AKRON, Ohio – Thanks to his breakthrough victory at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Shane Lowry has a PGA Tour card through the 2017-18 season.
What he doesn’t have, though, is a spot in the upcoming FedEx Cup playoffs.
Lowry entered this week as a special temporary member on the PGA Tour, and with a win he automatically became a full-time member for this season. Normally a non-member’s FedEx Cup points are retroactively applied upon a win, a scenario we last saw in 2013 when Jordan Spieth won the John Deere Classic and ultimately advanced to the Tour Championship.