# 2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs

The 2021 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of three golf tournaments that determined the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, was played from August 19 – September 5. It included the following three events:
* The Northern Trust – Liberty National Golf Club, Jersey City, New Jersey
* BMW Championship – Caves Valley Golf Club, Owings Mills, Maryland
* Tour Championship – East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia
This was the 15th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007.
The point distributions can be seen here.

## Regular season rankings

The leading 10 players in the FedEx Cup regular season standings qualified for a share of the $10 million Comcast Business Tour top 10 bonus.
| Place | Player | Points | Events | Bonus ($) |
| 1 | Collin Morikawa | 2,171 | 20 | 2,000,000 |
| 2 | Jordan Spieth | 2,139 | 22 | 1,500,000 |
| 3 | Patrick Cantlay | 2,056 | 21 | 1,200,000 |
| 4 | Harris English | 2,039 | 23 | 1,100,000 |
| 5 | Jon Rahm | 2,003 | 19 | 1,000,000 |
| 6 | Abraham Ancer | 1,926 | 24 | 850,000 |
| 7 | Bryson DeChambeau | 1,910 | 19 | 700,000 |
| 8 | Louis Oosthuizen | 1,877 | 19 | 600,000 |
| 9 | Justin Thomas | 1,758 | 20 | 550,000 |
| 10 | Sam Burns | 1,721 | 23 | 500,000 |
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## The Northern Trust

The Northern Trust was scheduled for August 19–22. The leading 125 players in the FedEx Cup regular season standings are eligible to play in the event. Louis Oosthuizen (ranked 8) and Patrick Reed (22) did not play, reducing the field to 123. 75 players made the second-round cut at 141 (−1). The final round was delayed until Monday August 23 because of Hurricane Henri.
Tony Finau won the event, beating Cameron Smith in a playoff. The top 70 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. This included six players who were outside the top 70 prior to The Northern Trust: Alex Norén (ranked 91st to 47th), Erik van Rooyen (76 to 45), Tom Hoge (108 to 48), Harold Varner III (72 to 56), Keith Mitchell (101 to 63), and Harry Higgs (80 to 69). Six players started the tournament within the top 70 but ended the tournament outside the top 70, ending their playoff chances: Matthew Wolff (ranked 59th to 71st), Matt Fitzpatrick (60 to 73), Tyrrell Hatton (63 to 74), Martin Laird (65 to 75), Troy Merritt (69 to 78), and J. T. Poston (70 to 79).
| | | | | | FedEx Cup rank | FedEx Cup rank |
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Winnings ($) | After | Before |
| 1 | Tony Finau | 67-64-68-65=264 | −20 | 1,710,000 | 1 | 23 |
| 2 | Cameron Smith | 69-68-60-67=264 | −20 | 1,035,500 | 3 | 16 |
| 3 | Jon Rahm | 63-67-67-69=266 | −18 | 655,500 | 2 | 5 |
| T4 | Tom Hoge | 69-64-67-69=269 | −15 | 399,792 | 48 | 108 |
| T4 | Alex Norén | 69-64-70-66=269 | −15 | 399,792 | 43 | 91 |
| T4 | Justin Thomas | 63-69-67-70=269 | −15 | 399,792 | 5 | 9 |
| 7 | Erik van Rooyen | 69-67-62-72=270 | −14 | 320,625 | 45 | 76 |
| T8 | Corey Conners | 70-69-62-70=271 | −13 | 277,875 | 20 | 28 |
| T8 | Keith Mitchell | 68-64-70-69=271 | −13 | 277,875 | 63 | 101 |
| T8 | Kevin Na | 67-66-70-68=271 | −13 | 277,875 | 18 | 24 |
* Par 71 course

