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The Five: Players who have made most of FedExCup Fall
This week’s break in the PGA TOUR schedule offers one final breather. Next up are the final three events of the 2024 PGA TOUR season, a potentially stressful time for those looking to stay in the top 125 of the FedExCup standings. Other players will use this final trio of events to jockey for spots in two of next year’s Signature Events.
With the race for the FedExCup completed, this time of year is all about putting yourself in the best position for 2025. And now, after 10 months of competition, it all comes down to the next three weeks.
The stakes are high, especially for those players hovering around the top 125 in the FedExCup standings. The top 125 at season’s end earn full status for 2025 and a spot in THE PLAYERS. Those who find themselves on the wrong side of that line are looking at a trip to PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry, where only five PGA TOUR cards are available.
As we prepare for next week’s World Wide Technology Championship, here’s a look at five players who have made the most of the FedExCup Fall thus far, setting themselves up for success in 2025 and beyond.
How quickly Matt McCarty’s life has changed. It’s a testament to how quickly a few good weeks can transform a player’s life. In mid-July, McCarty was ranked 22nd on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, looking at a stressful few weeks as he tried to lock up his first PGA TOUR card.
McCarty has been on a tear ever since. He won his first Korn Ferry Tour title the following week, then added two more in his next five starts to secure the Three-Win Promotion from the Korn Ferry Tour and the top spot on that tour’s season-long points list. McCarty quickly made the most of his PGA TOUR status, winning in his second start, at the inaugural Black Desert Championship.
McCarty, who began the year ranked 430th in the world, now is inside the top 50, with spots in the first three majors of 2025 secure, as well as trips to THE PLAYERS and the season-opening The Sentry in Maui.
“Yeah it’s crazy,” McCarty said in his pre-tournament press conference at the Shriners Children’s Open, just three days after his victory at Utah’s Black Desert Resort. Within the first four questions, he used the words “crazy,” “whirlwind,” “unreal,” “insane” and “surreal.”
There was no thesaurus present, just a 26-year-old who still hadn’t wrapped his mind around his new situation. By winning in his third career TOUR start, he equaled the feat of Russell Henley, Seve Ballesteros and Bob Gilder. Only Garrick Higgo (second) and Jim Benepe (first) won faster.
There is no doubt about who has gained the most over this stretch; it’s the wide-eyed lefty who has taken the TOUR by storm.
It’d be easy to make this list entirely out of the winners of the FedExCup Fall, but that would ignore the intriguing subplots developing on the periphery – one of which is Lucas Glover’s return to form. Glover can catch fire with the best of them, a fact on full display in 2023 when he won the Wyndham Championship and FedEx St. Jude Championship back-to-back, pushing himself into Ryder Cup consideration and nabbing a spot on the TGL’s Atlanta Drive alongside Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay and Billy Horschel.
Glover’s 2024 was a reminder that form can be fleeting. Hoping to parlay last year’s late-summer resurgence into a sustainable season-long run in 2024, Glover came up short. The six-time TOUR winner failed to register a top 10 in the FedExCup Regular Season and missed the FedExCup Playoffs entirely, rendering him unable to defend his title at TPC Southwind. With a forced break between the Wyndham and the FedExCup Fall, Glover prioritized weight loss, shedding a few pounds and finding his game in the process. He finished T13 at the Procore Championship then notched back-to-back T3s at the Sanderson Farms Championship and the Black Desert Championship, by far his best performances since his two victories in 2023.
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