The PGA Tour's regular season ends at the Wyndham Championship, where rookie Jackson Koivun holds the No. 70 FedEx Cup spot by a slim margin and Cameron Young chases Sedgefield's first back-to-back win since 1956.
The PGA Tour's regular season ends this week at Sedgefield Country Club, and for a lot of players in the field, the leaderboard matters less than a single number: 70. Finish inside the top 70 in FedEx Cup points after Sunday and the season keeps going, into the FedEx St. Jude Championship and the start of the Playoffs. Finish outside it and the year is over.
The top 70 in FedEx Cup points after Sunday move on to the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first of three Playoff events that whittle the field down to the 30 who play for the Tour Championship and its $40 million purse. The FedEx Cup champion walks away with $10 million and a five-year exemption. Everyone outside the top 70 packs up for the offseason.
There's a second cutline running in parallel that gets less attention but carries real consequences: finishing inside the top 100 locks in fully exempt status for next season. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Lucas Glover, Ben Kohles, and Taylor Moore are among the names playing to stay on the right side of that line, a much quieter story than the Playoff bubble but no less important to the players living it.
No player entering the week has a more improbable case for being here than Jackson Koivun. The 21-year-old rookie jumped from outside the top 190 in FedEx Cup points to the No. 70 position on the strength of a win at the 3M Open, and he now sits on the number that decides whether his season continues. He starts Wyndham week roughly 12 points clear of Mac Meissner and 18 clear of Keith Bradley, the two players closest behind him for that final spot.
Those margins are tight enough that a single bad round, or a single good one from someone chasing him, changes everything. Points earned this week get added straight to the standings, so a hot Thursday from Meissner or Bradley closes the gap fast, while a strong week from Koivun himself would put the position out of reach before Sunday even arrives. Standings math tells more of this story than gut instinct, so if you'd rather watch the actual golf than the point totals, the leaderboard will tell you plenty on its own by Saturday.
The field around the bubble runs from roughly No. 61 to No. 125 in the current standings, and it's not short on name recognition. Cameron Young, Aaron Rai, and Justin Thomas all tee it up at Sedgefield alongside the players fighting for those final spots, a reminder that "bubble week" doesn't mean a thin field.
Young returns to Sedgefield as the defending champion, and as the favorite, after winning his first PGA Tour title there last year by six shots over Meissner. A repeat win this week would do something no player has managed at the Wyndham since 1956, when Sam Snead won it in back-to-back years. Every player who's teed it up at Sedgefield since has come up short of matching that stretch, which is as much a testament to how hard it is to win the same event twice as it is to how good Young's 2025 week actually was.
The tournament's own numbers add some context to what Young and the rest of the field are playing for locally, separate from the FedEx Cup implications: an $8.5 million purse, with $1.53 million going to the winner. It's real money and a real trophy, even before anyone gets to the Playoff math.
No player pressers have gone out yet. The bulk of the coverage so far is standings math and preview analysis, not quotes from the field, so treat any of the bubble talk you see as numbers-driven until the players start talking after Thursday's round. Once Round 1 wraps, watch three things: whether Koivun holds his position or someone closes the gap, whether Young's title defense is still alive entering the weekend, and where the number 100 line is sitting for the players fighting to keep their card without a trip through the Playoffs at all.
For more Tour coverage this season, see our recap of Shiho Kuwaki's AIG Women's Open playoff win.
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