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An exciting first leg of the 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs is in the book as Lucas Glover downed Patrick Cantlay in a playoff to win his second straight PGA Tour event. This with Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and a host of other premier golfers breathing down Glover’s back at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis over.
The win rockets Glover all the way up to fourth in the FedEx Cup standings behind only Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and McIlroy entering the final two playoff events, the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields and the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.
The big change to the playoffs this year is the field size. Glover took down a field of 70 at TPC Southwind, and only the top 50 in the FedEx Cup advanced to the BMW Championship where only the top 30 from that tournament will move on to the Tour Championship. There’s an even bigger prize, however, as 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.
2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule
|
FedEx St. Jude Championship |
Aug. 10-13 |
Memphis, Tenn. |
TPC Southwind |
70 | Lucas Glover |
|
BMW Championship |
Aug. 17-20 |
Olympia Fields, Ill. |
Olympia Fields |
50 | |
|
Tour Championship |
Aug. 24-27 |
Atlanta, Ga. |
East Lake Golf Club |
30 |
All three events are 72-hole, stroke-play tournaments, though the fields gradually get smaller as the playoffs roll on. The points change, too, as everything is quadrupled. During regular season events, most winners receive 500 FedEx Cup points for finishing first at tournaments (in a handful of events, 600 points went to first place). The winners of the first two FedEx Cup Playoffs events will instead receive 2,000 points each. The point boost goes for every slot on the leaderboard: 300 for second becomes 1,200 and so on.
Only four golfers — Rahm, Scheffler, McIlroy and Max Homa — surpassed the 2,000-point total during the…
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