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

Two FedEx Cup Playoffs occasions are within the books, and Lucas Glover and Viktor Hovland have left their mark. Glover took down the highest 70 at the PGA Tour in Memphis on the FedEx St. Jude Championship whilst Hovland shot a 61 to race previous the highest 50 within the playoffs on the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields. As a consequence, each have moved into the highest 5 of the FedEx Cup standings because the Tour heads to East Lake for the Tour Championship.

The most evident adjustments to the playoffs this yr is the sector dimension. While 30 has all the time been the quantity on the Tour Championship, the St. Jude Championship used to be decreased from most sensible 125 to most sensible 70 this yr and the BMW bumped right down to the highest 50. These smaller fields have made the bubble watch for the next match much more attention-grabbing than customary as the highest 50 on this yr’s FedEx Cup mechanically qualify for the 8 small-field signature occasions on subsequent yr’s PGA Tour agenda. As famous previous, the highest 30 transfer directly to the Tour Championship.  

2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs agenda

All 3 occasions are 72-hole, stroke-play tournaments, although the fields progressively get smaller because the playoffs roll on. The issues alternate, too, as the whole lot 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 2nd turns into 1,200 and so forth. 

Only 4 golfers — Rahm, Scheffler, McIlroy and Max Homa — surpassed the two,000-point general throughout the complete common season, because of this the FedEx Cup standings have have already got shifted reasonably just a little, even supposing the ones 4 are all nonetheless within the most sensible six within the rankigns Winners are disproportionately rewarded and deservedly so given that is the postseason.

This supplies the chance for golfers — like Glover — to move on a sizzling streak and rocket up the FedEx Cup standings. After no longer even sniffing the highest 25 within the FedEx Cup standings all yr, he’s within the most sensible 5 with one occasions to move. Regardless of what else occurs, everybody within the most sensible 10 of the FedEx Cup scores is in high place on the Tour Championship at East Lake. Similar to different sports activities, now that the postseason has begun, nearly anything else can occur.

2023 FedEx Cup standings

Again, there used to be no longer an excessive amount of motion on the most sensible of the standings. Part of this is as a result of Rahm and Scheffler constructed an enormous 1-2 lead within the common season, and a part of it’s because many of the most sensible 10 gamers within the FedEx Cup standings have performed smartly early within the playoffs. 

Here’s a take a look at the highest 30 going into the Tour Championship.

The rankings are set for the Tour Championship, and the highest 5 have an abnormal lead at the backside 5. Beating Scottie Scheffler is hard sufficient. Now you may have to take action with him up by way of 5 or seven or 10 on you to start out the week. 

Every winner of the Tour Championship on this present layout has began Tour Championship week at 4 underneath or higher, and two of the eventual winners have began at 10 underneath. It’s not likely that anybody out of doors of the highest 10 right here will win this event and the $18 million first prize. 

2023 Tour Championship layout

Heading into the Tour Championship within the most sensible 5 or most sensible 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 underneath, and the development is performed underneath customary scoring prerequisites from there. Second begins at 8 underneath and so forth (see complete numbers underneath). 

With such a lot money at stake (once more, $18 million for first position), the ones margins turn into extra significant than even a standard week. 

• 1st: -10
• 2d: -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 handbag, prize money

2023 St. Jude Championship handbag, prize money

• 1st: $3.6 million
• 2d: $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 handbag, prize money

• 1st: $3.6 million
• 2d: $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

2023 Tour Championship handbag, prize money

The numbers are startling for the finale. The winner of the Tour Championship obtain $18 million. If you simply make into the overall FedEx Cup Playoff match, you might be assured $500,000. Here’s a take a look at what the profitable most sensible 10 will seem like on the Tour Championship.

• 1st: $18 million
• 2d: $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 yr, McIlroy overcame a six-stroke deficit in the beginning of the week and a five-stroke deficit in the beginning of the overall day to defeat Scheffler by way of one and swipe an extra $11.5 million from him within the procedure.