Seamus Power's 2025 schedule could be determined this week as the FedEx Cup playoffs get underway with the St Jude Classic in Memphis.
Power who finished 67th on the rankings after last week's Wyndham Championship needs to finish inside the Top 50 to progress to next week's BMW Championship in Colorado.
A top 50 finish will guarantee the West Waterford man entry to the 20 million dollar signature events next season.
Power will play with American Brendon Todd getting underway at 4.05pm Irish Time.
Three-time FedEx Cup champion, Rory McIlroy who is third on the rankings plays with Collin Morikawa at 3.25pm while Shane Lowry is out at 3.45pm with Sung Jae Im.
“I certainly don’t want to sit up here and belittle my achievements at all this year and what I’ve done, but at the same time I expect a certain standard from myself,” McIlroy said.
“I’ve won a couple of times. I’ve had an opportunity to win a few more times than that and haven’t been able to get over the line. So I would have liked to have added a couple more to that win column.
“But as I said, there’s still three tournaments left in this PGA Tour season. I think I’ve actually got eight or nine tournaments left this year, but three on the PGA Tour to turn an okay season into a very good one.
“I think when the bulk of the season has come and gone and you’ve got this opportunity of three weeks to really, I guess, flip the script a little bit or change the narrative and what that season means, I think that’s a motivating factor and part of the reason that I’ve probably played well in the play-offs for the last three years.”
Asked if he needed to do anything different to get rid of the “nearly man” tag he gave himself after the Olympics, McIlroy added: “I just have to finish off tournaments better.
Lowry is ranked tenth and is more or less guaranteed a first appearance at the Tour Championship final in a fortnight.
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