Ohio Golf Journal October 2018

Justin Rose won the FedExCup bonus of $10 million on points, despite a rather mundane three- OVER PAR EFFORT ON THE ÚNAL DAY at the Tour Championship. Don’t ask me to explain the points system, since not even the players clearly understand it. However, in 2019, there’s a completely new and different scoring plan in place for the FedEx Cup. We will no longer see Steve Sands and his electronic ‘what if’ scoreboard, but I’m sure golf fans will get tired of hearing Golf Channel, as well as, the NBC announcing crew wearing out the phrase, “he controls his own destiny.” In 2019, the player with the lowest gross score for the Tour Championship still may not win the FedEx Cup, because the tournament will be a handicap event. The FedEx Cup points leader will enter the Tour Championship with a handicap-adjusted score of -10 strokes under par, while the second-place points leader, starts with -8 under par. Each player continues to receive fewer strokes all the way down to Nos. 26-30, who start at even par, receiving no handicap adjustment to their score. If the new plan were in place this year the FedEx Cup leader, Bryson DeChambeau, who ÚNISHED AT UNDER PAR TIED for 19 th this year, would have received 10 handicap adjusted strokes. His adjusted score would have been -11 under par for the tournament (-10 handicap + -1 actual score). That still would not have been good enough to have won this year, however. Woods, who entered the Tour Championship in 20 th position, would have received Rose is Still a Rose EitherWay LJ Ě dƌĂǀŝƐ Ohio Golf J ournal