Bubble boy Rickie Fowler makes FedExCup Playoffs with skin through his teeth

Rickie Fowler becomes Last Man Standing, narrowly making it into the Fedex Cup Playoffs with last place finish, No. 125, before heading into this weekend’s FedEx St. Jude Championship.

Rickie Fowler has arguably benefited the most from the player exodus to LIV. He has missed several cuts this year PGA Tour, including last week’s Wyndham Championship, which seemed to knock him out of contention for the Fedex Playoffs. He started at Wyndham in 133rd place but due to defecting 10 players to LIV Golf Leaguehe jumped 10 spots to 123 at the start of the week.

A last-minute scramble of musical chairs at Wyndham saw several players from the top 125, including Austin Smotherman, Brian Stuard and Justin Lower, batter their way, leaving Fowler in a safer position in 124th place. But Joohyung Kim’s shock win gave the Wyndham winner conditional tour status and knocked down a hook for Fowler to achieve bubble man status. You can find the full breakdown here Detailed analysis.

Fowler, 33, is clearly in a two-year funk, symbolized by the danger of nearly missing the playoffs for the second straight year. Still, Fowler struggled to pull it off.

The FedEx spot also guarantees him the opportunity to play The Players, where he won in 2015, his greatest achievement, and a tournament he would not have qualified for without the FedEx spot. That win, along with his 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open title and an extra year due to the COVID pandemic, earned him a tour exemption through 2023. Luck certainly helped five-time PGA Tour Winner to get him through another year.

Last year marked the first time the new dad (whose daughter Maya was born last November) missed that FedEx Playoffs he sits well outside the bubble at 134 after 11 straight drives. Fowler’s best finish of the season came in 3rd place at last fall’s CJ Cup. But seven missed cuts feel like a slump for the charismatic and talented golfer, one of the most likeable player of the tour, continued.

Though he barely made it, Rickie Fowler can shake off the embarrassment of missing the FedEx Cup Playoffs two straight years and look forward to advancing to the post-season opener, the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee . Rickie Fowler Tracker fans can breathe a sigh of relief for their beloved golfer.