FedEx Cup standings 2025: PGA Tour rankings ahead of BMW Championships

FedEx Cup standings 2025: PGA Tour rankings ahead of BMW Championships

TheFedEx Cup playoffshead into the second leg at the BMW Championship in Owings Mills, Maryland, after a thrilling St. Jude Championship that caused some movement in the FedEx Cup standings. Justin Rose's victory at the St. Jude Championship was nothing short of stunning. Overcoming a three-shot deficit in the final stretch, he finished the round with a score of 3-under 67, earning his 12th PGA Tour victory and securing a spot on Team Europe for the Ryder Cup. Due to a family emergency that required his regular caddie, Ted Scott, to leave the St. Jude Championship early, Scottie Scheffler had to complete the final round with a substitute caddie. Despite the change, Scheffler finished tied for third, marking his 12th consecutive top-eight finish. Scheffler is currently leading the FedEx Standings after the St. Jude Championship. Here is how the standings look before the BMW Championship that begins on August 14. Note: Standings after the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship: Scottie Scheffler: 5,456 points Rory McIlroy: 3,444 points J.J. Spaun: 3,344 points Justin Rose: 3,220 points Sepp Straka: 2,783 points Russell Henley: 2,579 points Ben Griffin: 2,555 points Tommy Fleetwood: 2,433 points Justin Thomas: 2,395 points Harris English: 2,269 points Andrew Novak: 1,991 points Cameron Young: 1,904 points Ludvig Åberg: 1,839 points Keegan Bradley: 1,792 points Maverick McNealy: 1,787 points Corey Conners: 1,651 points Collin Morikawa: 1,573 points Brian Harman: 1,559 points Patrick Cantlay: 1,555 points Robert MacIntyre: 1,550 points Hideki Matsuyama: 1,481 points Nick Taylor: 1,481 points Shane Lowry: 1,458 points Sam Burns: 1,381 points Sungjae Im: 1,360 points Chris Gotterup: 1,331 points Jacob Bridgeman: 1,298 points Viktor Hovland: 1,297 points Akshay Bhatia: 1,275 points Lucas Glover: 1,234 points Sam Stevens: 1,206 points Ryan Gerard: 1,202 points Daniel Berger: 1,180 points Ryan Fox: 1,157 points Taylor Pendrith: 1,149 points Thomas Detry: 1,142 points Kurt Kitayama: 1,121 points Denny McCarthu: 1, 120 points Brian Campbell: 1,119 points Matt Fitzpatrick: 1,103 points Si Woo Kim: 1,101 points Michael Kim: 1,099 points Xander Schuaffele: 1,099 points Jason Day: 1,092 points Harry Hall: 1,075 points Bud Cauley: 1,051 points Tom Hoge: 1, 042 points Rickie Fowler: 1,031 points Jhonattan Vegas: 1,002 points J.T. Poston: 995 points PGA TOUR:Click here for full 2025 FedEx Cup points standings This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:FedEx Cup standings: Top golfers before BMW Championship

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FedEx Cup standings 2025: PGA Tour rankings ahead of BMW Championships

FedEx Cup standings 2025: PGA Tour rankings ahead of BMW Championships TheFedEx Cup playoffshead into the second leg at the BMW Championship...

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Shohei Ohtani hits into triple play, slams homer in Dodgers' loss to Angels

Shohei Ohtani hits into triple play, slams homer in Dodgers' loss to Angels

Shohei Ohtani had an adventurous few innings in theLos Angeles Dodgers'7-6 extra-innings lossto theAngelsin Anaheim on Tuesday, Aug. 12. In the sixth inning, Ohtani hit into a triple play. Three innings later, Ohtani hit a go-ahead home run, his 43rd of the season. With Miguel Rojas on second base and Dalton Rushing on first, Ohtani hit a liner up the middle that shortstop Zach Neto snagged. Neto then forced out Rojas at second and threw to first base to catch Rushing scrambling back to the bag. The third triple play of the 2025 season was the Angels' first triple play since Aug. 18, 2023 and the eighth in franchise history. With the score tied at 5-5 entering the ninth inning, Ohtani led off the inning with a home run off of Angels closer (and former Dodger) Kenley Jansen. Ohtani has hit home runs in four consecutive games. The Dodgers called on Alex Vesia to close out the game, but a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Nolan Schanuel scored Luis Rengifo to tie up the game. The Angels held the Dodgers scoreless in the top of the 10th inning, and then won the game when Jo Adell's single scored the "ghost runner" Taylor Ward. Ohtani takes the mound Wednesday as the Dodgers will look to avoid a series sweep against the Angels. A three-game losing streak by the Dodgers has allowed theSan Diego Padresto move intoa first-place tieatop the NL West. The Dodgers host the Padres for a three-game series this weekend. Cal Raleigh,Seattle Mariners— 45 Shohei Ohtani,Los Angeles Dodgers— 43 Kyle Schwarber,Philadelphia Phillies— 42 Aaron Judge,New York Yankees— 38 Eugenio Suárez, Seattle Mariners — 37 This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Shohei Ohtani hit into a triple play, then hit a homer in Dodgers loss

