Justin Lower’s AmEx T-3 moves him into the Aon Swing 5

There is one more tournament left before the first Aon Swing 5 break.

The top five points finishers at the Sony Open, American Express and this week’s Farmers Insurance Open, which runs Wednesday through Saturday, will earn exemptions into the next two major events, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational.

After AmEx, which ended on Sunday with a win by unsigned player Sepp Strake, here’s where Swing 5 stands:

1. JJ Spaun, 189
2. Justin Lower, 178
3. Alex Smalley, 119
4. Charley Hoffman, 109.7
5. Harry Hall, 100,292

Lower and Hoffman moved into Swing 5 with AmEx finishes of T-3 and T-5, respectively. Lower played in just one major event last year, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where he finished T-36. So did Hoffman, who was solo 50th at the Genesis Invitational.

Here are Swing 5’s closest pursuers:

6. Mark Hubbard, 92,666
7. Patrick Fishburn, 88.75
7. Adam Schenk, 88.75
7. Jackson Suber, 88.75

All nine of these players play at Torrey Pines.