2025 FedEx Cup standings: Rickie Fowler performs approach into BMW Championship, Jordan Spieth falls out of playoffs

The primary FedEx Cup Playoffs occasion of the postseason noticed Justin Rose reign supreme over J.J. Spaun in a dramatic playoff at the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship, however that isn’t the place the drama ended Sunday at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. Whereas eyes have been locked on the highest of the leaderboard, well-known names have been duking it out close to the underside as those that compiled sufficient factors to complete the weekend inside the highest 50 of the FedEx Cup standings certified for subsequent week’s BMW Championship and prolonged their seasons.

The highest 50 not solely serves as a cut-off to proceed within the postseason but it surely a qualifier for the next yr’s signature occasions. Those that made their approach into the BMW Championship concurrently certified for all eight signature occasions the place elevated purses and elevated FedEx Cup factors are awarded, giving gamers a built-in moat round which to construct their 2026 schedule.

“Nicely, being that I obtained a handful of spots this yr, which I am extremely grateful for, sadly I actually did not reap the benefits of lots of these alternatives up till Jack’s occasion,” stated Rickie Fowler, who climbed inside the highest 50 because of a T6 end on the St. Jude Championship. “Did not play that properly in any of them. These elevated fields and possibly some extra factors, I did not actually get them. 

“But it surely was nice to have a tee time in them this yr, and did not actually wish to financial institution on that for subsequent yr. Yeah, good to be able the place we’ll be capable of be again in these and never have to jot down notes and calls and ask for favors.”

Let’s check out how those that have been on the bubble fared this week in Memphis. Take a look at the updated top 30 of the FedEx Cup standings, those that would qualify for the Tour Championship if they continue to be of their spots subsequent week.

Gamers who moved inside the highest 50

Fowler was the largest mover of the week as the previous Gamers Championship winner went from barely inside the highest 70 to simply inside the highest 50 … however being inside that quantity is all that issues. His T6 end — doubling for his finest results of the season — couldn’t have come at a greater time given the elevated FedEx Cup factors accessible. Fowler missed the playoffs fully in 2024.

In the meantime, Vegas was teetering on the bubble late and regarded like he was going to sadly fall on the fallacious aspect. After 4 bogeys in his first 10 holes Sunday, he performed his closing eight holes in 3 underneath to punch his ticket into subsequent week. He’ll now attempt to play himself inside the highest 30 and qualify for the Tour Championship for the primary time since 2017.

“It was a struggle. It was one of many hardest rounds of the yr I’d say,” he stated. “Did not really feel nice bodily. It has been an extended week, warmth, all of it. Did not really feel 100%. I began form of shaky the primary six holes. I knew that my finest wasn’t on the market, so I simply needed to struggle, and I needed to get my thoughts in the appropriate body. 

“Fortunately, [I] was in a position to do this and switch round and make some nice birdies on 7 and eight that form of obtained the ship pointed the appropriate path. But it surely was a struggle all the best way. I knew it was going to be that approach at present. That is form of what this time of the yr is all about. you are going to should sweat it out out right here.”

Gamers who moved outdoors the highest 50

Some critical star energy might be left on the sideline for the final two weeks of the playoffs as Potgieter fell simply shy of knocking his approach into the BMW Championship subject. The South African was the lone rookie to make the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and never even a birdie on his closing gap was sufficient to increase his season.

Sadly, main champions like Spieth and Clark fell on the fallacious aspect of the quantity, too. Spieth was battling the bubble for many of Sunday earlier than his second shot into his 72nd gap discovered the water and in the end sunk his probabilities. The three-time main champion will miss out on the BMW Championship for the second straight season, whereas Clark will miss the season finale after finishes of solo eighth and solo third the final two years.

Lee entered the week as the bubble boy, and he rapidly gave these on the surface trying in some hope when his identify fell to the underside of the leaderboard Thursday. He by no means obtained airborne at TPC Southwind and performed his closing spherical of the yr in 2 hours and 10 minutes to make it a swift, but disappointing, journey to the playoffs.