2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of four golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, began on August 23 and ended on September 23. It included the following four events:

• The Barclays – Bethpage State Park, Farmingdale, New York
• Deutsche Bank Championship – TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts
• BMW Championship – Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel, Indiana
• Tour Championship – East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia

2012 FedEx Cup Playoffs

Tournament information
Dates	August 23 – September 23, 2012
Location	Bethpage State Park TPC Boston Crooked Stick Golf 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
Brandt Snedeker
4,100 points
← 2011 2013 →

Brandt Snedeker won the FedEx Cup by winning the Tour Championship.

These were the sixth FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.

The point distributions can be seen here.

Regular season rankings

Place	Player	Points	Events
1	Tiger Woods	2,269	15
2	Jason Dufner	2,110	19
3	Rory McIlroy	2,092	12
4	Zach Johnson	2,019	20
5	Bubba Watson	1,777	15
6	Hunter Mahan	1,739	19
7	Carl Pettersson	1,691	22
8	Keegan Bradley	1,670	21
9	Matt Kuchar	1,600	18
10	Steve Stricker	1,456	15

The Barclays

The Barclays was played August 23–26. Of the 125 players eligible to play in the event, two did not enter: Jason Dufner (ranked 2)^[1] and Spencer Levin (45).^[2] Of the 123 entrants, 75 made the second-round cut at 143 (+1).

Nick Watney won by three strokes over Brandt Snedeker and moved to first place in the standings. The top 100 players in the points standings advanced to the Deutsche Bank Championship. This included six players who were outside the top 100 prior to The Barclays: Graham DeLaet (ranked 106th to 44th), Bob Estes (103 to 62), David Hearn (108 to 67), Jason Day (113 to 88), Tommy Gainey (102 to 91), and Jonas Blixt (101 to 97).^[3] Six players started the tournament within the top 100 but ended the tournament outside the top 100, ending their playoff chances: John Mallinger (ranked 88th to 101st), Will Claxton (89 to 102), Chad Campbell (91 to 104), Andrés Romero (93 to 106), Freddie Jacobson (95 to 105), and Chris Stroud (99 to 110).

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Nick Watney	65-69-71-69=274	−10	1,440,000	1	49
2	Brandt Snedeker	70-69-68-70=277	−7	864,000	2	19
T3	Sergio García	66-68-69-75=278	−6	464,000	10	33
	Dustin Johnson	67-71-72-68=278			8	26
T5	Graham DeLaet	75-67-72-65=279	−5	281,000	44	106
	Brian Harman	65-75-68-71=279			41	97
	Louis Oosthuizen	70-71-68-70=279			21	34
	Lee Westwood	69-72-68-70=279			27	51
9	Greg Chalmers	70-70-68-72=280	−4	232,000	38	78
T10	Bud Cauley	71-71-72-67=281	−3	160,889	26	35
	Tim Clark	70-72-67-72=281			35	54
	Luke Donald	68-74-69-70=281			14	16
	Bob Estes	69-66-72-74=281			62	103
	Tom Gillis	69-72-68-72=281			57	92
	David Hearn	70-73-67-71=281			67	108
	William McGirt	68-74-67-72=281			46	74
	Kevin Stadler	72-69-65-75=281			43	70
	Bubba Watson	70-70-70-71=281			7	5

• Par 71 course

Deutsche Bank Championship

The Deutsche Bank Championship was played August 31 – September 3. Of the 100 players eligible to play in the event, two did not enter: Sergio García (ranked 10)^[4] and David Toms (89).^[5] Of the 98 entrants, 78 made the second-round cut at one-over-par, 145.

Rory McIlroy won by one stroke over Louis Oosthuizen and moved into first place in the standings.^[6] The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included nine players who were outside the top 70 prior to the Deutsche Bank Championship: Jeff Overton (83 to 40), Bryce Molder (93 to 45), D. A. Points (72 to 54), Troy Matteson (78 to 59), Matt Every (75 to 63), Chris Kirk (81 to 66), Charl Schwartzel (71 to 68), Charley Hoffman (86 to 69) and Dicky Pride (96 to 70). Nine players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Josh Teater (64 to 73), John Rollins (58 to 74), Scott Stallings (61 to 75), Ken Duke (60 to 76), Harris English (63 to 79), Jonathan Byrd (69 to 82), Spencer Levin (66 to 83), Charles Howell III (68 to 84) and Brian Davis (70 to 85).

