The FedExCup Play-Offs have reached the half way point. After two entertaining tournaments at The Barclays & The Deutsche Bank Championship we’re down to the remaining 70 players heading in to the BMW Championship before the final 30 player shootout at The Tour Championship. Now is as good a time as any to take stock of what we’ve seen so far.

  The Big 3 could be a Big 4

  All the talk this year has been about the emergence of Jordan Spieth & Jason Day, and rightly so; they’ve both won Major Championships – In Spieth’s case two – whilst also performing well on the PGA Tour - Day followed his success at the PGA Championship by storming to victory in the first FedExCup Play-Off event, The Barclays. The other member of the ‘Big 3’, Rory McIlroy, had much of his season taken away by injury but is still number 1 or 1A in the World when healthy and playing consistently.

  One man who has been lost in the shuffle a little bit is Rickie Fowler. In 2014 Fowler became the third player ever – Jordan Spieth has since made it 4 – to finish in the top 5 of all four Majors in a calendar year, but the first not to win. Heading in to 2015 it looked as if he’d be the player to break through and win his first Major. Although that hasn’t been the case he’s still had the best season of his career, winning golfs ‘fifth Major’, The Players Championship, as well as the Scottish Open before his victory last week at The Deutsche Bank Championship.

  Rightly or wrongly, the way we measure these things is binary: if you’ve won a Major we’ll consider adding you to that illustrious group; if you haven’t, we won’t. You have to think we’ll be talking about a Big 4 sooner rather than later.

  Saying that though, what’s up with Jordan Spieth?

  Probably nothing. Yes, he’s missed two cuts in a row; and yes, of his last four rounds none of them have been lower than 73, but stuff like this happens. I highly doubt he became an average golfer overnight.

  It’s been a long season for the 22 year-old, when you win two Majors and become one of the most prominent figures in your sport there’s going to be demands on your time that weren’t there previously. It’s not so much the volume of golf he’s playing – he’s actually played less tournaments this year than he did last year – it’s more the mental aspect of having to deal with all the extra-curricular stuff.

  For what it’s worth, he doesn’t seem particularly worried either. He’s mainly chalked it up to the mental aspect of his game letting him down as opposed to anything wrong with his swing or putting. That’s a good thing! Despite him being relatively young he’s as mature and self-aware as anyone on tour so you figure it’s something he’ll resolve sooner rather than later.

  Mr. Consistent

  With two solo second place finishes in the first two tournaments, Henrik Stenson has been the most consistent player so far. There was little he could do to catch Jason Day at the Barclays; Day played at a level far and beyond everyone else over the four days. The second place in Boston last weekend is likely to sting a little more.

  It really was a tournament he should have won: a poor tee shot on the par 3 16^th was his undoing, sending his ball in to the water when a safe landing on the green would have left him in a commanding position.

  Every cloud though; he’s in a much stronger position now than he was a couple of weeks ago to win the final $10 million prize. After winning in 2013 he knows what it takes so don’t be surprised to see him do it again this year.

  What’s Left Then?

  The play-offs take a sabbatical this weekend before returning the following week at The BMW Championship in Illinois. It should be a pretty interesting tournament as over half the field is going to be attempting to reach the top 30 FedExCup position that qualifies them for The Tour Championship.

  There are several notable names currently outside the top 30, including Phil Mickleson, Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia and last year’s FedExCup winner, Billy Horschel.

  It should be a fun finish anyway, and one we hope you’ll enjoy watching at home!