{"id":60793,"date":"2025-08-11T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60793\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T06:12:09","slug":"rickie-fowler-among-players-to-jump-into-top-50-qualify-for-2026-signature-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60793\/","title":{"rendered":"Rickie Fowler among players to jump into top 50, qualify for 2026 signature events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How important is finishing inside the top 50 of the FedExCup standings?<\/p>\n<p>Look no further than Rickie Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>Fowler wasn\u2019t exempt for the PGA Tour\u2019s signature events this season, though the veteran earned his way into seven of them via sponsor exemptions. Of the 665 points he racked up during the regular season, approximately 318 came from Fowler\u2019s signature starts, which included just two top-15 finishes, the best a T-7 at the Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday in Memphis, Fowler tied for sixth in the FedEx St. Jude Championship to move from No. 64 to No. 48, qualifying for not only next week\u2019s BMW Championship but all of next season\u2019s signature events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing that I got a handful of spots this year, which I\u2019m incredibly grateful for, unfortunately I really didn\u2019t take advantage of many of those opportunities up until Jack\u2019s event,\u201d Fowler said. \u201cDidn\u2019t play that well in any of them. Those elevated fields and maybe some more points, I didn\u2019t really get them. But it was great to have a tee time in them this year, and didn\u2019t really want to bank on that for next year. Yeah, nice to be in a position where we\u2019ll be able to be back in those and not have to write notes and calls and ask for favors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fowler was one of five players to play their way into the top 50 this week. That meant that five players dropped out, a group that included Jordan Spieth, who like Fowler, received several sponsor exemptions as he made six signature starts after returning from wrist surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Spieth dropped from No. 48 to No. 54 after posting at T-38 finish.<\/p>\n<p>IN<br \/>Kurt Kitayama \u2013 52 -&gt; 37<br \/>Bud Cauley \u2013 53 -&gt; 46<br \/>Rickie Fowler \u2013 64 -&gt; 48<br \/>Jhonattan Vegas \u2013 56 -&gt; 49<br \/>J.T. Poston \u2013 51 -&gt; 50<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"BMW Championship 2025 field: Who qualified for the PGA Tour\u2019s second playoff event\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/golf\/news\/bmw-championship-2025-field-who-qualified-for-the-pga-tours-second-playoff-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"PGA: BMW Championship - Final Round\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754892729_760_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty players qualified for the second FedExCup playoff event, the BMW Championship.<\/p>\n<p>OUT<br \/>Aldrich Potgieter \u2013 43 -&gt; 52<br \/>Jordan Spieth \u2013 48 -&gt; 54<br \/>Jake Knapp \u2013 47 -&gt; 55<br \/>Wyndham Clark \u2013 49 -&gt; 56<br \/>Min Woo Lee \u2013 50 -&gt; 57<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How important is finishing inside the top 50 of the FedExCup standings? Look no further than Rickie Fowler.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-60793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}