It was a rather modest tie for 14th, but Jacob Bridgeman’s finish in the Valspar Championship last week at the Innisbrook Resort Copperhead Course in Palm Harbor ensured he stays on top of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup points lead for another week. 

Bridgeman finished six shots behind winner Matt Fitzpatrick, who has collected 1,000 points in the last two weeks (500 for winning at the Copperhead Course and 500 for his solo runner-up at The Players Championship) to go from 43rd to 3rd in two weeks.

Jacob Bridgeman hits out of a bunker on the fourth hole of the Innisbrook Resort Copperhead Course during the third round of the Valspar Championship on March 21 in Palm Harbor,

But Bridgeman is also taking a break after playing six weeks in a row (with a victory at the Genesis Invitational, three top-10 finishes, and all six finishing 18th or higher) and will not play in this week’s Texas Children’s Hospital Houston Open, beginning March 26 at the Memorial Park Golf Course. 

That leaves the door open for Chris Gotterup to knock Bridgeman out of the top spot with a victory in Houston and its cache of 500 FedEx Cup points. Gotterup is in seventh place on the points list with 1,130 points, trailing Bridgeman by 322. 

Gotterup is the leading player on the points list in the field this week and the only one can catch Bridgeman with a victory. Second place (300 points) won’t do it.

PGA Tour FedEx Cup leaders 

Through Valspar Championship 

  • 1. Jacob Bridgeman 1452 
  • 2. Cameron Young 1323 
  • 3. Matt Fitzpatrick 1229 
  • 4. Akshay Bhatia 1224 
  • 5. Collin Morikawa 1182 
  • 6. Scottie Scheffler 1130.833 
  • 7. Chris Gotterup 1130.719 
  • 8. Min Woo Lee 781 
  • 9. Xander Schauffele 741 
  • 10. Sepp Straka 722 
  • 11. Tommy Fleetwood 702 
  • 12. Ludvig Åberg 685 
  • 13. Jake Knapp 680 
  • 14. Nico Echavarria 671 
  • 15. Ryan Gerard 662 
  • 16. Hideki Matsuyama 650 
  • 17. Si Woo Kim 640 
  • 18. Justin Rose 601 
  • 19. Ryo Hisatsune 579 
  • 20. Daniel Berger 577 
  • 21. Robert MacIntyre 572 
  • 22. Sahith Theegala 540 
  • 23. Adam Scott 531 
  • 24. Kurt Kitayama 489 
  • 25. Russell Henley 484 
  • 26. Rory McIlroy 476 
  • 27. Patrick Rodgers 465.992 
  • 28. Ricky Castillo 465.625 
  • 29. Pierceson Coody 464 
  • 30. Sudarshan Yellamaraju 397 

Who made the biggest FedEx Cup moves at the Valspar Championship? 

  • David Lipsky, 2nd at Valspar, up 75 spots (108th to 33rd) 
  • Gary Woodland, tie for 14th at Valspar, up 55 spots (174th to 119th) 
  • Webb Simpson, tie for 18th at Valspar, up 48 spots (178th to 130th) 
  • Emiliano Grillo, tie for 7th at Valspar, up 47 spots (142nd to 95th) 
  • Hank Lebioda, tie for 14th at Valspar, up 43 spots (154th to 111th) 

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jacob Bridgeman atop PGA Tour FedEx Cup but Chris Gotterup can catch him