For the third consecutive year, Scottie Scheffler leads the points and will get an advantage off the first tee Thursday.
The Tour Championship is again the finale for the three-tournament FedEx Cup playoffs, where the field has been whittled from 70 to 50 to 30. A $100 million prize pool is at stake this week with a whopping $25 million to the winner. Pro golf is overflowing with cash these days but that’s still a number that will get the attention of the world’s best.
Scottie Scheffler comes in at the top of the points list and will start at -10 in the “starting strokes” format—and if that sounds familiar, it is. Scheffler has come in as the points leader three years in a row, but the last two times he failed to bring home the big prize as Rory McIlroy grabbed it in 2022 and Viktor Hovland won last year. Both are in the field again this year, as are past FedEx Cup champions Patrick Cantlay , Xander Schauffele and Billy Horschel .
Xander Schauffele, who has had the low gross score outright or tied in two of the last four years , will begin the week two behind Scheffler. Hideki Matsuyama, the winner of the first playoff event at the FedEx St. Jude, is three back and Keegan Bradley—the Cinderella story—is four back. The farthest-back players will be at even and need to make up a lot of ground to contend for the title.
East Lake Golf Club, the oldest course in Atlanta and where Bobby Jones learned how to play, has hosted the Tour Championship annually since 2004. The course underwent a significant restoration and will look a bit different on screens this year, especially with the removal of many trees. The course is now a par-71 instead of 70 and playing slightly longer at 7,490 yards.John Schwarb is a senior editor for Sports Illustrated covering golf. Prior to joining SI in March 2022, he worked for ESPN.
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