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Xander Schauffele: No. 1 ranking is motivator, not inflated purses
Whichever golfer wins next week's Tour Championship will also hoist the FedEx Cup -- and he will go home with a combined $25 million for his trouble.,A few years into the LIV Golf-prompted era of massive earnings in men's professional golf, players like world No. 2 Xander Schauffele don't have to wo...
Patrick Cantlay shifts gears in unusual altitude tracking third BMW title
The BMW Championship is currently the only leg of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs that rotates venues each year. Patrick Cantlay has shown he can bag BMW wins no matter which course is up for its turn.,But the 2024 edition of the tournament presents an entirely different challenge: an 8,130-yard t...
Nick Dunlap in, Tom Kim out as FedEx Cup playoffs down to 50
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- South Korean Tom Kim's loss was Nick Dunlap's and Keegan Bradley's gain on Sunday, when the results of the FedEx St. Jude Championship helped finalize the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup playoffs.,Japan's Hideki Matsuyama won the tournament by birdieing his final two holes, and he ...
Hideki Matsuyama birdies final two holes to win FedEx St. Jude
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Japan's Hideki Matsuyama survived a shaky back nine to shoot even-par 70 Sunday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship and win the opening leg of the PGA Tour's season-ending playoffs at TPC Southwind.,Matsuyama finished at 17-under 263, two strokes better than World No. 2 Xander Schau...
Jordan Spieth headed for wrist surgery with '24 season over
Jordan Spieth's 2024 season ended with an eventful 18th hole at the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Sunday, where he found the water twice before holing a 32-foot putt for double bogey.,Spieth will not qualify for the next leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs, and after his round Sunday he confirmed to repo...
Hideki Matsuyama surges to 5-stroke lead at St. Jude
Japan's Hideki Matsuyama pulled away from his challengers on the back nine at the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Saturday and will carry a five-stroke lead into Sunday's final round in Memphis, Tenn.,Matsuyama shot 6-under-par 64 during a steady round at TPC Southwind marred by an early bogey, but b...
Denny McCarthy, Hideki Matsuyama share lead at St. Jude
Denny McCarthy made 160 feet of putts on his way to a 7-under-par 63 that rocketed him into a tie for the second-round lead with Hideki Matsuyama of Japan at the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Friday in Memphis, Tenn.,In the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs at TPC Southwind, McCarthy and Matsuyam...
Chris Kirk aces 14, grabs early lead in Memphis
Chris Kirk aced the 14th, shot 6-under-par 64 and entered the clubhouse with the early lead at the St. Jude FedEx Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis on Thursday.,Kirk took his first bogey of the round on the last hole, scratching a 5 on the 449-yard par-4 to close with five birdies, one bogey ...
Scottie Scheffler comes in hot, in multiple ways, as playoffs start
Every year, golfers arrive at the FedEx St. Jude Championship and field questions about the PGA Tour's current format for the FedEx Cup playoffs. Every year, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and others indicate they would like to see some tweaks.,But after a regular season that saw Scheffler pile up wi...
PGA Tour commish Jay Monahan: Don't expect deal with LIV for years
When PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan spoke with reporters in Memphis, Tenn., on Wednesday, it was perhaps his most brief statement that carried the most weight.,"I think that's fair.",That was Monahan's reply when asked if it is safe to assume that the Tour will not be partnering with LIV Golf for...
Scottie Scheffler on Tour format for FedEx Cup: 'It's silly'
Scottie Scheffler isn't a fan of the PGA Tour's current format to determine the winner of the FedEx Cup. ,Scheffler made his feelings known on Wednesday, one day before the FedEx Cup playoffs begin at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn.,The world's top-ranked golfer is...
Hideki Matsuyama begins playoffs without caddie, coach after theft
Hideki Matsuyama will open play Thursday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis without his trusted caddie and coach after they were robbed in London during a stopover.,Matsuyama, who won the bronze medal at the Olympics in Paris 10 days ago, was traveling to Memphis with caddie Shota Hayato ...
2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Preview, Props, Best Bets
The 2024 FedEx Cup playoffs tee off Thursday with the first round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis.,The top 70 players in the standings qualified for the first leg of the playoffs, and only the top 50 after this week will move on to the BMW Championship. Our golf expert...
Rory McIlroy looks to take season from 'pretty good' to 'very good'
Winning an event in the FedEx Cup playoffs could help lessen the memory Rory McIlroy has of coming so close to winning the U.S. Open in June, only to see the trophy slip through his hands.,McIlroy enters the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, which starts Thursday, ranked No. 3 in the world. He...
PGA Tour releases 2025 FedEx Cup season schedule
The PGA Tour released the 2025 FedEx Cup regular season and playoffs schedule on Wednesday.,The 36-event regular season begins with the first of eight signature events, The Sentry in Hawaii from Jan. 2-5.,The regular season concludes with the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., from July 31-Au...
Viktor Hovland on 'path to improvement' as Cup defense begins
Viktor Hovland can empathize with most amateur golfers in at least one easy-to-understand way.,He doesn't enjoy being on the golf course when he's playing poorly.,Of course, Hovland's standards are quite different than the average Sunday duffer. The young Norwegian star was coming off winning the Fe...
Xander Schauffele enters playoffs tapping into ‘dog’ mentality
It isn't like Xander Schauffele to fall apart down the stretch of a golf tournament. But that's exactly what happened earlier this month at the Olympics in Paris.,Schauffele, seeking his second straight gold medal after winning in Tokyo, was right in the mix that Sunday until the 12th hole, when he ...
Patrick Cantlay: PGA-PIF talks ‘always evolving’
Sometimes no news is good news. When it comes to the trickle of information about the PGA Tour's merger with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Patrick Cantlay would concur.,Cantlay, who sits on the PGA Tour policy board as a player director, was asked Tuesday if those PGA-PIF negotiations had a...
Golf Glance: FedEx Cup playoffs tee off in Memphis
Field Level Media's Golf Glance provides weekly news and storylines from each of the major North American golf tours.,PGA TOUR,LAST TOURNAMENT: Wyndham Championship (Aaron Rai),THIS WEEK: FedEx St. Jude Championship, Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 15-18,Course: TPC Southwind (Par 70, 7,243 Yards),Purse: $20M ...
Brandt Snedeker named vice captain of Ryder Cup team
U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley named veteran Brandt Snedeker as one of his vice captains for the 45th installment of the event next year in Bethpage, N.Y.,Snedeker, 43, becomes the second vice captain named; Webb Simpson was the first. Snedeker owns a 4-2-0 career record in two Ryder Cup appe...