The Tour Championship

The Tour Championship
Thursday Sept. 24 – Sunday Sept 27, 2009
East Lake Golf Club · Atlanta, GA
Purse: $7,500,000
Defending Champ: Camilo Villegas

The Tour Championship is a limited-field event that has long been considered the finale to the big-money part of the PGA Tour schedule. Each year, FedEx Cup Points are awarded during the season and will be the basis for qualification into FedEx Cup events. The Tour Championship presented by Coca-Cola showcases the Playoff Finale for the FedExCup at which the top 30 players on the FedExCup points list battle it out at historic East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

The Tour Championship, which began in 1987, is one of the most lucrative tournaments on tour and often decides top honors such as player of the year, leading money winner and Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average.

The field for this year's Tour Championship is the usual number of 30 players 'whittled down' from the 70 FedExCup qualifiers who participated two week's ago at The BMW Championship.

2009 The Tour Championship Results

Phil Mickelson won The Tour Championship and $1.35 million on Sunday — and was ecstatic. Tiger Woods won the FedExCup playoffs and $10 million — and was a tad disappointed.

So it was when a wild and wacky back nine came to an end in the final round of The Tour Championship and the final lap of the FedExCup playoffs. On historic East Lake Golf Club's last nine holes, with countless playoff scenarios in play and enough mind-boggling numbers crunching to make any accountant's head spin, six players had legitimate chances of winning the playoffs' grand prize of $10 million.

Mickelson delivered his third win of the year. He shot a bogey-free, 5-under-par 65 under sunny skies to finish at 9-under 271 to beat Woods by three shots and wind up in second place in the playoffs. Despite his runner-up finish, Woods, who closed with a 70, claimed his second FedExCup title.

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