PGA Tour execs preventing with 3 occasions to go in FedEx Cup Fall

After Collin Morikawa received the ZOZO Championship in dominant vogue, the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Fall takes a hiatus earlier than three occasions in November wrap up the season.

These three tournaments are listed beneath:

• Worldwide Applied sciences Championship – Los Cabos, Mexico – Nov. 2-5
• Butterfield Bermuda Championship – Southampton, Bermuda – Nov. 9-12
• RSM Basic – St. Simons Island, Georgia – Nov. 16-19

After these three occasions, these gamers ranked 51st to sixtieth within the FedEx Cup Fall rankings will obtain an invite to play within the first two ‘Signature Occasions’ of the 2024 PGA Tour season.

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The AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am and the Genesis Invitational are the primary two signature occasions that these gamers can acquire entry to in 2024. These tournaments will embody the high 50 gamers within the 2023 FedEx Cup standings and have elevated purses, which may change a golfer’s profession trajectory.

With that in thoughts, let’s try the present rankings as we at the moment are previous the halfway level of the FedEx Cup Fall season:

51. Beau Hossler

52. Taylor Montgomery

53. Nick Hardy

54. Ben Griffin

55. Alex Smalley

56. J.J. Spaun

57. Mackenzie Hughes

58. Stephan Jaeger

59. Luke Record

60. Thomas Detry

Beau Hossler has performed nicely by the Fall sequence, making the reduce in any respect 4 occasions to this point. He tied for seventh on the Shriners Kids’s Open after which completed in a tie for 2nd on the ZOZO. The previous Texas Longhorn has all however locked up a spot within the Signature Occasions subsequent season.

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J.J. Spaun additionally performed nicely in Japan, ending in a tie for sixth. That propelled him into the highest 10 within the FedEx Cup Fall, as he was on the surface trying in earlier than the ZOZO Championship.

Let’s check out the next 10 gamers preventing to get into that elusive 51-to-60 vary:

61. Mark Hubbard

62. Davis Riley

63. Sam Ryder

64. S.H. Kim

65. Brandon Wu

66. Matt Kuchar

67. Hayden Buckley

68. Keith Mitchell

69. Aaron Rai

70. Matt NeSmith

Sam Ryder entered final week because the sixtieth ranked participant, however the former Stetson Hatter completed the ZOZO Championship at 7-over par—in a tie for sixty fourth. That poor efficiency dropped him out of the highest 10, at the very least for now.

Matt Kuchar, in the meantime, has not performed for the reason that Fortinet Championship, the place he tied for seventh.

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Different notables exterior the highest 60 embody Justin Thomas and Joel Dahmen, ranked 72nd and 76th within the FedEx Cup standings, respectively.

However Thomas and Dahmen aren’t at risk of dropping their PGA Tour playing cards altogether.

These gamers ranked past a hundred and twenty fifth, nonetheless, may lose their PGA Tour membership.

The highest 125 gamers within the FedEx Cup Fall rankings earn PGA Tour playing cards for 2024, that means dozens of gamers are preventing for his or her careers. Ought to a participant end exterior of the highest 125, they will play on the DP World Tour in 2024, as new exemption classes for these gamers had been introduced Monday.

Listed here are the ten gamers ranked from 116th to a hundred and twenty fifth within the FedEx Cup Fall:

116. Ben Martin

117. Henrik Norlander

118. Andrew Novak

119. Peter Malnati

120. Nico Echavarria

121. Maverick McNealy

122. Chesson Hadley

123. Doug Ghim

124. C.T. Pan

125. Erik van Rooyen

van Rooyen, who hails from South Africa, most just lately tied for twenty third on the Shriners Kids’s Open. The 33-year-old holds onto the elusive a hundred and twenty fifth spot by a dozen factors over Zecheng Dou, who’s one among many gamers on the surface trying in:

126. Zecheng Dou

127. Cameron Champ

128. MJ Daffue

129. Jimmy Walker

130. Patton Kizzire

131. Harrison Endycott

132. Austin Smotherman

133. Carl Yuan

134. Scott Piercy

135. Trey Mullinax

Notably, the highest 150 finishers within the FedEx Cup Fall earn conditional PGA Tour standing for 2024. However, anybody who fails to make the highest 125 will seemingly be relegated to the Korn Ferry Tour or choose to play on the DP World Tour as a substitute.

So although November might be thought of golf’s “low season,” there’s by no means a time throughout the yr when the game fails to entertain.

The ultimate three occasions of the FedEx Cup Fall will produce great drama and alter the lives of dozens {of professional} golfers for higher or worse.

Examine again with Enjoying By because the standings are finalized.

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By. You possibly can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Be sure you try @_PlayingThrough too.