FedEx Cup 2023: Lucas Glover and Viktor Hovland have made their mark in two FedEx Cup Playoffs competitions. Glover surpassed the top 70 on the PGA Tour at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, while Hovland fired a 61 at the BMW Championship in Olympia Fields to surge past the top 50 in the playoffs. As the Tour travels to East Lake for the Tour Championship, both players have moved into the top five of the FedEx Cup standings.
The most noticeable change to this year’s playoffs is the increased field dimensions. While 30 has always been the number at the Tour Championship, the St. Jude Championship was reduced from 125 to 70 this year, and the BMW was lowered to 50. The top 50 in this year’s FedEx Cup automatically qualify for the eight small-field signature events on next year’s PGA Tour schedule, making the bubble watch for the next event even more intriguing than usual. As stated previously, the top 30 players advance to the Tour Championship.
FedEx Cup 2023: Details
Lucas Glover and Viktor Hovland have made their mark in two FedEx Cup Playoffs competitions. Glover surpassed the top 70 on the PGA Tour at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, while Hovland fired a 61 at the BMW Championship in Olympia Fields to surge past the top 50 in the playoffs. As the Tour travels to East Lake for the Tour Championship, both players have moved into the top five of the FedEx Cup standings.
The most noticeable change to this year’s playoffs is the increased field dimensions. While 30 has always been the number at the Tour Championship, the St. Jude Championship was reduced from 125 to 70 this year, and the BMW was lowered to 50. The top 50 in this year’s FedEx Cup automatically qualify for the eight small-field signature events on next year’s PGA Tour schedule, making the bubble watch for the next event even more intriguing than usual. As stated previously, the top 30 players advance to the Tour Championship.
FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule for 2023
All three tournaments are 72-hole stroke-play competitions, although the field size decreases as the semifinals progress. Additionally, the points alter as everything is quadrupled. In the majority of regular season tournaments, the victor receives 500 FedEx Cup points for finishing first; in a few tournaments, the winner receives 600 points. Instead of receiving 3,000 points, the champions of the first two FedEx Cup Playoffs events will receive 2,000 points each. The point increase applies to all positions on the leaderboard: 300 for second becomes 1,200, etc.
Only four golfers — Rahm, Scheffler, McIlroy, and Max Homa — surpassed 2,000 points during the entire regular season, so the FedEx Cup standings have already shifted significantly, despite the fact that these four golfers are still in the top six. Given that it is the postseason, winners receive disproportionately greater rewards.
This affords golfers like Glover the opportunity to go on a hot stretch and rocket up the FedEx Cup standings. After failing to crack the top 25 in the FedEx Cup standings all season, he is now in the top five with one tournament remaining. Everyone in the top 10 of the FedEx Cup rankings is in ideal position for the Tour Championship at East Lake, regardless of what else transpires. Similar to other sports, anything can happen now that the postseason has begun.
FedEx Cup 2023 standings
Once more, there was little change at the summit of the standings. Part of this is due to Rahm and Scheffler’s enormous 1 and 2 lead during the regular season, and part is due to the fact that the majority of the top 10 players in the FedEx Cup standings have performed well in the early stages of the playoffs.
Lucas Glover and Viktor Hovland have made their mark in two FedEx Cup Playoffs competitions. Glover surpassed the top 70 on the PGA Tour at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, while Hovland fired a 61 at the BMW Championship in Olympia Fields to surge past the top 50 in the playoffs. As the Tour travels to East Lake for the Tour Championship, both players have moved into the top five of the FedEx Cup standings.
The most noticeable change to this year’s playoffs is the increased field dimensions. While 30 has always been the number at the Tour Championship, the St. Jude Championship was reduced from 125 to 70 this year, and the BMW was lowered to 50. The top 50 in this year’s FedEx Cup automatically qualify for the eight small-field signature events on next year’s PGA Tour schedule, making the bubble watch for the next event even more intriguing than usual. As stated previously, the top 30 players advance to the Tour Championship.
The scores for the Tour Championship have been determined, and the top five have a tremendous advantage over the bottom five. Beating Scottie Scheffler is a formidable challenge. Now you must do so with him ahead by five, seven, or ten points to begin the week.
Every Tour Championship winner in the current format has begun Tour Championship week at 4 under or higher, with two of the eventual champions beginning the week at 10 under. Outside of the top 10, it’s unlikely that anyone will win this tournament and the $18 million first reward.
FedEx Cup playoffs are here and LIV Golf a lingering topic
Tour Championship format
Because of the scoring distribution, it is crucial to enter the Tour Championship within the top five or top ten of the FedEx Cup standings. After the BMW Championship, the FedEx Cup leader begins the Tour Championship at 10 under par, and the event is contested under standard scoring conditions thereafter. Second place begins at eight under, and so on (see complete numbers below).
When so much money is at stake (again, $18 million for first place), these margins become more significant than a typical week.
• 1st: -10
• 2nd: -8
• 3rd: -7
• 4th: -6
• 5th: -5
• 6th-10th: -4
• 11th-15th: -3
• 16th-20th: -2
• 21st-25th: -1
• 26th to 30th: 0
FedEx Cup Playoffs purse and prize money
1st: $3.6 million
2nd: $2,200,000
3rd: $1,4,000,000
4th: $960,000
5th: $800,000
6th: $720,000
7th: $670,000
8th: $620,000
9th: $580,000
10th: $540,000
Tour Championship purse and prize money for 2023
The numbers for the finale are astounding. The Tour Championship victor will receive $18 million. If you make it to the final FedEx Cup Playoff event, you are guaranteed $500,000 regardless of your finish. Here is a glimpse at the Tour Championship’s most lucrative top 10 finishers.
1st: $18,000,000
2nd: $6,500,000
3rd: $5,000,000
4th: $4,000,000
5th: $3,000,000
6th: $2,500,000
7th: $2,000,000
8th: $1,500,000
9th: $1,250,000
10th: $1,000,000
The previous year, McIlroy surmounted a six-stroke deficit at the beginning of the week and a five-stroke deficit at the beginning of the final day to defeat Scheffler by one stroke and earn an additional $11.5 million from him.