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Rory McIlroy	65-65-67-67=264	−20	1,440,000	1	4
2	Louis Oosthuizen	66-65-63-71=265	−19	864,000	5	21
3	Tiger Woods	64-68-68-66=266	−18	544,000	3	3
T4	Dustin Johnson	67-68-65-70=270	−14	352,000	6	8
	Phil Mickelson	68-68-68-66=270			9	17
6	Brandt Snedeker	69-70-65-67=271	−13	288,000	4	2
T7	Jeff Overton	64-71-69-68=272	−12	258,000	40	83
	Adam Scott	69-69-68-66=272			25	34
9	Bryce Molder	65-69-68-71=273	−11	232,000	45	93
T10	Ryan Moore	64-68-70-72=274	−10	208,000	35	53
	Kevin Stadler	68-71-69-66=274			32	43

• Par 71 course

BMW Championship

The BMW Championship was played September 6–9. All 70 players eligible to play in the event did so. There was no cut.

Rory McIlroy won his second straight playoff event. He won by two strokes over Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood.^[7] Two players played their way into the Tour Championship: Robert Garrigus (ranked 31 to ranked 20) by finishing tied for 4th, and Ryan Moore (35 to 28) by finishing T-10.^[8] Two players played their way out of the Tour Championship: Kyle Stanley (30 to 31) by finishing T-34, and Bill Haas (28 to 32) by finishing T-45.^[8] Haas was the defending FedEx Cup champion and this was the sixth straight year that the defending champion failed to make the Tour Championship.^[8] Three players, Hunter Mahan, Phil Mickelson, and Steve Stricker, have made the Tour Championship in each year of the playoffs.^[8]

The top 30 players in FedEx Cup points after this event advanced to the Tour Championship and also earned spots in the 2013 Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, and (British) Open Championship.

With the FedEx Cup points reset after the BMW Championship, all 30 remaining players 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	Rory McIlroy	64-68-69-67=268	−20	1,440,000	1	1
T2	Phil Mickelson	69-67-64-70=270	−18	704,000	4	9
	Lee Westwood	68-65-68-69=270			8	23
T4	Robert Garrigus	67-69-66-69=271	−17	352,000	20	31
	Tiger Woods	65-67-71-68=271			2	3
T6	Dustin Johnson	68-67-67-70=272	−16	278,000	7	6
	Adam Scott	68-68-66-70=272			21	25
8	Vijay Singh	65-66-69-73=273	−15	248,000	33	49
9	Jim Furyk	69-70-67-68=274	−14	232,000	18	21
T10	Ryan Moore	66-66-73-70=275	−13	208,000	28	35
	Bo Van Pelt	64-69-71-71=275			19	20

• Par 72 course

Reset points

The points were reset after the BMW Championship.

Place	Player	Points	Reset points	Events
1	Rory McIlroy	7,299	2,500	15
2	Tiger Woods	4,067	2,250	18
3	Nick Watney	3,586	2,000	24
4	Phil Mickelson	3,420	1,800	21
5	Brandt Snedeker	3,357	1,600	21
6	Louis Oosthuizen	3,167	1,400	18
7	Dustin Johnson	3,097	1,200	18
8	Lee Westwood	2,726	1,000	14
9	Zach Johnson	2,576	800	23
10	Jason Dufner	2,575	600	21

Tour Championship

The Tour Championship was played September 20–23, after a one-week break. All 30 golfers who qualified for the tournament played, and there was no cut. Brandt Snedeker won the tournament by three shots from Justin Rose, and the FedEx Cup.^[9]

