With the 2025 PGA Tour common season formally within the books, the web page has turned to the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Whereas this postseason might have similarities to these in current reminiscence, the 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs are being the primary contested beneath a brand new format as soon as the Tour Championship begins in two weeks.
With the FedEx St. Jude Championship already within the books having concluded Sunday, what was as soon as a 70-man discipline has been whittled right down to 50 forward of the BMW Championship. Notable names now not in competitors throughout these playoffs embody Jordan Spieth, Wyndham Clark and in Woo Lee.
There are large paydays forward by way of the remaining two weeks of the playoffs given the FedEx Cup bonus pool stays at $100 million. Justin Rose already took dwelling $3.6 million of the primary $20 million that was handed out on the St. Jude Championship, leaving $80 million to be awarded on the BMW Championship and Tour Championship over the following two weeks. Whoever stands alone atop that ultimate leaderboard will declare a $10 million winner’s share at East Lake Golf Membership.
Simply qualifying to East Lake stays a characteristic in a profitable season, however advancing to the BMW Championship stays a key to unlocking one’s full taking part in schedule for the next yr. All those that performed themselves into the second spherical of the playoffs at the moment are eligible to play in all eight signature occasions throughout the 2026 PGA Tour season and roughly be capable of choose and select their taking part in schedules.
2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule
|
FedEx St. Jude Championship |
Justin Rose |
Memphis, Tenn. |
TPC Southwind |
70 |
|
BMW Championship |
Aug. 14-17 |
Owings Mills, Md. |
Caves Valley |
50 |
|
Tour Championship |
Aug. 21-24 |
Atlanta, Ga. |
East Lake Golf Membership |
30 |
All three occasions are 72-hole, stroke-play tournaments, although the fields steadily get smaller because the playoffs roll on. The factors change, too; every thing is quadrupled. Throughout regular-season occasions, most winners obtain 500 FedEx Cup factors for ending first at tournaments (in a handful of occasions, 600 factors go to first place). The winners of the primary two FedEx Cup Playoffs occasions will as a substitute obtain 2,000 factors every. The purpose enhance goes for each slot on the leaderboard: 300 for second turns into 1,200 and so forth.
Solely eight golfers surpassed the two,000-point complete throughout the complete common season: Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Sepp Straka, Russell Henley, Justin Thomas, Ben Griffin, Harris English and J.J. Spaun. Scheffler entered the playoffs with a 2,200-point lead on third-place Straka, whereas McIlroy trailed him by just below 1,400 factors. These totals, after all, have modified because the conclusion of play on the St. Jude Championship.
The highest 50 within the FedEx Cup standings after the St. Jude Championship transfer on to the BMW Championship. Then the highest 30 after that transfer on to the Tour Championship.
2025 FedEx Cup standings
Regardless of lacking the complete month of January as a consequence of harm, Scheffler entered the FedEx Cup Playoffs because the clear-cut No. 1 within the FedEx Cup standings. McIlroy skipped the St. Jude Championship completely given he doesn’t play effectively at TPC Southwind, wished to take a break and realized it was unattainable for him to fall outdoors the highest 30 this month. The duo had created a strong moat round themselves, and given the altering Tour Championship panorama, solely cash is on the road for them throughout the primary two legs of this three-week playoffs.
The identical goes for a lot of the high 10, after all, however every thing tightens the decrease one seems down the standings.
Let’s take a better take a look at the place the highest 30 — those that get to compete within the Tour Championship — stands now that the St. Jude Championship is within the books from TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.
