Glover wins back-to-back, Matsuyama qualify for second play-offs event

American Lucas Glover prevailed for the second straight week after qualifying in a playoff in the FedEx St. Jude Championship against Patrick Cantlay at TPC Southwind. Both players landed up on 15-under 265, one ahead of Tommy Fleetwood and Rory McIlroy.

Glover earned his sixth PGA TOUR title with a benchmark in the first extra hole after Cantlay made a bogey, and levelled up to fourth place in the FedExCup standings. Glover also won at last week’s Wyndham Championship.

While five Asians made it to the second event, Hideki Matsuyama played his last three holes in 3-under to squeeze in the lot. Korea’s Sungjae Im was the top Asian as he finished tied sixth after a bogey-free 68. He levelled up from 32nd to 28th on the FedExCup standings. It was Im’s eighth top-10 of the season and this puts him in the hunt to qualify for the TOUR Championship, restricted to the Top-30 players, for a fifth straight year.

The winner of the Sony Open in Hawaii in January, Si Woo Kim finished tied 16th after a 68 and moved one rung up to 17th place in the FedExCup race while Tom Kim settled for tied 24th after a closing 72, dropping four positions to 18th place.

The fourth Korean in the Playoffs is Byeong Hun An, who settled for a share of the 37th position in Memphis and qualifies for the penultimate Playoffs event in 38th position as he looks to qualify for the TOUR Championship for the first time in his career.

Hideki Matsuyama is the fifth Asian in the second of the three Play-off events, looking forward to qualifying for the Tour Championships for a 10th time. He carded 65 to finish T-16 and rose to 47th and inside 50, which is the criteria for the next event.