Hard to believe it’s already August, and that means it’s time for the 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs.
The field for the first event, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, is official now that final putt has dropped at the Wyndham Championship.
The defending champion at TPC Southwind, Will Zalatoris, will not be in the field as he hasn’t played since withdrawing from the Masters due to injury.
There are several other big names not there as well, including Justin Thomas (71) and Adam Scott (72), who missed the top-70 cutoff.
To get you ready for the home stretch of the PGA Tour season, we put together everything you need to know for every stop of the postseason including dates, course, defending champion and what’s on the line for everyone in the field.
FedEx St. Jude Championship
Dates: Aug. 10-13
Course, location: TPC Southwind; Memphis, Tennessee
Defending champion: Will Zalatoris
Field: Top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings
The field in Memphis is made up of the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings after the reguler-season ending Wyndham Championship, down from 125 from previous seasons.
Every player in the field will receive top-125 status for next season. This gets them into every full-field event and the Players at TPC Sawgrass. Players who don’t make the BMW Championship field – Nos. 70-51 – will carry their points – including the ones they earned at TPC Southwind – into the fall where they’ll have an opportunity to earn their way into the Sentry Tournament of Champions field, the first signature event of 2024.
Purse: $20 million; $3.6 million to the winner.
BMW Championship
Dates: Aug. 17-20
Course, location: Olympia Fields Country Club; Olympia Fields, Illinois
Defending champion: Patrick Cantlay
Field: Top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings
After Memphis, only the top 50 advance to Week 2 of the playoffs. Every player that makes it to the 2023 BMW Championship is eligible all every signature event in 2024. That includes The Sentry, which was previously limited to the past season’s winners and Tour Championship qualifiers.
Purse: $20 million; $3.6 million to the winner.
Tour Championship
Dates: Aug. 24-27
Course, location: East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta
Defending champion: Rory McIlroy
Field: Top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings
Players who make it to East Lake earn two-year exemptions on Tour, an invitation to the Masters and, most likely, invitations to the U.S. Open and Open (those two events have yet to release their exemption criteria for 2024).
Purse: $75 million; $18 million to the winner.
The winner in Atlanta receives a five-year Tour exemption and an $18 million FedEx Cup prize. The runner-up earns $6.5 million, while last place gets $500,000. A nice guaranteed paycheck to end the season. The money earned at the Tour Championship is considered “bonus” money and is not part of the calculation to determine the season-long money title. But it spends just the same.
