Shane Lowry will head straight from Paris to Greensboro, North Carolina, for this week’s Wyndham Championship.
Lowry is certainly one of 18 Olympians within the discipline for the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale, and relating to the FedExCup level standings, solely Sungjae Im (ninth) is ranked larger than the No. 10 Lowry.
With the highest 70 gamers in factors after the Wyndham advancing to the playoffs, Lowry is already assured to be taking part in at the least the primary two legs of the postseason, the FedEx St. Jude Invitational and BMW Championship. Nonetheless, his aim is to make it to East Lake for the primary time, which is why he’s hoping to financial institution some further factors – and a few bonus money through the Comcast Enterprise Tour High 10 – at Sedgefield Nation Membership.
“I used to be attempting to make the choice over the past couple of weeks, as a result of if I don’t do as nicely within the The Open, I wasn’t going to go and chase it,” Lowry stated. “I don’t like chasing stuff. However I additionally hate the unknown. I wish to know what I’m doing and plan the place I’m going. … I type of sat down with my coach and my workforce final week and had been like, proper, what’s the most effective factor to do? I used to be like, look, there’s solely 4 weeks left within the FedExCup. I believe that is in all probability going to be the most effective possibilities I’ll ever have to truly win the FedExCup, so each level may rely on the finish of the day as nicely, not just for Comcast, and if I could make 100 FedExCup factors subsequent week or extra, it’s definitely going to assist me alongside the way in which.
“On the finish of the day, I’ve aim in my head the place I need to be going into Atlanta and if I’m there, I believe I’ll have a shot of doing one thing cool.”
Becoming a member of Im and Lowry within the Wyndham discipline are 21 of the present FedExCup high 50, a benchmark that after the FedEx St. Jude secures spots in all of subsequent 12 months’s signature occasions. That group consists of Nos. 43-50: Keegan Bradley, Denny McCarthy, Will Zalatoris, Mac Hughes, Jake Knapp, Harris English, Austin Eckroat and Nick Taylor.
The highest 70 gamers within the FedExCup standings after the Wyndham Championship (August 8-11) qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs.
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Additionally, Nos. 51-54 are taking part in: Patrick Rodgers, Justin Rose, Aaron Rai and Eric Cole.
And as for the top-70 race, right here is who’s simply inside – and outdoors – that bubble:
65. Mark Hubbard
66. Nick Dunlap
67. Jhonattan Vegas
68. Emiliano Grillo
69. Seamus Energy
70. Brendon Todd
71. Victor Perez
72. Davis Riley
73. Andrew Putnam
74. Kurt Kitayama
75. Luke Checklist
The 156-player discipline additionally options sponsor exemptions reminiscent of Florida State junior Luke Clanton and newly minted professional Michael Thorbjornsen.
Not within the discipline however on the alternate listing are six gamers who reshuffled to the underside of the reorder class again in April, together with Q-College grad Raul Pereda and KFT grad Scott Gutschewski. Blaine Hale and Josh Teater, who had been among the many gamers who struggled to get begins early within the 12 months, wanted restricted sponsor invitations to achieve entry into the coveted discipline.
