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For the first time since the FedEx Cup era began in 2007, there will be no Australians at the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake this week.
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The top 70 on the FedEx Cup standings after the regular season-ending Wyndham Championship determined the field for the first event, the FedEx St Jude Championship, before 50 advance to the BMW Championship and then 30 move onto the Tour Championship.
Only three Australians qualified for the FedEx Cup Playoffs – Jason Day, Min Woo Lee, and Cam Davis – but none advanced through the gauntlet of the three-event postseason. Day was the last Aussie standing at the BMW Championship, but he too was bundled out before cutoff for Atlanta.
So, how did it happen? We take a look at the seasons of the five Australians on tour.
Adam Scott
Scott fell well short of qualifying for the playoffs. No top 10s and only five top 25s from 17 starts meant he missed out on the playoffs at 90th on the FedEx Cup. His only highlight was a T-12 at the US Open, where he shared the lead during the final round (while playing in the final group) before fading on the back nine. In 2024, Scott had two runner-up results and at the Tour Championship he finished fourth on the final FedEx Cup standings.
Jason Day
Day, the 2015 PGA Champion, showed small flashes of his former world No.1 self throughout the year. He opened with a T-3 at The American Express in January and added a string of strong results including T-8s at both the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Masters, as well as a T-4 at the Travelers Championship in June. Those four top-10s lifted him into the FedEx Cup top 50, where he was the lone Australian to reach the BMW Championship. But a T-23 finish at the BMW at Caves Valley left him 41st in the standings – well outside the Tour Championship 30.
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Min Woo Lee
Lee was one of only two Australian winners on the PGA Tour this season, capturing the Texas Children’s Houston Open in March when he held off world No.1 Scottie Scheffler. The victory was a milestone in his career, adding to his growing global profile. He also logged top-20 finishes at Pebble Beach, the Phoenix Open, the Cognizant and the Players Championship. However, missed cuts in three majors – the PGA, US Open and the Open Championship – combined with a string of middle-field results, left him ranked 57th in the FedEx Cup and well short of the BMW, let alone East Lake.
Karl Vilips
The other Australian winner on the PGA Tour was talented rookie Karl Vilips, who stormed to his maiden PGA Tour title at the Puerto Rico Open. He added a T-4 at the Zurich Classic (teams event), a T-11 at the Charles Schwab and T-19 at Wyndham. However, nine missed cuts—including five in a row prior to the season-ending Wyndham Championship—meant he finished 83rd in the FedExCup, outside the playoffs’ top 70.
Cam Davis
Davis looked poised for a big year when he finished T-5 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February and followed with a T-13 at the RBC Heritage. He also posted a respectable T-19 at the PGA Championship, suggesting his game was turning in the right direction. But inconsistency plagued him, with 11 missed cuts including at the Masters. He made into the playoffs at 69th in the FedEx Cup but bowed out after the first event in Memphis.
