2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs
The 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs, the series of three golf tournaments that determined the 2022–23 season champion on the U.S.-based PGA Tour, were played from August 10–27. It included the following three events:
- FedEx St. Jude Championship – TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee
- BMW Championship – Olympia Fields Country Club, Olympia Fields, Illinois
- Tour Championship – East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | August 10–27, 2023 |
| Location | TPC Southwind Olympia Fields Country Club East Lake Golf Club |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Statistics | |
| Field | 70 for FedEx St. Jude Championship 50 for BMW Championship 30 for Tour Championship |
| Prize fund | $75 million (bonus money) |
| Winner's share | $18 million (bonus money) |
| Champion | |
 Viktor Hovland | |
| −27 | |
This was the 17th FedEx Cup playoffs since their inception in 2007. Viktor Hovland was the 2023 Champion.
The point distributions can be seen here.
Changes from 2022
The top 70 players on the FedEx Cup regular-season standings qualified for the first playoff event, down from 125; the field of the second event was reduced from 70 to 50.[1] With the PGA Tour reverting to a calendar-based schedule, the Playoffs no longer form the conclusion to the PGA Tour season, but all 70 qualifiers earned an exemption for the 2024 season regardless of results in the fall.[2] The 50 qualifiers for the BMW Championship earned entry into limited-field signature events in 2024.[3]
Regular-season rankings
The leading 10 players in the FedEx Cup regular-season standings qualified for a share of the $20 million Comcast Business Tour top 10 bonus.
| Place | Player | Points | Events | Bonus ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jon Rahm | 3,320 | 17 | 4,000,000 |
| 2 |  Scottie Scheffler | 3,146 | 20 | 3,000,000 |
| 3 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Rory McIlroy | 2,304 | 15 | 2,400,000 |
| 4 | Max Homa | 2,128 | 21 | 2,200,000 |
| 5 | Wyndham Clark | 1,944 | 25 | 2,000,000 |
| 6 | Brian Harman | 1,827 | 24 | 1,700,000 |
| 7 | Viktor Hovland | 1,795 | 20 | 1,400,000 |
| 8 | Keegan Bradley | 1,774 | 20 | 1,200,000 |
| 9 | Rickie Fowler | 1,732 | 22 | 1,100,000 |
| 10 | Tony Finau | 1,655 | 21 | 1,000,000 |
Source:[4]
Playoff tournaments
FedEx St. Jude Championship
The FedEx St. Jude Championship was played August 10–13. 70 players were eligible to play in the event. There was no second-round cut.
Lucas Glover won the tournament, beating Patrick Cantlay in a playoff. It was Glover's second victory in as many weeks, having won the Wyndham Championship in the final week of the regular season.[5] The top 50 players in the points standings advanced to the BMW Championship. Cameron Davis (ranked 62nd to 45th) and Hideki Matsuyama (57 to 47) were the only two players to climb into the top 50, with Mackenzie Hughes (47 to 51) and Nick Hardy (50 to 52) dropping out.[6]
| FedEx Cup rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Winnings ($) | Before | After |
| 1 | Lucas Glover | 66-64-66-69=265 | −15 | 3,600,000 | 49 | 4 |
| 2 | Patrick Cantlay | 68-67-66-64=265 | 2,160,000 | 13 | 5 | |
| T3 |  Tommy Fleetwood | 66-66-66-68=266 | −14 | 1,160,000 | 26 | 10 |
| Rory McIlroy | 67-66-68-65=266 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 5 | Taylor Moore | 66-66-65-71=268 | −12 | 800,000 | 25 | 14 |
| T6 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Corey Conners | 67-72-65-65=269 | −11 | 584,286 | 30 | 25 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Cameron Davis | 66-67-69-67=269 | 62 | 45 | |||
| Russell Henley | 67-68-67-67=269 | 20 | 15 | |||
| Max Homa | 68-66-65-70=269 | 4 | 6 | |||
 Im Sung-jae | 67-65-69-68=269 | 32 | 28 | |||
| Adam Schenk | 69-66-68-66=269 | 24 | 20 | |||
| Jordan Spieth | 63-68-68-70=269 | 31 | 27 | |||
- Par 70 course
BMW Championship
The BMW Championship will be played August 17–20. 50 players are eligible to play in the event. There is no second-round cut.
