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FedExCup points leader Jon Rahm on current playoff system: 'I don't like it'

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The next three weeks are going to feature wild fluctuations and plenty of projections, but there was an interesting moment Friday at The Northern Trust when Jon Rahm was asked his thoughts on the current playoff format.

“I don’t like it,” he said, flatly. “I don’t think it’s fair.”

Rahm is hardly the first player to question the circuit’s strokes-based scoring system that will decide the FedExCup champion at the Tour Championship, but he was likely the first to publicly do so while projected first on the points list.

“I understand the system, and the way I was told by one of the PGA Tour officials – I'm a Patriots fan, and the Patriots win everything, and get to the Super Bowl and they don't win the Super Bowl, you don't win the Lombardi Trophy, right?