Rory Mcilroy is standing true with his word from last year and will not participate next week Playoffs FedEx Cup Opening.
List of commitments (based on last week ranking FedEx Cup) for the next week FedEx St. Jude Classic, the first of the three events of Play off to end the regular season of PGA Tour, and Mcilroy’s name is not in it.
Mcilroy’s decision to overcome the first event of the Play off does not mean much to his chances in FedEx Cup title While he is guaranteed to make the tour championship in East Lake, despite his Memfis or BMW championship results next week. Mcilroy is second in ranking after three wins, including mastersAt the beginning of this season and he is nearly 850 points ahead of Sepp Straka in third place.
Of the 70 leading players in ranking qualifying on Play off, Mcilroy, who has not played Since a T7 in last month’s open championshipIt’s the only player who chooses to pass the opening.
The Slam winner now opened with a 68 last year at Southwind TPC only to support the rest of the week and finish T68 (second for the last), but only without its long season ranking in FedEx Cup fall from third to fifth. At the end of last year, he said UK telegraph That he would “probably not play” in the opening of the Play off this season, as he intended to reduce his schedule.
“I probably won’t play the first play-off event in Memfis,” Mcilroy told TELEGRAPH in November. “I mean, I finished essentially dead last there this year (tied for 68 in a field of 70 men), and moved only to one place in the Play-off rankings.”
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In that interview, Mcilroy also called Cogizant Classic, Valero Texas Open and RBC Heritage as an event he played in 2024 that he was likely not to do in 2025 and all three events did not make his schedule this season. Assuming that Mcilroy plays both BMW and tourist championships, he will make 16 startups this season, three less than a year ago after adding Houston to Texas Open’s children for the first time since 2014.
Mcilroy has also not achieved very well in his career at Southwind TPC.
His best conclusion came in 2023 when he shot a 65 last round to win a solo third -place finish, but he lost the cut a year before this in the first event as a play off event. He has never won in Memfis in eight attempts.
There is also a precedent for Mcilroy by bypassing the first event of FedEx Cup Play off, though this is the first time he did it after the Play -off was truncated from four events to three. He chose from Northern Trust in 2018 and Barclays in 2015.
This is the first year of New FedEx Cup Bonus Structure of PGA Tour, Which places much more emphasis on the regular season, compared to sharing rewards based on Tour championship results. Based on his second place position in the FedEx Cup rankings, Mcilroy is already set to earn $ 4 million based on the completion of the regular season in the second and an additional $ 6 million from the Comcast Business Top 10.