## BMW Championship

The BMW Championship was played August 26–29. 70 players were eligible to play in the event. There was no second-round cut. Patrick Reed withdrew, reducing the field to 69.
Patrick Cantlay won the event, beating Bryson DeChambeau in a playoff. The top 30 players in the points standings advanced to the Tour Championship. This included two players who were outside the top 30 prior to the BMW Championship: Erik van Rooyen (ranked 45th to 27th) and Sergio García (44 to 28). Two players started the tournament within the top 30 but ended the tournament outside the top 30, ending their playoff chances: Charley Hoffman (29 to 32) and Max Homa (30 to 35).
| | | | | | FedEx Cup rank | FedEx Cup rank |
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Winnings ($) | After | Before |
| 1 | Patrick Cantlay | 66-63-66-66=261 | −27 | 1,710,000 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Bryson DeChambeau | 68-60-67-66=261 | −27 | 1,026,000 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Im Sung-jae | 67-65-66-67=265 | −23 | 646,000 | 12 | 25 |
| 4 | Rory McIlroy | 64-70-65-67=266 | −22 | 456,000 | 16 | 28 |
| 5 | Erik van Rooyen | 67-68-67-65=267 | −21 | 380,000 | 27 | 45 |
| T6 | Sergio García | 65-67-67-69=268 | −20 | 330,125 | 28 | 44 |
| T6 | Dustin Johnson | 67-70-65-66=268 | −20 | 330,125 | 15 | 22 |
| 8 | Sam Burns | 64-70-65-70=269 | −19 | 294,500 | 10 | 12 |
| T9 | Abraham Ancer | 65-67-67-69=270 | −18 | 256,500 | 8 | 10 |
| T9 | Alex Norén | 71-66-67-66=270 | −18 | 256,500 | 33 | 43 |
| T9 | Jon Rahm | 64-66-70-70=270 | −18 | 256,500 | 4 | 2 |
* Par 72 course

## Tour Championship

The Tour Championship was played September 2–5 and was contested by the leading 30 players in the FedEx Cup points standings after the BMW Championship, with no second-round cut. Players were allocated a starting score relative to par based on their position in the standings after the BMW Championship. The points leader started the tournament at 10 under par, number two at 8 under par, number three at 7 under par, number four at 6 under par and number five at 5 under par. Players ranked 6 to 10 started at 4 under par, 11 to 15 at 3 under par, 16 to 20 at 2 under par, 21 to 25 at 1 under par and 26 to 30 started at even par. The winner of the Tour Championship won the FedEx Cup. For the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, points were awarded based on aggregate scores (total strokes taken, ignoring any starting scores).
Patrick Cantlay won by a stroke from Jon Rahm. Rahm and Kevin Na had the best 72-hole aggregate scores of 266, three better than Cantlay.
| Place | Player | Round scores | Starting score | Final score | FedEx Cup rank | FedEx Cup rank | Winnings ($) |
| Place | Player | Round scores | Starting score | Final score | After | Before | Winnings ($) |
| 1 | Patrick Cantlay | 67-66-67-69=269 | −10 | −21 | 1 | 1 | 15,000,000 |
| 2 | Jon Rahm | 65-65-68-68=266 | −6 | −20 | 2 | 4 | 5,000,000 |
| 3 | Kevin Na | 66-67-66-67=266 | −2 | −16 | 3 | 19 | 4,000,000 |
| 4 | Justin Thomas | 67-67-65-70=269 | −4 | −15 | 4 | 6 | 3,000,000 |
| T5 | Viktor Hovland | 66-68-70-65=269 | −3 | −14 | T5 | 13 | 2,200,000 |
| T5 | Xander Schauffele | 68-69-67-64=268 | −2 | −14 | T5 | 17 | 2,200,000 |
| 7 | Bryson DeChambeau | 69-67-72-66=274 | −7 | −13 | 7 | 3 | 1,300,000 |
| 8 | Dustin Johnson | 68-69-68-67=272 | −3 | −11 | 8 | 15 | 1,100,000 |
| T9 | Abraham Ancer | 69-70-65-70=274 | −4 | −10 | T9 | 8 | 890,000 |
| T9 | Billy Horschel | 65-68-67-70=270 | E | −10 | T9 | 29 | 890,000 |
* Par 70 course
For the full list see here.

