2026 FedExCup Standings: The Top 30 Bubble and the Tour Championship Outlook
- The top 30 is not settled yet. The FedEx St. Jude Championship cut the field to 50; it is the BMW Championship, 20 to 23 August at Bellerive, that cuts it to 30 for the Tour Championship.
- Four players changed sides of the line on the strength of one week. Kurt Kitayama (33rd to a projected 28th) and Bud Cauley (34th to 29th) moved inside it; Gary Woodland (27th to 31st) and J.T. Poston (30th to 32nd) dropped out.
- The biggest move of the week belongs to Alex Noren, who finished tied third and is projected to climb 12 places, from 46th to 34th — still outside, but within a good week of the cut.
- Scottie Scheffler remains first and is not under threat. He won at TPC Southwind at 17 under, eight clear of Si Woo Kim, and holds the top spot in both the official and projected standings.
- The Tour Championship is 27 to 30 August at East Lake in Atlanta. Tommy Fleetwood is the defending champion.
Four players changed sides of the top-30 line in a single week — and the cut that actually matters has not happened yet.
The FedEx St. Jude Championship narrowed the field to 50. It is the BMW Championship, 20 to 23 August, that decides which 30 players reach the Tour Championship at East Lake. What follows is where everyone stands now, and how far the bubble players have to travel.
Who leads the FedExCup standings?
Scottie Scheffler, and not narrowly. He won at TPC Southwind at 17 under, eight shots clear of Si Woo Kim, and sits first in both the official and the projected standings.
| Projected | Player | Official |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | 1 |
| 2 | Matt Fitzpatrick | 2 |
| 3 | Cameron Young | 3 |
| 4 | Si Woo Kim | 7 |
| 5 | Wyndham Clark | 4 |
| 6 | Sam Burns | 8 |
| 7 | Chris Gotterup | 5 |
| 8 | Tommy Fleetwood | 9 |
| 9 | Collin Morikawa | 6 |
| 10 | Ludvig Åberg | 10 |
Read those two columns carefully, because they are different things. “Official” is the standings before the St. Jude points were applied. “Projected” is where the TOUR puts each player once they are. Si Woo Kim’s jump from 7th to 4th is his runner-up finish being counted; it is not a prediction about next week.
Who is on the top-30 bubble?
This is the part of the board that moved.
Ranks shown as official, then projected.
| Player | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Fox | 22 → 25 | In |
| Justin Rose | 24 → 24 | In |
| Tom Kim | 26 → 26 | In |
| Adam Scott | 29 → 27 | In |
| Kurt Kitayama | 33 → 28 | Moves in |
| Bud Cauley | 34 → 29 | Moves in |
| Rickie Fowler | 28 → 30 | In, last place |
| Gary Woodland | 27 → 31 | Drops out |
| J.T. Poston | 30 → 32 | Drops out |
| Nicolai Højgaard | 32 → 33 | Out |
| Alex Noren | 46 → 34 | Out |
| Jake Knapp | 40 → 35 | Out |
| Robert MacIntyre | 31 → 36 | Out |
Kurt Kitayama and Bud Cauley did the work: 33rd and 34th before the week, projected 28th and 29th after it. Gary Woodland and J.T. Poston did not, and a fortnight ago both were comfortably inside.
The single biggest move belongs to Alex Noren, who finished tied third and is projected to climb 12 places from 46th to 34th. He is still outside — but he is now inside one good week of the cut, which he was not seven days ago.
And note Rickie Fowler at a projected 30th. That is the last qualifying place. One player passing him at Bellerive removes him.
How do the FedExCup Playoffs work?
Three events, three cuts, and each one is decided purely by standings position.
| Event | Field | Venue and dates |
|---|---|---|
| St. Jude | 70 | TPC Southwind — complete |
| BMW | 50 | Bellerive, 20–23 Aug |
| Tour Championship | 30 | East Lake, 27–30 Aug |
There is no cut inside the BMW Championship itself — all 50 play four rounds. What that week produces is a final points table, and the top 30 of it travel to Atlanta.
What does the BMW Championship actually decide?
Everything for about a dozen players, and nothing for most of the rest.
The top of the board is settled in practice: Scheffler, Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young and the rest of the top 10 would need a collapse across the field to fall 20 places in one tournament. The players whose week matters are roughly 24th to 40th, which is the band in the chart above.
For anyone in that band the arithmetic is simple and brutal. A good finish at Bellerive moves you up; the players below you posting good finishes moves you down; and there is no third event to fix it afterwards.
We are not going to tell you who makes it. The cut has not happened, one tournament sits between now and it, and no honest version of this page names the 30.
When is the Tour Championship?
27 to 30 August at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, with 30 players. Tommy Fleetwood is the defending champion.
What to watch this week
- Watch 24th to 40th, not the leaderboard. The tournament winner at Bellerive matters far less to this story than who finishes 15th versus 40th.
- Rickie Fowler holds the last spot at a projected 30th. He is the reference point for everyone chasing.
- Alex Noren is the live one from outside. Twelve places gained in a week, and he needs roughly four more.
- Gary Woodland and J.T. Poston need to respond immediately. Both were inside a week ago and have one tournament to get back.
- Ignore anything that prices this. Points positions are published and checkable; anything else being quoted about the bubble is somebody’s guess dressed up.
Sources
| Source | What it supports here |
|---|---|
| PGA TOUR FedExCup standings | Every official and projected rank on this page, the top-30 cut line as the TOUR displays it, and the St. Jude leaderboard marked official |
| PGA TOUR tournament schedule | The BMW Championship and Tour Championship dates, venues and defending champions |
Checked 16 August 2026. No affiliate links, and no payment was received for any link on this page.
How we verified this
Every rank here was read off the PGA TOUR’s own FedExCup standings page in a browser, row by row, rather than taken from a write-up. The page was verified before use: the TOUR’s own home page returns a live response and an invented path on the same host returns 404, so a live response there means something.
The two columns on that page are not the same thing, and the whole article depends on the difference. The TOUR publishes “Official” and “Proj.” side by side and they differ. Official is the standings before the St. Jude Championship’s points are applied; projected is where each player lands once they are. The evidence is in the movement — Alex Noren finished tied third and appears as official 46th, projected 34th. So every “moved to” figure here describes one completed tournament, not a forecast of the next one.
The tournament result was taken only from a leaderboard marked official. The TOUR’s own leaderboard strip carried the “OFFICIAL” label with a completed fourth round for every player, which is the standard this site applies before printing a result. Scheffler at 17 under and Si Woo Kim at nine under is what that leaderboard showed.
No betting odds or prediction-market prices appear anywhere on this page. That is a site-wide rule rather than a judgement about this event, and it applies to implied probabilities too. The “predictions” in this piece are arithmetic on published standings and the published cut rules, and nothing else.
We do not name who will make the top 30. The cut has not happened, the BMW Championship reshuffles points before it does, and anyone claiming to know is guessing. What this page does instead is show exactly who is on which side of the line today and how far each of them has to travel.
The dates and venues are from the TOUR’s own schedule page: BMW Championship 20 to 23 August at Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis; Tour Championship 27 to 30 August at East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta. Defending champions are as listed on that page.
The bubble chart shows a band, not the whole field. It covers the players ranked 22nd to 46th officially, which is where every crossing of the line occurs. Players comfortably inside or outside are omitted because their lines would be flat and would compress the ones that matter.