Thirty players have the chance this week to claim the title of 2024 FedEx Cup champion with a victory at the Tour Championship—and take home the $25 million reward for the honor. The money is substantial—$7 million to the winner than a year ago—but it’s about a lot more than that, especially for Scottie Scheffler.

This is the third straight year that the World No. 1 will start the Tour Championship with a two-stroke advantage; he ultimately finished T-2 and T-6 in back-to-back years, losing to Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland, respectively. Despite all of his accolades and wins in recent years, Scheffler has yet to finish the job in the PGA Tour’s season finale. Could this be his year?

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Hovland, defending champion at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, will be attempting to hold off Scheffler and the rest of the PGA Tour’s best despite his up-and-down play this season. He’ll be starting the tournament eight strokes behind Scheffler, but 72 holes is more than enough time to catch up if things are clicking. Hov shot a closing seven-under 63 in 2023, which became the lowest Sunday score for a Tour Championship winner.

If you’re looking for the hot hand, then you need to consider Keegan Bradley. He was 50th in the FedEx points standings, just barely in the field, entering last week’s BMW Championship only to go on and win the title at Castle Pines Golf Club outside of Denver. Now Bradley is all the way up to the No. 4 spot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, starting four back of Scheffler. Adam Scott, Tommy Fleetwood and Chris Kirk also snuck into the Top 30, ultimately booting out Brian Harman, Jason Day, Davis Thompson and Denny McCarthy.

This week’s winner will receive a $25 million cut of the $100 million FedEx Cup bonus poll.

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Tom Bendelow actually laid out the original course at East Lake, back when it was known as Atlanta Athletic Club, and that was the layout upon which Stewart Maiden taught the game to the now-legendary Bobby Jones. Donald Ross basically built a new course on the same spot in 1915, which remained untouched until changes were made before the 1963 Ryder Cup. When Atlanta Athletic moved to the suburbs in the late 1960s, the intown East Lake location fell on hard financial times until being rescued in the 1990s by businessman Tom Cousins, who made it a sterling fusion of corporate and inner-city involvement. Rees Jones redesigned most holes beginning in the mid-90s, making the course more reflective of his views of championship golf. After the PGA Tour reversed the nines for the 2016 Tour Championship (flipping the unpopular par-3 finish into the ninth hole), the club made the new routing permanent for regular play. East Lake underwent another major restoration following the 2023 Tour Championship, this time by Andrew Green, highlighting the course’s Donald Ross heritage. View Course

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TV Schedule

Golf Channel will carry live coverage on Thursday and Friday from 1-6 p.m. EDT. On Saturday, Golf Channel will start the coverage from 1-2:30 p.m. with NBC taking over with afternoon coverage from 2:30-7 p.m. On Sunday, Golf Channel will start the coverage from 12 noon-1:30 p.m. with NBC taking over with afternoon coverage from 1:30-6 p.m.

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Streaming Schedule

PGA Tour Live streaming coverage takes place on ESPN+ from 11:15 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 12 noon-7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.

Leaderboard

Find all live PGA Tour scoring data here.

Here’s the starting leaderboard with the staggered scoring to reflect the FedEx Cup points standings coming into East Lake.

Scottie Scheffler -10

Xander Schauffele -8

Hideki Matsuyama, -7

Keegan Bradley, -6

Ludvig Åberg, -5

Rory McIlroy, -4

Collin Morikawa, -4

Wyndham Clark, -4

Sam Burns, -4

Patrick Cantlay, -4

Sungjae Im, -3

Sahith Theegala, -3

Shane Lowry, -3

Adam Scott, -3

Tony Finau, -3

Byeong Hun An, -2

Viktor Hovland, -2

Russell Henley, -2

Akshay Bhatia, -2

Robert MacIntyre, -2

Billy Horschel, -1

Tommy Fleetwood, -1

Sepp Straka, -1

Matthieu Pavon, -1

Taylor Pendrith, -1

Chris Kirk, E

Tom Hoge, E

Aaron Rai, E

Christiaan Bezuidenhout, E

Justin Thomas, E

Tee Times (all times EDT)

Tee times have yet to be posted. We’ll update this when they are released.

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