The last field of NORTHERN CREDIT

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey The FedExCup Regular Series 2020-21 is over, and the 15th^th The FedExCup Playoffs kicks off with THE NORTHEN TRUST at Liberty National Golf Club, and the top 125 players on the FedExCup standings will get to the event.

The field is once again stellar, with six FedExCup champions, and is titled defending champion and three-time tournament winner Dustin Johnson. In addition, 28 of the top 30 players in the 28 official world golf rankings were led by Jon Rahm, who leads number one, and nine of the top ten players in FedExCup rankings, led by Collin Morikawa. to compete.

Johnson, a 24-time PGA TOUR winner, makes 13th^th start this week at NORTHERN CREDIT. He won in an unprecedented way in 2020 at TPC Boston with an 11-stroke margin between the rest of the field, which placed 30 below the level and set a tournament record for the best 72-hole point. After winning, Johnson won the final Playoffs event, the TOUR championship at East Lake Golf Club, and became the 2020 FedExCup champion. This season, Johnson won the Masters in November 2020 with five strokes to a record 20 under. It was his second major championship victory and his first at the Masters. The 37-year-old has five extra ten finishes this season.

Other industry champions include Patrick Reed and Bryson DeChambeau. When the tournament was last played at Liberty National Golf Club in 2019, Reed grabbed his second title at THE NORTHERN TRUST and his seventh PGA TOUR win. The final round was a back-and-forth battle between Reed, Abraham Ancer and JRahm, but in the end, Reed knocked on a three-foot putt par to win with one stroke.

All six major championship winners in the 2020-21 season will play in Liberty National this week, including DeChambeau (2020 US Open), Johnson (2020 Masters), Hideki Matsuyama (2021 Masters), Phil Mickelson (2021 PGA Championship), Rahm (2021 US Open ) and Morikawa (2021 Open Championship). Also spinning on the field are the 2021 PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP winner Justin Thomas and Olympic medal winners Xander Schauffele, who won gold, and CT Pan, who brought home the bronze.

Chesson Hadley, who qualifies for the FedExCup playoffs in 125th place in the FedExCup league standings, recorded a nine-hole score in the first nine. Sunday, playing its way to NORTHERN CREDIT. 2018 FedExCup champion Justin Rose left the top 125 when he made 18th^th hole in the Wyndham Championship. Rose would have made it to the FedExCup playoffs with a pair. No. 126, Rose stays in the playoffs for the first time in the FedExCup era (from 2007 to the present).

The pressure-packed drama is unparalleled at THE 2021 NORTHERN TRUST, with only 70 players advancing to the BMW Championship. Click here to see the full FedExCup placement.

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