Is the FedEx Cup, Gulp, Interesting?

On Monday at TPC Boston, Bryce Molder stood over an eagle putt on the 18th green from the back fringe. Molder was ranked No. 74 in FedEx Cup points going into the Deutsche Bank Championship, and needed to get down in two for birdie if he hoped to make it to the next week, cash another check and hopefully finish high enough to join the Tour Championship field.

Molder's eagle putt nestled snugly to about a foot from the hole, he tapped it in and the 30-year-old added his name to the top-70 in the field this week at the BMW Championship. One putt. One stroke. A whole new chance at a paycheck, a trophy and a chance to join the 30 best golfers at the year's last big event.

So, is what I'm about to say true? Did the FedEx Cup, thanks to guys like Molder, a different points system and the resurgence of Steve Stricker, become interesting? Finally? I think it did.

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Take Stricker for example. A 42-year-old journeyman who tears up quicker than a teen at a Zac Efron premiere, he had exactly four PGA Tour victories in his career before 2009. This season, after a birdie-birdie finish at the Deutsche Bank, Stricker has three more, and jumped ahead of Tiger Woods. Now, for the first time since Woods participated in the FedEx Cup, he is looking up, hoping to find a way to take down some old guy that hits his short irons like Iron Byron (the machine, not the player) and hardly ever misses putts he needs to make.

So what about Woods? Before Sunday, he was slumping as much as a guy with five wins can slump. He couldn't make putts. He was tossing clubs into waste areas. He was frustrated like we'd never seen him before. And then Tiger went out and shot a holy-hell-that's-low 63 that included two bogeys to vault up a leaderboard full of formidable names. The 63 matched his lowest round of the year, and made it apparent that even if it's just the FedEx Cup, Woods wants to win it ... badly.

After this week, FedEx Cup points are reset for the Tour Championship. That means that, basically, for the top guys, finishing high means you can enter the final event with more allotted points than the next guy. Unlike '07 when Tiger blew the thing open, or last year when all Vijay Singh had to do was show up and he'd get the trophy, this thing will come down to the wire.

The FedEx Cup was put together to make the end of the season interesting. Finally, after three years, it's doing just that.