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Shohei Ohtani hits into triple play, slams homer in Dodgers' loss to Angels

Shohei Ohtani hits into triple play, slams homer in Dodgers' loss to Angels Shohei Ohtani had an adventurous few innings in theLos Angel...

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Israel says Gazans free to exit while Hamas attends Cairo ceasefire talks

Israel says Gazans free to exit while Hamas attends Cairo ceasefire talks

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Militant group Hamas' chief negotiator held talks with Egyptian mediators over a potential ceasefire in the Gaza war on Wednesday while Israel struck the territory's main city prior to a planned takeover and again invited Palestinians to leave. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated an idea - also enthusiastically floated by U.S. President Donald Trump - that Palestinians should simply leave the enclave housing more than 2 million people after nearly two years of conflict. "They're not being pushed out, they'll be allowed to exit," he told Israeli television channel i24NEWS. "All those who are concerned for the Palestinians and say they want to help the Palestinians should open their gates and stop lecturing us." Arabs and many world leaders are aghast at the idea of displacing the Gaza population, which Palestinians say would be like another "Nakba" (catastrophe) when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced out during a 1948 war. Israel's planned re-seizure of Gaza City - which it took in the early days of the war before withdrawing - is probably weeks away, officials say. That means a ceasefire is still possible though talks have been floundering and conflict still rages. Israeli planes and tanks bombed eastern areas of Gaza City heavily, residents said, with many homes destroyed in the Zeitoun and Shejaia neighbourhoods overnight. Al-Ahli hospital said 12 people were killed in an airstrike on a home in Zeitoun. Tanks also destroyed several houses in the east of Khan Younis in south Gaza too, while in the centre Israeli gunfire killed nine aid-seekers in two separate incidents, Palestinian medics said. Israel's military did not comment. Hamas chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya's meetings with Egyptian officials in Cairo on Wednesday were to focus on stopping the war, delivering aid and "ending the suffering of our people in Gaza," Hamas official Taher al-Nono said in a statement. CEASEFIRE POSSIBILITIES Egyptian security sources said the talks would also discuss the possibility of a comprehensive ceasefire that would see Hamas relinquish governance in Gaza and concede its weapons. A Hamas official told Reuters the group was open to all ideas if Israel pulls out. However, "Laying down arms before the occupation is dismissed is impossible," the official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. Netanyahu's plan to expand military control over Gaza, which Israeli sources said could be launched in October, has heightened global outcry over the widespread devastation, displacement and hunger in the enclave. About half of Gaza's residents live in the Gaza City area. Foreign ministers of 24 countries, including Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Japan, said this week the humanitarian crisis in Gaza had reached "unimaginable levels" and urged Israel to allow unrestricted aid. Israel denies responsibility for hunger, accusing Hamas of stealing aid. It says it has taken steps to increase deliveries, including daily combat pauses in some areas and protected routes for aid convoys. The Israeli military on Wednesday said that nearly 320 trucks entered Gaza through the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings and that a further nearly 320 trucks were collected and distributed by the U.N. and international organizations in the past 24 hours along with three tankers of fuel and 97 pallets of air-dropped aid. The United Nations and Palestinians say aid entering Gaza remains far from sufficient. The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli figures. Israel's offensive against Hamas in Gaza since then has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo and Emily Rose in Jerusalem; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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Israel says Gazans free to exit while Hamas attends Cairo ceasefire talks

Israel says Gazans free to exit while Hamas attends Cairo ceasefire talks By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Mil...

