PGA Tour Fall replace: Camilo Villegas makes leap with RSM Basic left


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 means of 2025.

As for different gamers, solely these ranked one 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 2 hundredth will obtain conditional standing for subsequent season. That very same group of gamers will 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, together with his future in limbo. He then completed in solo second to Erik Van Rooyen, dismissing any of these worries.

Camilo Villegas, PGA Tour, Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Camilo Villegas receives the trophy after profitable the 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Photograph by Gregory Shamus/Getty Pictures

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 have 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 Record

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 usually are not within the area at this week’s RSM Basic, 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 one 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 Basic 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 employees author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By way of. You possibly can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Be sure you try @_PlayingThrough too.



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