There’s a new FedEx Cup points leader on the PGA Tour this season.
With Rory McIlroy’s victory over J.J. Spaun in a Monday playoff at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, McIlroy jumped from seventh to first on the points list with 750, the largest amount available in a Tour event (the same number of points is awarded for major championships).
Rory McIlroy holds the game winnning grophy as a flower given to him by his daughter Poppy, 5, not shown, after a three-hole aggregate playoff of The Players Championship PGA golf tournment Monday, March 17, 2025 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Rory McIlroy won his second Players Championship at +1 over J.J. Spaun. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union]
McIlroy took over from Sepp Straka and with the four majors coming up, he may be well on his way to a potential fourth FedEx Cup championship when all is said and done.
If anyone’s into numerology, consider this: McIlroy has won the FedEx Cup in 2016, 2019 and 2022, every three years. This year is the third year since his last.
Hmmmm.
McIlroy is the only three-time FedEx Cup champion. Tiger Woods is the only other player to have won two.
Ludvig Åberg and Hideki Matsuyama have also led the points list this season.
The race for the FedEx Cup continues this week at the Valspar Championship at the Innisbrook Resort Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor, where 500 points are available to the winner.
FedEx Cup points leaders
Through The Players Championship
- Rory McIlroy 1,586
- Sepp Straka 1,283
- Russell Henley 1,229
- Collin Morikawa 1,081
- J.J. Spaun 1,059
- Ludvig Åberg 1,018
- Hideki Matsuyama 949
- Corey Conners 914
- Thomas Detry 843
- Michael Kim 823
- Nick Taylor 807
- Shane Lowry 752
- Lucas Glover 750
- Scottie Scheffler 683
- Maverick McNealy 664
- Akshay Bhatia 645
- Justin Thomas 644
- Tom Hoge 609
- Patrick Cantlay 596
- Joe Highsmith 596
- Harris English 588
- Keegan Bradley 565
- Sungjae Im 565
- Daniel Berger 561
- Denny McCarthy 527
- Brian Campbell 514
- Justin Rose 513
- Patrick Rodgers 498
- Robert MacIntyre 493
- Tommy Fleetwood 486
Who made the biggest FedEx Cup moves?
Five players who made the biggest jump last week
- Bud Cauley, 81 spots, 128th to 47th (tied for sixth at The Players)
- Danny Walker, 79 spots, 125th to 46th (tied for sixth at The Players)
- Sam Ryder, 30 spots, 99th to 69th (tied for 14th at The Players)
- Tom Hoge, 27 spots, 45th to 18th (tied for third at The Players)
- Davis Thompson, 27 spots, 76th to 49th (tied for 10th at The Players)
Players who dropped the most spots
- Wyndham Clark, nine spots, 71st to 70th (withdrew from The Players)
- Christaan Bezuidenhout, eight spots, 50th to 58th (missed the cut at The Players)
- 14 players dropped seven spots
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: PGA Tour FedEx Cup: Rory McIlroy wins The Players to surge to the top