## Table of qualified players

Table key:
| Player | Pre-Playoffs | Pre-Playoffs | The Northern Trust | The Northern Trust | BMW Championship | BMW Championship | Tour Championship | Tour Championship | Tour Championship |
| Player | Points | Rank | Finish | Rank after | Finish | Rank after | Starting score | Final score | Final rank |
| Collin Morikawa | 2,171 | 1 | CUT | 6 | T63 | 11 | −3 | E | T26 |
| Jordan Spieth | 2,139 | 2 | 73 | 7 | T34 | 9 | −4 | −4 | T20 |
| Patrick Cantlay | 2,056 | 3 | T11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | −10 | −21 | 1 |
| Harris English | 2,039 | 4 | T31 | 8 | T26 | 7 | −4 | −6 | T18 |
| Jon Rahm | 2,003 | 5 | 3 | 2 | T9 | 4 | −6 | −20 | 2 |
| Abraham Ancer | 1,926 | 6 | T64 | 10 | T9 | 8 | −4 | −10 | T9 |
| Bryson DeChambeau | 1,910 | 7 | T31 | 9 | 2 | 3 | −7 | −13 | 7 |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 1,877 | 8 | DNP | 11 | T38 | 14 | −3 | −7 | T14 |
| Justin Thomas | 1,758 | 9 | T4 | 5 | T22 | 6 | −4 | −15 | 4 |
| Sam Burns | 1,721 | 10 | T21 | 12 | 8 | 10 | −4 | −6 | T18 |
| Viktor Hovland | 1,717 | 11 | T43 | 14 | T17 | 13 | −3 | −14 | T5 |
| Jason Kokrak | 1,631 | 12 | CUT | 17 | T15 | 18 | −2 | −8 | T11 |
| Xander Schauffele | 1,623 | 13 | T16 | 13 | T49 | 17 | −2 | −14 | T5 |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 1,594 | 14 | T43 | 16 | T46 | 22 | −1 | E | T26 |
| Brooks Koepka | 1,562 | 15 | T31 | 15 | T22 | 20 | −2 | WD | 30 |
| Cameron Smith | 1,539 | 16 | 2 | 3 | T34 | 5 | −5 | −7 | T14 |
| Dustin Johnson | 1,510 | 17 | CUT | 22 | T6 | 15 | −3 | −11 | 8 |
| Joaquín Niemann | 1,491 | 18 | T47 | 21 | T29 | 24 | −1 | +4 | 29 |
| Stewart Cink | 1,445 | 19 | T21 | 19 | T38 | 23 | −1 | E | T26 |
| Daniel Berger | 1,444 | 20 | T56 | 23 | T26 | 26 | E | −8 | T11 |
| Scottie Scheffler | 1,409 | 21 | T43 | 24 | T22 | 25 | −1 | −3 | T22 |
| Patrick Reed | 1,381 | 22 | DNP | 26 | DNP | 30 | E | −2 | 25 |
| Tony Finau | 1,348 | 23 | 1 | 1 | T15 | 2 | −8 | −8 | T11 |
| Kevin Na | 1,308 | 24 | T8 | 18 | T17 | 19 | −2 | −16 | 3 |
| Billy Horschel | 1,292 | 25 | T31 | 27 | T52 | 29 | E | −10 | T9 |
| Rory McIlroy | 1,291 | 26 | T43 | 28 | 4 | 16 | −2 | −7 | T14 |
| Max Homa | 1,220 | 27 | T47 | 30 | T63 | 35 | – | – | 35 |
| Corey Conners | 1,212 | 28 | T8 | 20 | T22 | 21 | −1 | −3 | T22 |
| Kevin Kisner | 1,200 | 29 | CUT | 31 | T66 | 38 | – | – | 38 |
| Kim Si-woo | 1,187 | 30 | CUT | 33 | T29 | 34 | – | – | 34 |
| Im Sung-jae | 1,185 | 31 | T16 | 25 | 3 | 12 | −3 | −4 | T20 |
| Charley Hoffman | 1,127 | 32 | T21 | 29 | T38 | 32 | – | – | 32 |
| Marc Leishman | 1,103 | 33 | T47 | 35 | 51 | 42 | – | – | 42 |
| Lee Kyoung-hoon | 1,064 | 34 | T47 | 37 | T12 | 31 | – | – | 31 |
| Brian Harman | 1,052 | 35 | 75 | 39 | T29 | 41 | – | – | 41 |
| Cameron Davis | 1,052 | 36 | T31 | 36 | T29 | 37 | – | – | 37 |
