definitely like the changes that they made for 2019 in making the playoff more competitive. Three events instead of four helped keep players from skipping a week. The Tour Championship played out beautifully. They could still do more though, as hitting it perfectly on the first go round wasn’t realistic.

So how about we reward those golfers for winning the most important tournaments of the year. 1,000 points to the winners of the Majors. Let’s go, Jay Monahan, make it happen.