Whats up J.J. Spaun and welcome to the bubble.

Whereas lacking the FedEx Cup Playoffs doesn’t imply shedding your Tour card prefer it did beforehand, professionals nonetheless have 75 million causes to get to Memphis subsequent week for the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

And with 70 gamers, down from 125, shifting on to the primary Playoff occasion this 12 months, J.J. Spaun is projected because the bubble man proper now.

After three rounds on the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale on the Wyndham Championship, the playoff bubble has develop into barely clearer, however something may occur over the ultimate 18 holes. Because it stands by 54 holes, the one two gamers to play their manner into the playoffs this week occur to be the highest two gamers on high of the leaderboard.

With one spherical to go within the common season, right here’s how the projected FedEx Cup standings are shaking out with a number of big-name professionals nonetheless on the skin trying in on the coveted high 70.

Lucas Glover

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 112
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 50*
Place this week: T1

Exterior the highest 110 coming into the week, Glover sounded off that the highest 125 ought to nonetheless be entering into the playoffs. His feedback maintain somewhat extra weight now that he and Horschel are the one two gamers projected to play their manner into the sector in Memphis subsequent week. The 2009 U.S. Open winner hasn’t missed the playoffs since 2018.

Billy Horschel

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 116
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 53*
Place this week: T1

Horschel has seen a few of the bottom lows this season, however he could make up for all of it with a win this week to catapult him into the FedEx Cup playoffs for the eleventh straight 12 months. Together with Glover, the 2014 FedEx Cup winner wants not less than a two-way T2 to have an opportunity at shifting into the highest 70. A win assures it.

*Each Horschel’s and Glover’s projected standing are based mostly on each of them profitable and receiving 500 FedEx Cup factors

Cam Davis

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 69
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 67
Place this week: T16

The Aussie’s omission from the playoffs can be a stunning one after recording high 10s in three of the season’s largest occasions on the Gamers, RBC Heritage and PGA Championship. However 11 missed cuts left him with little room to spare in Greensboro. An eight-under begin to the week, nonetheless, provides him a projected four-shot cushion to slide keep inside the highest 70.

Vincent Norrman

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 66
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 68
Place this week: T43

One of many PGA Tour’s latest winners has an excellent likelihood to begin his profession with a playoff berth in his rookie season. If all gamers behind him don’t acquire any floor, Norrman can’t play his manner out of the highest 70, in line with ShotLink projections.

Matt NeSmith

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 65
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 69
Place this week: 72

Matt NeSmith may be next-to-last on the leaderboard this week, like Norrman, he can’t play his manner out of the Playoffs except extra gamers behind him make up floor.

J.J. Spaun

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 67
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: *70*
Place this week: T51

Spaun enters Sunday’s ultimate spherical because the bubble man however he’ll have somewhat respiration room. He entered the week at 67th within the standing and he holds solely a nine-point lead over No. 71. Nevertheless, he may end final and nonetheless make it to TPC Southwind as long as somebody behind him doesn’t acquire floor.

Ben Griffin

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 68
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 71
Place this week: MC

Maybe nobody is rooting in opposition to Billy Horschel and/or Lucas Glover greater than Ben Griffin (Properly we hope he’s not really rooting in opposition to them). The PGA Tour rookie and No. 68 participant within the standings missed the minimize this week which implies if two or extra gamers play their manner in (and if No. 69 Cam Davis finishes higher than forty fourth) Griffin is out.

Justin Thomas

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 79
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 72
Place this week: T11

With Horschel and Glover enjoying nicely, Thomas’ playoff push acquired a bit tougher. The excellent news is a third-round 66 has him T11, only one shot out of the place he at the moment must make the playoffs. With how the leaderboard is shaking out, Thomas wants a solo ninth or higher to maintain from lacking the playoffs for the primary time as a PGA Tour member.

Davis Thompson

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 75
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 73
Place this week: T21

Thompson has had a stable rookie season, together with a near-miss loss to Jon Rahm on the American Specific. However eight months later, he’s in an analogous spot as Thomas, needing a solo eleventh to make the Playoffs.

Austin Eckroat

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 70
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 74
Place this week: MC

The bubble man coming into the week, Eckroat missed the minimize at Sedgefield. The truth is, each participant ranked 70-74 missed the minimize this week. Whereas 71-74 (Ben Taylor, Garrick Higgo, Okay.H. Lee, David Lingmerth) all had been eradicated from the playoffs, Eckroat can nonetheless get in so long as nobody performs their manner in. Eckroat followers have to hope BOTH Glover and Horschel end outdoors the top-2 and Thomas doesn’t make a run.

Shane Lowry

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 76
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 78
Place this week: T51

Lowry has shockingly by no means made it to East Lake for the Tour Championship in his profession and it doesn’t look more likely to occur this 12 months. Lowry at the moment wants a solo eleventh to complete seventieth which is seven photographs away.

Michael Kim

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 91
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 80
Place this week: 6

Kim shot up the leaderboard into solo sixth with a Saturday 62, however he’ll want extra Sunday to make it to Memphis. The 30-year-old has to complete solo third or higher to maneuver on.

Adam Scott

Official FedEx Cup Standing: 81
Projected FedEx Cup Standing: 84
Place this week: T34

Scott burst into the playoff dialog by grabbing the early first-round lead with a Thursday morning 65. Even-par golf since then, nonetheless, isn’t going to get the job achieved and Scott wants one thing magical and a whole lot of assist to make the playoffs. Scott and Matt Kuchar (Who’s projected No. 62) are the one two gamers to play in each version of the FedEx Cup Playoffs since they started in 2007.

Jack Hirsh

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Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State College, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf group and nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but in addition producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He might be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.