Aug 6, 2023; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA; Lucas Glover performs from the 2nd tee throughout the last spherical of the Wyndham Championship golf match. Necessary Credit score: David Yeazell-Imagn Photos The Wyndham Championship has a humorous method of setting the desk for the FedEx Cup playoffs.
In 2023, Lucas Glover received the regular-season finale to leap from outdoors 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The 12 months prior, Tom Kim of South Korea introduced himself by successful the Wyndham at 21 years outdated to qualify for the playoffs.
Some big-name gamers wish to be a part of that listing 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 embrace 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 recreation’s been fairly good since Might so I have to be on the entrance foot a bit bit, I am unable to be sitting again ready for it to occur,” Scott mentioned. “I’ve bought a few days to place myself in rivalry for the weekend. Yeah, I really feel assured with my recreation that I can do 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 would play 7,131 yards lengthy this week and take a look at the sphere with its small greens.
Scott was in a six-man playoff right here in 2021, received by Kevin Kisner. It was tied for the biggest playoff in PGA Tour historical past.
“It might be enjoyable to be within the combine this weekend, and likewise I nonetheless have some open wounds from a couple of years in the past in that playoff so it could be enjoyable to alter that,” Scott mentioned.
Tony Finau (No. 60) and Rickie Fowler (No. 61) are usually not assured to make the playoffs, in order 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 just a few alternatives left to impress U.S. captain Keegan Bradley, who has six captain’s picks to make this fall.
There is a plethora of recent faces Bradley may contemplate who’ve had higher seasons than Finau and Fowler. Take Ben Griffin, presently ninth within the U.S. staff 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 discipline.
“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,” mentioned Griffin, a local of close by Chapel Hill, N.C. “… If I simply do the correct issues every week, and this week particularly if I play very well and simply deal with successful, the byproduct of that is going to be making the Ryder Cup staff, and similar with every week within the playoffs. The extra I sort of take a look at rankings or no matter, it is not going to assist me.”
One other Ryder Cup veteran hopeful his recreation 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 12 months,” mentioned Spieth. “Additionally, as we sit up for subsequent week, first playoff occasion, there’s a whole lot of similarities on this grainy bermuda and stuff like that.”
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