2022 FedEx Cup Playoffs: Standings, schedule, golf format, purse, prize money for PGA Tour postseason

Playoff golf is here again, as everyone is positioning themselves for the $15 million grand prize at the end

Upon the conclusion of a regular season jam packed with events and four tremendous major championships, the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Playoffs have arrived. Since the FedEx Cup Playoffs started in 2007, professional golf has never felt more tenuous, and has likely never been more up in the air. FedEx St. Jude Championship Memphis, Tenn. TPC Southwind BMW Championship Wilmington, Del. Wilmington Country Club Tour Championship Atlanta, Ga. East Lake Golf Club 1 Scottie Scheffler 3,556 2 Cam Smith 2,335 3 Sam Burns 2,275 4 Xander Schauffele 2,153 5 Patrick Cantlay 2,108 6 Rory McIlroy 2,104 7 Tony Finau 1,912 8 Justin Thomas 1,783 9 Cameron Young 1,774 10 Sungjae Im 1,488

Now the headlines as the FedEx Cup Playoffs begin will actually come from a courtroom in Northern California, rather than the golf course, after the PGA Tour responded to a lawsuit by 11 LIV golfers. Three of those golfers -- Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford and Matt Jones) -- are trying to play in this year's FedEx Cup Playoffs via temporary restraining order that will be ruled on by the time the festivities begin in Memphis at the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Thursday.

It's an exhausting exercise for those who are simply focused on the golf, but it also means this year's postseason has a chance to be one of the more memorable -- and perhaps meaningful -- three-week stretches in its short history. While a LIV golfer is unlikely to contend for -- and even more unlikely to win -- the FedEx Cup, a statement can be made by somebody like Scottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas or Jordan Spieth, all of whom have maintained steadfast commitment to the PGA Tour both in the short and long term.