![]() ![]() You finish 125th on the best tour in the world, and you’re in one elevated event, The Players. Same with the elevated events (next year). We’re touting ourselves as the best tour in the world, so why wouldn’t you reward the best 125 guys and let them play in your biggest events. I don’t know if it is because they are outside the top 70 or they actually understand it’s kind of silly. Glover, the only player to move into the top-70 for the playoffs after his win in Greensboro, North Carolina, was also highly critical post-win of how the PGA Tour has restructured the lucrative playoffs and effectively cut off a large chunk of its members.Īs he put it, “some of the guys who were pushing for 70 are now backtracking a little bit. McIlroy and Séamus Power, who both sat out the Wyndham Championship won by Lucas Glover, and where Lowry was among those to fall short of his goal to force his way into the top-70, are the two Irish players who have advanced into the three tournament playoffs that feature the St Jude in Memphis, the BMW in Delaware and the Tour Championship in Atlanta with field sizes reduced – from 70 to 50 to 30 – at each stage. ![]() This year’s winner will pocket $18 million from a pool of $75 million. With the PGA Tour reducing those advancing from the regular season to the playoffs from 125 to 70, the list of casualties as it were included high-profile names among them Shane Lowry, Adam Scott (his streak of 16 successive playoffs ended) and Justin Thomas who will have to watch from afar as others go chasing the pot of gold. Nobody has heard the kerching sound of the FedEx Cup’s money more loudly that Rory McIlroy and as the world number two goes in search of a fourth title in the PGA Tour’s playoffs – which starts with this week’s St Jude Classic in Memphis – there will be fewer bodies to negotiate in that quest than in past years.
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