Reader MacDuff has been breaking down each week's PGA Tour play and computing a points list for us to see how the PGA Tour's "FedEx Cup" would play out when it commences in 2007. Here is the points breakdown he's using, with this year's Sony Open in Hawaii providing a sampling.

1    2500        This is the MacDuff Golf Rankings
2    1950        Point System, whereby a point value
3    1900        is given to the top 70 players and ties
4    1850        in a golf tournament.
5    1800        The winner - 1 - gains 2500 points;
6    1750        Second - 2 - gains 1950 points and
7    1700        so on.
8    1650        In the event that two or more players
9    1600        tie, they share equally the point values
10    1550        of those respective places, for example
11    1500        14 and 15 share 2825 points, therefore
12    1475        accruing 1412.5 points each.
13    1450       
14    1425        In the event of the field having more
15    1400        than 70 players, those at the bottom,
16    1375        70th and beyond, would all receive
17    1350        25 points each. If these tied players
18    1325        included the 69th place or higher,
19    1300        they would share point value for 69th
20    1275        plus 70th and ties equally.
21    1250       
22    1225       
23    1200       
24    1175       
25    1150       
26    1125       
27    1100       
28    1075       
29    1050       
30    1025       
31    1000       
32    975       
33    950
34    925
35    900
36    875
37    850
38    825
39    800
40    775
41    750
42    725
43    700
44    675
45    650
46    625
47    600
48    575
49    550
50    525
51    500
52    475
53    450
54    425
55    400
56    375
57    350
58    325
59    300
60    275
61    250
62    225
63    200
64    175
65    150
66    125
67    100
68    75
69    50
70    25