Welcome to CaddyBytes.com’s Tournament's page for the 2016 Barclays Championship being played at a rotating venue format with this year's event being held at Bethpage Black in Old Bethpage, NY. The other locale most popularly hosting this event was Liberty National across from the Manhatten sky line. The history of this event dates back to old Thunderbird Classic played in the greater NYC area in the 1960's. Then it became the Westchester Classic then the Buick Classic for a long time until the auto industry crash of 2008. This event has been the first in the annual post season FedExCup playoffs that began in 2007-08. The top 125 who qualify off of the past year's money list comprise the field which gets winnowed down in the nest three weeks to the final top 30 playing for the FedExCup prize at the Tour Championship in Atlanta. Meanwhile the participants still play for an individual purse in all four of these which sits at a heafty 8.5 Million each week with the final FedExCup prize being an annuity in addition to that worth 10 Million to the final winner of it all. Current #1 Jason Day is defending here..