Matt Fitzpatrick overtakes Scottie Scheffler for FedEx Cup points lead

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Garry Smits, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union

Thu, April 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM UTC ·

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Matt Fitzpatrick enters three weeks of huge tournaments with the PGA Tour’s lead on the FedEx Cup points race.

Fitzpatrick picked up 400 points last week for combining with his brother Alex to win the Zurich Classic at the TPC Louisiana and slipped past Scottie Scheffler for the FedEx Cup lead. Fitzpatrick entered the week 37 points behind Scheffler, who did not play in the Zurich Classic, and now has a lead of 363 points.

Matt Fitzpatrick's seccond victory in a row and his third of the season last week at the Zurich Classic put him on top of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup points race entering the Cadillac Championship.

Fitzpatrick, who has won three times and finished second in The Players in his last five starts, needs to keep playing hard to fend off Scheffler and a batch of other contenders. The Tour plays at two iconic golf courses in signature events for the next two weeks, the Cadillac Championship at the Doral Blue Monster April 30-May 3 and the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte May 7-10.

Both of those award 700 FedEx Cup points to the winner.

Then comes the PGA Championship May 14-17 at the Aronimink Golf Club near Philadelphia, with 750 points to the winner. That means 2,150 points will go to the champions.

Fitzpatrick has opted not to play at Doral. There is no cut this week so players such as Scheffler and No. 3 Collin Morikawa (675 points back) can regain the FedEx points lead they held at different times this season with a victory.

But other players can position themselves well for the next three weeks with a good showing at the Blue Monster. The only players among the top 30 on the points list not in the Cadillac Championship are Fitzpatrick, Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Xander Schauffele and Robert MacIntyre.

PGA Tour FedEx Cup leaders

Through Zurich Classic

1. Matt Fitzpatrick 2,394
2. Scottie Scheffler 2,031
3. Collin Morikawa 1,719
4. Cameron Young 1,671
5. Jacob Bridgeman 1,495
6. Chris Gotterup 1,299
7. Akshay Bhatia 1,282
8. Rory McIlroy 1,226
9. Ludvig Åberg 1,143
10. Si Woo Kim 1,074
11. Xander Schauffele 1,034
12. Min Woo Lee 952
13. Jake Knapp 928
14. Justin Rose 913
15. Russell Henley 832
16. Tommy Fleetwood 809
17. Robert MacIntyre 796
18. Hideki Matsuyama 789
19. Sepp Straka 757
20. Gary Woodland 752
21. Ryan Gerard 711
22. Sam Burns 688
23. Nico Echavarria 674
24. Kurt Kitayama 671
25.Ryo Hisatsune 669
26. Sahith Theegala 657
27. Nicolai Højgaard 644
28. Adam Scott 613
29. J.J. Spaun
30. Daniel Berger 592

Who made the biggest FedEx Cup moves at the Zurich Classic?

Hayden Springer, tie for 2 ^nd at Zurich, up 67 spots (tie for 172 ^nd to 105 ^th )
Kris Ventura, tie for 2 ^nd at Zurich, up 64 spots (156 ^th to 92 ^nd )
Rasmus Neergaard-Peterson, tie for 4 ^th at Zurich, up 38 spots (153 ^rd to 115 ^th )
Jeffrey Kang, tie for 6 ^th at Zurich, up 36 spots (170 ^th to 134 ^th )
Kristoffer Reitan, tie for 2 ^nd at Zurich, up 29 spots (86 ^th to 57 ^th )

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Matt Fitzpatrick's third 2026 win overtakes Scottie Scheffler in FedEx Cup