2025 FedEx Cup Playoffs sleepers, surprise predictions as PGA Tour postseason begins at St. Jude Championship

The Fedex Cup qualifiers have varied in their level of predictability in recent years, the 2025 edition is likely to fall into a more unpredictable category. With the PGA Tour in May announcing a change in the Tour championship format which will allow the 30 golfers of the final of the playoffs to start a playground, the simple fact of going to East Lake Golf Club will create a legitimate chance of claiming the first prize at the conclusion of the season.

Scottie Scheffler, Rory McILroy and Viktor Hovland have said that the Cup crowns Fedex in recent years, and all three should take into account in a certain quality this qualifying series. With the additional variance introduced in the touring championship and no starting stroke awarded to players, there can be foreigners who have an inner chance of lifting the Silver Cup.

As rare as two or up to 12 golf laps separate players from their seasons that the top 70 of the PGA Tour Game in the St. Jude championship before the field was cut to 50 players in the BMW championship and finally 30 for the Tour championship.

Could someone from the outside in the top 50 make their way through the BMW championship, the touring championship and even the circle of the winner at East Lake?

So what exactly will happen during the three weeks of the Fedex Cup qualifiers? Let us take a first look at certain predictions and choice of our CBS sports experts when we try to project who will win – and what will happen – in this iteration of the playoffs.

2025 Fedex Cup Playoffs Picks, expert predictions

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Patrick McDonald, golf writer

Choose to win the Fedex Cup – Russell Henley (22-1): Henley enters the playoffs in the top five of the race of a season and is assured of a time in the touring championship. He finished 3rd last season in an East Restored lake and will arrive this year in the best form of his career. The reliable right continues to face (and win) in important events such as major championships and signature events, it is therefore not exaggerated to suggest that it can do so again in a limited field.

Sleeper to gain Fedex Cup – Aaron Rai (200-1): A lot of work must be done for Rai, but he has makeup to go to the end. The Englishman is outside the Top-50 bubble at the start of the playoffs, but a good start at TPC Southwind could serve as a launch for the month of August. Rai has just finished in the top five of the Wyndham championship, and he is perfect for TPC Southwind and East Lake if he arrived so far.

The most likely to disappoint – Ben Griffin (starts at n ° 6): Griffin returned to the wagon at the Wyndham championship, but had struck a little hook before that with two missed cuts consecutive to John Deere Classic and the Open. He will play golf courses – Caves Valley and East Lake – which he has never seen before in the PGA Tour competition, and his ball has plunged from his summer summit.

Player with the most on the line – Jordan Spieth (starts at n ° 48): Spieth was criticized throughout 2025 due to the acceptance of sponsors’ invitations in signing events, but now he has a chance to play in these tournaments. If he maintains his place in the top 50, Spieth will be able to choose his schedule in 2026, which he even admitted is a great season for him on his way to wrist surgery. If he goes beyond expectations and qualifies for the touring championship, this probably means that he has supported (or won) one of the first two elimination events, which would certainly remove the eyebrows from the management of the Ryder Cup.

Robby Kalland, golf writer

Choose to win Fedex Cup – Scottie Scheffler (12/5): Why bother yourself to talk about someone else who wins these big events only to watch Scheffler Steamroll in the field? He burned the new East Lake look last year (-20 without starting cerebral vascular accidents), and I see no reason to believe that he cannot start again this year. The ball jump moves everywhere, and it seems that his putter makes more trips than no now too, which is a terrifying proposal.

Sleeper to gain Fedex Cup – Wyndham Clark (190-1): Wyndham has been in tears since he destroyed certain lockers in Oakmont.
Do I agree with his methods? No, but it is difficult to challenge the results. He left T17, MC, T11, T4 and T12 from the United States Open, attacking the 49th in the ranking. He will have to do more work to go to East Lake, but he obtained a top 10 at St. Jude last year, and Caves Valley was friendly with the long fractors in 2021. There is absolutely a path to enter the top 30, and if he arrives at East Lake, he has a 3rd and 8th place in the past two years.

The most likely to disappoint – Keegan Bradley (starts at n ° 10): Since the first eliminatory event moved to Memphis, Bradley has become MC, T43 and T59 at St. Jude. This does not increase well to take the kind of hot start he needs in these playoffs to relieve a little pressure on the choices of an imminent Ryder Cup captain. If he does not have a great performance in any of the first two events in the playoffs, his decision on the opportunity to choose as a game captain becomes even more difficult.

After winning the traveler’s championship, it seemed to be a lock for the team, but Bradley disappeared in the section while others were strong at the end of the year to give it really difficult choices. He did an incredible job this year by keeping Keegan the separate player of Keegan the captain, but it will be almost impossible for the next two weeks with the captain’s choices due after the BMW. It also seems appropriate that this decision is as tortuous as possible, and this would be the case if it drinks the playoffs.

Player with the most on the line – Collin Morikawa (starts at n ° 19): There are three players have a case for this place: Morikawa, Spieth and Bradley. Two of these names have already been discussed, so I will not resume them here. Morikawa has a spiral to end her season. He has undergone several caddy changes (with another new bag of bag this week in Memphis), fought with the media at different times, published a top 10 going back to the Masters (T8 at the Rocket Classic), missed his last two cups and is now held outside the top 6 for an automatic place in the US Ryder Cup team.

For a guy who looked formidable to start the year and who has long been one of the most coherent artists in the PGA Tour, it was a fairly amazing season of Morikawa. The playoffs offer him a pivot point. If he continues to fight, he is not completely locked in the Tour championship. Although it is shocking for him to miss the Ryder Cup team, he certainly does not make the best case for himself in Bethpage Black.

However, Morikawa has three other chances of straightening the ship and taking a certain momentum in the Ryder Cup. He played solidly at St. Jude in the past and would have beaten Scheffler to East Lake last year without the starting blows. There may not be a better player in the most need for positivity on the course at the moment that Morikawa, and if he does not find it, the chatter will only be stronger before Bethpage.

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