The Tour Championship now has the richest individual prize fund in golf with the PGA Tour making the FedExCup payoff count as official money for the first time.

After Saturday, Fowler remains at the 32nd spot with 1351.792 points. He is behind Chris Gotterup with 1391.461 points and Sungjae Im with 1402.547 points. To move to the Tour Championship round, Fowler needs to be inside the top 30.

With the first leg of the FedExCup Playoffs over, only 50 players remain in contention for the FedExCup, 49 of whom will tee it up at this week's BMW Championsh

In January 1987, PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman introduced the first-ever Tour Championship—it was called the Nabisco Championship then—with these words: "We've tried various other methods, but this could be what we've been looking for–a logical, dramatic conclusion to the tour."

Akshay Bhatia kept his hopes of qualifying for the Tour Championship alive with a gritty finish at the BMW Championship. The Indian-American carded a 1-under 69 in the second round to move from tied-46th to tied-37th at the midway stage.

Tommy Gainey, known for wearing golf gloves on both hands, celebrated his 50th birthday on Aug. 13, just 48 hours before he teed it up in his first senior event. And so far, so good, as Gainey shot 6-under 64 at the 2025 Rogers Charity Classic.

“I wasn’t even in the championship until after the Pepsi Open,” Pluhowsky said.