Francesco Molinari takes to the field for the second consecutive week, after his 17th place in Bermuda, to participate in The RSM Classic (November 21-24), the last event of the FedExCup Fall, a series of eight tournaments scheduled after the TOUR Championship, which is of considerable importance. In fact, on the Seaside Course, at the Sea Island Golf Club on St. Simons Island in Georgia, at the end of the competition the cards for the 2025 PGA Tour will be assigned. The first 125 players in the FedEx Cup ranking will receive the full card, while those who finish from 126th to 150th will have full status for the Korn Ferry Tour and a conditional card for the main circuit.
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Francesco Molinari, schedule
The spotlight is on the Swede Ludvig Aberg, world number 5, and on Brian Harman (no. 24), the most popular in the eve predictions and the only ones among the top 25 of the ranking in the field. The first, a 25-year-old from Eslv, defends the only title he has signed in the USA for a list of winners that includes another on the DP World Tour and two on the Swedish Golf Tour. Although almost all the big names are absent, the field is still good. The Puerto Rican Rafael Campos, winner in the previous Butterfield Bermuda Championship, the Americans Austin Eckroat, two successes this year, the last in the World Wide Technology Championship in October, Lucas Glover, Ryan Moore, Andrew Novak, second in Bermuda, Webb Simpson, Brandt Snedeker and Sam Ryder, the Irishman Seamus Power, the Englishman Matt Wallace, the Canadian Adam Hadwin, the Filipino Rico Hoey and the Colombian Nico Echevarria will take to the tee.
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In the tournament, founded in 2010 and now in its 15th edition, there will be nine past winners, all capable of being protagonists. In addition to Aberg, the Canadians Adam Svensson and Mackenzie Hughes, second in 2023, and the Americans Tyler Duncan, Austin Cook, Kevin Kisner, Chris Kirk, Tommy Gainey and Robert Streb, the only one to have achieved the double (2014, 2020) will take part. The prize money is 7,600,000 dollars, of which 1,368,000 will reward the winner.