Scottie Scheffler enters the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup Playoffs as the points leader for the regular season for the second year in a row. As we learned last year, that's not a guarantee of anything.
Scheffler has a 794-point lead over Matt Fitzpatrick and 963 points over Cameron Young entering this week's FedEx St. Jude Classic at the TPC Southwind. The tournament begins on Aug. 13, with 69 players battling for 50 spots to qualify for the BMW Championship Aug. 20-23 at Bellerive in St. Louis. The top 30 after that advance to the Tour Championship Aug. 27-30 at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Other Tour stars in the field will be the four major champions, Wyndham Clark (U.S. Open, fourth in points), Rory McIlroy (Masters, 12th in points), Ryan Fox (Open Championship, 22nd in points) and Aaron Rai (PGA, 35th in points), plus three-time 2026 winner Chris Gotterup (fifth) and defending FedEx Cup champion Tommy Fleetwood (ninth). How did Scheffler fare in the 2025 playoffs? Scheffler was dominant in 2025, winning the PGA and Open Championship and holding a commanding lead in the points race for most of the season. Scheffler led by 1,362 points after the regular season concluded. Scheffler tied for third in the St. Jude Classic (Justin Rose beat J.J. Spaun in a playoff to win) and then won the BMW to take a lead of 3,764 points over McIlroy in the standings. But the points were wiped clean entering the Tour Championship, unlike previous years under the "assigned strokes" format. Scheffler tied for fourth and Fleetwood won his first PGA Tour title to win the FedEx Cup. Who's not playing in the St. Jude Classic? The only player eligible for the playoffs who is opting out of the first event is Daniel Berger, who is 60th on the points list. Berger, who has missed four of his last five cuts, did not enter the tournament as of the 5 p.m. deadline on Aug. 7 and did not cite a reason. According to PGA Tour regulations, players don't need to officially tell the Tour why they aren't playing unless they withdraw after tournament week begins. By not entering, Berger also is punting on the final two events, since he would need to be among the top 50 to qualify for the BMW. The PGA Tour refers to playoff events as having a "hard field," which means there are no alternate lists. Therefore, Berger will not be replaced and the tournament will have a field of 69 players.
Who made the biggest FedEx Cup moves at the Wyndham Championship?
Michael Brennan, up 58 spots (105th to 47th), won Wyndham Championship. Brennan was the only player to get into the playoffs from outside the top 70 when the week began. Beau Hossler, up 50 spots (122nd to 72nd), second in Wyndham Championship Ben James, up 33 spots (141st to 108th), third in Wyndham Championship Kevin Yu, up 19 spots (111th to 92nd), fourth in Wyndham Championship Rafael Campos, up 14 spots (175th to 161st), tie ofr 25th in Wyndham Championship
PGA Tour FedEx Cup qualifiers
1. Scottie Scheffler 4,123 2. Matt Fitzpatrick 3,329 3. Cameron Young 3,161 4. Wyndham Clark 2,255 5. Chris Gotterup 2,254 6. Collin Morikawa 2,229 7. Si Woo Kim 2,201 8. Sam Burns 2,078 9. Tommy Fleetwood 2,046 10. Ludvig Åberg 1,929 11. Xander Schauffele 1,780 12. Rory McIlroy 1,738 13. Jacob Bridgeman 1,727 14. Akshay Bhatia 1,723 15. Russell Henley 1,706 16. Ryan Gerard 1,496 17. Min Woo Lee 1,470 18. Kristoffer Reitan 1,464 19. Alex Fitzpatrick 1,407 20. Hideki Matsuyama 1,399 21. J.J. Spaun 1,387 22. Ryan Fox 1,342 23. Viktor Hovland 1,340 24. Justin Rose 1,333 25. Alex Smalley 1,331 26. Tom Kim 1,244 27. Gary Woodland 1,238 28. Rickie Fowler 1,231 29. Adam Scott 1,218 30. J.T. Poston 1,193 31. Robert MacIntyre 1,191 32. Nicolai Højgaard 1,182 33. Kurt Kitayama 1,161 34. Bud Cauley 1,160 35. Aaron Rai 1,138 36. Ben Griffin 1,105 37. Sepp Straka 1,096 38. Michael Thorbjornsen 1,036 39. Justin Thomas 1,012 40. Jake Knapp 995 41. Nico Echavarria 942 42. Patrick Cantlay 932 43. Ryo Hisatsune 896 44. Sahith Theegala 891 45. Eric Cole 865 46. Alex Noren 859 47. Michael Brennan 857 48. Matt McCarty 838 49. Keith Mitchell 811 50. Maverick McNealy 806 51. Harris English 779 52. Max Homa 767 53. Sungjae Im 764 54. Jordan Spieth 762 55. Sam Stevens 741 56. Pierceson Coody 739 57. Sudarshan Yellamaraju 737 58. Harry Hall 733 50. Corey Conners 715 60. Daniel Berger 709 61. Michael Kim 695 62. Shane Lowry 670 63. Nick Taylor 646 64. Jordan Smith 627 65. Brian Harman 609 66. Patrick Rodgers 600 67. Aldrich Potgieter 591 68. Ricky Castillo 590 69. Matti Schmid 582 70. Jackson Koivun 581
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