Playoff of FedEx Cup start this week with the first 70 seats in the rankings, With the exception of Rory Mcilroyheading to Memfis for the FedEx St. Championship. Jude.
This three-week stretch used to culminate in a field of 30 men fighting for $ 100 million before price. But this year, PGA Tour has Changed how allocates the FedEx Cup Price Pool Dividing it into three sections. After last week’s Wynham championship, the tour paid $ 20 million in the top 10 places in the ranking. Scottie Scheffler earned $ 10m (plus $ 8m more from Top 10 Business Comcast). The tournament will deliver $ 23 million more in the top 30 places after the BMW championship, and the remaining $ 57.08 million will be ready for Grabs at the Tour championship in East Lake.
But enough for filling the wallets.
Playoffs FedEx Cup have some subplots to pay attention outside who adds more zero to their bank account.
We start with the most pressing topic:
Ryder Cup closing arguments
Since Mcilroy completed the Grand Slam career in Masters, players on both tournaments have collided with the same questions About the event approaching over 2025: Ryder Cup.
This other three-week stretch can serve as a major closing argument for players seeking the choice of a captain. Likewise, poor game can help remove them from consideration.
Team Europe seems to be mainly located. Eleven of the 12 points feel located, and with both rasmus and Nicolai Hojgaard missing on FedEx Cup Play off, Captain Luke Donald should only be tuned if Harry Hall, Aaron Rai or Thomas Detry get hot and try to start the door.
Things are different for Team USA.
Captain Keegan Bradley’s team has what feels like two to three points for capture.
Cameron Young, who just won the Wynham championshipAnd Chris Gotterup, who gained the Scottish Open, are trying to make elbows on their way to stalwarts like Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay. Continuing the stellar game from Young or Gotterup to Play off can help give them an advantage over some of the other bubble boys.
Spieth is an interesting case. If you remove the name, see a player who has only three Top 10 this season and does not rank within 15 best in any of the true strokes won category in data golf. And yet, he feels like spieth can unite a good week in Memfis and support him in BMW, he can strengthen his issue to be in the team.
However, the biggest sign of the question Ryder Cup comes in the form of Bradley and the dilemma he has created for himself.
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After Bradley won the travelers, he felt like he was a lock to be the first captain to play from Arnold Palmer. But since that win at TPC River Highlands, Bradley has gone T41-T30-cut and no longer feels like a choice in stone. If Bradley continues to play Golf Subpar in Play off, it can allow him to get himself out of the equation and open a place for young people, gotterup or someone else.
Playoffs also offer an opportunity for someone like WynDham Clark or Brian Harman to heat up and knock an event or two and put themselves more in the discussion.
Big names at risk of main interruption
The 70 leading players made him in Memfis, but some of the most popular sports players are in danger not to make it TPC Southwind.
Spieth (No. 48), Clark (No. 49), Tony Finau (No. 60) and Rickie Fowler (No. 63) are all or in top-50 bubble. The first 50 after this week will win points in all next year’s signature events. Those who will not have to rely on exceptions from the sponsor or try to play their way through the route of Aon.
By Pgatour.comFowler needs at least A two-sided tie for 17 this week to ride in the top 50 places. Finau needs a two-sided tie for the 20th to a minimum. Spieth and Clark can theoretically violate water and survive, but they are likely to have to do something more to keep Fowler, Finau and others behind them who are trying to dance them and get into exclusive events, with great money next season.
Could Xander Schauffle end up?
One year after winning two degrees, Xander Schauffle season is ruined by disappointment.
An injury to the ribs dedicated to him the first two months, and he has tried to grind bad habits from his oscillation since then. In the player championship, Schauffle and coach Chris Como spent a long time after every round of the weekend to return to the desired feeling of shaking.
At Genesis Scottish Open, Schauffle acknowledged that anger was his main emotion on the course this year as he continues to control at a pace that needed little polishing last year.
“Attempting to get into a kind of quarrel to try and feel something again, besides creepy,” Schauffe said of his two-week breeze in the UK “I think I was angry-this is like being the biggest emotion of this is frustra humble.
“What would make me really happy is that I can just play freely,” Schauffle said. “I think the obstacles of trying to play really good golf and then play bad golf and then just getting rubbing all day are really what pushes me nuts. That’s why we love the game, but it’s what they are crazy.
Can Schauffle, who has great history in the East Lake tour championship, save a lost season?
So what’s with Collin Morikawa?
It has been a strange year for world no. 6.
Morikawa opened the season with racing endings in Sentry and Arnold Palmer Invitational.
But since the player championship in mid-March, Morikawa has only a Top-10 conclusion, which was a T8 at Rocket Classic.
Since the masters, Morikawa has shared ways with long caddy Jakovac, hired Joe Grierener, fired Joe Griener, changed putters, changed putters again, hired Billy Foster for a two-week blow, entered a Tift with the media and is now closing in two years without a win.
Morikawa remains one of the best PGA Tour players. He ranks fifth this season in the wins: access and is 10th outside. But it ranks 129th in placement and 89 around green.
Big champion twice has asked for something Since Russell Henley tracked him Sunday at Arnold Palmer Invitational. He said he wanted to take more ownership of his game, he wanted a new feeling with putter and he played pieces of rounds without gloves to find a better feeling with his shackles.
Is that search approaching an end? Or just the beginning?
Does Scottie end with a bang?
Mcilroy owned the first part of the season, but even the big winner five times admits that his three -wins running came when Scheffler was still trying to return to full strength after suffering a puncture wound in his right hand.
However, since a T20 in players who had Scheffler being fuming at the weekend, he is not worse than T8 in 11 starts. This includes four wins and two degrees. Scheffler just Left the field in the open championship. His competitive car will undoubtedly have what he wants to finish the season with an extraordinary statement that can help secure that player price of the year. He will be the favorite at every Play off event, including in the tour championship where…
Initial shocks are gone
That’s right. PGA Tour, in a concert with the best players like Scheffler, has completed her six-year-old era of giving players who begin shocks corresponding to their rank of Play off FedEx Cup. The season’s final will be a stroke event with 72 holes with everyone starting in even.
The tournament has also said it plans to make the course more difficult after receiving feedback from fans. Sean Zak detailed how they plan to do that here.
The PGA Tour has passed nearly two decades trying to find the right formula for the tour championship. Stroke Starting did not work. There was no winner of the tournament and a FedEx Cup winner both raised the trophies to the green 18. We will see if these changes help, hurt or do little to move the needle.
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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached in Josho.schrock@golf.com.

