Jason Day – looking to finish a solid season well – image courtesy of Getty Images
Four Australians have made it into the to 70 of the FedEx Cup standings and made it to the first of the Playoff Series beginning with this week’s FedEx St Jude Championship at the TPC Southwind in Memphis.
Jason Day (26th), Cam Davis (44th) Adam Scott (46th) and Min Woo Lee (62nd) will all begin the three-event series in which the leading 50 will graduate to the BMW Championship in Castle Rock in Colorado next week followed a week later by the Tour Championship in Atlanta where the top 30 get to play for the riches of not only the event but the pointy end of the bonus pool also.
Day won this week’s event or its equivalent in 2015, albeit at another venue, in what was his stunning year on the PGA Tour and played well in several events earlier but in more recent times at the TPC Southwind he has struggled, missing four out of his last five cuts.
Adam Scott also won the event in 2013, his victory coming at Liberty National in New Jersey, and was runner-up in 2006 and has a series of top ten finishes in addition but again at different venues.
Davis is playing the event for just the fifth occasion but he too enjoys a good record in the event with a 5th place in 2023 and a 13th place in 2022, both of those finishes coming at the TPC Southwind.
Lee is playing the event for the first occasion but has been twice runner-up on the PGA Tour this season and could do well.
Scottie Scheffler with 5,993 points leads the FedEx Cup standings by nearly 2000 pions over Xander Schauffele.
