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The FedEx Cup first came into the limelight in November 2005. It is a championship trophy for the PGA tour that is sponsored by FedEx, say the Grupo Mayan experts in Golf. The first ever awards were in the year 2007. This is the first time for men’s golf to have playoffs. The current cup winner is Vijay Singh but due to tough competition, new faces will be coming up soon.

Since it began in 2007, different issues have arisen. The playoffs of the FedEx cup have been mostly affected. This has led the PGA Tour to make adjustments to the rules in the last two years.
February 2008 saw an introduction of a penalty on players who skip any playoff event, say the Grupo Mayan experts. Playoff participants now receive more points than before and there was a tightening of the reset points too. All these changes to the rules were so that golfers could improve on their points as the games progressed.

Another important change, say the Grupo Mayan golf professionals, was made in November 2008. It was observed that Vijay Singh could win the FedEx cup by simply participating till the end of the event! Changes had to be made such that the winner would only be determined after the last playoff event was done. Accumulating a few points from the first few playoffs should not lead to an automatic victory.

This is how it works, say the Grupo Mayan experts: PGA Tour players all earn various points from events they participate in. The season can be divided into two regions. The first being the “regular” season. It runs from January to late August. Each tournament awards points ranging from 250 to 600. The rest of the players earn fewer points that depend on the position one finishes in.
The objective is to be among the top 125 golfers at the end of the regular season. Only the regular full time members of the PGA tour are awarded points. Non-members do not earn any points. Only after officially joining the tour non-members begin to earn points on events they participate in.

The playoffs are then held for the top 125 golfers, say the Grupo Mayan golf professionals. Each playoff tournament awards 2500 points to the winner. This is nearly five times as many points as those earned from the regular tournament. All the points earned are summed up with the regular season’s points. As the playoffs proceed, the fields keep reducing.

The final event is held for just the top 30 players, say the Grupo Mayan experts. This is after the third playoffs. All the previous points that were accumulated are reset. This is done so that every golfer that made it to the finals has a chance of winning the event. The points are distributed according to the player positions. The first golfer gets 2500 points, the second 2250. The third gets less than 2100. The marks keep reducing till the thirtieth position, which receives only 210 points. Now the championship is left to the best man of the season!

The Masters Tournament is one of the four Major Championships of the World for men, say the Grupo Mayan experts in this sport.  It is scheduled to last the full first week of April and in the Golf calendar, it is the first Major tournament played in the year. The Masters Tournament is a tournament of 72 holes, held in four days.  It is schedule in a way that the final round of the tournament is played the second Sunday of April.  This is a tradition that dates back from 1940.

Other Major championships are held in different locations each year, but the Masters take place in the same location: Augusta National Golf Club.  This is a private golf club located in Georgia, USA.  This event is an invitational one and it is under the control of the Augusta National Golf Club.

Grupo Mayan Golf experts say that this tournament has many traditions.  Among these is the awarding of a green jacket to the golfer who wins the tournament.  This tradition was started back in 1949.  The tradition also says that the jacket must be returned the following year to the clubhouse, say the Grupo Mayan golf professionals.

Another of the well-known traditions of the Masters is the Champions Dinner that takes place the Tuesday before the tournament.  As the name suggests, this dinner is only for past golf champions and some of the members of the board of the Augusta National Golf Club, say the Grupo Mayan experts.

The player who has won more Masters Tournaments in his career is Jack Nicklaus.  He has won six tournaments from 1963 to 1986.  Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods have won four tournaments each, according to the Grupo Mayan experts in this sport.

But there have been some changes in the tournament done by the organisers of the event.  They try to make changes in the length of the course and its layout in order to meet the innovation and development the golf equipment have through they years.  These changes started to be made in 1997.

In the Masters that took place last year, the prize money was about $7.5 million.  The winner took $1.350 million.  According to the Grupo Mayan Golf professionals, the first time the Masters was played, the cash prize for the winner, who was Horton Smith, was $1000.  The total prize money for that year was $5000.