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The 2015 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of four golf tournaments that will determine the season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, were played from August 27 to September 27. It included the following four events: The Barclays – Plainfield Country Club, Edison, New Jersey
17–20 September: BMW Championship – Jason Day won his second FedEx Cup event of the season and moved to number one in the Official World Golf Ranking. 24–27 September: Tour Championship – Jordan Spieth won by three strokes over Danny Lee, Justin Rose, and Henrik Stenson. The victory for him also won his first FedEx Cup.
Jordan Alexander Spieth (/ ˈ s p iː θ /; born July 27, 1993) is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour and former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking.He is a three-time major winner and the 2015 FedEx Cup champion.
The winner of the FedEx Cup also receives a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour, mirroring the exemption that was given to the tour's leading money winner prior to 2017. Before the change in format in 2019 that made it impossible for the FedEx Cup and the Tour Championship to be won by two different players, the Tour Championship winner ...
On 25 August 2019, McIlroy clinched his second season-long FedEx Cup by winning the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. The winning payout was $15 million, the largest in golf history. [129] He became the second player to win multiple FedEx Cups. Following his FedEx Cup victory, McIlroy was named the 2018–19 PGA Tour Player of the Year ...
The 2015–16 PGA Tour was the 101st season of the PGA Tour, the main professional golf tour in the United States. It was also the 48th season since separating from the PGA of America, and the 10th edition of the FedEx Cup.
Winners of the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Memorial Tournament were for the first time given three-year exemptions and invitations to the next three Players Championships. For the first time, the conditional status category (126th to 150th in the FedEx Cup) was regularly reshuffled, like the Web.com Tour graduate and past champion categories.
However, winners of Fall Series tournaments did not receive automatic invitations to the following year's Masters, as these were given only to winners of tournaments that offer a full FedEx Cup points allocation. In 2007, the Fall Series began the week after the final FedEx Cup event, The Tour Championship. In 2008, the first event took place ...