FedEx Cup field: Streaks end as Jackson Koivun cements final playoff spot

Aug 9, 2026; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA; Jackson Koivun eyes his tee shot on number two during the final round of the Wyndham Championship golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images 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