Post your suggestions to improve the Fedex Playoffs

[ArcticKnight]

Here are my two to start.

1. Firestone (poster) noted that only two players climbed into the 120 in the 1st tourney, and only 2 climbed into the top 70 in the 2nd tourney. That is way two restrictive. This should be loosened up a bit (so that maybe 5 can typically advance in each tourney). I mean no matter where Rich Beem originally ranked, he shouldn't need to take 2nd place to advance to the top 70. That's silly. However, they still need to make the regular season meaningful.

2. Because the regular season carries so much weight in the playoffs, you don't want players like Tiger and Phil skipping events. While you can't really dock them points IMO, why not give all players who show up 2000 points per event (or some carefully calculated number of points). It basically changes nothing except for dropping guys in the rankings who skip events. So, if you don't show up, maybe you lost 15 or 20 places before the tourney even starts???

3. Stop calling it a playoff.

[SubGreen]

The regular season should matter more. Tiger had an enormous lead going into the "playoffs" then they reseeded and his lead was cut to 1,000 pts. I think they should keep their points going into the last events, but make them worth more pts. (like 15-20k for 1st).

second thought, might be boring... I'll stick with OP's #3

[roy_miami]

1. I think they should drastically cut the prize money for regular season events and carry it over to the playoffs.

2. Start the playoffs 2 weeks earlier so they don't overlap the opening week of the NFL season.

[Shoot59]

Get rid of it.

Golf already has the 4 majors + Players + Ryder Cup/Pres Cup + WGC Events + 4-6 other top tier events. That's a lot of quality events throughout the year.

Now it is fall, NFL is starting, MLB is getting interesting, NCAA football etc... Let the guys that are trying to make top 125 play it out while the big guns take a break if they want (to go play overseas for appearance $$)

They have created the biggest prize fund ever this year, and the best in the world are skipping tournaments. Not a great start.

[JTrout]

Ask the top ten players in the world how it should be done, and then do it that way.

[FireStorm]

I'll stick with my line of thinking towards #1. There is too much in terms of jockeying for position amongst the top spots each week, while little exists in chances of the bottom guys moving up.

[RacersEdge]

Just to reiterate - Tiger is already having his dominant regular season results severely reduced by the initial re-seeding. So that's already a bone thrown to the lower tier players. I don't think they need more advantage by getting a lot of points if they have a couple hot weeks - unless they actually win the tournaments.

[By-Tor]

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[JavaNut]

Make it a real playoff, first week only best 120 qualify for next week etc. You carry your score with you for the following weeks. But if you are not playing you are out.

The fed ex points system is then only used for qualifying, all is scrapped before first week. But the points system should be be more like 300 points for a win, dropping a few points each place down to a handfull of points for 70th place each week. Then the advantage of winning a few events is taken out, and the top players will have to consider how many tournaments they can afford to miss during the season. The real top players will not have to play every single week to qualify, but they need a good handfull of top positions to qualify.

Then you would have a pressure on the top players to play many tournaments during the year (which the tour would love) and you would have no absentees for the playoffs (which is a huge problem now, as Tiger and Phil has shown ever so clearly).

[JavaNut]

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