The Barclays
 

Playoff season is here! :ohyeah:

It all kicks off with the Barclays, taking place at the par 71 Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, NJ, which is all but next door to NYC. This means that Westchester doesnt have a PGA tourney for the first time in 40 years.

For this tournament, the top 144 golfers in the FedEx standings play this week, than the top 120 in the standings tee off next week at the Deutsch Bank, than the top 70 at the BMW, and finally the top 30 golfers will make it to the Tour Championship in Atlanta to do something akin to Hakeem winning his titles while JORDM played baseball :goofy:

The defending champ is STRST, and the winner takes home a cool $1,260,000.

Allenby, Robert
Ames, Stephen
Appleby, Stuart
Austin, Woody
Baddaley, Aaron
Baird, Briny
Beem, Rich
Bryant, Bart
Byrd, Jonathon
Calcavecchia, Mark
Campbell, Chad
Choi, K.J.
Chopra, Daniel
Cink, Stewart
Clark, Tim
Couples, Fred
Crane, Ben
Curtis, Ben
Day, Jason
DiMarco, Chris
Durant, Joe
Elkington, Steve
Els, Ernie
Flesch, Steve
Furyk, Jim
Garcia, Sergio
Glover, Lucas
Goosen, Retief
Gore, Jason
Harrington, Padraig
Henry, J.J.
Herron, Tim
Hoffman, Charley
Holmes, J.B.
Howell III, Charles
Imada, Ryuji
Immelman, Trevor
Janzen, Lee
Johnson, Dustin
Johnson, Zach
Kelly, Jerry
Kim, Anthony
Kuchar, Matt
Lehman, Tom
Leonard, Justin
Lickliter II, Frank
Lonard, Peter
Mahan, Hunter
Matteson, Troy
Mayfair, Billy
McCarron, Scott
Mediate, Rocco
Mickelson, Phil
Na, Kevin
O'Hair, Sean
Ogilvie, Joe
Ogilvy, Geoff
Palmer, Ryan
Pampling, Rod
Parnevik, Jasper
Pavin, Corey
Perez, Pat
Pernice, Jr., Tom
Perry, Kenny
Petrovic, Tim
Pettersson, Carl
Poulter, Ian
Quigley, Brett
Quinney, Jeff
Reavie, Chez
Rollins, John
Romero, Andres
Sabbatini, Rory
Scott, Adam
Senden, John
Singh, Vijay
Slocum, Heath
Snedeker, Brandt
Stricker, Steve
Sutherland, Kevin
Taylor, Vaughn
Toms, David
Trahan, D.J.
Tway, Bob
Verplank, Scott
Villegas, Camilo
Wagner, Johnson
Watney, Nick
Watson, Bubba
Weekley, Boo
Weir, Mike
Wilson, Dean

Are there more tournaments after the playoffs?

:dangit:

In most sports playoffs infer that is the end of that sports season. ;)

Las Vegas better be on the schedule. ;)

Fall schedule
 

I believe there is a fall schedule for the golfers.
They play all the way until Nov. 9th.

My pick for the Barclay's, which I am attending on Sunday, wooo!!!
Anthony Kim!

As rocket said, there is a fall schedule which is mostly used by golfers at the lower end of the spectrum trying to secure their cards for next season. And Vegas is a part of it :pineapple:

Thank you both for answering my questions.

I still have a question. Why is the playoffs in golf not at the end of their calendar year?

Don't try to answer my last question. ;)

:hmm:

Thanks Mark.

this playoff system is all new. its part of the fed ex cup, with the winner getting a solid paycheck of 10 million dollars. Not bad right?
Normally there was never a playoff, simply the majors. This is simply to provide some excitement for players and fans alike, what the whole point system comes down to. Some like it, some don't. Last year, Tiger skipped one of the events and lots of people cried foul, saying how you can't win the playoffs by missing an event. But it's all experimental in my opinion.

There was never a "playoff" but there has always been a season ending "Championship". This tournament, most recently sponsored by Buick, has always been called the "Westchester Classic" (albeit with different names in front of that) for more than the last 40 years. It, for a long time, preceeded the US Open and the crew at Westchester CC, usually had the track groomed like the Open. It was TOUGH. The real crappy thing is the current sponsors have moved this tourn to NJ....bleah.;)

thank you all for the quality info....


...is it just me (just got back today), or are the greens at this course somewhat....tinier, than I have seen lately?