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The FedEx Cup Playoffs begin this week at The Barclays, the first in a series of four exclusive, dwinddling-field events. Jordan Spieth currently leads the points list, but he's not a lock to win as points reset during the playoffs. Billy Horschelclaimed the $10 million bonus last year, after starting in 69th position. Who will hit the jackpot this year? Our writers offer up their picks.
With apologies to Jordan Spieth, who by all accounts has enjoyed a season for the ages, it will beJim Furyk who collects the FedEx Cup and $10 million bounty next month at East Lake.
The math, as Spieth pointed out on Tuesday at The Barclays, is exceedingly simple on this: you win the Tour Championship and you, most likely, win the FedEx Cup.
The last five cup champions won the PGA Tour finale and few, if any, have a better history at East Lake than Furyk.
In 16 starts at the Tour Championship the 45-year-old has finished inside the top 10 on 10 occasions, including his victory in 2010 when he also won the FedEx Cup.
Although Furyk began that 2010 post-season in much better position, he was third to start the playoffs compared to 18th this year, he will, if his alarm clock doesn’t betray him again, have the luxury of an extra start this time after being disqualified from The Barclays in ’10 when he overslept and missed his pro-am tee time.
History has proven that winning the FedEx Cup is about timing, not a timeless performance like what Spieth has produced, and no one has been as clutch when it counts at East Lake as Furyk.
