{"id":52144,"date":"2025-08-08T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52144\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:05:15","slug":"rory-mcilroy-masters-champion-to-miss-pga-tour-play-off-opener-in-memphis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52144\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy: Masters champion to miss PGA Tour play-off opener in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rory McIlroy will not play in the opening play-off event of the PGA Tour season next week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Masters champion was not listed in the field for the FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis, which was released on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s McIlroy has not played since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cql0wn52kpqo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finishing tied seventh<\/a> at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament in Memphis will mark world number one Scottie Scheffler&#8217;s return after his four-shot victory at the Open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three-time FedEx Cup winner McIlroy, 36, struggled at the St Jude Championship last year, finishing joint second last on nine over par. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings after this week&#8217;s Wyndham Championship will qualify for the St Jude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Memphis, the top 50 will advance to the BMW Championship in Maryland on 14-17 August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The season-ending Tour Championship, featuring the top 30 players, takes place in Atlanta the following week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy, who is second behind Scheffler in the FedEx Cup standings, is scheduled to play in the Irish Open at the K Club and the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in September before returning to the United States for the Ryder Cup in New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will not play in the opening play-off event of the PGA Tour season next week. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-52144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}