| Carlos Ortiz | 1,044 | 37 | T47 | 38 | T66 | 48 | – | – | 48 |
| Lucas Glover | 1,044 | 38 | CUT | 41 | T38 | 46 | – | – | 46 |
| Matt Jones | 1,033 | 39 | CUT | 42 | T38 | 47 | – | – | 47 |
| Sergio García | 1,020 | 40 | CUT | 44 | T6 | 28 | E | −7 | T14 |
| Cameron Tringale | 986 | 41 | T21 | 34 | T52 | 43 | – | – | 43 |
| Branden Grace | 955 | 42 | CUT | 51 | T52 | 55 | – | – | 55 |
| Keegan Bradley | 941 | 43 | T11 | 32 | T60 | 39 | – | – | 39 |
| Russell Henley | 939 | 44 | T56 | 50 | T60 | 56 | – | – | 56 |
| Paul Casey | 932 | 45 | T64 | 54 | T38 | 52 | – | – | 52 |
| Webb Simpson | 920 | 46 | T47 | 52 | T12 | 40 | – | – | 40 |
| Emiliano Grillo | 920 | 47 | CUT | 55 | T46 | 59 | – | – | 59 |
| Lee Westwood | 867 | 48 | T27 | 46 | T34 | 50 | – | – | 50 |
| Jhonattan Vegas | 866 | 49 | CUT | 61 | T38 | 61 | – | – | 61 |
| Charl Schwartzel | 857 | 50 | CUT | 62 | T17 | 51 | – | – | 51 |
| Chris Kirk | 853 | 51 | T56 | 60 | 48 | 62 | – | – | 62 |
| Cameron Champ | 839 | 52 | T27 | 49 | T66 | 57 | – | – | 57 |
| Kevin Streelman | 837 | 53 | T64 | 64 | T52 | 64 | – | – | 64 |
| Maverick McNealy | 830 | 54 | T27 | 53 | T63 | 58 | – | – | 58 |
| Ryan Palmer | 812 | 55 | CUT | 68 | T57 | 69 | – | – | 69 |
| Hudson Swafford | 804 | 56 | T11 | 40 | T17 | 36 | – | – | 36 |
| Patton Kizzire | 802 | 57 | T56 | 66 | T34 | 63 | – | – | 63 |
| Phil Mickelson | 791 | 58 | CUT | 70 | T66 | 70 | – | – | 70 |
| Matthew Wolff | 772 | 59 | CUT | 71 | – | – | – | – | 71 |
| Matt Fitzpatrick | 748 | 60 | CUT | 73 | – | – | – | – | 73 |
| Aaron Wise | 741 | 61 | T21 | 58 | T17 | 49 | – | – | 49 |
| Sebastián Muñoz | 740 | 62 | T21 | 59 | T29 | 53 | – | – | 53 |
| Tyrrell Hatton | 739 | 63 | CUT | 74 | – | – | – | – | 74 |
| Talor Gooch | 739 | 64 | T31 | 67 | T57 | 68 | – | – | 68 |
| Martin Laird | 734 | 65 | CUT | 75 | – | – | – | – | 75 |
| Shane Lowry | 727 | 66 | T11 | 47 | T26 | 45 | – | – | 45 |
| Mackenzie Hughes | 719 | 67 | T27 | 65 | T52 | 67 | – | – | 67 |
| Robert Streb | 710 | 68 | T16 | 57 | T60 | 60 | – | – | 60 |
| Troy Merritt | 700 | 69 | CUT | 78 | – | – | – | – | 78 |
| J. T. Poston | 697 | 70 | CUT | 79 | – | – | – | – | 79 |
| Bubba Watson | 685 | 71 | CUT | 81 | – | – | – | – | 81 |
| Harold Varner III | 674 | 72 | T11 | 56 | T12 | 44 | – | – | 44 |
| Séamus Power | 670 | 73 | T31 | 72 | – | – | – | – | 72 |
| Brandon Hagy | 660 | 74 | CUT | 84 | – | – | – | – | 84 |
| Andrew Putnam | 648 | 75 | T56 | 82 | – | – | – | – | 82 |
| Erik van Rooyen* | 648 | 76 | 7 | 45 | 5 | 27 | E | −3 | T22 |
| Joel Dahmen | 646 | 77 | T31 | 76 | – | – | – | – | 76 |
| Adam Long | 636 | 78 | CUT | 85 | – | – | – | – | 85 |
| Ian Poulter | 628 | 79 | T31 | 77 | – | – | – | – | 77 |
| Harry Higgs | 614 | 80 | T16 | 69 | T38 | 66 | – | – | 66 |
| Wyndham Clark | 609 | 81 | CUT | 87 | – | – | – | – | 87 |
