FedEx Cup Playoffs: The Final 50

The playoffs are down to their final two acts. Fifty players remain, two venues to go — Bellerive this week, East Lake next — and the top 30 in points advance to the Tour Championship. The other 20 are done for the year.

Our full field guide ranks every remaining player by how they are actually striking it — not just how they are seeded — seed by seed, with the honest read on each. A few of the storylines it surfaces:

◆  The clear favorite tops the board in every category — and at these thinly-sampled closing venues, his lack of course history simply doesn't matter.

◆  The pure ball-strikers get a clean runway this week: with no strong course type to reward or punish, elite iron play is exactly what travels.

◆  The top-30 bubble is a genuine one-week scrap — the guide flags exactly who is on the cushion, who is on the number, and who is charging from outside.