With his victory at the Northern Trust Open, Aaron
Baddeley moved to No. 4 in the FedExCup standings.
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A FIELD DIVIDED: This week, the PGA TOUR will be players
will be split between the
World Golf
Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship and the
Mayakoba Golf Classic
at Riviera Maya-Cancun. TOUR pros rated inside the top 66 in
the
Official World
Golf Ranking are in the 64-man Match Play field. Being ranked
that high comes with its benefits, as every player in the field at
the Accenture Match Play Championship is guaranteed 22.5 FedExCup
points – even if they are eliminated in the first round. One
match victory will guarantee a player 46.56 FedExCup points, and
two wins – a berth in the round of 16 – will net a
player a minimum 68.25 points.
Accenture Match Play points breakdown
| 550 points – Win |
101 points – T5 (loss in
the round of eight) |
| 315 points –
Runner-up |
68.25 points – T9 (loss in
the round of 16) |
| 200 points – Third
place |
46.56 points – T17 (second
round loss) |
| 140 points – Fourth
place |
22.50 points – T33 (loss
in the first round) |
Conversely, those playing in the Mayakoba will have to
battle through four rounds to earn any points, with the winner
adding 250 to his season total. To get the same 22.5 points
guaranteed to all Match Play competitors, a golfer will need to
finish solo 26th or better. To exceed the 46.56-point mark, they
will need a solo sixth place finish and to beat a 68.25 point
showing, they will need a solo fourth place finish. More on
FedExCup point distribution can be found by clicking
here.
BEST NEW ARRIVALS: A pair of major winners (Ben Curtis and
Retief Goosen) and one of the world’s best without a major
(Paul Casey) made their debuts in the FedExCup standings this week
in a tie for 115th with 56 points. The trio finished tied for 12th
last week at Riviera Country Club in the Northern Trust Open.
Goosen and Casey were making their season debuts while Curtis was
playing in his third event after missing cuts at the Farmers
Insurance Open and Waste Management Phoenix Open. Louis Oosthuizen
and Robert Karlsson made their debuts as PGA TOUR members last week
and finished tied for 62nd at Riviera Country Club. With eight
FedExCup points each, they enter the standings tied for 184th.
Casey, Goosen, Oosthuizen and Karlsson will tee it up at the
Accenture Match Play Championship this week.
Moore
BIGGEST MOVERS: Ryan Moore, who withdrew from his first
start in 2011 and tied for 73rd in his second, vaulted 131 spots in
the standings from 190th to 59th when he tied for fourth at the
Northern Trust Open. In that fourth-place tie and also making a
triple-digit leap was Robert Allenby, who moved from 173rd to a tie
for 57th (116 spots). Also making large strides were Fred Couples
(143rd to 61st), Cameron Tringale (119th to 175th) and Kevin
Stadler (149th to 97th).
NOTABLE DROPS: Nick O’Hearn and Kevin Kisner, who were
both idle last week, each fell 17 spots in the standings dropping
from 139th to 156th. Though still early in the season, it’s
interesting to note that 10 golfers dropped below the 125-man
cutline for the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. Falling the
furthest were idle veterans Stephen Ames and Jesper Parnevik, who
dropped from a tie for 124th into a tie for 139th in the FedExCup
standings.
MORE ON LAST WEEK’S WINNER: With his victory at the
Northern Trust Open, Aaron Baddeley moved from 37th to 4th in the
FedExCup standings. His best regular season finish in the four-year
history of the FedExCup is 18th place. As he continues to get
comfortable in his transition from the Stack and Tilt back to his
more natural swing, Baddeley has made four cuts in five starts with
his last two outings being a tie for sixth at Pebble Beach and a
victory at Riviera. Badds is seventh on the TOUR in scoring average
and 11th in greens in regulation in spite of the fact that
he’s only hitting 53 percent of fairways. Baddeley will look
to continue his strong play this week at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.