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After only three players held the lead on the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup points list through the first 14 tournaments of the 2026 season, the last eight weeks had matched that.
Except two of them, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 3 Cameron Young are locked into a two-way battle since Scheffler finished second and Young tied for third at the Masters.
Young took over first place on the points list after the Masters and Scheffler was second. Scheffler knocked Young out of first with a second at the RBC Heritage a week later, then took a hiatus while Matt Fitzpatrick ascended to first with a victory, along with his brother Alex, at the Zurich Classic.
Another second for Scheffler at the Cadillac Championship and Young’s victory put them first and second that week. Young regained the lead at the Truist Championship, held on at the PGA, but is now in second again to Scheffler, after sitting out last week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson, while Scheffler was solo third.
Scheffler’s lead isn’t much, just 270 points. But there won’t be a flip-flop this week because neither player is in the field for the Charles Schwab Challenge at the Colonial National Country Club in Fort Worth.
Also idle will be No. 3 Fitzpatrick. None of the eight players among the top 30 on the points list in the field at Colonial can catch Scheffler, Young or Fitzpatrick with a victory (worth 500 points).
The highest-ranked player in the Schwab field is No. 6 Ludvig Åberg. If he wins, he can climb as high as fourth.
Through CJ Cup Byron Nelson
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Scottie Scheffler regains FedEx Cup points lead over idle Cameron Young
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Except two of them, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 3 Cameron Young are locked into a two-way battle since Scheffler finished second and Young tied for third at the Masters.
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Young took over first place on the points list after the Masters and Scheffler was second. Scheffler knocked Young out of first with a second at the RBC Heritage a week later, then took a hiatus while Matt Fitzpatrick ascended to first with a victory, along with his brother Alex, at the Zurich Classic.
Another second for Scheffler at the Cadillac Championship and Young’s victory put them first and second that week. Young regained the lead at the Truist Championship, held on at the PGA, but is now in second again to Scheffler, after sitting out last week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson, while Scheffler was solo third.
Scheffler will hold on after Schwab Challenge
Scheffler’s lead isn’t much, just 270 points. But there won’t be a flip-flop this week because neither player is in the field for the Charles Schwab Challenge at the Colonial National Country Club in Fort Worth.
Also idle will be No. 3 Fitzpatrick. None of the eight players among the top 30 on the points list in the field at Colonial can catch Scheffler, Young or Fitzpatrick with a victory (worth 500 points).
The highest-ranked player in the Schwab field is No. 6 Ludvig Åberg. If he wins, he can climb as high as fourth.
PGA Tour FedEx Cup leaders
Through CJ Cup Byron Nelson
- 1. Scottie Scheffler 2711
- 2. Cameron Young 2541
- 3. Matt Fitzpatrick 2494
- 4. Collin Morikawa 1737
- 5. Si Woo Kim 1704
- 6. Ludvig Åberg 1630
- 7. Chris Gotterup 1552
- 8. Jacob Bridgeman 1512
- 9. Rory McIlroy 1503
- 10. Akshay Bhatia 1342
- 11. Xander Schauffele 1267
- 12. Min Woo Lee 1154
- 13. Tommy Fleetwood 1115
- 14. Kristoffer Reitan 1109
- 15. Alex Smalley 1081
- 16. Justin Rose 1080
- 17. Nicolai Højgaard 1074
- 18. Sepp Straka 1064
- 19. Rickie Fowler 1037
- 20. Kurt Kitayama 1005
- 21. J.J. Spaun 962
- 22. Adam Scott 951
- 23. Jake Knapp 928
- 24. Aaron Rai 917
- 25. Alex Fitzpatrick 867
- 26. Russell Henley 844
- 27. Hideki Matsuyama 843
- 28. Gary Woodland 838
- 29. Robert MacIntyre 804
- 30. Matt McCarty 775
Who made the biggest moves at CJ Cup Byron Nelson?
- Jackson Suber, up 51 spots (154th to 103rd), 4th at CJ Cup Byron Nelson
- Wyndham Clark, up 48 spots (82nd to 34th), won CJ Cup Byron Nelson
- Jesper Svensson, up 32 spots (166th t0 134th), tie for 9th at CJ Cup Byron Nelson
- Ben Silverman, up 26 spots (167th to 141st), 17th at CJ Cup Byron Nelson
- Peter Malnati, up 23 spots (177th to 154th), tie for 19th at CJ Cup Byron Nelson
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Scottie Scheffler regains FedEx Cup points lead over idle Cameron Young
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