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Myanmar military chief calls for heightened security ahead of election

Myanmar military chief calls for heightened security ahead of election

(Reuters) -Myanmar's military chief has called for increased security for political party members and candidates as a newly formed interim government proceeds with a planned election in December and January that has been dismissed in the West as a sham. Min Aung Hlaing, who is also the war-torn country's acting president, asked authorities to take measures for protecting politicians and voters, while warning of a rise in attacks on civil servants in the run up to the polls, the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported on Wednesday. "The Senior General highlighted that the election must be held without fail," the state-run publication said, referring to comments made by Min Aung Hlaing at the first meeting of a new commission formed to hold the polls. With opposition groups either barred from running or refusing to take part, the planned election has been dismissed by Western governments as a move to entrench the generals' power and is expected to be dominated by proxies of the military. Military-backed authorities last year held a nationwide census in an effort to create voter rolls but were only to able to conduct on-ground surveys in 145 out of Myanmar's 330 townships. Myanmar's military this month nominally transferred power to a civilian-led interim administration to conduct the election, four years after Min Aung Hlaing led a coup that unseated an the elected civilian government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover triggered widespread protests and eventually sparked a civil war, where an array of established ethnic armies and newly-formed armed groups are battling the well-armed military on multiple frontlines. In Tuesday's meeting in the capital Naypyitaw, officials reviewed military operations in preparation of the polls and reinforcing security through the formation of "people's security" groups, the newspaper said. A military-led council last month also introduced new electoral laws aimed at improving security, containing punishments ranging from a minimum of three years in prison to the death penalty. (Reporting by Reuters Staff; Editing by Martin Petty)

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Myanmar military chief calls for heightened security ahead of election

Myanmar military chief calls for heightened security ahead of election (Reuters) -Myanmar's military chief has called for increased secu...

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Tennis Player Emma Raducanu Stops Match Because of a Crying Child at Cincinnati Open

Tennis Player Emma Raducanu Stops Match Because of a Crying Child at Cincinnati Open

Robert Prange/Getty Emma Raducanu stopped a tennis match during the Cincinnati Open on Aug. 11 because of a crying child The tennis player prompted the umpire to ask if she wanted the child to be removed from the stadium, to which she gestured with her tennis racket as the crowd replied "yes" The umpire replied that she could call in the request, but the match needed to proceed for the time being British tennis playerEmma Raducanustopped a match because of a crying child during the Cincinnati open. The incident occurred during the third round on Day 5 of the Cincinnati Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, on Monday, Aug. 11. Footage from a broadcast of the moment shows Raducanu, 22, facing off against Belarusian tennis playerAryna Sabalenka, when a baby lets out a cry in the stadium. Before delivering a serve,Raducanupaused the game to vent to the umpire that the baby had been crying for "10 minutes." The umpire replied, "Do you want me to send the child out of the stadium?" The crowd responded with an emphatic yes, to which the 2021 U.S. Open Champ raised her tennis racket and smiled. The umpire offered to "call in" for the child's removal, but proceeded with the match. The crying child comes amid extremely high temperatures in Ohio during the Cincinnati Open. French tennis player Arthur Rinderknech collapsed on Monday due to high temperatures on the courts, regularly exceeding 86º Fahrenheit, perBBC. Daniel Kopatsch/Getty It is unclear whether the child was removed from the stadium. PEOPLE has reached out to the Cincinnati Open to confirm. The match ended with an eventual 7-6 (6), 4-6, 7-6 (7) loss for Raducanu, with the title and third-round prize money of $60,400 going to Sabalenka. Sabalenka, 27 will next face Spain's Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in the Round of 16 on Wednesday, Aug. 13. https://people-app.onelink.me/HNIa/kz7l4cuf Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. This isn't the first time a crying baby at a tennis match has sparked online discussion. Back in 2011, during the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, tennis player David Ferrerfired offa forehand ball in the direction of a crying child in the stands. He lost the match to Mardy Fish, 7-5, 6-2. Read the original article onPeople

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Tennis Player Emma Raducanu Stops Match Because of a Crying Child at Cincinnati Open

Tennis Player Emma Raducanu Stops Match Because of a Crying Child at Cincinnati Open Robert Prange/Getty Emma Raducanu stopped a tennis matc...

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Shohei Ohtani lines into triple play and later homers, but Angels rally to beat Dodgers 7-6 in 10

Shohei Ohtani lines into triple play and later homers, but Angels rally to beat Dodgers 7-6 in 10

