There’s no more margin for error on the PGA Tour and the Korn Ferry Tour to make the postseason.
Both Tours will wrap up their playoff fields in the next two weeks, the PGA Tour concluding the regular-season FedEx Cup season beginning on Thursday with the Wyndham Championship at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C.; and Korn Ferry Tour players have only two more shots at moving on, this week’s Pinnacle Bank Championship in Omaha, Neb., and next week’s Magnit Championship in Jackson Township, N.J.
The top-70 on the FedEx Cup points list will advance to the FedEx St. Jude Championship Aug. 15-18 at TPC Southwind near Memphis. The top-156 players on the Korn Ferry points list after the Jersey event will make the first round of the Korn Ferry Finals Aug. 22-25 at the Albertson’s Boise Open.
How do the PGA Tour, Korn Ferry Tour playoff systems work?
The PGA Tour pares the FedEx playoffs field to the top-50 after St. Jude to play at the BMW Championship the following week at Castle Rock, Colo. The top-30 after that make the Tour Championship in Atlanta Aug. 29-Sept. 1.
The Korn Ferry cutoff at Boise will be the top 144 for the Simmons Bank Open Sept. 12-15 in Franklin, Tenn., the top 120 for the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship Sept. 19-22 in Columbus, Ohio and the top 75 for the Korn Ferry Championship Oct. 3-6 in French Lick, Ind.
Who’s in danger of missing the FedEx Cup playoffs?
One of the biggest names on the outside of the top 70 entering the week is defending Wyndham champion Lucas Glover, who is 76th on the points list, 17 points behind Victor Perez on the bubble (Perez is 71st but another spot will be added to replace the late Grayson Murray, who is still 57th on the points list).
A reminder about Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open champion: He went on a hot streak last year beginning with his victory at Sedgefield. He the won at Southwind the following week and finished fifth in the final FedEx Cup standings.
But he’s struggling right now. Glover doesn’t have a top 10 finish this season (he had three in four starts prior to Greensboro last season) and has missed four of his last six cuts.
Other past PGA Tour winners with work to do this week are Kurt Kitiyama (No. 74), Luke List (No. 75), Keith Mitchell (No. 79) and Matt Kuchar (No. 111). Kuchar has the longest active streak of making the PGA Tour’s postseason at 17 years in a row — the only player to have reached the FedEx Cup Playoffs every year since it began in 2007.
What’s going on with LIV Golf?
The LIV Golf League is inactive this week but its tournament Aug. 16-18 at the Greenbrier Old White Course in West Virginia should continue a showdown between the top two teams, Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers and Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII.
Rahm’s team is 15.5 points behind DeChambeau’s with the Greenbrier and LIV Chicago Sept. 13-15 remaining before the LIV Team Championship Sept. 21-22 near Dallas. The Rippers (captained by Cameron Smith of Ponte Vedra Beach) and Torque (captained by individual points leader Joaquin Niemann) are within mathematical striking distance of the Crushers.
Niemann has a 14.23-point lead in the individual standings over Rahm, who won his first LIV event three weeks ago and has finished among the top 10 in all 10 starts this season.
PGA Tour: Greensboro is Last Chance Gulch
Event: Wyndham Championship, Thursday-Sunday, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N.C.
What’s the purse? $7.9 million ($1,422,000 and 500 FedEx Cup points to the winner.
Who won last year? Lucas Glover went deep with a 62 in the third round and beat Russell Henley and Byeong Hun An by two shots.
How to watch on TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 3-6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m.); CBS (Saturday-Sunday, 3-6 p.m.).
Area players entered: Tyson Alexander, Bud Cauley, Adrien Dumond de Chassart, Nico Echavarria, Harris English, Ben Griffin, Brian Harman, Billy Horschel, Zach Johnson, Patton Kizzire, Keith Mitchell, Andrew Novak, J.T. Poston, Greyson Sigg, Davis Thompson, Carl Yuan.
Notable: Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry and Nicolai Hojgaard lead the field. … Sungjae Im at No. 9 and Lowry at No. 10 are the highest-ranked players on the FedEx Cup points list playing at Sedgefield. … Nine-time PGA Tour winner Brandt Snedeker was named the 27th Payne Stewart Award winner and will be honored at the Southern Exchange in Atlanta on Aug. 27, two days before the first round of the Tour Championship at East Lake. Snedeker, the 2012 FedEx Cup champion, launched the Snedeker Foundation shortly after that victory. It has supported youth initiatives in Middle Tennessee, such as Our Kids, which provides medical evaluations and crisis counseling services in response to concerns of child sexual abuse. … The Tour announced this week that the title sponsor for its event in Charlotte, N.C., will be Truist, a financial company based in Charlotte. The 2025 Truist Championship will be May 8-11 at the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course, because of the PGA Championship being played at Quail Hollow a week later. The tournament returns to Charlotte in 2026.
LPGA Tour: Nelly Korda goes after second gold medal
Event: Olympic Women’s Golf, Thursday-Sunday, Le Golf National, Paris.
What’s the purse? No purse.
