Thomas, Lowry, Scott… Big names who might miss the FedEx Cup Playoffs
It’s the final week of the PGA Tour season, and there are big names that could miss the FedEx Cup Playoffs…
Justin Thomas, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott – just some of the names that could miss the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
This week sees the last tournament of the regular season on the PGA Tour, the Wyndham Championship, and there are plenty of big guns sitting outside the top 70 in the standings.
Five hundred points are on offer for the winner this week, meaning players all the way down to 191st are mathematically still in with a shot of making the playoffs.
Who could miss out on making the FedEx Cup Playoffs?
Only the top 70 players following this week’s event at Sedgefield Country Club will make it into the FedEx St Jude Championship.
That’s the first of three events in the FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule, followed by the BMW Championship, and the Tour Championship at East Lake in late August.
Austin Eckroat is currently the man in 70th place in the FedEx Cup standings. He has 594 points this season, just two more than Ben Taylor, who is outside the top 70.
Two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas is arguably the biggest name that could miss out.
Thomas has had his struggles this season, culminating in the American shooting 82 in the first round of The Open at Royal Liverpool.
He is 79th in the FedEx Cup standings, but remains within 50 points of the top 70.
Irishman Shane Lowry, the 2019 Open Champion, is three places above Thomas in the standings. Matt Wallace, Adam Scott, Joel Dahmen and Danny Willett are also within 100 points of the top 70.
Players close to the cut line for the top 70
60: Sam Stevens – 670 FedEx Cup points
61: Aaron Rai – 670
62: Sam Ryder – 660
63: Beau Hossler – 658
64: Stephen Jaeger – 641
65: Matt NeSmith – 637
66: Vincent Norrman – 631
67: J.J. Spaun – 619
68: Ben Griffin – 617
69: Cam Davis – 605
70: Austin Eckroat – 594
Notable players outside the top 70
71: Ben Taylor – 592 (-2)
72: Garrick Higgo – 586 (-8)
76: Shane Lowry – 556 (-38)
79: Justin Thomas – 546 (-48)
80: Matt Wallace – 538 (-56)
81: Adam Scott – 517 (-77)
82: Joel Dahmen – 515 (-79)
83: Danny Willett – 511 (-83)
97: Gary Woodland – 436 (-158)
99: Akshay Bhatia – 435 (-159)
102: Alex Noren – 422 (-172)
116: Billy Horschel – 350 (-244)
122: Jimmy Walker – 294 (-300)
151: Zach Johnson – 196 (-398)
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Matt Coles
Mention a European country, and Matt will tell you which resorts make the National Club Golfer Top 100s: European Resorts list. He might even throw in who designed the golf course and how many rooms the hotel has got at each one…
Matt got into the game of golf from a young age, following his old man to the local golf club. He fell for the sport, and now can’t seem to go a day without thinking about how to improve his game (Thanks Dad!). Matt has been a member of Howley Hall GC in Leeds since 2020, and is just about managing to maintain a single-figure handicap. He likes to remind people that he once broke 75, but won’t tell people that it was on a shortened course during the winter.
He moved to Leeds after graduating from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class Honours degree in Sports Journalism. Matt joined NCG after almost five years travelling the world with the Professional Squash Association, working on events in all four corners of the globe.
Matt currently plays a Cobra King LTDx driver and RadSpeed 3-wood. TaylorMade monopolise the rest of his bag, with a SIM UDI, M5 irons and both Milled Grind and HI-TOE wedges, along with a Monza Redline putter. He uses a Vice Pro Plus golf ball, because he’s a bit different…
Away from golf, Matt is a Manchester United fan, and a keen runner, having ran the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon (his first and possibly last), in May 2023.
