Biggest movers in the FedExCup standings after the Rocket Classic
Golf Central breaks down the the biggest movers in the FedExCup standings following the Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club.
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Two strokes, he becomes the eighth first time winner on the PGA Tour this year, and the second straight following Jackson Koywon's win at the 3M Open.
So with that, not just a win, but it was a big week for Thorbjorn, who moves up 31 points in the FedEx Cup standings.
Having a quick look at some of the other players who took advantage of the second to last event in the PGA Tour regular season.
A great move for Thorbjorn and Davis Riley as well.
Trying to jump up maybe in that top 100, but Matt Wallace, I'm looking at him to edge into the top 70 with one week to go this week at Wyndham, Trip.
Again, these numbers, they make you feel like a lot is possible, but how difficult actually is it to do what these guys are trying to do and move into the top 70?
It's very difficult.
I, I mean, when you look at it and where, where these guys are, mathematically it's so difficult for you to make a big jump, unless you win.
Now, there are outliers.
Lucas Glover was outside the top 100 when he won and, and jumped well inside.
And of course, then he followed it up with a win in Memphis and he was off to the races.
But Jim Herman did it as well.
He was well outside the top 100.
And again, when they won, it was 125 was the number, and that was always our focus was that 125.
And it always seems like mathematically i- there's a lot of people that could move in and move out, but typically it's usually one to two.
It's usually less than what we anticipate, just because there's so many different things that can happen.
The permutations of if I finish third, but then somebody else is ahead of me that finishes sixth, and they still stay ahead of you.
You know, it's just, it's, it's so difficult to predict.
If you're on that bubble, the best thing you can do is not worry about it, go play great golf, get in contention, and, and have a chance to win the tournament.
If you do that, you're gonna move and on and play in Memphis.
But if you're worried about it all week and you're up and down and, and, you know, "I've had a bad year," and you focus on all that stuff, well, you're gonna continue to have a bad year.
And there's a lot of players that are surprising that are on that list, you know?
I mean, there are, very talented players now that we've whittled it down to 70 players getting into the playoffs, I mean, that is not a bad year.
You, you, you finished 70th, you have not had a bad year, unless you're somebody like a Justin Thomas, who was outside that a couple of years ago, if you remember.
But other than that, a, a, an average tour player would be very happy with a 70, 70th place finish.
But the good news is now you get that, you get to move on and play in Memphis, and then hopefully continue to play your way on up the ladder and continue to play later into August.
Yeah, you mentioned the names, on the bubble.
Let's have a little look.
I mean, obviously you have got the bubble of the top 30, the top 50, those final two events, in the playoffs.
This isn't really where the stress lies, though as obviously everybody wants to make it into that top 30.
There's no staggered leaderboard now to start the Tour Championship.
It's kind of winner takes all, 72 holes.
Max Homa just on the cusp outside the top 50 right now, but it is really the top 70 and the top 100 bubble where the stress lies.
I mean, Trip, you've been here.
For these guys like A.J.
Brown- Oh yeah and, and Lee Hodges, you know, potentially these guys trying to hold on to Tour status, what is the stress like at this point?
Well, the stress this week is gonna be around that 70 number.
Keegan and, and Meisner and Koywon, you know, a- and again, it's just continue to play.
These guys don't necessarily have to worry about keeping their card.
I think if you're in the 70s, at this point in the year, you're gonna con- you're not gonna fall outside the top 100, even with what happens in the fall.
But they do, do say mathematically if you do play in, i- in Memphis, you cannot lose your card.
You are fully exempt.
The 100 bubble, we're looking at it because it is a bubble, but that's gonna be a bubble we're gonna be talking about at RSM later in November.
That's the one where you gotta play for your card, and that's where the real stress starts coming in.
These guys around that 70 bubble, the stress is, "Hey, do I get to go play for a lot more money in the playoffs and have a chance to keep going?"
But I will add this caveat.
This year, that 50 bubble, so w- and when we get to Memphis, that bubble to go on to the BMW and have signature event status with the changes coming in '28, huge.
Yeah.
You want to You really need to be inside that top 50 to enhance your chances of being on that track one and continuing to play at that championship level series, for the following year.
It's gonna be crucial in a couple of weeks.
Yeah, 2028, everything will look very, very different.
Yes.
Gotta start putting things in place now, Trip, is a great point.
So as we mentioned, the top 70 will be advancing into the postseason after this week's Wyndham Championship.