| Adam Scott | 604 | 82 | CUT | 90 | – | – | – | – | 90 |
| Peter Malnati | 602 | 83 | T47 | 86 | – | – | – | – | 86 |
| Lanto Griffin | 593 | 84 | T64 | 89 | – | – | – | – | 89 |
| Brian Stuard | 592 | 85 | CUT | 92 | – | – | – | – | 92 |
| Doug Ghim* | 587 | 86 | T31 | 83 | – | – | – | – | 83 |
| Henrik Norlander | 586 | 87 | CUT | 93 | – | – | – | – | 93 |
| Doc Redman | 580 | 88 | CUT | 94 | – | – | – | – | 94 |
| Brian Gay | 579 | 89 | CUT | 95 | – | – | – | – | 95 |
| Kramer Hickok* | 574 | 90 | T56 | 91 | – | – | – | – | 91 |
| Alex Norén | 567 | 91 | T4 | 43 | T9 | 33 | – | – | 33 |
| Roger Sloan | 565 | 92 | CUT | 96 | – | – | – | – | 96 |
| Hank Lebioda* | 564 | 93 | CUT | 98 | – | – | – | – | 98 |
| Tyler McCumber* | 551 | 94 | CUT | 99 | – | – | – | – | 99 |
| Brendon Todd | 544 | 95 | CUT | 101 | – | – | – | – | 101 |
| Adam Hadwin | 540 | 96 | CUT | 103 | – | – | – | – | 103 |
| Denny McCarthy | 538 | 97 | T71 | 100 | – | – | – | – | 100 |
| Brendan Steele | 536 | 98 | CUT | 105 | – | – | – | – | 105 |
| Sepp Straka | 533 | 99 | CUT | 106 | – | – | – | – | 106 |
| Brandt Snedeker | 533 | 100 | T47 | 97 | – | – | – | – | 97 |
| Keith Mitchell | 532 | 101 | T8 | 63 | T57 | 65 | – | – | 65 |
| Luke List | 531 | 102 | 70 | 102 | – | – | – | – | 102 |
| Adam Schenk | 530 | 103 | T31 | 88 | – | – | – | – | 88 |
| Garrick Higgo* | 515 | 104 | T64 | 107 | – | – | – | – | 107 |
| James Hahn | 508 | 105 | T71 | 108 | – | – | – | – | 108 |
| Russell Knox | 507 | 106 | CUT | 110 | – | – | – | – | 110 |
| Matt Wallace* | 502 | 107 | WD | 111 | – | – | – | – | 111 |
| Tom Hoge | 502 | 108 | T4 | 48 | T49 | 54 | – | – | 54 |
| Sam Ryder | 499 | 109 | CUT | 112 | – | – | – | – | 112 |
| Jason Day | 489 | 110 | CUT | 114 | – | – | – | – | 114 |
| Pat Perez | 489 | 111 | T16 | 80 | – | – | – | – | 80 |
| Matthew NeSmith | 485 | 112 | CUT | 115 | – | – | – | – | 115 |
| Zach Johnson | 485 | 113 | T47 | 109 | – | – | – | – | 109 |
| Gary Woodland | 484 | 114 | 74 | 113 | – | – | – | – | 113 |
| Kyle Stanley | 477 | 115 | CUT | 117 | – | – | – | – | 117 |
| Scott Piercy | 470 | 116 | T64 | 116 | – | – | – | – | 116 |
| Richy Werenski | 467 | 117 | CUT | 120 | – | – | – | – | 120 |
| Pan Cheng-tsung | 466 | 118 | CUT | 121 | – | – | – | – | 121 |
| Chez Reavie | 457 | 119 | T31 | 104 | – | – | – | – | 104 |
| Matt Kuchar | 456 | 120 | CUT | 122 | – | – | – | – | 122 |
| Anirban Lahiri | 455 | 121 | T56 | 118 | – | – | – | – | 118 |
| Dylan Frittelli | 453 | 122 | T56 | 119 | – | – | – | – | 119 |
| Brice Garnett | 452 | 123 | CUT | 123 | – | – | – | – | 123 |
| Scott Stallings | 447 | 124 | CUT | 124 | – | – | – | – | 124 |
| Chesson Hadley | 440 | 125 | CUT | 125 | – | – | – | – | 125 |
* First-time Playoffs qualifier DNP = Did not play WD = Withdrew