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Asian golf stars qualify for FedExCup Playoffs

A total of five Asian golf stars, headed by Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and Korea’s Sungjae Im, have qualified for the lucrative FedExCup Playoffs, which begin with the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis on Thursday. 

Following the conclusion of the Wyndham Championship on Sunday, which was the final tournament of the regular season, Matsuyama and Im will enter the playoffs in eighth and ninth position, respectively.

Korea’s Byeong Hun An (12th), Si Woo Kim (36th) and Tom Kim (40th) will also be among the elite top-70 players who will tee up at TPC Southwind this week, with the goal of remaining in the top-50, which is the cut-off for the second and penultimate playoff event — the BMW Championship. The top-30 subsequently progress into the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta, where at stake is the season-long ultimate prize, the FedExCup. Last season, all five players were also Asia’s representatives in the playoffs with Si Woo Kim, Tom Kim and Im making it through to Atlanta.

Japanese rookie Ryo Hisatsune gave himself a shot at squeezing into the playoffs on Sunday as he fought his way into contention at the Wyndham Championship before finishing tied third, three strokes back of winner Aaron Rai of England.

The 21-year-old, who earned his PGA Tour card through the DP World Tour Top-10 last season, needed to play 36 holes on Sunday where he fired rounds of 64 and 67 to enjoy his third top-10 of the season, which moves him up to 83rd on the FedExCup standings. He will now focus on the Fall Schedule, which features seven tournaments with players fighting to secure their top-125 status to retain their Tour cards and spots into the early Signature events in 2025.

Other Asian stars who missed out on the Playoffs include Chinese Taipei’s Kevin Yu (89th), C.T. Pan (92nd), Korea’s K.H. Lee (99th), Rico Hoey of the Philippines (100th), S.H. Kim of Korea (111th) and China’s Carl Yuan (126th). 

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who has won six times on the PGA Tour this season and was the gold medalist in the recent Paris Olympics, enters the playoffs as the favorite to lift the FedExCup, with this season’s two-time major winner Xander Schauffele in second place and

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