“He received most uncommon gift – forgiveness” Rickie Fowler enters playoffs as last participant after 125th position at FedEx cup
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Rickie Fowler was the last and 125th man to qualify for the playoffs of FedEx up. Only two golfers—the Wyndham Championship champion Joohyung “Tom” Kim and Max McGreevy—moved into the FedEx Cup Playoff bubble from outside the No. 125 place at the beginning of the week, and only two, obviously, dropped out (Matt Wallace and Austin Smotherman).
It doesn’t sound like much, and it isn’t, but that figure doesn’t quite capture the ferocious volatility over the course of the weekend when anyone keeping track of the projected finishes could see the ebbs and flows in real-time and realize that regardless of how things ended, the sheer range of possibilities was astounding.
This was the situation with Rickie Fowler, who began the week ranked 123rd in the FedEx Cup standings and was in grave danger of dropping out of the top 125 when he almost missed the cut on Friday. Fowler was initially outside the bubble according to the projected standings, and he remained outside for the majority of the weekend.
Fowler managed to Qualify at 125th place as other players missed out
The fact that Fowler managed to finish in 125th place—making it on the list—in the end, however, was the result of numerous interrelated factors. One or two specific instances come to mind, including Justin Lower’s bumbling three-putt finish on Sunday, Smotherman’s devastating missed cut, and even Wallace, the final man to go out at No. 126, missing the cut on the same hole as Fowler.
Fowler missed the playoffs last season for the first time after 11 consecutive appearances, finishing 134th. His 2021–22 season was almost equally challenging, and his solitary top-10 finish came at the CJ Cup last fall. He has now missed seven cuts but has still managed to rack up enough points to be eligible for a spot at Sedgefield Country Club.
He was unable to put the final touches on his own playoff run, missing his birdie putt on Friday’s 18th hole by three inches. After then, all that was left to do was wait and hope, and even though his odds never seemed good, events worked in his favor. Wallace finished with 315.820 points, while he scored 323.797.
Fowler received that most uncommon of gifts—forgiveness—in the closing seconds of the regular season, which is not frequent in golf and most definitely not common at the Wyndham Championship.
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