2023 FedEx Cup standings, schedule, PGA Tour leaderboard, prize money, purse for FedEx Cup Playoffs 2023

An thrilling first leg of the 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs is within the guide as Lucas Glover downed Patrick Cantlay in a playoff to win his 2d directly PGA Tour match. This with Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and a number of alternative premier golfers respiring down Glover’s again on the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis over.

The win rockets Glover the entire approach as much as fourth within the FedEx Cup standings in the back of most effective Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and McIlroy coming into the general two playoff occasions, the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields and the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club.

The giant exchange to the playoffs this 12 months is the sphere measurement. Glover took down a area of 70 at TPC Southwind, and most effective the highest 50 within the FedEx Cup complex to the BMW Championship the place most effective the highest 30 from that event will transfer directly to the Tour Championship. There’s a fair larger prize, alternatively, as the highest 50 on this 12 months’s FedEx Cup routinely qualify for the 8 small-field signature occasions on subsequent 12 months’s PGA Tour time table.  

2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs time table

All 3 occasions are 72-hole, stroke-play tournaments, despite the fact that the fields regularly get smaller because the playoffs roll on. The issues exchange, too, as the entirety is quadrupled. During common season occasions, maximum winners obtain 500 FedEx Cup issues for completing first at tournaments (in a handful of occasions, 600 issues went to first position). The winners of the primary two FedEx Cup Playoffs occasions will as an alternative obtain 2,000 issues each and every. The level spice up is going for each and every slot at the leaderboard: 300 for 2d turns into 1,200 and so forth. 

Only 4 golfers — Rahm, Scheffler, McIlroy and Max Homa — surpassed the two,000-point general all through the complete common season, this means that the FedEx Cup standings can shift — and have already got shifted — somewhat a little bit. Winners are disproportionately rewarded and deservedly so given that is the postseason.

This supplies the chance for golfers — like Glover — to move on a scorching streak and rocket up the FedEx Cup standings. After no longer even sniffing the highest 25 within the FedEx Cup standings all 12 months, he’s all of sudden within the best 5 with two occasions to move. Regardless of what else occurs, everybody within the best 10 of the FedEx Cup scores will probably be in high place on the Tour Championship at East Lake. Similar to different sports activities, now that the postseason has begun, virtually anything else can occur.

2023 FedEx Cup standings

There used to be no longer an excessive amount of motion on the best of the standings. Part of this is as a result of Rahm and Scheffler constructed an enormous 1-2 lead within the common season. It used to be going to be tough to triumph over that lead within the first event of the playoffs. There will now be extra alternative to take action on the BMW Championship if the ones two don’t play neatly (Scheffler completed T31 and Rahm T37 at St. Jude).

Here’s a have a look at the highest 30 going into the BMW Championship.

Anything can nonetheless occur on the BMW and set gamers up for what comes after that (see under for Tour Championship structure and purse). This is an engaging checklist, too. You see some golfers that did the vast majority of their paintings all through the common season (Rahm, Scheffler and Hovland) after which others who in point of fact boosted first rate common season effects with a monster first week in Memphis (Glover, Fleetwood, Moore and Spieth).

So it is going within the playoffs, the place you’ve gotten an opportunity to make up a ton of flooring on gamers who’ve been higher at golfing for lots of the closing seven months. Where it in point of fact will get fascinating is on the BMW Championship, the place Scheffler and Rahm have no longer put distance between themselves and the remainder of the the highest gamers

2023 Tour Championship structure

Heading into the Tour Championship throughout the best 5 or best 10 within the FedEx Cup standings is vital as a result of how scoring is dispersed. Whoever is first within the FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship begins the Tour Championship at 10 beneath, and the development is performed beneath standard scoring stipulations from there. Second begins at 8 beneath and so forth (see complete numbers under). 

With such a lot cash at stake (once more, $18 million for first position), the ones margins turn out to be extra significant than even a regular week. The eventual winners of the 4 FedEx Cups performed beneath this structure have all began within the best seven on the Tour Championship.

• 1st: -10
• second: -8
• third: -7
• 4th: -6
• fifth: -5
• Sixth-Tenth: -4
• Eleventh-Fifteenth: -3
• Sixteenth-Twentieth: -2
• Twenty first-Twenty fifth: -1
• Twenty sixth-Thirtieth: E

2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs purse, prize cash

2023 St. Jude Championship purse, prize cash

• 1st: $3.6 million
• second: $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

2023 BMW Championship purse, prize cash

2023 Tour Championship purse, prize cash

The numbers are startling for the finale. The winner of the Tour Championship obtain $18 million. If you simply make into the general FedEx Cup Playoff match, you might be assured $500,000. Here’s a have a look at what the profitable best 10 will appear to be on the Tour Championship.

• 1st: $18 million
• second: $6.5 million
• third: $5 million
• 4th: $4 million
• fifth: $3 million
• Sixth: $2.5 million
• seventh: $2 million
• eighth: $1.5 million
• ninth: $1.25 million
• Tenth $1 million

Last 12 months, McIlroy overcame a six-stroke deficit firstly of the week and a five-stroke deficit firstly of the general day to defeat Scheffler by way of one and swipe an extra $11.5 million from him within the procedure.