Hideki Matsuyama withdrew prior to the second round with a back injury, thus ending his streak of qualifying for nine consecutive Tour Championship's, the longest streak of any active player. [7]
Tour Championship
The Tour Championship will be played August 24–27. 30 golfers are qualified for the tournament. There is no second-round cut.
Table of qualified players
Table key:
| Player | Pre-Playoffs | FedEx St. Jude Championship |
BMW Championship |
Tour Championship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Finish | Rank after |
Finish | Rank after |
Starting score[8] |
Final score |
Final rank | ||
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Jon Rahm | 3,320 | 1 | T37 | 1 | T31 | 4 | −6 | −7 | T18 |
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Scottie Scheffler | 3,146 | 2 | T31 | 2 | T2 | 1 | −10 | −11 | T6 |
|
Rory McIlroy | 2,304 | 3 | T3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | −7 | −14 | 4 |
|
Max Homa | 2,128 | 4 | T6 | 6 | T5 | 6 | −4 | −10 | T9 |
|
Wyndham Clark | 1,944 | 5 | T66 | 8 | T15 | 9 | −4 | −16 | 3 |
|
Brian Harman | 1,827 | 6 | T31 | 9 | T5 | 8 | −4 | −4 | 23 |
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Viktor Hovland | 1,795 | 7 | T13 | 7 | 1 | 2 | −8 | −27 | 1 |
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Keegan Bradley | 1,774 | 8 | T43 | 11 | T29 | 13 | −3 | −10 | T9 |
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Rickie Fowler | 1,732 | 9 | T58 | 12 | T25 | 14 | −3 | −8 | T16 |
|
Tony Finau | 1,655 | 10 | 64 | 13 | T37 | 18 | −2 | −6 | T20 |
|
Jason Day | 1,506 | 11 | T52 | 21 | T45 | 25 | −1 | +3 | 28 |
|
Nick Taylor | 1,463 | 12 | T24 | 16 | 47 | 22 | −1 | −2 | 25 |
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Patrick Cantlay | 1,443 | 13 | 2 | 5 | T15 | 7 | −4 | −13 | 5 |
|
Tom Kim | 1,422 | 14 | T24 | 18 | T10 | 16 | −2 | −6 | T20 |
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Sepp Straka | 1,413 | 15 | 63 | 24 | T37 | 30 | E | −9 | T14 |
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Xander Schauffele | 1,406 | 16 | T24 | 19 | T8 | 15 | −3 | −22 | 2 |
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Tyrrell Hatton | 1,381 | 17 | T43 | 26 | T34 | 28 | E | −8 | T16 |
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Kim Si-woo | 1,372 | 18 | T16 | 17 | T31 | 20 | −2 | −6 | T20 |
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Sam Burns | 1,335 | 19 | T52 | 30 | T15 | 26 | E | −10 | T9 |
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Russell Henley | 1,296 | 20 | T6 | 15 | T8 | 12 | −3 | −9 | T14 |
 |
Emiliano Grillo | 1,275 | 21 | T20 | 23 | T31 | 27 | E | +6 | T29 |
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Collin Morikawa | 1,246 | 22 | T13 | 22 | T25 | 24 | −1 | −11 | T6 |
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Kurt Kitayama | 1,216 | 23 | T52 | 33 | T41 | 36 | – | – | 36 |
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Adam Schenk | 1,213 | 24 | T6 | 20 | T34 | 23 | −1 | −10 | T9 |
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Taylor Moore | 1,193 | 25 | 5 | 14 | 49 | 21 | −1 | +6 | T29 |
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Tommy Fleetwood | 1,184 | 26 | T3 | 10 | T25 | 11 | −3 | −11 | T6 |
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Denny McCarthy | 1,179 | 27 | T66 | 34 | T10 | 33 | – | – | 33 |
|
Chris Kirk | 1,161 | 28 | T16 | 29 | T29 | 32 | – | – | 32 |
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Séamus Power | 1,133 | 29 | T66 | 35 | 48 | 41 | – | – | 41 |
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Corey Conners | 1,103 | 30 | T6 | 25 | T10 | 19 | −2 | −1 | 26 |
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Jordan Spieth | 1,099 | 31 | T6 | 27 | T34 | 29 | E | +1 | 27 |
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Im Sung-jae | 1,098 | 32 | T6 | 28 | 7 | 17 | −3 | −1 | 24 |
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Justin Rose | 1,088 | 33 | T20 | 32 | T22 | 34 | – | – | 34 |
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Sahith Theegala | 1,065 | 34 | T13 | 31 | T15 | 31 | – | – | 31 |
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Lee Hodges | 1,052 | 35 | T31 | 36 | T45 | 40 | – | – | 40 |
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Matt Fitzpatrick | 1,049 | 36 | T66 | 40 | T2 | 10 | −4 | −10 | T9 |
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An Byeong-hun | 1,041 | 37 | T37 | 38 | 43 | 44 | – | – | 44 |
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Adam Svensson | 1,014 | 38 | T37 | 39 | T15 | 37 | – | – | 37 |
