Jackson Koivun just completed his fifth PGA Tour start since turning pro, and he’s already a playoff contender.
Koivun, 21, held onto the 70th and final spot in the FedEx Cup playoff field after he tied for 29th Sunday at the Wyndham Championship, the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale in Greensboro, N.C.
Koivun won the 3M Open two weeks ago, shooting a third-round 61 there and holding off Scottie Scheffler on Sunday. That propelled him to No. 70 in the season-long points chase despite most of the tour getting a head start on him.
He maintained the coveted No. 70 spot ever since, denying veterans like Keegan Bradley from pushing into the playoffs.
“Obviously I wanted to make the playoffs and I knew that was a far-fetched goal,” Koivun said. “If I told myself back in June that I would be sitting at 70 and waiting it out in Greensboro, I think I’d be pretty happy.”
By winning the Wyndham, Michael Brennan was the only player to claw into the top 70 from the outside during the final week. Brennan rocketed from 105th to 47th in the standings and qualified for his first FedEx Cup playoffs.
As a result, the only player to fall out of the top 70 in the final week was Steven Fisk. He missed the cut at the Wyndham and slipped past Koivun, from No. 69 to No. 71 overall.
Bradley, the one-time major champion and 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captain, saw his streak of 15 consecutive playoff berths come to an end. He entered the week No. 72 in points and made the cut, but when all was said and done he’d slipped to No. 74.
He needed a two-way tie for 38th or better at the Wyndham to advance; his 68 on Sunday left him at 6 under and tied for 49th. Had he saved two more strokes during the week, he’d have finished with enough points to crack the top 70.
“Yeah, pretty good streak. Normally I’d be going on to the playoffs in years past right now,” Bradley said, referring to the recent reduction of the playoff field to 70 players.
“So, you know, yeah, it’s only 70 make the playoffs for some reason. Like I said, any other year I’d be in the first couple, so it’s tough. I wish I just played a little better at the beginning of the year, we wouldn’t be in this position.”
Jason Day of Australia (No. 82) had a streak of 18 consecutive playoff appearances come to a close, and Tony Finau (No. 98) heads home at the end of an 11-year streak of playoff berths.
“I’m looking forward to taking some time off,” Day said after he missed the cut at the Wyndham. “My body’s been really awful actually this year, so just to try and grind through it has been tough. The last two days have been pretty hard to try and get my body ready. I wanted to play like 3M and Detroit and unfortunately, I couldn’t do anything there.”
Other notable names to miss the playoffs include Englishman Matt Wallace (No. 73), Denny McCarthy (No. 86) and Brooks Koepka (No. 94).
The 70 players to make the field for this coming week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship are as follows:
1. Scottie Scheffler
2. Matt Fitzpatrick
3. Cameron Young
4. Wyndham Clark
5. Chris Gotterup
6. Collin Morikawa
7. Si Woo Kim
8. Sam Burns
9. Tommy Fleetwood
10. Ludvig Aberg
11. Xander Schauffele
12. Rory McIlroy
13. Jacob Bridgeman
14. Akshay Bhatia
15. Russell Henley
16. Ryan Gerard
17. Min Woo Lee
18. Kristoffer Reitan
19. Alex Fitzpatrick
20. Hideki Matsuyama
21. J.J. Spaun
22. Ryan Fox
23. Viktor Hovland
24. Justin Rose
25. Alex Smalley
26. Tom Kim
27. Gary Woodland
28. Rickie Fowler
29. Adam Scott
30. J.T. Poston
31. Robert MacIntyre
32. Nicolai Hojgaard
33. Kurt Kitayama
34. Bud Cauley
35. Aaron Rai
36. Ben Griffin
37. Sepp Straka
38. Michael Thorbjornsen
39. Justin Thomas
40. Jake Knapp
41. Nico Echavarria
42. Patrick Cantlay
43. Ryo Hisatsune
44. Sahith Theegala
45. Eric Cole
46. Alex Noren
47. Michael Brennan
48. Matt McCarty
49. Keith Mitchell
50. Maverick McNealy
51. Harris English
52. Max Homa
53. Sungjae Im
54. Jordan Spieth
55. Sam Stevens
56. Pierceson Coody
57. Sudarshan Yellamaraju
58. Harry Hall
59. Corey Conners
60. Daniel Berger
61. Michael Kim
62. Shane Lowry
63. Nick Taylor
64. Jordan Smith
65. Brian Harman
66. Patrick Rodgers
67. Aldrich Potgieter
68. Ricky Castillo
69. Matti Schmid
70. Jackson Koivun
–Field Level Media
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