Four Koreans, including Kim Joo-hyung and Kim Si-woo, qualify for PGA Playoffs

Games 1-3 with no cuts from Day 10

2,000 points to win Games 1 and 2

Possibility to flip the final FedEx Cup standings

The U.S. Professional Golf (PGA) Tour is wrapping up the regular season and entering the Playoffs (PO). The FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first round of the PO, begins today at TPC Southwind (par 70) in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

The top 70 players in the FedExCup standings heading into the Wyndham Championship, the final event of the regular season, which concluded on July 7, will compete in this event. The winner of the no-cut event will take home $3.6 million and 2,000 FedExCup Ranking points. Players will have to fight for survival at each event to advance to the second-round BMW Championship, 토토사이트 where the top 50 players will compete, and the final Tour Championship, where only the top 30 players will be invited. Currently, the FedExCup leader Yon Rahm (3320 points) and 70th-ranked Ben Griffin (617 points) are separated by 2703 points, which can be overturned in the first and second rounds of POs with 2,000 championship points each.

Among the Koreans are 14th-ranked Kim Joo-hyung, 18th-ranked Kim Siwoo, 32nd-ranked Lim Sung-jae and 37th-ranked Ahn Byung-hoon. Kim, who tied for second at the The Open Championship last month despite injuring his right ankle on the 24th, is focused on the PO as he withdrew from the Wyndham Championship last year, where he earned his first victory on tour. Ahn, who tied for second at the Wyndham Championship and tied for third at the Scottish Open last month, is also hoping for a late surge. The PGA Tour released a power ranking on Aug. 8 predicting the favorites to win the first round and ranked Ahn at No. 15, the only Korean player to do so. He has good memories of last year's Tour Championship, 스포츠토토 where he finished tied for second, the best finish by a South Korean in history. Kim will be making his eighth consecutive PO since 2016. Atop the Power Rankings is Yon Rahm, who has four wins on the season.

Meanwhile, the PGA Tour unveiled its 2024 schedule, which will move from the current seasonal format (which runs from September through August the following year) to a single year. There will be 36 regular-season events, starting with The Sentry in January. Add in the three POs and the schedule concludes in early September. There will also be eight Signature events with a total prize pool of more than $20 million, 스포츠토토맨 five of which will be non-cut.