What bubble-boy Wesley Bryan, others must do at RSM Traditional to maintain their playing cards

You possibly can name Wesley Bryan the bubble boy – no less than for this week.

Bryan sits No. 125 in FedExCup factors heading into the RSM Traditional, which begins Thursday at Sea Island Golf Membership in St. Simons Island, Georgia. The RSM affords gamers one ultimate likelihood to safe their full PGA Tour card for subsequent season, and ending inside that coveted prime 125 would do the trick.

Jacob Bridgeman, at No. 109, is the lowest-ranked participant in factors who has mathematically clinched his spot within the prime 125, whereas No. 110 Michael Kim is the highest-ranked participant nonetheless with work to do. Kim wants to complete in a two-way tie for fifty fifth or higher to maintain his full card, although that’s contemplating an ideal storm beneath him. Extra realistically, everybody from No. 118 Joe Highsmith on up must be feeling fairly snug.

Bryan would want to win so as to assure full standing for subsequent season (in fact, he doesn’t need to win to maintain his card; a victory is the minimal wanted so as to not be affected by others’ outcomes).

Here’s a have a look at the minimal finishes wanted for gamers inside the highest 125 to remain there:

(Be aware: Not within the RSM subject are No. 112 Ben Silverman, No. 116 Ryan Fox, No. 117 Chris Gotterup and No. 121 Sami Valimaki, although Gotterup is a match winner this season; No. 111 Matt McCarty, who’s enjoying RSM, can also be a match winner this 12 months.)

As for the chasers, Henrik Norlander is presently the primary man out at No. 126, however fewer than 9 factors behind Bryan. That signifies that Norlander would want no less than a two-way tie for forty ninth to have an opportunity of cracking the highest 125; if Bryan made the minimize, Norlander would want a greater end than that.

Here’s a have a look at the minimal finishes wanted for gamers to maneuver into the highest 125:

(Be aware: Matt Wallace, Michael Thorbjornsen, Gary Woodland, Nick Hardy, Webb Simpson and Stewart Cink have already got full standing locked up for 2025, whether or not as a match winner up to now two seasons, reigning PGA Tour College No. 1, or through a career-money exemption.)

Everybody else within the subject from No. 184 Wilson Furr on again can’t crack the highest 125 with out a win, which clearly would include a two-year winner’s exemption.