Main season is formally over.
Now, it’s almost playoff time.
This week’s 3M Open is the penultimate occasion earlier than the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Playoffs start in two weeks in Memphis, which implies gamers have two tournaments, together with subsequent week’s Wyndham Championship, to enhance their locations within the FedExCup standings.
There are a number of races to regulate:
• Prime 70 – qualify for FedExCup Playoffs
• Prime 50 – exempt into subsequent 12 months’s signature occasions (following conclusion of 70-man FedEx St. Jude Invitational)
• Prime 30 – qualify for Tour Championship (following conclusion of 50-man BMW Championship)
• Prime 125 – preserve full membership on Tour (following conclusion of fall sequence)
At present, the FedExCup high 50 contains 17 gamers who didn’t end within the high 50 final season. That’s a 34% churn from a 12 months in the past, proper on the low finish of the Tour’s projection. After all, the 17 gamers who’re churning in as of now embody simply three gamers who started the season within the reorder class (No. 16 Matthieu Pavon, No. 17 Bob MacIntyre and No. 46 Jake Knapp) with Knapp being the one Korn Ferry Tour graduate.
Talking of KFT grads, Knapp is the one one presently inside the highest 70, and simply 13 of the 35 KFT/Q-Faculty guys would hold their playing cards if the season ended at present.
Within the 3M area are 14 gamers presently within the high 50. Additionally within the area are 11 top-50 guys from a season in the past who presently discover themselves exterior the highest 50 – Patrick Rodgers (51), Justin Rose (52), Taylor Moore (61), Seamus Energy (65), Emiliano Grillo (66), Lucas Glover (71), Lee Hodges (72), Andrew Putnam (73), Adam Schenk (74), Kurt Kitayama (77) and Adam Svensson (78).
Here’s a have a look at the 3M opponents across the high 50-bubble:
45. Cam Davis
46. Knapp
48. Austin Eckroat
50. Mac Hughes
51. Rodgers
52. Rose
56. Erik van Rooyen
57. Peter Malnati
58. Ben Griffin
Here’s a have a look at the 3M opponents across the top-70 bubble:
65. Energy
66. Grillo
67. Mav McNealy
69. Davis Riley
70. Luke Record
71. Glover
72. Hodges
73. Putnam
74. Schenk
75. Keith Mitchell
