Tony Finau has withdrawn from this week’s Baycurrent Classic, the PGA Tour has confirmed.<\/p>\n
No reason was given for the American’s withdrawal, which comes after his T99th finish at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship<\/a> this past weekend in Scotland.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finau was due to fly to Japan for the 78-man limited-field PGA Tour event at Yokohama Country Club this week, where he was among the star names in the field.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n The 36-year-old has been replaced by Sam Ryder.<\/p>\n Six-time PGA Tour winner Finau has dropped to 66th in the world this year after recording just one top-10 on the PGA Tour, which was his T5th finish at the Genesis Invitational back in February.<\/p>\n Ryder is on his way to Japan after finishing T29th at the Sanderson Farms Championship<\/a> this past weekend in Jackson, Mississippi. The American is down in 111th in the FedEx Cup Fall<\/a> standings so is in need of a good result to retain his playing status for 2026.<\/p>\n There are just five events remaining on the FedEx Cup Fall schedule, with the top 100 retaining their cards and qualifying for The Players Championship.<\/p>\n Numbers 101-125 will have conditional status for next year and are eligible for the PGA Tour Q-School to try and regain their cards.<\/p>\n Nico Echavarria defends the title this week after beating Justin Thomas<\/a> and Max Greyserman by a single stroke last time out. Thomas is back this year along with big names including Xander Schauffele<\/a>, Hideki Matsuyama<\/a> and 2023 champion Collin Morikawa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Finau has withdrawn from this week’s Baycurrent Classic, the PGA Tour has confirmed. No reason was given…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-195249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}