The final round of the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis has decided who’s moving on and who’s season has ended.
Only the top 50 in the FedEx Cup Standings will advance to the second of three legs of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, the BMW Championship, which takes place next week in Maryland. The St. Jude started with 70 eligible golfers (but only 69 played due to Rory McIlroy electing not to play) and now there are 20 names removed from playoff participation.
For leaderboard updates from Sunday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, head to our live updates page.
2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship leaderboard
See the final-round leaderboard right here.
Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle
Who missed out on advancing in the FedEx Cup Playoffs?
Here are the golfers who finished in the No. 51 to No. 70 spots as well as the position they were in four days ago. There were five golfers who fell out of the top 50.
Pos.GolferPrevious51Chris Kirk6152Aldrich Potgieter4353Aaron Rai5554Jordan Spieth4855Jake Knapp4756Wyndham Clark4957Min Woo Lee5058Max Greyserman5759Joe Highsmith5460Stephan Jaeger5861Davis Riley6562Nico Echavarria6263Kevin Yu6664Patrick Rodgers6365Mackenzie Hughes5966Tony Finau6067Matti Schmid7068Emiliano Grillo6769Cam Davis6970Erik van Rooyen68
Who advanced in the FedEx Cup Playoffs after the St. Jude?
Scottie Scheffler tied for third at TPC Southwind and tightened his grip on the No. 1 spot. U.S. Open champ J.J. Spaun and Justin Rose, the two playoff participants in Memphis, made big moves into the top 5. Meanwhile, there were five golfers who moved into the top 50 after starting the week on the outside looking in.
Pos.GolferPrevious1Scottie Scheffler12Rory McIlroy23J.J. Spaun84Justin Rose255Sepp Straka36Russell Henley47Ben Griffin68Tommy Fleetwood99Justin Thomas510Harris English711Andrew Novak1212Cameron Young1613Ludvig Aberg1414Keegan Bradley1015Maverick McNealy1116Corey Conners1317Collin Morikawa1918Brian Harman2019Patrick Cantlay2320Robert MacIntyre1521Hideki Matsuyama2122Nick Taylor1823Shane Lowry1724Sam Burns2425Sungjae Im2926Chris Gotterup2227Jacob Bridgeman3328Viktor Hovland2629Akshay Bhatia4530Lucas Glover2731Sam Stevens2832Ryan Gerard3133Daniel Berger3034Ryan Fox3235Taylor Pendrith3836Thomas Detry3537Kurt Kitayama5238Denny McCarthy3939Brian Campbell3440Matt Fitzpatrick4141Si Woo Kim4642Michael Kim3643Xander Schauffele4244Jason Day3745Harry Hall4446Bud Cauley5347Tom Hoge4048Rickie Fowler6449Jhonattan Vegas5650J.T. Poston51
Final group is on 18th hole, top 50 almost finalized
With Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood now playing the 18th hole, the top 50 for the second leg of the 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs is just about set.
Rickie Fowler appears to be safe at No. 48. Jhonattan Vegas is No. 49 after starting the week 46th and J.T. Poston is clinging to the 50th and final spot for the BMW Championship.
Chris Kirk is like to be singing “Heartbreak Hotel” if he stays in the 51st spot. Rookie Aldrich Potgieter in 52nd will come up two spots of advancing. Jordan Spieth (down to 54th from 48th) has seen his 2025 season come to a close.
Rickie Fowler keeps flirting with the top-50 cutoff
With two holes to go, Fowler is 1 under on his day and T7 overall and 48th in the FedEx Cup Playoffs race.
He’s started the week 64th, but moved inside the top 50 and has stayed there most of the week but on Sunday alone, there’s been a handful of times he moved outside and then back inside that cutoff.
Time is running out for some golfers who started the week inside top 50
Aldrich Potgieter (43 to 51), Jake Knapp (47 to 55), Wyndham Clark (49 to 56) and Min Woo Lee (50 to 57) appear to be the group of golfers who will slip out of the top 50 for next week’s BMW Championship.
