Koivun clinches 70th playoff spot in just 6 starts
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- Jackson Koivun secured the 70th and final FedEx Cup playoff spot by closing with a 71 at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina, finishing with eight points to spare.
- Koivun, 21, left Auburn in June and won the 3M Open in only his third PGA Tour start, adding three more starts to total six heading into the postseason.
- Matt Wallace and Davis Thompson were still on the course at Sedgefield Country Club and in range of bumping Koivun out, but they failed to hole key putts.
- Koivun was one bogey away from elimination on the 18th hole, but he piped his drive down the middle and made an easy par to seal the spot.
- Koivun's six starts are the second fewest by any player to reach the FedEx Cup playoffs since its 2007 inception — only Tiger Woods in 2019-20 (five starts) had fewer.
- Koivun called the Sunday finish "a different type of nerves when you know you don't have your stuff," showing visible emotion in a rare display from the normally composed 21-year-old.
- Koivun will tee it up Thursday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, with a chance to keep climbing with a good-enough finish there.
Why it matters: Koivun preserves a spot in the PGA Tour's lucrative postseason by holding the 70th-and-final FedEx Cup cutoff, keeping alive the chance for a seven-figure payday despite having played roughly one-sixth the schedule of a full Tour member. His six-start run to the playoffs is the second-shortest path since 2007 — a Tiger Woods-tier rarity that underscores how quickly a heralded amateur can translate college form into Tour results.
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