For the second year in a row, Scottie Scheffler is the FedEx Cup points leader entering the Tour Championship.
Under the format installed last year, it won't matter.
Scheffler's tie for 12th last week at the BMW Championship kept him first on the points list with just short of 5,000. He has a margin of 1,523 points over Matt Fitzpatrick and 1,694 over BMW winner Wyndham Clark.
But all points are wiped out for the Tour Championship, beginning Aug. 27 at East Lake in Atlanta and No. 30 Ryan Fox has just as good a chance to win the FedEx Cup and the $10 million first prize as Scheffler.
Last year, after the PGA Tour ditched the "starting strokes" format in which the FedEx Cup leaders received, progressively, a certain number of strokes under par to
begin the tournament, Scheffler had a lead of more than 2,000 points. But Tommy Fleetwood came from ninth place to win the tournament, his first on the PGA Tour, and the FedEx Cup.
Hint: Fleetwood is ninth again this year.
Who made the biggest FedEx Cup moves at the BMW Championship?
- Patrick Cantlay, up 24 spots (2nd at the BMW), 43rd to 19th)
- Gary Woodland, up 13 spots (T4th at the BMW), 31st to 18th)
- Robert MacIntyre, up 11 spots (T7th at the BMW), 36th to 25th)
Who dropped out of the top 30 at the BMW?
- Rickie Fowler, down three shots (T37th at the BMW), 30th to 33rd)
- Bud Cauley, down five spots (T44th at the BMW), 29th to 34th)
FedEx Cup points leaders
Through BMW Championship (all players in the field for the Tour Championship, Aug. 27-30, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta)
- 1. Scottie Scheffler 4,986
- 2. Matt Fitzpatrick 3,463
- 3. Wyndham Clark 3,292
- 4. Cameron Young 3,206
- 5. Si Woo Kimm 2,729
- 6. Chris Gotterup 2,588
- 7. Collin Morikawa 2,542
- 8. Sam Burns 2,453
- 9. Tommy Fleetwood 2,263
- 10. Ludvig Åberg 2,198
- 11. Rory McIlroy 2,095
- 12. Xander Schauffele 2,025
- 13. Jacob Bridgeman 1,961
- 14. Russell Henley 1,853
- 15. Akshay Bhatia 1,842
- 16. Hideki Matsuyama 1,736
- 17. Ryan Gerard 1,608
- 18. Gary Woodland 1,556
- 19. Patrick Cantlay 1,529
- 20. Kristoffer Reitan 1,523
- 21. Min Woo Lee 1,496
- 22. J.J. Spaun 1,646
- 23. Alex Smalley 1,443
- 24. Alex Fitzpatrick 1,434
- 25. Robert MacIntyre 1,428
- 26. Viktor Hovland 1,425
- 27. Justin Rose 1,405
- 28. Adam Scott 1,383
- 29. Tom Kim 1,378
- 30. Ryan Fox 1,368
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Scottie Scheffler cruises to final FedEx Cup points lead. It may not matter
