‘It all starts here’: With FedExCup Playoffs looming, Keith Mitchell embraces challenge to make postseason

In the meantime, he embraces this week’s challenge at Sedgefield, a venerable Donald Ross venue with dense rough and slippery greens where driving accuracy is at a premium. Whereas the action in most TOUR events is focused around the top of the leaderboard, this week’s de facto “leaderboard” is centered around the top-70 bubble, where characters like No. 69 Byeong Hun An, No. 70 Matti Schmid, No. 71 Nicolai Højgaard, and No. 72 Mitchell will take center stage. That quartet is separated by just 6 FedExCup points, meaning that for An or Schmid, they could be surpassed by Højgaard or Mitchell even with a pedestrian finish on the weekend. There’s also the chance that others further down the list could win or finish high at the Wyndham to knock them outside the top 70, as well.