This week marks the midway point to the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup. After 37 Regular season events and two Playoffs contests, the race for golf's biggest prize is still wide open.
When play resumes next week at the BMW Championship, six players will be able to unseat Deutsche Bank champion Webb Simpson for the top spot in the FedExCup standings while anyone who is competing could move inside the top five before the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola. Remember, anyone who moves into the top 5 before the TOUR travels to East Lake will control his own FedExCup destiny.
Speaking of making moves, Chez Reavie became the first player in Playoffs history to move from outside the top 70 into the top 10 at the Deutsche Bank Championship. With his playoff runner-up finish, Reavie jumped 76 spots from No. 87 to No. 9 in the latest standings.
Ernie Els , who moved 31 spots to No. 68, became just the second player to enter the Wyndham Championship outside of the Playoffs picture, but make it to the BMW Championship (Martin Laird, 2008). Els, however, is the only player to ever accomplish this feat by saving himself from the bubble (outside the cut line to start the week) back-to-back-to-back events.
William McGirt, Greg Chalmers and Graeme McDowell were all big movers up the rankings who fell short of the 70-man cutline for the BMW Championship.
Moving the other way was Kevin Na, who entered the week at No. 57 in the standings and fell 14 spots to No. 71 -- missing the BMW championship field by just 10 points. Also being eliminated last week was Harrison Frazar, the first 500-point winner of the year to be eliminated from the Playoffs. Frazar won the FedEx St. Jude Classic in early June but had just two top-30 finishes in 17 other starts this season.
Source from: pgatour.com
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