The Wyndham Championship has a humorous approach of setting the desk for the FedEx Cup playoffs.
In 2023, Lucas Glover received the regular-season finale to leap from exterior the highest 110 within the factors race into the playoffs. He capitalized by successful the very subsequent week within the playoff opener in Memphis.
The yr prior, Tom Kim of South Korea introduced himself by successful the Wyndham at 21 years previous to qualify for the playoffs.
Some big-name gamers want to be a part of that record on the 2025 Wyndham Championship starting Thursday at Sedgefield Nation Membership in Greensboro, N.C.
The highest 70 gamers within the FedEx Cup standings after this week will qualify for the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis. The present No. 70 is Matti Schmid of Germany; some notable names proper behind him embody Danish teenager Nicolai Hojgaard, Keith Mitchell, Chris Kirk and Gary Woodland.
Australian veteran Adam Scott finds himself eighty fifth within the standings and needing a really excessive end to leap into the highest 70.
“I really feel like my sport’s been fairly good since Could so I must be on the entrance foot just a little bit, I am unable to be sitting again ready for it to occur,” Scott stated. “I’ve bought a few days to place myself in rivalry for the weekend. Yeah, I really feel assured with my sport that I can try this. It is about executing.”
Scott referred to as Sedgefield “one of many nice tracks on tour.” The course has hosted this occasion since 2008. A par-70, it’s going to play 7,131 yards lengthy this week and check the sector with its small greens.
Scott was in a six-man playoff right here in 2021, received by Kevin Kisner. It was tied for the most important playoff in PGA Tour historical past.
“It could be enjoyable to be within the combine this weekend, and in addition I nonetheless have some open wounds from a number of years in the past in that playoff so it could be enjoyable to vary that,” Scott stated.
Tony Finau (No. 60) and Rickie Fowler (No. 61) aren’t assured to make the playoffs, so that they’re taking part in this week to be able to maximize their distance from the cutoff line.
Finau and Fowler are additionally Ryder Cup veterans, and there are only some alternatives left to impress U.S. captain Keegan Bradley, who has six captain’s picks to make this fall.
There is a plethora of contemporary faces Bradley might think about who’ve had higher seasons than Finau and Fowler. Take Ben Griffin, at the moment ninth within the U.S. workforce qualifying standings. Griffin picked up his first two PGA Tour victories this spring and sits seventh within the FedEx Cup race, the best of anybody within the Wyndham area.
“I really feel like (the Ryder Cup) talked about each single day, so like, it is all the time on my thoughts whether or not I would like it to be or not,” stated Griffin, a local of close by Chapel Hill, N.C. “… If I simply do the suitable issues every week, and this week specifically if I play rather well and simply deal with successful, the byproduct of that is going to be making the Ryder Cup workforce, and similar with every week within the playoffs. The extra I type of take a look at rankings or no matter, it is not going to assist me.”
One other Ryder Cup veteran hopeful his sport is rounding into kind on the proper time, Jordan Spieth is a giant fan of the August calendar forward, beginning this week.
“It is one of many higher tracks that we play all yr,” stated Spieth. “Additionally, as we sit up for subsequent week, first playoff occasion, there’s loads of similarities on this grainy bermuda and stuff like that.”
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