					FedEx Cup rank
Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)	After	Before
1	Brandt Snedeker	68-70-64-68=270	−10	1,440,000	1	5
2	Justin Rose	66-68-68-71=273	−7	864,000	6	24
T3	Luke Donald	71-69-67-67=274	−6	468,000	9	15
	Ryan Moore	69-70-65-70=274			11	28
T5	Webb Simpson	71-68-70-66=275	−5	304,000	16	25
	Bubba Watson	69-66-70-70=275			13	11
7	Jim Furyk	69-64-72-72=277	−3	272,000	15	18
T8	Hunter Mahan	68-73-71-66=278	−2	248,000	19	23
	Tiger Woods	66-73-67-72=278			3	2
T10	Robert Garrigus	68-69-69-73=279	−1	205,760	23	20
	Dustin Johnson	69-67-73-70=279			8	7
	Matt Kuchar	67-69-70-73=279			18	16
	Rory McIlroy	69-68-68-74=279			2	1
	Bo Van Pelt	67-68-71-73=279			22	19

• Par 70 course

Final leaderboard

Place	Player	Points	Winnings ($)
1	Brandt Snedeker	4,100.0	10,000,000
2	Rory McIlroy	2,827.0	3,000,000
3	Tiger Woods	2,662.5	2,000,000
4	Nick Watney	2,215.0	1,500,000
5	Phil Mickelson	2,072.5	1,000,000
6	Justin Rose	1,770.0	800,000
7	Louis Oosthuizen	1,635.0	700,000
8	Dustin Johnson	1,527.0	600,000
9	Luke Donald	1,275.0	550,000
10	Lee Westwood	1,205.0	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
	Tiger Woods	2,269	1	T38	3	3	3	T4	2	2,250	T8	3
	Jason Dufner	2,110	2	DNP	6	T18	7	T28	10	600	T20	14
	Rory McIlroy	2,092	3	T24	4	1	1	1	1	2,500	T10	2
	Zach Johnson	2,019	4	T38	5	T47	8	T12	9	800	T15	12
	Bubba Watson	1,777	5	T10	7	CUT	10	T12	11	480	T5	13
	Hunter Mahan	1,739	6	CUT	12	T39	14	70	23	280	T8	19
	Carl Pettersson	1,691	7	T24	9	T57	11	69	17	360	T20	24
	Keegan Bradley	1,670	8	CUT	13	T13	12	T59	14	420	T23	21
	Matt Kuchar	1,600	9	T38	11	T35	13	T54	16	380	T10	18
	Steve Stricker	1,456	10	T54	16	T13	16	T26	13	440	T22	20
	Ernie Els	1,447	11	T54	18	T26	18	T28	22	290	T27	26
	Justin Rose	1,426	12	T46	15	CUT	22	T16	24	270	2	6
	Webb Simpson	1,424	13	CUT	20	T18	19	T51	25	260	T5	16
	Phil Mickelson	1,373	14	T38	17	T4	9	T2	4	1,800	T15	5
	Scott Piercy	1,304	15	CUT	23	T64	29	T37	30	210	T15	27
	Luke Donald	1,294	16	T10	14	T26	17	T28	15	400	T3	9
	Jim Furyk	1,284	17	CUT	25	T13	21	9	18	340	7	15
	Rickie Fowler	1,246	18	T24	19	T74	24	T41	27	240	T23	28
	Brandt Snedeker	1,194	19	2	2	6	4	T37	5	1,600	1	1
	Johnson Wagner	1,181	20	CUT	28	T51	34	T45	36	–	–	36
	Bill Haas	1,181	21	CUT	29	T35	28	T45	32	–	–	32
	Kyle Stanley	1,177	22	CUT	30	T42	30	T34	31	–	–	31
	Bo Van Pelt	1,175	23	T24	22	T26	20	T10	19	320	T10	22
	Robert Garrigus	1,155	24	T71	31	T42	31	T4	20	310	T10	23
	John Huh*	1,123	25	T36	24	T51	27	T16	26	250	29	29
