If you have tuned the broadcast of the last round of the Wyndham Championship on Sunday, you probably noticed how much attention was paid to players nowhere near the top of the Leaderboard. That’s because, if the last tournament of the regular PGA Tour season, the Wyndham championship was very consistent: it was the last chance for players to earn a place in the Fedex Cup play -offs, who start this week.
The FedEx St. Jude is the first tournament of the FedEx Cup Playoff series 2025. How does it all work? Here is everything you need to know.
Overview
From January, for every tournament in which a PGA Tour player competes, he earns Fedex Cup points based on his finish. Winners of the players’ championship and Majors receive 750 points; Signature Event winners get 700 points; Winners of the entire field receive 500 points (except the Zurich Classic, which grants 400 points to every winning team member); And winners of extra events receive 300 points. Other players in each field receive points in accordance with their finish.
At the end of the regular season (the Wyndham championship), the top 70 players on the FedEx Cup -Point list are eligible for the First FedEx Cup Playoff event, the FedEx St. Jude. The difference between no. 70, Matti Schmid, who in, and no. 71, Davis Thompson, who is out? Only 5 points.
Format
Scottie Scheffler is the top player on the point list on the way to the first play-off event, with 4,806 points, followed by Rory McIlroy with 3,444 and Sepp Straka with 2,595. Schmid, mentioned above at No. 70, has 620 points.
The 70 players in the Fedex St. Jude Field can build on their current FedEx Cup point totals for the next two weeks, with four -fold points up for grabbing – that is 2,000 points for the winner. So there is a lot of opportunity for upward progress if you play well.
At the end of the FedEx St. Jude, the top 50 players go on to the BMW championship, where they will re-build on their seasonal Fedex Cup point totals with another chance to earn four times points. At the end of the BMW championship, the top 30 players will continue to the season finale, the Tour Championship, where points are no longer relevant and they will compete on a level playing field for the FedEx Cup title.
2025 FedEx Cup Playoff -schedule
The three Playoff events are played in consecutive weeks:
FedEx St. Jude -7-10 August
BMW championship -14-17 August
Tour championship -21-24 August
What has changed this year?
This year, instead of players received ‘starting strokes’ on the Tour Championship based on their FedEx Cup ranking list at the end of the BMW championship, players will compete on a level playing field from the start. They can earn or maintain their status in the top 30 with the possibility of four points that will be offered in the coming two weeks. But once you get in, you are inside and you have just as much chance of winning as someone else.
To better recognize season-long performance, the FedEx Cup $ 100 million bonus fair also changes. It will be distributed over three events: at the end of the Wyndham championship (payments to the top 10 players in the ranking of the FedEx Cup points); At the end of the BMW championship (payments made to the top 30 of points ranking); And at the end of the Tour Championship (payments made to the top 30 of points ranking). Spoiler Alert: Scottie Scheffler took home the top bonus of $ 10 million from the regular season after the Wyndham.
The Tour Championship offers a wallet of $ 40 million, with $ 10 million to the winner.
What about the players who have not made the play -offs?
For those players who ended up outside the top 70, people who ended up after this week outside the top 50 areas in the coming weeks a short chance to reset before the start of the Fedex Cup Fall: a series of seven tournament that starts in September and will complete the next 100 in the rankings.
All points earned by the FedEx St. Jude will transfer autumn. At the end of the Fall series (the RSM classic in November is the last tournament), NRS. 51-60 in the FedEx Cup classification will qualify for the first two signature events after the Sentry in 2026, via the AON next 10. The Top 125 players will earn PGA Tour cards, and NOS. 125-150 will earn the conditional status.
As for everyone? There is always Q-School, where five tour cards are picking up for the 2026 season.
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