The FedEx Cup is the most lucrative series of four tournaments in the game with the eventual winner pocketing a $10 million bonus. Some of the most successful players in play-offs history will again be contending over the next five weeks for the huge pot of cash.
3 JORDAN SPIETH
FedEx Cup starts: 5.
FedEx Cup Champion: 1 (2015).
Career FedEx Cup bonus earnings: $14,500,000 (Ranked No.4).
Only Tiger Woods has earned more FedEx Cup bonus money per campaign than Jordan Spieth.
Spieth is making his sixth appearance in the play-offs and already he averages $290,000 per series, having collected the big bonus of $10 million in his breakout year of 2015 when he won the Masters and US Open double as well.
The World No.8 is yet to record a victory in 2018 and his recent form, with a best finish of T9 at The Open at Carnoustie, suggests 2018 could be a barren year. But Spieth’s game is well-suited and adaptable to all four venues over the next five weeks and it wouldn’t surprise if he catches fire with the putter at some stage and claims this series all his own.
4 HENRIK STENSON
FedEx Cup starts: 8.
FedEx Cup Champion: 1 (2013).
Career FedEx Cup bonus earnings: $13,648,000 (Ranked No.5).
The pure ball-striking Swede had a terrific run through March and April, which culminated in his best ever finish at the Masters where he was T5.
Since then he has been very inconsistent. Even last weekend, he bookended a Saturday 70 with a second round 65 and a closing 64. While he would be pleased with the six birdies and an eagle from that round, it all came after a double bogey on his opening hole, which almost typifies Stenson’s year.
5 BRANDT SNEDEKER
FedEx Cup starts: 11.
FedEx Cup Champion: 1 (2012).
Career FedEx Cup bonus earnings: $12,163,000 (Ranked No.6).
The Wyndham Championship winner had never missed a FedEx Cup play-off series until last year when he was forced to sit out with a sternum injury.
But he has made a real charge for these play-offs on the back of his weekend victory – his first since January 2016 – which pushed him up to the No.30 ranking having banked more than 750 points in his last five starts.
The 37-year-old is certainly finding form at the right time and will be a real danger to add to his FedEx haul. Snedeker’s worst score for his past seven rounds is 69 (x 2), while his best was his history-making 59 in the opening round at the Wyndham. His scoring average for the past two events combined is 67 … that FedEx Cup cheque might need to come with a fire extinguisher if he keeps that form up.
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