Analysis: The FedEx Cup playoffs deliver. Just not always the best player with the title
Scottie Scheffler says it's silly to call the FedEx Cup title a season-long competition when it comes down to one tournament at the end
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — The “silly” notion that Scottie Scheffler could have won two playoff events and still not capture the FedEx Cup after a dominant season is nothing new.
Go back 15 years to find Tiger Woods deciding to play the postseason opener for the first time, a big boost in the third edition of the FedEx Cup playoffs. It was only during the pro-am at Liberty National when he realized he could win every playoff event and still lose out on the season title if he didn't have a good week at East Lake.
Woods was more diplomatic about the points system in his press conference — “It is different, there's no doubt,” he said — than he was when talking about it away from microphones on the course.
But it had a happy ending for him. Woods won the BMW Championship, finished second to Phil Mickelson (the No. 14 seed) at the Tour Championship and won the FedEx Cup.
