BMW Championship – Here’s who made the cut

BMW Championship field finally set

By Jim Bebbington

The field at this weekend’s BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club came into focus finally on Sunday night with the conclusion of the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

The Memphis tournament was the first round of the PGA Tour’s season-ending three week playoff. Players are vying not only to win the individual tournaments, but are trying to accrue their FedEx points in order to qualify for the following week. The top 70 FedEx point finishers – based on their season-long performance – played at this past weekend’s FedEx St. Jude Championship. The top 50 FedEx players moved on to play at Castle Pines Golf Club here in Colorado this upcoming weekend.

After the BMW Championship, only the top 30 move to the final round – the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

For the top players, there was no mystery. The top 10 all made it to Denver – including regular-season FedEx champ Scottie Scheffler, Colorado-native Wyndham Clark, three-time FedEx Cup champion Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama and two-time 2024 major winner Xander Schauffele.

The biggest winner this past weekend was Viktor Hovland, the FedEx Cup champion in 2023. He has had an unremarkable season, and going into this past weekend was ranked No. 57 on the FedEx Cup list, which would have left him on the sidelines for the BMW Championship. Then he went bananas in Memphis, shot three rounds in the mid to low 60s, and finished T2. That gave him an avalanche of FedEx points, and he will play in Castle Pines this week.

One of the most brutal results this past weekend was for Tom Kim, who missed out on coming to Castle Pines Golf Club by 20 FedEx points. He entered this past weekend in 43rd place in the FedEx standings – plenty of room for qualifying for Denver. Then on Sunday on the final three holes he shot bogey, double-bogey, double-bogey. He dropped to 51st place on the FedEx standings, and is out.

“When things aren’t going your way, things aren’t going your way,” Kim said afterward. “It shows you in a decent year, this could have been like a 30th instead of a 51st.”

The field for this week’s BMW Championship is

• Scottie Scheffler
• Xander Schauffele
• Hideki Matsuyama
• Collin Morikawa
• Rory McIlroy
• Wyndham Clark
• Ludvig Åberg
• Sahith Theegala
• Patrick Cantlay
• Sungjae Im
• Shane Lowry
• Robert MacIntyre
• Akshay Bhatia
• Tony Finau
• Byeong Hun An
• Viktor Hovland
• Russell Henley
• Sam Burns
• Billy Horschel
• Matthieu Pavon
• Aaron Rai
• Justin Thomas
• Christiaan Bezuidenhout
• Sepp Straka
• Jason Day
• Davis Thompson
• Taylor Pendrith
• Tom Hoge
• Brian Harman
• Denny McCarthy
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Chris Kirk
• Corey Conners
• J.T. Poston
• Stephan Jaeger
• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Will Zalatoris
• Austin Eckroat
• Cameron Young
• Thomas Detry
• Adam Scott
• Adam Hadwin
• Max Homa
• Si Woo Kim
• Alex Noren
• Eric Cole
• Max Greyserman
• Nick Dunlap
• Cam Davis
• Keegan Bradley

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