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1 |
Scottie Scheffler (5,455) |
16 (-3) |
Corey Conners (1,651) |
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2 |
Rory McIlroy (3,444) |
17 (+2) |
Collin Morikawa (1,573) |
|
3 (+5) |
J.J. Spaun (3,344) |
18 (+2) |
Brian Harman (1,559) |
|
4 (+21) |
Justin Rose (3,220) |
19 (+4) |
Patrick Cantlay (1,555) |
|
5 (-2) |
Sepp Straka (2,783) |
20 (-5) |
Robert MacIntyre (1,550) |
|
6 (-2) |
Russell Henley (2,579) |
21 |
Hideki Matsuyama (1,497) |
|
7 (-1) |
Ben Griffin (2,555) |
22 (-4) |
Nick Taylor (1,481) |
|
8 (+1) |
Tommy Fleetwood (2,433) |
23 (-6) |
Shane Lowry (1,458) |
|
9 (-4) |
Justin Thomas (2,395) |
24 |
Sam Burns (1,381) |
| 10 (-3) | Harris English (2,269) | 25 (+4) | Sungjae Im (1,360) |
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11 (+1) |
Andrew Novak (1,991) |
26 (-4) |
Chris Gotterup (1,332) |
| 12 (+4) | Cameron Younger (1,905) | 27 (+6) | Jacob Brigeman (1,299) |
| 13 (+1) | Ludvig Åberg (1,839) | 28 (-2) | Viktor Hovland (1,297) |
| 14 (-4) | Keegan Bradley (1793) | 29 (+16) | Akshay Bhatia (1,276) |
| 15 (-4) | Maverick McNealy (1,787) | 30 (-3) | Lucas Glover (1,234) |
2025 FedEx Cup standings bubble watch
Solely 5 gamers switched locations on the bubble on the conclusion of the St. Jude Championship. Those that moved inside the highest 50 certified for the BMW Championship — and all eight signature occasions in 2026 — whereas those that dropped beneath the road noticed their seasons finish with 2026 abruptly turning into extra predictable.
Moved into the highest 50
- thirty seventh — Kurt Kitayama (52nd)
- forty sixth — Bud Cauley (53rd)
- forty eighth — Rickie Fowler (sixty fourth)
- forty ninth — Jhonattan Vegas (56th)
- fiftieth — J.T. Poston (51st)
Moved out of high 50
- 52nd — Aldrich Potgieter (forty third)
- 54th — Jordan Spieth (forty eighth)
- fifty fifth — Jake Knapp (forty seventh)
- 56th — Wyndham Clark (forty ninth)
- 57th — Min Woo Lee (fiftieth)
2025 Tour Championship format
Say goodbye to the staggered begin format. The PGA Tour introduced in Might that it could be disposing of the handicapped iteration of the Tour Championship, which had been the taking part in format starting in 2019. On this format, the participant who was ranked No. 1 within the FedEx Cup standings began the week at 10 beneath and with a two-stroke lead over his nearest competitor and so forth down the leaderboard.
This yr, the PGA Tour is permitting each participant who qualifies for the Tour Championship to start at floor zero. All 30 gamers begin the match at even par and all 30 gamers may have the identical alternative to put their declare to the season-long crown. In essence, the Tour Championship is a traditional match with irregular stakes.
The format does take away a bit little bit of the joy from the primary two postseason occasions as ending No. 11 means the identical as end No. 25 with out beginning strokes, however it’s made up for with the extent taking part in discipline at East Lake.
2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs purse, prize cash
2025 St. Jude Championship purse, prize cash
- 1st: $3.6 million
- 2nd: $2.2 million
- third: $1.4 million
- 4th: $960,000
- fifth: $800,000
- sixth: $720,000
- seventh: $670,000
- eighth: $620,000
- ninth: $580,000
- tenth: $540,000
2025 BMW Championship purse, prize cash
- 1st: $3.6 million
- 2nd: $2.2 million
- third: $1.4 million
- 4th: $990,000
- fifth: $830,000
- sixth: $750,000
- seventh: $695,000
- eighth: $640,000
- ninth: $600,000
- tenth: $560,000
2025 Tour Championship purse, prize cash
The figures are startling, however not fairly as startling for the finale as they’ve been in earlier years given the change within the taking part in format and the payout construction of the FedEx Cup bonus pool. This is a take a look at what the profitable high 10 will seem like on the Tour Championship.
- 1st: $10 million
- 2nd: $5 million
- third: $3.705 million
- 4th: $3.2 million
- fifth: $2.75 million
- sixth: $1.9 million
- seventh: $1.4 million
- eighth: $1.065 million
- ninth: $900,000
- tenth $735,000
Final yr, Scheffler received the FedEx Cup over Collin Morikawa and took dwelling the $25 million grand prize. The $10 million represents a $15 million lower from a season in the past, however the bonus payouts all through the postseason make up for it because the participant ranked first within the FedEx Cup standings following the Wyndham Championship ($10 million) and BMW Championship ($5 million) receives the distinction in that determine.