	Dustin Johnson	1,097	26	T3	8	T4	6	T6	7	1,200	T10	8
	Graeme McDowell	1,037	27	CUT	33	T74	41	T34	42	–	–	42
	Marc Leishman	1,003	28	CUT	36	T42	37	T65	46	–	–	46
	Ben Curtis	997	29	CUT	37	CUT	47	T24	41	–	–	41
	Mark Wilson	986	30	CUT	39	T66	44	T62	59	–	–	59
	Martin Laird	976	31	T71	40	CUT	50	T62	64	–	–	64
	Adam Scott	966	32	62	34	T7	25	T6	21	300	19	25
	Sergio García	935	33	T3	10	DNP	15	T24	12	460	T15	17
	Louis Oosthuizen*	928	34	T5	21	2	5	T16	6	1,400	T23	7
	Bud Cauley*	902	35	T10	26	T57	33	T56	38	–	–	38
	Charlie Wi	901	36	CUT	47	CUT	61	T41	60	–	–	60
	John Senden	867	37	T19	32	12	26	T56	29	220	26	30
	Kevin Na	866	38	CUT	51	T69	64	T26	52	–	–	52
	Ben Crane	849	39	CUT	52	CUT	67	T41	66	–	–	66
	Noh Seung-yul*	827	40	T67	54	T13	38	T16	37	–	–	37
	Brendon de Jonge	815	41	CUT	56	T60	65	T28	57	–	–	57
	Ken Duke	776	42	CUT	60	CUT	76	–	–	–	–	76
	Jimmy Walker	763	43	T38	45	T51	46	64	62	–	–	62
	Ryan Palmer	745	44	T24	42	CUT	57	T45	55	–	–	55
	Spencer Levin	735	45	DNP	66	WD	83	–	–	–	–	83
	John Rollins	732	46	T54	58	CUT	74	–	–	–	–	74
	Jonathan Byrd	732	47	CUT	69	77	82	–	–	–	–	82
	Brian Davis	728	48	CUT	70	CUT	85	–	–	–	–	85
	Nick Watney	726	49	1	1	T20	2	T45	3	2,000	28	4
	D. A. Points	714	50	CUT	72	T20	54	T56	63	–	–	63
	Lee Westwood	713	51	T5	27	T13	23	T2	8	1,000	30	10
	J. J. Henry	713	52	CUT	73	T60	80	–	–	–	–	80
	Matt Every*	711	53	WD	75	T35	63	T51	67	–	–	67
	Tim Clark	707	54	T10	35	CUT	43	T59	56	–	–	56
	Ian Poulter	698	55	T36	50	T47	48	T12	39	–	–	39
	Cameron Tringale	689	56	CUT	79	CUT	90	–	–	–	–	90
	Vijay Singh	669	57	T46	59	T26	49	8	33	–	–	33
	Jeff Overton	667	58	CUT	83	T7	40	T51	44	–	–	44
	Charles Howell III	666	59	T54	68	CUT	84	–	–	–	–	84
	Troy Matteson	662	60	T65	78	T20	59	T16	44	–	–	44
	Ted Potter Jr.*	647	61	CUT	84	T69	93	–	–	–	–	93
	Pádraig Harrington	646	62	T19	48	59	56	T16	43	–	–	43
	Sean O'Hair	644	63	T54	74	T64	81	–	–	–	–	81
	Ryan Moore	635	64	T24	53	T10	35	T10	28	230	T3	11
	Aaron Baddeley	635	65	CUT	85	T42	78	–	–	–	–	78
	Michael Thompson	634	66	T63	82	CUT	92	–	–	–	–	92
	Charley Hoffman	628	67	CUT	86	T26	69	T54	69	–	–	69
	Geoff Ogilvy	624	68	T19	49	T51	53	T28	47	–	–	47
	David Toms	623	69	CUT	89	DNP	95	–	–	–	–	95
	Kevin Stadler	620	70	T10	43	T10	32	T45	34	–	–	34
	Bae Sang-moon*	604	71	CUT	92	78	96	–	–	–	–	96
	Pat Perez	603	72	T38	65	T26	55	T45	54	–	–	54
	Rory Sabbatini	602	73	CUT	94	CUT	97	–	–	–	–	97
	William McGirt	602	74	T10	46	T26	39	68	50	–	–	50
