I'm bored with the FedEx Cup

I don’t really have very much to say about the FedEx Cup except to say that it’s not really working for me.  This is year four and I would have thought that by now it would have turned into something interesting but it hasn’t.

For me, playoffs should signify the end of the season, however, the FedEx Cup takes place ahead of the Fall Series, a stretch of golf that covers at least five weeks of regular Tour events. 

The Fall Series is really quite exciting as it represents the final chance for those players near the 125 bubble who are trying to save their cards for next year. 

The Fall Series more or less works like this — play well and survive, or go home and figure out what you are going to do next year. 

Now that sounds more like a playoff type of situation to me. 

It’s a real cut-throat five week stretch of golf, which is much more exciting and, frankly, much more important, than the FedEx Cup.

Another problem for me with the FedEx Cup is the volatility of movement week to week. 

The top 125 at the start of the FedEx Cup are eligible for the first event, however, since the points are so heavily weighted in the FedEx events, pretty much everybody has a chance to win. 

Some like that and some don’t, but it also means that those who did well during the year can plummet down the order and right on out the door. 

A worst case scenario is a Tour Championship in Atlanta, which is the final event of the FedEx series and is only for the top 30 in the points list at the end of week three of the FedEx Cup, could exclude a number of players that television viewers would want to see. 

At the end of the day, I’m not so interested in who wins the FedEx Cup. 

It just doesn’t mean very much to me but it’s probably a good advertising gimmick.

The Race to Dubai is along the same lines as the FedEx Cup and it will be interesting to see how that catches the imagination of golf enthusiasts. 

The Race to Dubai will have an added arrow in its quiver since the Europeans will have beat up on the Americans in the Ryder Cup by the time the Race to Dubai comes to a conclusion.

I have no doubt that Europe will win back the Ryder Cup in a few weeks time. 

A number of factors point to that inevitable result. 

For one, it’s being played in Wales, so home advantage to Europe. 

For two, the weather in early October in Wales will no doubt be typically Welsh — poor. 

Then, of course, there is the other small factor which is that the European Ryder Cup players are simply better than the Americans and I’m betting that better will beat less than better.