On the flip side, J.T. Poston (51 to 50), Bud Cauley (53 to 46), Kurt Kitayama (52 to 37) and Rickie Fowler (64 to 48) are the four who are making the most of their week in Memphis.
Rickie Fowler has slipped outside the top 50 in FedEx
Fowler started the week 64th but climbed inside the top 50 and spent most of the week in Memphis there. While he’s still inside the top 10 on the tournament leaderboard, he has slipped to No. 51 in the standings with six holes left on Sunday.
Several golfers have climbed inside the top 50… but there’s a lot of golf left
The top 50 is the magic number and there’s six golfers who have climbed inside that threshold:
- Kurt Kitayama, No. 52 to No. 45
- Bud Cauley, No. 53 to No. 47
- J.T. Poston, No. 51 to No. 48
- Jhonattan Vegas, No. 56 to No. 49
- Chris Kirk, No. 61 to No. 50
These standings are as of 3:56 p.m. ET so keep in mind there’s a lot of golf left and these standings are fluid.
FedEx St. Jude defending champ finishes strong
Hideki Matsuyama closed with his best round of the week, a 5-under 65 and he’s tied for 15th. He won’t repeat but does have the best final round so far on this Sunday. But, that said, he’s down three spots in the playoff standings to No. 24.
Is Jordan Spieth going to advance to the BMW?
Spieth shot a final-round 68 on Sunday and is tied for 39th but more critically for his future is that he’s slipped to 52nd in the standings. He entered the week near the bubble at 48th but he’s made the next few hours precarious.
Final group tees off for final round in Memphis
Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose are on the course to start their final round. As he tees off, Rose is is up 17 spots from No. 25 to No. 7. Fleetwood is up seven spots to No. 2.
Aldrich Potgieter shoots 67, awaits his FedEx fate
Rookie Potgieter, the lone rookie in the 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs, shot a final-round 67 to get 3 under overall and tied for 59th. More importantly for his immediate future, he’s 51st on the standings, and will need some help in the afternoon wave to climb into the top 50.
Who’s on the FedEx Cup Playoffs bubble?
Here’s who’s in and who’s out of the top 50 entering Sunday’s final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis:
45. Denny McCarthy
46. Tom Hoge
47. Kurt Kitayama
48. Chris Kirk
49. Rickie Fowler
50. Jhonattan Vegas
———
51. J.T. Poston
52. Aldrich Potgieter
53. Wyndham Clark
54. Jordan Spieth
55. Aaron Rai
Min Woo Lee plays solo, completes round in 2 hours, 10 minutes
Because of the odd-number of the field (69 players), Min Woo Lee ended up as a solo golfer and was the first one out Sunday. He sped around TPC Southwind, playing in just over two hours. He shot a final-round 70 but finished 10 over for the week, tied for DFL. He entered the week in the 50th and final spot but he left the course in 56th place, so his season appears to be over.
How do the FedEx Cup Playoffs work?
The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings qualified for this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first of three legs in the playoffs. The top 50 in those standings will move onto the BMW Championship in Maryland next week.
The top 30 in the standings after the BMW advance to the final playoff event, the Tour Championship, where, unlike past years, everyone will start at even par. The winner of the Tour Championship at East Lake is awarded the FedEx Cup.
Who’s near the top-50 cutoff for the 2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs?
Min Woo Lee started the week as the “bubble boy”, holding on to the No. 50 spot in the FedEx Cup standings. After 54 holes in Memphis, Jhonattan Vegas is now in that position with one round remaining.
How do the FedEx Cup projected standings work?
The PGA Tour’s projected standings are updated throughout the final round as golfers record their birdies, pars, bogeys and more, which them moves them up or down the leaderboard as well as the standings. Once the tournament is complete Sunday evening, the top 50 will be set and the field will be finalized for the BMW Championship.
What happens to those outside the top 50?
The 20 golfers who finish this weekend outside the top 50 will have the next two weeks off as the rest of the playoffs are played out, but all is not lost. Everyone inside the top 100 retains their full PGA Tour member status for the 2026 season, meaning anyone who competed in Memphis this week is guaranteed a job next year.
