Three Aussies – Jason Day, Min Woo Lee and Cam Davis – and Kiwi Ryan Fox earned their spots by finishing the regular season inside the top 70, Davis scraping in at No.69 after doing just enough at last week’s Wyndham Championship.

The task for Davis now gets much greater, needing to finish outright 13th or better to push into the top 50 who will play the BMW Championship in week two of the Playoffs.

One of those players potentially standing in his way is fellow Australian Min Woo Lee.

A breakthrough win at the Texas Children’s Houston Open provided the backbone to Lee’s season that sees him enter the Playoffs in 50th position.

A strong showing at TPC Southwind will aid the 27-year-old’s quest to make it to the Tour Championship but Lee will also have one eye over his shoulder as those outside the top 50 seek to force their way in.

Four top 10s will see Day just on the outside of the top 30 at No.37 while wins at the Myrtle Beach Classic and RBC Canadian Open has Fox 32nd and with an eye on a Tour Championship debut.

The Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia is well represented on the DP World Tour this week with the three most recent Order of Merit winners all in the field for the Nexo Championship at Trump International Golf Links in Scotland.

Reigning Order of Merit champion Elvis Smylie is best placed on the Race to Dubai Rankings at No.29 with Kiwi Kazuma Kobori also on track to make the DP World Tour Playoffs in his rookie season.

With four missed cuts in his past five starts, 2022-2023 Order of Merit winner David Micheluzzi needs to generate some forward momentum and improve his current ranking of No.85.

Elsewhere this week, Cameron Smith will hope to tap into his LIV Golf Chicago win of three years ago and lead Ripper GC to a strong result in Chicago as Kirsten Rudgeley and New Zealanders Momoka Kobori and Amelia Garvey back up from the AIG Women’s Open alongside Kelsey Bennett and Sarah Kemp at the PIF London Championship

Round 1 tee times AEST

PGA TOUR
FedEx St Jude Championship
TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee
10:30pm          Min Woo Lee
11:30pm          Ryan Fox (NZ)
1:15am            Cam Davis
2:20am            Jason Day

Recent champion: Hideki Matsuyama
Past Aussie winners: Bruce Crampton (1970), David Graham (1976), Wayne Grady (1989), Adam Scott (2013), Jason Day (2015)
Prizemoney: $US20m
TV times: Live 10pm-8am Thursday, Friday; Live 11pm-8am Saturday; Live 10pm-8am Sunday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo Sports.

DP World Tour
Nexo Championship
Trump International Golf Links, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
4:10pm*          Kazuma Kobori (NZ)
4:50pm            Daniel Gale
5:10pm*          Elvis Smylie
5:30pm            Brett Coletta
9:40pm*          Danny List
9:50pm            Jason Scrivener
10pm               David Micheluzzi

Recent champion: Adrian Otaegui
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $US2.75m
TV times: Live 9:30pm-2:30am Thursday, Friday; Live 9:30pm-2am Saturday, Sunday on Fox Sports 505 and Kayo Sports.

LIV Golf
LIV Golf Chicago
Bolingbrook Golf Club, Chicago
Australasians in the field: Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones, Ben Campbell (NZ), Danny Lee (NZ)

Recent champion: Jon Rahm
Past Aussie winners: Cameron Smith (2022)
Prizemoney: $US20m
TV times: Live from 2:25am Saturday; Live from 3am Sunday; Live from 12am Monday on 7 Mate.

Ladies European Tour
PIF London Championship
Centurion Club, England
Australasians in the field: Amelia Garvey (NZ), Kirsten Rudgeley, Momoka Kobori (NZ), Kelsey Bennett, Sarah Kemp

Recent champion: Leona Maguire
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $US2m
TV times: Live 11pm-3am Friday on Fox Sports 506; Live 11pm-2am Saturday, Sunday on Fox Sports 507 and Kayo Sports.

PGA TOUR Champions
Boeing Classic
The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Washington
Australasians in the field: Steven Alker (NZ), Steve Allan, Stuart Appleby, David Bransdon, Greg Chalmers, Richard Green, Mark Hensby, Brendan Jones, Rod Pampling, John Senden, Michael Wright.

Recent champion: Stephen Ames
Past Aussie winners: Rod Pampling (2021)
Prizemoney: $US2.3m
TV times: 11am-12:32pm Saturday; Live 8am-10am Sunday; 12pm-2pm Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo Sports.

Korn Ferry Tour
Pinnacle Bank Championship
The Club at Indian Creek, Omaha, Nebraska
4:50am            Harry Hillier (NZ)
5:20am            Rhein Gibson

Recent champion: Matt McCarty
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $US1m

HotelPlanner Tour
Irish Challenge
Killeen Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland
9:40pm*          Tom Power Horan
10:30pm          Sam Jones (NZ)
10:30pm*         Hayden Hopewell

Recent champion: Joakim Lagergren
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: €300,000

LET Access Series
Ahlsell Trophy by Destination Jonkoping
Gränna Golfklubb, Sweden
9:22pm            Abbie Teasdale
9:33pm            Justice Bosio
9:44pm            Belinda Ji

Recent champion: Patricia Isabel Schmidt
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: €45,000

Sunshine Tour
FNB Eswatini Challenge
Arabella Country Club, Eswatini, South Africa
Australians in the field: Austin Bautista

Recent champion: Daniel van Tonder
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: R2m

PGA TOUR Americas
BioSteel Championship
Ambassador Golf Club, Windsor, Ontario
2:40am*           Grant Booth
4:10am*           Tony Chen

Recent champion: Barend Botha
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prizemoney: $225,000