The FedExCup Playoffs are all about earning your way in — or at least, that’s the idea. This season’s top 50 have booked their ticket to the BMW Championship with Scottie Scheffler leading the ranks, and Justin Rose , the newly crowned at Memphis, Tennessee. Now, this is where the stakes get higher, and fields get smaller. 20 players had to go back home after months of grinding out results. But for Rickie Fowler , the road was…different.

That difference was because of the sponsor exemption. Sponsor exemptions are special invites that tournament organizers can hand out, usually to big names who wouldn’t qualify otherwise. They give the players a chance to earn the same FedExCup points as the rest of the field who have qualified through merit. According to the Fried Egg Golf podcast

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