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The PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs promise an exciting conclusion to the 2022/23 season as the highest 70 within the FedEx Cup standings compete within the opening FedEx St. Jude Championship earlier than that quantity is whittled right down to 50 for the BMW Championship, with simply 30 battling it out for the trophy at East Lake Golf Membership within the Tour Championship.
Nevertheless, whereas family names together with Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm are assured of their involvement, others discover themselves on the cusp of lacking out. Listed here are among the largest names at present beneath the lower off for the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Justin Thomas
Justin Thomas could miss the Tour Championship for the primary time in eight years (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
The largest title at risk of lacking out on the FedEx St. Jude Championship is Justin Thomas. It’s nonetheless lower than 15 months for the reason that American gained the PGA Championship for a second time, however he’s endured a droop in kind at simply the flawed time that sees him 9 locations beneath the lower off with simply the Wyndham Championship to salvage his possibilities.
There have been some encouraging outcomes for Thomas in 2023, together with fourth in February’s WM Phoenix Open, a T10 on the Valspar Championship and a T9 most not too long ago in June’s Vacationers Championship. In reality, although, encouraging performances have been few and much between for a participant who completed fourth in final yr’s Tour Championship.
Missed cuts in three of his final 4 begins, together with the penultimate event of the common season, the 3M Open, go away him in actual hazard of failing to qualify after the earlier seven years had seen him attain the Tour Championship. There’s extra potential disappointment on the horizon, too, with a spot within the Ryder Cup within the steadiness.
Shane Lowry
Shane Lowry’s good performances in three Majors is probably not sufficient for him to achieve the FedEx Cup Playoffs (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Three locations above Thomas within the standings in 76th is Shane Lowry. The 2019 Open champion failed to achieve final yr’s Tour Championship, however he performed his half within the two FedEx Cup Playoff tournaments that preceded it, ending T46 on the FedEx St. Jude Championship and T12 on the BMW Championship.
The Irishman has just one top-10 end within the 2022/23 season thus far, although – a T5 in February’s Honda Traditional.
Lowry accrued helpful hauls of FedEx Cup factors for his finishes in three of the Majors, with a T16 at The Masters, T12 on the PGA Championship and T20 on the US Open. Nevertheless, patchy kind elsewhere leaves him with work to do within the closing common occasion of the season, the Wyndham Championship.
Adam Scott
Adam Scott gained the Tour Championship in 2006, however he faces a tall order to repeat the feat 17 years on (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Former World No.1 Scott has had a number of brilliant spots within the 2022/23 season, together with a purple patch that included three top-10 finishes in 4 begins between Could’s Wells Fargo Championship and June’s Memorial Event at Muirfield Village.
The 2013 Masters champion additionally didn’t miss a lower till the US Open later that month, however one other adopted a number of weeks later, on the Genesis Scottish Open, to hurt his probabilities of reaching the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Standing in 81st with one event to play, the 2006 Tour Championship winner, who claimed the trophy the yr earlier than the FedEx Cup Playoffs have been established, might want to recuperate his finest kind to have an opportunity at repeating that achievement.
Billy Horschel
Billy Horschel is philosophical about his probabilities of reaching the FedEx Cup Playoffs (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
The American has been characteristically sincere about his poor kind in current months, however there have been encouraging indicators of restoration within the 3M Open, the place he completed T13.
At 116 within the FedEx Cup standings, the 2014 winner of the Tour Championship has lots to do to achieve the FedEx St. Jude Championship within the final event of the common season, however he seems philosophical whatever the end result at Sedgefield Nation Membership.
Earlier than the 3M Open, Horschel mentioned: “I am extra centered on making an attempt to get my recreation and get the sport again to the place I need it to be, get again to enjoying high quality golf, get again to being in rivalry to win tournaments. If I can try this these subsequent two weeks, hopefully I can qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs. As a result of clearly that also is my aim, however like a variety of guys, I am not too careworn about it.”
