What If The Tour Championship Was Played Like The ADT Championship?

by Ryan Ballengee on Sep 28, 2009 4:50 PM EDT

Geoff Shackelford ran a great experiment over the weekend at East Lake to answer the question of how the Tour Championship would play out if they PGA Tour opted to use the ADT Championship format?

For those unfamiliar, the ADT Championship is an LPGA event not being played this year, but has a very innovative format. 32 players play 36 holes to get to a low 16 players, with sudden death playoffs if needed. Then, a 54 hole cut is made to the top 8 players in aggregate score. Then, the final round is an eight player free-for-all for the million dollar first prize.

Given the 30 players at the Tour Championship, here's how it would have all played out if they used the LPGA's format. (Their payout is determined using 2008 figures.)

Phil Mickelson 65 - $10,000,000
Sean O'Hair 69 - $3,000,000
Steve Stricker 69 - $2,000,000
Padraig Harrington 69 - $1,500,000
Tiger Woods 70 - $1,000,000
Steve Marino 71 - $750,000
Ernie Els 71 - $750,000
Kenny Perry 74 - $600,000

In other words, Woods would have lost $9 million in this format.

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That’s a conclusion you can only draw on paper. When you change the format – you change the mindset of the players involved – but it’s still an interesting format.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Sep 28, 2009 5:45 PM EDT reply actions