Camilo Villegas’ victory on the Butterfield Bermuda Championship launched him up 72 spots within the FedEx Cup Fall rankings.
Earlier than final week, Villegas sat in 147th place within the FedEx Cup Fall. However the Colombian’s beautiful ball hanging helped him win his first PGA Tour occasion in 9 years as he secured tour membership by way of 2025.
As for different gamers, solely these ranked a hundred and twenty fifth and better after the FedEx Cup Fall will obtain full membership standing on the PGA Tour in 2024.
Anybody ranked between 126th and two hundredth will obtain conditional standing for subsequent season. That very same group of gamers may even obtain alternatives to play on the DP World Tour in 2024.
Amazingly, two weeks in the past, earlier than the World Extensive Applied sciences Championship on Tiger Woods’ course in Mexico, Villegas sat in 223rd, along with his future in limbo. He then completed in solo second to Erik Van Rooyen, dismissing any of these worries.
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However he now has a brand new goal: making the ‘Subsequent 10.’
Gamers ranked between 51st and Sixtieth within the FedEx Cup Fall will earn spots within the first two ‘Signature Occasions’ of the 2024 PGA Tour Schedule after The Sentry: the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am and the Genesis Invitational.
Gaining entry into these prestigious occasions can change the outlook of an expert’s profession—particularly somebody like Villegas, who has encountered tough battles on and off the golf course for the previous couple of years.
Alas, let’s take a look at the present standings:
FedEx Cup Fall Rankings:
The ‘Subsequent 10’ — 51st-to-Sixtieth:
51. Beau Hossler
52. Matt Kuchar
53. Mackenzie Hughes
54. Ben Griffin
55. Taylor Montgomery
56. Nick Hardy
57. Alex Smalley
58. Luke Listing
59. J.J. Spaun
60. Sam Ryder
Within the hunt for the ‘Subsequent 10’ — Sixtieth-to-Seventy fifth:
61. Mark Hubbard
62. Stephan Jaeger
63. Thomas Detry
64. Alex Noren
65. Erik van Rooyen
66. Davis Riley
67. Brandon Wu
68. S.H. Kim
69. Keith Mitchell
70. Hayden Buckley
71. Justin Suh
72. Aaron Rai
73. Matt NeSmith
74. Sam Stevens
75. Camilo Villegas
Of all these gamers listed above, solely Beau Hossler, van Rooyen, and S.H. Kim are usually not within the discipline at this week’s RSM Traditional, the ultimate occasion of the PGA Tour season. Which means loads of motion can nonetheless happen.
Maybe no participant is hotter than Villegas, who has gone solo second and first in his final two begins. Earlier than that, the 41-year-old Colombian had made solely two cuts in 2023.
However as famous above, dozens of gamers are preventing simply to maintain their PGA Tour card for subsequent season.
FedEx Cup Fall Bubble — 116th to a hundred and twenty fifth:
116. Gary Woodland
117. Ben Martin
118. Chad Ramey
119. Peter Malnati
120. Matti Schmid
121. Doug Ghim
122. Nico Echavarria
123. Troy Merritt
124. Andrew Novak
125. Carl Yuan
The highest 125 gamers on the finish of the RSM Traditional will obtain PGA Tour playing cards for the 2024 season.
Wants Assist — 126th to one hundred and thirty fifth:
126. Henrik Norlander
127. Maverick McNealy
128. Ryan Moore
129. C.T. Pan
130. Patton Kizzire
131. Ryan Palmer
132. Zecheng Dou
133. Scott Piercy
134. Kramer Hickok
135. Cameron Champ
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By means of. You’ll be able to comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. You should definitely take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.