Five Players Who Won’t be at The 2024 Tour Championship

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The Tour Championship is only reserved for a select few. 

With just the top 30 players in the FedEx standings qualifying for the season finale at Eastlake, as is often the case with the Playoffs, a string of great players who at the start of the season would have been expecting to play for one of the greatest prizes in the sport, will instead be on the couch looking for something else to do.

With the tournament teeing off on Thursday, here are five of the biggest names who will be missing this year’s tournament. 

Jordan Spieth

It’s been another frustrating season for Jordan Spieth. Once projected as the future of the game, the Texan burst onto the scene with three major wins. With a putting stroke that was as cool as ice, there was a period where Spieth looked like taking the game to a whole new level. 

Climbing to the top of the world rankings following his Masters victory back in 2015, he looked on course to join only a select few in defending his title in 2016. Approaching the famous 12th hole at Augusta with a commanding lead, Spieth would fluff his ball into the water twice and would end up missing out on a second green jacket to Danny Willet.

Whilst collapses in golf have always happened, (it’s hard to win golf tournaments!) Spieth has seemingly never been able to recover. 

Once so instinctive with his play, Spieth has become embroiled in a string of technical changes and too many it looks like Spieth has lost his natural feel for the game. Couple that with a nagging wrist injury, and it isn’t a surprise that Spieth has experienced one of his worst seasons on Tour. 

Having just made it through to the St Jude Championship, a finish well down the field would ensure that he would finish the first leg of the playoffs well outside the top 50 and he would bow out of the playoffs before the BMW Championship.

Now with his season having come to a premature end, he will hope to get his wrist fixed so that he can become a challenger once again next season. 

Matt Fitzpatrick 

Matt Fitzpatrick has been a mainstay at the Tour Championship for the last few seasons. Although Fitzpatrick hasn’t won as many PGA tournaments as he would have liked, the U.S. Open champion has earned plaudits in the past for his hugely consistent play, but that consistency has deserted him this year.

One of the smaller professionals on the PGA Tour, Fitzpatrick has made no secret of his desire to keep up with the biggest hitters on Tour. Investing a huge amount of time in his dedication to hit the ball far, there is a fear that in his search for power, Fitzpatrick has lost some of his consistency.

Having missed out on a spot at Eastlake after the BMW Championship, Fitzpatrick has only been able to finish in the top ten twice and for a man who is so used to competing at the top end of the leaderboard, he will be disappointed with his year. 

Set to return to Europe as 2024 comes to an end, Fitzpatrick will hope to defend his Alfred Dunhill Links Championship he won last year and feature in the Race to Dubai. There is still plenty to play for, but Fitzpatrick will need to rediscover his best if he is to be a contender.

Fitzpatrick


Max Homa

Rewind to last year and Max Homa was emerging as a real star of American golf. One of the very few shining lights in America’s Ryder Cup defeat, Homa enjoyed a great end to 2023 by winning the Nedbank Challenge and the Farmers Insurance Open.

With big things expected this year, Homa wasn’t able to pick up a title during the Tour’s Californian swing, (something he has been able to do in each of the last two seasons) and a blowup when he was in contention at the final round of the Masters seem to have massively derailed his confidence. 

Homa seems to rely on confidence and through much of 2024 that confidence seems to have deserted him. With just three top ten finishes all season, Homa has struggled off the tee and on the greens and it will be a major disappointment to both him and his fans that he won’t be at Eastlake. 

A classy operator when at his best, time is still very much on the Californian’s side and he will hope to bounce back to form next year.

Brian Harman

Having emerged as one of the best players in the world last year thanks to his all the way win at the Open, 2024 has seen Brian Harman hurtle back to earth and his miserable year was capped off by him missing the Tour Championship by one stroke. 

His consistency in 2023 was almost unparalleled last year but it has deserted him this season. 

Despite starting his year with a bang with a top five finish at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Harman would just record two more top ten finishes for the rest of the year. 

A non-factor in all four majors, Harman will need to head back to the drawing board this offseason if he is to reclaim his place as one of the best in the game. 

Harman


Jason Day

After a few years in the golfing wilderness, 2023 was a brilliant year for Jason Day as he bounced back to form and became a major force in the game once again.

A winner of thirteen PGA titles, Day’s comeback to the fore of the golfing world was complete when he won the AT&T Byron Nelson. 

With many expecting the former PGA Champion to kick on from his positive 2023, it’s been another frustrating year for the Aussie who despite four top ten finishes found himself missing out the Tour Championship by a few places. 

Without a top ten since the Wells Fargo back in May, a costly run of form has seen Day fall out of form at exactly the wrong time. 

Despite having been a force on Tour for years, Day is still just 36 and still has plenty of time on his side. Missing out on a spot at Eastlake will be a blow, but you can guarantee that Day will be back for next season.