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Brendon Todd | 973 | 39 | T43 | 44 | T41 | 47 | – | – | 47 |
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Eric Cole* | 950 | 40 | T31 | 42 | T25 | 43 | – | – | 43 |
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Andrew Putnam | 918 | 41 | T24 | 41 | T10 | 35 | – | – | 35 |
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Harris English | 914 | 42 | T52 | 49 | T10 | 38 | – | – | 38 |
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Patrick Rodgers | 914 | 43 | T52 | 50 | T37 | 49 | – | – | 49 |
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Adam Hadwin | 908 | 44 | T16 | 37 | 44 | 45 | – | – | 45 |
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J. T. Poston | 907 | 45 | T24 | 43 | T22 | 39 | – | – | 39 |
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Tom Hoge | 897 | 46 | T43 | 48 | 21 | 46 | – | – | 46 |
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Mackenzie Hughes | 890 | 47 | T58 | 51 | – | – | – | – | 51 |
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Cameron Young | 889 | 48 | T31 | 46 | T15 | 42 | – | – | 42 |
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Lucas Glover | 885 | 49 | 1 | 4 | T22 | 5 | −5 | −7 | T18 |
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Nick Hardy* | 868 | 50 | T49 | 52 | – | – | – | – | 52 |
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Alex Smalley | 864 | 51 | 65 | 54 | – | – | – | – | 54 |
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Thomas Detry* | 851 | 52 | T61 | 55 | – | – | – | – | 55 |
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Taylor Montgomery* | 823 | 53 | T37 | 53 | – | – | – | – | 53 |
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Davis Riley | 768 | 54 | T43 | 59 | – | – | – | – | 59 |
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Brandon Wu | 763 | 55 | T37 | 57 | – | – | – | – | 57 |
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Hayden Buckley | 754 | 56 | T52 | 60 | – | – | – | – | 60 |
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Hideki Matsuyama | 742 | 57 | T16 | 47 | WD | 50 | – | – | 50 |
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Keith Mitchell | 698 | 58 | T43 | 64 | – | – | – | – | 64 |
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Mark Hubbard | 697 | 59 | T66 | 67 | – | – | – | – | 67 |
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Matt Kuchar | 695 | 60 | T61 | 66 | – | – | – | – | 66 |
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Stephan Jäger | 692 | 61 | T20 | 56 | – | – | – | – | 56 |
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Cameron Davis | 685 | 62 | T6 | 45 | 40 | 48 | – | – | 48 |
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Sam Ryder | 675 | 63 | T31 | 61 | – | – | – | – | 61 |
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Sam Stevens* | 670 | 64 | T37 | 65 | – | – | – | – | 65 |
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Aaron Rai | 670 | 65 | T49 | 68 | – | – | – | – | 68 |
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Beau Hossler | 658 | 66 | T20 | 58 | – | – | – | – | 58 |
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Matthew NeSmith | 642 | 67 | T58 | 69 | – | – | – | – | 69 |
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Vincent Norrman* | 636 | 68 | T49 | 70 | – | – | – | – | 70 |
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J. J. Spaun | 634 | 69 | T24 | 62 | – | – | – | – | 62 |
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Ben Griffin* | 617 | 70 | T24 | 63 | – | – | – | – | 63 |
* First-time Playoffs qualifier
DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
References
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- "PGA Tour announces reimagined 2023 FedEx Cup Fall". PGA Tour. April 12, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- "Designated events will usher in new era of PGA Tour competition". PGA Tour. March 1, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- "2022–23 FedEx Cup standings". PGA Tour. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- Herzig, Gabrielle (August 13, 2023). "Lucas Glover Wins Back-to-Back at FedEx St. Jude Championship after Sudden Death Playoff". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
- Hoggard, Rex (August 13, 2023). "A significant Sunday: Repercussions of FedEx St. Jude finale to be felt into next season". Golf Channel. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
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