Scottie Scheffler paid perhaps a temporary price for sitting out a PGA Tour signature event.
But he’s the defending champion in a major this week, so it might be a very brief time spent out of the top spot on the Tour’s FedEx Cup standings.
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Scheffler led the points list after his third second-place finish in a row at the Cadillac Championship on May 3 but took last week off at the Truist Championship, even though the venue, the Quail Hollow Club, was where Scheffler won his PGA last year.
Cameron Young posted his sixth top-10 finish in seven starts on May 10 at the Truist Championship, keeping him on top of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup points race entering this week’s PGA Championship.
As a result, Cameron Young returned to first place with a tie for 10th and Scheffler is now in second. But he’s only 73 points behind and the PGA winner this week at the Aronimink Golf Club near Philadelphia will earn 750 points. Scheffler could return to first with a finish of 17th or higher and if Young misses the cut.
The PGA also ends a three-week span in which there were 2,150 FedEx Cup points available for the winners (700 each at the Truist and Cadillac). Three of the next four events will be worth 500 points to the winner, with The Memorial in June a signature event, two weeks before the U.S. Open.
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PGA Tour FedEx Cup leaders
Through Truist Championship
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2. Scottie Scheffler 2431
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13. Kristoffer Reitan 1094
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15. Nicolai Højgaard 1059
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16. Xander Schauffele 1042
Who made the biggest FedEx Cup moves last week
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Brandt Snedeker, won ONeFlight Myrtle Beach Classic, up 85 spots (148th to 63rd)
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Mark Hubbard, 2nd at ONeFlight Myrtle Beach Classic, up 59 spots (150th to 91st)
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Sungjae Im, tie for 5th at the Truist Championship, up 48 spots (104th to 56th)
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Kristoffer Reitan, won Truist Championship, up 41 spots (54th to 13th)
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Beau Hossler, tie for 3rd at ONeFlight Myrtle Beach Classic, up 29 spots (142nd to 103rd).
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Cameron Young back on top of FedEx Cup points with Scottie Scheffler idle
