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Examining playoff permutations

Updated: September 19, 2012, 2:45 PM ET
By Bob Harig | ESPN.com

ATLANTA -- Everything would be simple if Rory McIlroy won the Tour Championship. Or if Tiger Woods won it, and McIlroy had a rare off week. Or if Phil Mickelson and Woods battled down the stretch on Sunday, the winner claiming the tournament and the FedEx Cup all at once.

Those are the easy, comfortable scenarios, the ones that make everybody at PGA Tour headquarters happy while also putting a nice, neat wrap around this FedEx package.

But if you want bedlam, root for Louis Oosthuizen.

Not ...

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