For the seven-time PGA Tour winner, then, it seems qualification could be a bonus after a troublesome season, with the general goal of recovering his finest kind in the long run.
Danny Willett
Regardless of a robust begin to the season Danny Willett faces an uphill activity to achieve the FedEx Cup Playoffs (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
The 2016 Masters champion’s PGA Tour season acquired off to a improbable begin with runner-up on the Fortinet Championship – sufficient to earn him a helpful 300 FedEx Cup factors, however Willett has did not scale these heights since.
Willett might want to end comfortably inside the highest 10 within the Wyndham Championship to achieve the highest 70 from his present standing of 83rd.
Nevertheless, since that efficiency at Silverado Resort and Spa in September, Willett has missed eight missed cuts with no extra prime 10 finishes, suggesting his probabilities of qualifying for the FedEx St. Jude Championship are slim.
Matt Wallace
Matt Wallace claimed his first PGA Tour victory in 2023, however he might nonetheless miss out on the season-ending Playoffs (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Between Thomas and Scott within the standings is Matt Wallace, in eightieth. The Englishman has loved most of his success on the DP World Tour with 4 wins together with the 2018 BMW Worldwide Open.
Nevertheless, 2023 introduced his first PGA Tour win, when he beat Dane Nicolai Hojgaard by one shot within the Punta Corales Championship. That got here instantly after a T7 within the Valspar Championship and appeared to arrange Wallace, who reached a career-high of twenty third on the planet rankings in 2019, for a profitable finish to the season.
It hasn’t fairly labored out, with six missed cuts in his final 12 begins, leaving him a way wanting reaching the FedEx Cup Playoffs for the primary time since 2021.
Gary Woodland
An detached season leaves Gary Woodland 97th within the FedEx Cup standings (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
The 2019 US Open winner has endured an detached season, with T9s within the Cadence Financial institution Houston Open and designated occasion the Genesis Invitational one of the best Woodland has produced.
Regardless of that, the American continues to be in with an opportunity of reaching the FedEx Cup Playoffs, however he’ll want to provide one thing particular within the Wyndham Championship having missed the lower within the penultimate event, the 3M Open.
Woodland goes into that event 97th within the standings, over 150 factors adrift of the present factors whole accrued by Austin Eckroat in seventieth. With 500 factors out there to the winner at Sedgefield Nation Membership, it’s not throughout for Woodland simply but, however the four-time PGA Tour winner will want a prime three end to have an opportunity.
Joel Dahmen
A run of missed cuts sees Joel Dahmen 82nd within the FedEx Cup standings (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Helped by a T10 within the US Open, the favored Dahmen reached the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, and there have been excessive hopes he would construct on that comparatively profitable season in 2023.
Sadly, although, it hasn’t fairly occurred for the American, regardless of gaining loads of new followers due to his starring position in Netflix docuseries Full Swing.
Three successive prime 10 finishes within the World Large Expertise Championship, Cadence Financial institution Houston Open and RSM Traditional in direction of the tip of 2022 appeared to set Dahmen up for a wonderful season, however his kind has dropped off significantly in current months. He has endured missed cuts in six of his final seven outings, leaving his place in jeopardy 12 spots adrift of the lower off with one event to play.
Alex Noren
Alex Noren is but to translate DP World Tour success to the PGA Tour (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Swede Noren has loved enormous success on the DP World Tour with 10 victories, however he’s but to make a big influence on the PGA Tour.
At 102 within the FedEx Cup standings, it appears to be like as if making the FedEx St. Jude Championship is a tall order. Nevertheless, Noren has confirmed glimpses of his finest kind in current weeks, together with a T9 within the Rocket Mortgage Traditional and a T13 within the 3M Open.
Can one final push see Noren sneak into the FedEx Cup Playoffs in his final try at Sedgefield Nation Membership? It’s not inconceivable, however is probably unlikely.