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Breakdown of how every FedEx Cup outsider needs to play at Wyndham to qualify for playoffs

This week’s Wyndham Championship is the final event of the PGA Tour’s regular season. This certainly adds an extra element of drama to the fold, as at the completion of this tournament, only the top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings will be eligible for next week’s Northern Trust, the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Players such as Adam Scott, Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, and Francesco Molinari, will all need to play well to keep their season alive. Here’s how every single player around or outside the top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings must finish at the Wyndham Championship to qualify for the playoffs.
On the Bubble
119. Brice Garnett
120. C.T. Pan
121. Adam Scott
122. Ryan Armour
123. Patrick Rodgers
124. Matt Kuchar
125. Bo Hoag
126. Scott Piercy: 34th or better
127. Nate Lashley: 23rd or better
128. Michael Thompson: 21st or better
129. Camilo Villegas: 21st or better
130. Rickie Fowler: 21st or better
131. Roger Sloan: 19th or better
132. Chesson Hadley: 16th or better
133. Cameron Percy: 13th or better
134. Austin Cook: 12th or better
135. Chase Seiffert: 12th or better
136. Tommy Fleetwood: 11th or better
Needs at least a top-10 finish
138. Justin Rose
139. Vincent Whaley
140. Francesco Molinari
141. Rory Sabbatini
142. Ryan Moore
143. Mark Hubbard
144. Joseph Bramlett
Needs at least a top-5 finish
145. Michael Gligic
146. Bo Van Pelt
Needs at least a top-4 finish
147. Beau Hossler
148. Vaughn Taylor
149. Nick Taylor
Needs at least a top-3 finish
150. Satoshi Kodaira
151. Rafael Campos
154. Tom Lewis
156. Andrew Landry
157. Bronson Burgoon
158. Will Gordon
159. Scott Brown
Needs at least a top-2 finish
161. Jason Dufner
162. Rob Oppenheim
163. Kris Ventura
164. Tyler Duncan
166. Robby Shelton
167. Sean O’Hair
168. Padraig Harrington
170. Byeong Hun An
171. Jim Herman
172. Scott Harrington
173. Xinjun Zhang
174. J.J. Spaun
176. Ben Martin
177. Mito Pereira
178. Mark Anderson
179. Kevin Tway
181. Ted Potter Jr.
183. Luke Donald
184. Ryan Brehm
Needs a win
187. Fabian Gomez
188. Sung Kang
189. D.J. Trahan
191. Rhein Gibson
192. Nelson Ledesma
193. Josh Teater
195. Ben Taylor
196. Bill Haas
197. Sebastian Cappelen
198. Chris Baker
200. Aaron Baddeley
201. Michael Gellerman
202. Nick Watney
204. Kiradech Aphibarnrat
205. David Lingmerth
214. Michael Kim
220. John Senden
221. Martin Trainer
222. Jonas Blixt
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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.
However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.
Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.
Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”
Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish
— Jenny Shin (@JennyShin_LPGA) August 3, 2025
Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.
Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.
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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.
Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.
Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.
Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.
Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.
“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course. Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”
According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.
“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”
Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.
Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.
Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.
The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.
Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”
“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”
Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.
However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.
“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”
Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.