
Adam Scott is 99th in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings with just three fall events to go, and yet he is not expected to play in any of them. He has no worries. He secured a little-known two-year PGA Tour exemption when he made the 2024 Tour Championship. So he’s safe for 2026.
In previous years, he would have been clear of concern anyway, but for the first time since 1983, the PGA Tour made a significant change to its qualification criteria, dropping the number of fully exempt players from 125 to 100.