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani lined into a triple play in the sixth inning and hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth, but the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 7-6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Jo Adell's walkoff single in the 10th on Tuesday night. The defending World Series champion Dodgers fell into a first-place tie with San Diego atop the NL West after their third consecutive loss. Ohtani put the Dodgers up 6-5 when he homered in his fourth consecutive game, crushing a cutter from Kenley Jansen for his NL-leading 43rd. He also rebounded smartly after being involved inthe eighth triple play in Angels history. Shortstop Zach Neto caught Ohtani's liner up the middle, stepped on second to get Miguel Rojas and threw to first, where Nolan Schanuel tagged out Dalton Rushing. The Angels rallied in a drama-filled ninth. Luis Rengifo singled and scored on Schanuel's sacrifice fly before Ben Casparius (7-5) struck out Taylor Ward with the bases loaded. After Connor Brogdon (3-1) pitched a clean 10th for the Angels, Christian Moore moved Ward to third with a bunt single. Adell ended it with a high chopper that got over the Dodgers' drawn-in infield. Rushing hit his second homer for the Dodgers, who have lost all five meetings with the Angels this season. They're also sharing the NL West lead for the first time since June 13 afterSan Diego won its fourth straightat San Francisco. Ward hit his 28th homer and drove in two runs for the Angels. Key moment Ohtani's blast had a 114.8-mph exit velocity. He moved past Philadelphia's Kyle Schwarber for the NL homers lead after hitting five in six games. Ohtani also has an 11-game hitting streak. Key stat Jansen hadn't allowed an earned run in 21 consecutive appearances, the longest streak of his stellar career. Up next Ohtani (0-0, 2.37 ERA) pitches at Angel Stadium on Wednesday, facing Kyle Hendricks (6-8, 4.63). ___ AP MLB:https://apnews.com/MLB

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Shohei Ohtani lines into triple play and later homers, but Angels rally to beat Dodgers 7-6 in 10

Shohei Ohtani lines into triple play and later homers, but Angels rally to beat Dodgers 7-6 in 10 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani lined...

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Zelenskyy to visit Berlin for meetings ahead of Trump-Putin summit

Zelenskyy to visit Berlin for meetings ahead of Trump-Putin summit

BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Berlin on Wednesday to join German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for talks with European and U.S. leaders ahead of the Trump-Putin summit later this week, the German government said. Merz has convened a series of virtual meetings on Wednesday in an attempt to have the voice of European and Ukraine's leaders heard ahead of a summit that they have been sidelined from. Zelenskyy is due to meet with European leaders first, in preparation for a virtual call with U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpand Vice President JD Vance about an hour later. A call between leaders of countries involved in the "coalition of the willing" — those who are prepared to help police any future peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv — will take place last. On Wednesday, Merz pledged to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missile systems that would be free of any Western-imposed limitations on their use and targets as the Kyiv government fights to repelRussia's invasion. Zelenskyy last visited Berlin in late May. The stakes for Europe Trump has said he wants to see whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is serious about endingthe war, now in its fourth year, describing Friday's summit as "a feel-out meeting" where he can assess the Russian leader's intentions. Yet Trump has disappointed allies in Europe by saying Ukraine will have to give up some Russian-held territory. He has also said Russia must acceptland swaps, although it was unclear what Putin might be expected to surrender. European allies havepushed for Ukraine's involvementin any peace talks, fearful that discussions that exclude Kyiv could otherwise favor Moscow. Trump on Monday ducked repeated chances to say that he would push for Zelenskyy to take part in his discussions with Putin, and was dismissive of Zelenskyy and his need to be part of an effort to seek peace. Trump said that following Friday's summit, a meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders could be arranged, or that it could also be a meeting with "Putin and Zelenskyy and me." The Europeans and Ukraine are wary that Putin, who has waged the biggest land war in Europe since 1945 and usedRussia's energy mightto try to intimidate the European Union, might secure favorable concessions and set the outlines of a peace deal without them. The overarching fear of many European countries is that Putin will set his sights on one of them next if he wins in Ukraine. Land concessions a non-starter for Kyiv Zelenskyy said Tuesday thatPutinwants Ukraine to withdraw from the remaining 30% of the Donetsk region that it still controls as part ofa ceasefire deal, a proposal the leader categorically rejected. Zelenskyyreiterated that Ukraine would not give up any territory it controls, saying thatwould be unconstitutionaland would serve only as a springboard for a future Russian invasion. He saiddiplomatic discussions led by the U.S.focusing on ending the war have not addressed key Ukrainian demands, including security guarantees to prevent future Russian aggression and including Europe in negotiations. Three weeks after Trump returned to office, his administration took the leverage of Ukraine's NATO membershipoff the table— something that Putin has demanded — and signaled that the EU and Ukraine must handle security in Europe now while America focuses its attention elsewhere. Trump has also routinely threatened and cajoled his NATO allies overdefense spending, and has shown little mercy in trade talks byhiking tariffson most EU imports to 15%, ostensibly for U.S. national security reasons. Senior EU officials believe that Trump may be satisfied with simply securing a ceasefire in Ukraine, and is probably more interested in broader U.S. geostrategic interests and great power politics, aiming to ramp up business with Russia and rehabilitate Putin. ___ Cook reported from Brussels.

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Zelenskyy to visit Berlin for meetings ahead of Trump-Putin summit

Zelenskyy to visit Berlin for meetings ahead of Trump-Putin summit BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Berlin o...

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