August 6, 2025 

Welcome to the twelfth edition of The Tee Sheet - your Wednesday read on what matters in the world of golf right now. The Summer slog is starting to get interesting, and we’ve made it to the FedEx Cup playoffs.

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Official World Golf Ranking Tracker & Movers

• Big Movers Up: Cam Young rises to 21st in the world after his first Tour victory at the Wyndham Championship

• Top 10: Slight movements in the back of Top 10, with Sepp Straka falling out of the 10 spot

Note: Rising / Falling includes biggest movers in the OWGR Top 150

FedEx Cup Points Tracker

• Top 10 Movements: The FedEx Cup Top 10 is set heading into the playoffs - all 10 of the above players have received paydays for their position through the regular season. The Top 30 after the BMW Championship next week will receive paydays as well (the Top 50 make qualify to play in that tournament)

PGA Tour Money List Tracker

• Top 10 Movements: No changes to the Money Top 10 this week

Tourney Recap

2025 Wyndham Championship Recap:

Cam Young Finally Gets it Done!

It finally happened. After 93 PGA Tour starts and seven runner-up finishes, Cameron Young is no longer “one of the best without a win.” He’s a champion. At Sedgefield Country Club, Young closed out the 2025 Wyndham Championship with a final-round 68 to finish –22, winning by six shots and tying the tournament’s all-time scoring record (258). It wasn’t just a win - it was a wire-to-wire statement.

Oh, and it made him the 1,000th unique winner in PGA Tour history. That’s golf symmetry at its finest.

Young began the final round with a five-stroke lead, compiled by a bogey-free 65 in Round Three. Young opened with a bogey on Sunday - but stormed back with five straight birdies from holes 2 - 6 and cruised the rest of the way. His Sunday 68 wasn’t flashy; it was sturdy - and it delivered the title.

Being a New York native, Young has made his ambitions to play in front of the local crowd at this year’s Ryder Cup known. It’s likely a long-shot given the few opportunities left to cement a spot, but crazier things have happened - he’ll be fun to watch over the next couple of weeks.

🧠 The Backstory: From Sleepy Hollow to Greensboro

This win was years in the making - and not just on Tour.

Young grew up in Scarborough, New York, where his dad, David Young, was the longtime head professional at Sleepy Hollow Country Club. David coached Cameron as a junior, balancing the swing work with the mental side, while also steering Sleepy Hollow into one of the premier private clubs in the Northeast.

David retired in 2022 after 21 years at the club - but not before watching his son rise to the top of amateur golf and graduate from Wake Forest, just 90 minutes from Sedgefield. When Young accepted his trophy in Greensboro, he did it a few counties - and a couple decades - from where the dream really started.

Who’s Out of the Playoffs?

With the Wyndham Championship in the rearview, the top 70 players qualified for the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis. Just as many high-profile names didn’t make the cut - ending their season at Sedgefield. Here’s who missed and who snuck in:

• Max Homa, Tom Kim, Gary Woodland, Adam Scott, Sahith Theegala, Byeong Hun An, Keith Mitchell, Nicolai Hojgaard are all OUT 

• The final 10 spots were secured by Tony Finau, Chris Kirk, Nico Echavarria, Patrick Rodgers, Rickie Fowler, Davis Riley, Kevin Yu, Emiliano Grillo, Erik van Rooyen, Cam Davis, and Matti Schmid - these guys are IN 

Wyndham Championship Quick Stats:

• Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green Leaders

  1. Aaron Rai (+3.19)

  2. Chris Kirk (+2.67)

  3. Cameron Young (+2.21)

• Strokes Gained: Putting Leaders

  1. Cameron Young (+2.58)

  2. Ben Griffin (+2.48)

  3. Harry Hall (+2.32)

• Strokes Gained: Approach

  1. Aaron Rai (+2.61)

  2. Patrick Rodgers (+2.53)

  3. Rico Hoey (+1.67)

Tourney Preview

FedEx Saint Jude Championship Preview: Playoff Golf, Memphis Style

This week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind is more than a playoff opener - it’s a legacy event with roots stretching back to 1958. Starting as the Memphis Open Invitational, it evolved into the St. Jude Classic, then upgraded into a signature WGC event before its 2022 shift into the playoff anchor.

The field will feature the Top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings - don’t expect exhibition golf. We have a massive purse ($20M), a couple thousand FedEx Cup points on the line, and no cut - players need to turn here or spin into BMW elimination.

There is a ton of prize money up for grabs over the next couple of weeks heading towards the Tour Championship and the competition will be top notch.

🧠 What It Takes to Win Here

• Tee-to-green precision: Approach play must be sharp. Greens are firm and often perched with tricky slopes

• Course management: This isn’t a grip-it-and-rip-it venue. Fairways are narrow, and rough can be gnarly

• Short-game polish: The winner will likely scramble at an elite clip and avoid big numbers around the greens

• Mental edge: No cut means four days of pressure. Those inside the top 50 are trying to hold position. Those outside it are swinging for survival

📊 FedExCup Stakes

• Top 70 players are here

• Only the top 50 after Sunday will advance to the BMW Championship

• Players who finish inside the top 50 also lock up a spot in all 2026 Signature Events

• The Top 30 after the BMW will go to East Lake for the Tour Championship and a shot another big payday

This week separates the playoff passengers from the contenders. And with no cut and a purse this big, expect volatility - especially on Saturday and Sunday when bubble guys press and frontrunners play protect.

The Field - Who’s Playing?

As expected for the playoffs, the field is loaded this week - Scottie, Xander, JT, Morikawa, Ludvig, Keegan, Hideki, Hovland, Fleetwood, Lowry - as a good of a field as we’d see in a major.

Notably absent - Rory McIlroy - who will opt to rest up for the BMW Championship next week.

Saint Jude Championship Quick Stats:

• Course: TPC Southwind (Memphis, TN)

• Par: 70

• Distance: 7,288 yards

• Purse: $20,000,000

• Recent Champs: Hideki Matsuyama (2024), Lucas Glover (2023), Will Zalatoris (2022)

Picks & Players to Watch

• Top 20: Grillo (+120), Wyndham Clark (+130), Maverick McNealy (+120)

• Top 10: Russell Henley (+190), Tommy Fleetwood (+170) 

Disclaimer: The picks and predictions in The Tee Sheet are for informational and entertainment purposes only.

Ryder Cup Rankings Tracker

Team USA: 

• Cam Young moves to 15th in Ryder Cup points

Team Europe:

The Weekly Rundown

Stories to Know This Week

🏆 AIG Women’s Open

• Japan’s Miyu Yamashita wins the AIG Women’s Open by two shots to claim her first major title

🌆 LIV Golf Schedule Update

• LIV Golf heads to Bolingbrook Golf Club for LIV Chicago this weekend - Jon Rahm was victorious on 18 here last season

Author’s Note

That’s it for this week - and for the regular season.

Cameron Young finally got his win. The FedExCup field is locked. And next stop is Memphis, where every shot starts to feel like a decision that echoes all the way to East Lake. The margins are tighter. The money’s bigger. The mistakes louder. And the drama? Just getting warmed up.

But here’s the real kicker: as the playoff field shrinks each week, the Ryder Cup shadow keeps growing. Every round now counts for more than FedEx points - it’s about who gets on the plane to Bethpage. Cam Young knows it. So does Keegan. So does every bubble guy with something to prove.

See you next Wednesday - playoff edition.

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