I heard on TV today that PGA Tour commish Tim Finchem said that there will be some tinkering done with the FedEx Cup playoffs after year one, that it’s a work in progress.

It’s good that he’s open minded about it. Because it needs work. A lot of work, perhaps.

You know what? They can’t be playoffs if the best performers in the playoffs are eliminated.

Rich Beem, who played so well at Westchester and so far this weekend, needs to finish in the top two this week in Boston, or he’s out. Meanwhile, guys skip a week — Tiger, Ernei Els, K.J. Choi — and remain alive.

If these are going to be playoffs, then everybody ought to start at zero at the end of the season, and everybody should have to compete each week. As it is, Tiger can skip a week and not win a single playoff event and still walk off with the $10 million annuity.

The best players in the playoffs should advance, the worst go home. Anybody who makes the playoffs should be able to win it all. It makes no sense in the comparison to any other sport to have a playoff where some participants have no chance to win, even if they play better than the other participants.

Also, it would help if they used smaller numbers instead of starting at 100,000. Then the math wouldn’t be so daunting. How about this: First week, 130 players, winner gets 130 points, second gets 129, last 1? Second week, 70 players. Winner gets 140 points, second 138, last 1?

Want to weigh it a little more heavily on winning, in other words, reward winners with a more hefty pile of points. No problem there. If the playoffs are going to be tournaments, then it stands to reason that the winner of a tournament ought to take the biggest heist of reward points.

As it is, these aren’t playoffs at all. These are four contrived tournaments set up in a point system that doesn’t necessarily reward players who perform well in the playoffs.