{"id":806074,"date":"2026-08-07T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806074\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:20:27","slug":"rory-mcilroy-commits-to-fedexcup-playoffs-opener-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806074\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy commits to FedExCup Playoffs opener in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy will be in Memphis when the FedExCup Playoffs<\/a> begin with next week\u2019s FedEx St. Jude Championship.<\/p>\n

The PGA Tour announced Friday afternoon that McIlroy has committed to the 70-man field, one year after he skipped the playoff opener at TPC Southwind.<\/p>\n

The field will be finalized upon the conclusion of this week\u2019s Wyndham Championship.<\/a><\/p>\n

McIlroy previously competed in three straight FedEx St. Jude Championships starting in 2022, the same year the Tour relocated The Northern Trust. He missed the cut that first year before finishes of T-3 and T-68. He only played two events at TPC Southwind when the course hosted the FedEx St. Jude Classic, a regular-season event. He was T-29 in 2010 and T-7 two years later.<\/p>\n

McIlroy\u2019s Memphis return will mark his 12th start of the season on Tour. He\u2019ll enter the tournament at No. 12 in the FedExCup standings thanks mostly to his Masters victory, T-2 at the Genesis Invitational, and top-10s at the PGA Championship and Genesis Scottish Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even with three playoff starts, McIlroy won\u2019t meet the 15-event minimum this season \u2013 he skipped three signature events this season \u2013 though as The Daily Drive\u2019s Bob Harig previously reported, the Tour can reduce such requirement due to \u201cmedical reasons or other extraordinary circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

After last month\u2019s Open Championship, McIlroy was asked if it was fair to say that the FedExCup doesn\u2019t get his \u201cjuices flowing\u201d<\/a> like it used to.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, that\u2019s fair,\u201d McIlroy, 37, responded, before expounding:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it just sort of ebbs and flows,\u201d he added. \u201cThere\u2019s been years where I\u2019ve given [the Tour] maybe more of my attention and years that I haven\u2019t. Yeah, I guess I\u2019m just at a stage that I have other things that I prioritize. Again, the PGA Tour is in a lot of flux at the minute with a lot of their schedule and structure and everything like that. So, I think the change where it doesn\u2019t matter where you are in the top 30 going into the Tour Championship, it\u2019s like I just need to be in the top 30 going in there to have a chance to win a FedEx Cup. So why would I care about the first two? I sort of came to that decision last year, and I\u2019m just sort of doing the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what you need to know ahead of the three-event FedExCup Playoffs on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will be in Memphis when the FedExCup Playoffs begin with next week\u2019s FedEx St. Jude Championship.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-806074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}