Charles Schwab Cup By the Numbers Number of players at the Charles Schwab Cup The number of • Dominion Energy Charity Classic Championship with a events in the • PowerShares QQQ Championship mathematical chance Charles Schwab of winning the Cup Playoffs • Charles Schwab Cup Championship 36 Charles Schwab Cup. 3 Sutherland became just The number of Number of the third player to win players who World Golf Hall the Charles Schwab Cup have won of Fame members Championship and the the Charles who qualifi ed for Charles Schwab Cup in Schwab Cup. the Playoffs 2017 9 4 3 the same season. Kevin Sutherland CANADA ENGLAND FIJI GERMANY 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 2013 Bernhard Langer Kenny Perry SCOTLAND SPAIN SOUTH AFRICA UNITED STATES Number of countries represented in the 36-player field at the 2017 Charles Schwab Cup Championship 2011, 2012 2007, 2009 Tom Lehman Loren Roberts 8 Sutherland’s 2017 Season 2006, 2008 2003, 2005 Jay Haas Tom Watson Number of top-3 fi nishes 6 1 Number of weeks (out of 26) Kevin Sutherland he was No. 1 in the standings 2002, 2004 2001 2017 Charles Schwab 1 Hale Irwin Allen Doyle Cup Champion In 2017, the second annual Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs were supposed to be a walk in the park for World Golf Hall of Fame member Bernhard Langer, who entered the three-event, season-ending series with fi ve victories on the year, including three major championship titles. After winning the fi rst two Playoff events – the Dominion Energy Charity Classic and PowerShares QQQ Championship – to remain at No. 1 in the standings, Langer was upstaged by Kevin Sutherland at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, which was contested at Phoenix Country Club for the fi rst time. Sutherland posted a 15-under 198 total to earn his fi rst career PGA TOUR Champions title, as well as the Charles Schwab Cup, after moving from No. 5 to No. 1 in the standings following the points reset. The victory was one of 15 top-10 fi nishes for Sutherland in 2017. Langer, who fi nished the week in Phoenix at T12, fi nished second in the Charles Schwab Cup..