The PGA Tour FedEx Cup playoffs start subsequent week with the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
World No. 2 Rory McIlroy just isn’t part of it.
The actual-life Masters champion was not at St. Jude Subject, launched by the PGA Tour on Friday. The highest 70 FedEx Cup standings after the top of this week’s Wyndham Championship shall be 69 subsequent week with McIlroy’s absence to qualify for the occasion.
McIlroy completed second final 12 months at St. Jude. He beforehand confirmed he wouldn’t play tournaments this 12 months.
“So this 12 months I used to be mainly the final time I died, and I simply went down one place within the playoff rankings,” he informed the Telegraph final November.
McIlroy is second within the newest FedEx Cup standings (behind the world’s primary Scotty Scheffler), so he would not need to play St. Jude to change into one of many high 50s to compete within the BMW Championship the next week. The playoffs then conclude with the Tour Championship, with the highest 30 FedEx standings shifting on.
McIlroy has not performed within the Open Championship two weeks in the past since T-7.
