After this week’s Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland and the Barracuda Championship in Trucklee, Calif., there are only two regular-season FedEx Cup events left: the 3M Championship July 25-28 at the TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minn., and the Wyndham Championship Aug. 8-11 in Greensboro, N.C.
But the PGA Tour announced its lifeline on Tuesday for players who have run out of starts and time to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
For the second year in a row, the Tour will hold its FedEx Cup Fall competition, with eight official Tour events giving players that many more chances to squeeze into the top 125 on the points list and keep their Tour cards for the 2025 season.
Also at stake is a spot in the 2025 Players Championship and status for other full-field events.
FedEx Cup Fall includes three international stops
FedEx Cup Fall begins on Sept. 12-15 with the Napa Valley Golf Championship. After a two-week break for the Presidents Cup, the Fall schedule resumes with tournaments in Jackson, Miss., Utah, Las Vegas, Japan, Mexico and Bermuda before the season ends with the RSM Classic at the Sea Island Club on St. Simons Island, Ga., Nov. 21-24.
The inaugural Black Desert Championship (Oct. 7-13) will be the first PGA Tour event in Utah since 1963. It will be played at the Black Desert Resort, the final co-design (with Phil Smith) by the late Tom Weiskopf before he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in June.
The RSM Classic was the coming-out party for Ludvig Åberg, who set the tournament scoring record and tied the PGA Tour’s 72-hole scoring record at 29-under-par 253 to become the first player to get his card through the PGA Tour University rankings and win in the same season.
Players can chase Signature Event status
The top 70 on the points list will advance to the FedEx Cup Playoff opener, the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis Sept. 15-18. The top 50 after that advance to the BMW Championship Sept. 22-25 at Castle Pines in Colorado and the top 30 will then qualify for the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta.
The players who qualify for the first leg of the playoffs are exempt for the 2025 season. Those who reach the BMW Championship are exempt for all Signature Events in 2025.
Those ranked 51st and beyond can carry their points over to FedEx Cup Fall. The finishers between Nos. 51-60 will qualify for the first two Signature Events next season, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Genesis Invitational.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: RSM Classic at Sea Island will again anchor PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Fall