	Blake Adams	599	75	T65	87	T60	91	–	–	–	–	91
	George McNeill	599	76	T67	90	T47	86	–	–	–	–	86
	K. J. Choi	597	77	T73	95	CUT	98	–	–	–	–	98
	Greg Chalmers	589	78	9	38	T39	36	T16	35	–	–	35
	Dicky Pride*	586	79	CUT	96	T20	70	T59	70	–	–	70
	Chris Kirk	574	80	T46	81	T35	66	T12	49	–	–	49
	John Merrick	572	81	CUT	98	T20	72	–	–	–	–	72
	J. B. Holmes	568	82	T19	55	T39	52	T34	48	–	–	48
	Daniel Summerhays*	567	83	CUT	99	T69	99	–	–	–	–	99
	Greg Owen	556	84	T38	76	CUT	88	–	–	–	–	88
	Martin Flores*	556	85	CUT	100	T69	100	–	–	–	–	100
	Scott Stallings	554	86	T24	61	T66	75	–	–	–	–	75
	Harris English*	549	87	T24	63	T69	79	–	–	–	–	79
	John Mallinger	543	88	CUT	101	–	–	–	–	–	–	101
	Will Claxton*	530	89	CUT	102	–	–	–	–	–	–	102
	Charl Schwartzel	519	90	T24	71	T47	68	T28	61	–	–	61
	Chad Campbell	517	91	CUT	104	–	–	–	–	–	–	104
	Tom Gillis	511	92	T10	57	T26	42	T16	40	–	–	40
	Andrés Romero	506	93	CUT	106	–	–	–	–	–	–	106
	Josh Teater	506	94	T19	64	T60	73	–	–	–	–	73
	Freddie Jacobson	500	95	T67	105	–	–	–	–	–	–	105
	Bryce Molder	495	96	T46	93	9	45	67	65	–	–	65
	Brian Harman*	493	97	T5	41	T74	51	T41	51	–	–	51
	Ricky Barnes	489	98	T24	77	CUT	89	–	–	–	–	89
	Chris Stroud	484	99	CUT	110	–	–	–	–	–	–	110
	Roberto Castro*	477	100	T24	80	T51	77	–	–	–	–	77
	Jonas Blixt*	470	101	T46	97	T20	71	–	–	–	–	71
	Tommy Gainey	464	102	T38	91	T66	94	–	–	–	–	94
	Bob Estes	458	103	T10	62	T42	62	T37	58	–	–	58
	Kevin Chappell	447	104	CUT	114	–	–	–	–	–	–	114
	Davis Love III	443	105	CUT	115	–	–	–	–	–	–	115
	Graham DeLaet	441	106	T5	44	CUT	60	T37	53	–	–	53
	Jeff Maggert	433	107	T73	116	–	–	–	–	–	–	116
	David Hearn	432	108	T10	67	T26	58	T65	68	–	–	68
	Kevin Streelman	424	109	T63	112	–	–	–	–	–	–	112
	Brian Gay	424	110	T54	109	–	–	–	–	–	–	109
	Gary Christian*	422	111	T46	103	–	–	–	–	–	–	103
	Robert Allenby	417	112	CUT	118	–	–	–	–	–	–	118
	Jason Day	417	113	T24	88	T51	87	–	–	–	–	87
	Trevor Immelman	411	114	T67	117	–	–	–	–	–	–	117
	James Driscoll	408	115	75	119	–	–	–	–	–	–	119
	Rod Pampling	398	116	T46	107	–	–	–	–	–	–	107
	Henrik Stenson	394	117	T54	111	–	–	–	–	–	–	111
	Troy Kelly*	394	118	T54	113	–	–	–	–	–	–	113
	Billy Mayfair	393	119	T46	109	–	–	–	–	–	–	109
	Colt Knost*	390	120	CUT	120	–	–	–	–	–	–	120
	Harrison Frazar	387	121	CUT	121	–	–	–	–	–	–	121
	Jerry Kelly	385	122	CUT	122	–	–	–	–	–	–	122
	Boo Weekley	365	123	CUT	123	–	–	–	–	–	–	123
	Heath Slocum	365	124	CUT	124	–	–	–	–	–	–	124
	Jason Bohn	363	125	WD	125	–	–	–	–	–	–	125

* First-time Playoffs participant