PGA Tour 2022-2023 at the end

The Wyndham Championship is played on the par70 field of Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina. This tournament closes in the top 70 on the FedEx Cup table, thereby bringing the entire segment into full-time competition next season, as well as giving this group a kickoff of the playoffs, which include St. Jude Championship, BMW Championship and Tour Championship grand final for three consecutive weeks.

In the playoffs, the roster will be based on the FedEx Cup table and descending in the order of top 70 – 50 – 30, replacing the top 125 – 70 – 30 applied last season.

According to the current competitive method, getting into the playoffs is the common goal of the PGA Tour world after 44 tournaments, including the major quartet – Masters, PGA Championship, US Open and The Open. Because at that point, they took up 70 full membership slots, while the rest, from 71st to 125th FedEx Cup had to plow more fall series, racing with the team from second-place Korn Ferry Tour to win the same position. on one's own.

Therefore, the Wyndham Championship is the last chance to stay in the first place, for the segment around level 70 on the FedEx Cup table before the tournament. This tense group has three big names on the PGA Tour, including Shane Lowry winning The Open 2019, Justin Thomas with two PGA Championship and Adam Scott winning the 2013 Masters.

Lowry is 76th in the FedEx Cup table, three places above Thomas while Scott is at 81. Therefore, all three must finish at least in the top 10 this week.

Wyndham Championship ended round 1 on August 3, in which, Scott took the T5 position (point -5), Lowry stood at T35 (-2), and Thomas was at T68 (even par). The top of the group (-8) belongs to Russell Henley currently in the top 35 FedEx Cup.

The prize fund is at $7.6 million, of which the winner is $1.368 million.