Ryan Fox and Jason Day remain alive in FedEx Cup playoffs
Ryan Fox continues an outstanding second season on the PGA Tour – file image courtesy of PGA of America
Ryan Fox and Jason Day remain as the only two Australians alive in the FedEX Cup playoffs following the completion of this week’s FedEx St Jude Championship at the TPC Southwind in Memphis.
Fox needed to be inside the top 50 on the FedEx Cup table following this week’s event. Although he only finished 50th following a final round of 69 today, he has slipped just two spots from his 32nd position in the FedEx Cup standings to 34th and will head to Baltimore for next week’s BMW Championship.
Fox’s task now is to be inside the top 30 in FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship, which would earn him the right to play the Tour Championship at Atlanta beginning on August 21st and complete an already outstanding second season on the PGA Tour.
Having won the Myrtle Beach event earlier in the year and then the Canadian Open, Fox has well and truly established himself on the PGA Tour, and the near US$50,000 he earns this week will take his earnings thus far in 2025 to US$3.9 million, with potentially a lot more to come.
Jason Day finished 56th this week and slipped 7 places to 44th but keeps his hopes alive of getting to the Tour Championship with a strong week next week in Baltimore.
For Min Woo Lee, and Cam Davis, however, their PGA Tour season for 2025 is over, having finished 57th, and 69th in the FedEx Cup standings after Davis finished 50th, and Lee 68th this week and missed out on their chance to advance.
The event was won by 45-year-old Justin Rose, who defeated US Open winner, J.J. Spaun, in a playoff at the third extra hole, Rose birdieing four of his last five holes in regulation play to win his first PGA Tour title and his first anywhere since the Pebble Beach Pro Am in 2023.
