2024 Tour Championship beginning scores for all 30 gamers

New yr, similar end result. After a full season of PGA Tour golf (and barely shorter for the reason that PGA Tour returned to a calendar-based schedule), Scottie Scheffler as soon as once more finds himself on the prime of the FedEx Cup standings heading into the ultimate occasion, the Tour Championship at East Lake.

Scheffler has dominated this yr, successful six occasions on the PGA Tour, together with his second Masters title, plus he received the gold medal on the Olympics earlier this month in Paris.

He leads second-ranked Xander Schauffele by extra practically 1,200 FedEx Cup factors, and third-ranked Hideki Matsuyama by greater than 2,700 factors, which is about the identical margin Matsuyama has on the No. 50 participant within the standings, Eric Cole.

However, even after a historic season, Scheffler will start the Tour Championship in the identical place he has for the earlier two editions: with a two-shot lead at 10 beneath.

That is yr six of the Tour Championship’s handicapped format the place gamers are given beginning scores based mostly on their place within the FedEx Cup standings getting into the week. Scheffler will begin this week at East Lake with a two-stroke lead on Schauffele and a 10-stroke lead on Justin Thomas, the final man within the discipline at No. 30 within the standings.

The change was made as a result of beneath the previous format, a participant might win the Tour Championship and never win the FedEx Cup. It was additionally troublesome to calculate factors and hold observe for the viewer at residence.

This manner, there isn’t a extra worrying about factors and whoever wins the Tour Championship, beginning strokes included, wins the FedEx Cup and the $25 million first-place prize.

Right here’s what the beginning strokes appear like this yr.

2024 Tour Championship beginning scores

10 beneath: Scottie Scheffler
Eight beneath: Xander Schauffele
Seven beneath: Hideki Matusyama
Six beneath: Keegan Bradley
5 beneath: Ludvig Aberg
4 beneath: Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay
Three beneath: Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott, Tony Finau
Two beneath: Byeong Hun An, Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley, Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre
One beneath: Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith
Even: Chris Kirk, Tom Hoge, Aaron Rai, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Justin Thomas

Now you may assume the participant on the prime may need a major benefit, however in truth, the highest seed has solely received the Tour Championship twice within the earlier 5 editions of this format. Scheffler himself has but to prevail when being sported a two-stroke lead the previous two seasons.

In his two most up-to-date FedEx Cup victories, Rory McIlroy got here again from 5 and 6 photographs again firstly of the week to hoist the trophy (and large first-place payday) by Sunday night. Final yr, Viktor Hovland was two strokes again of Scheffler when he lapped everybody at East Lake to win his first FedEx Cup.

You possibly can comply with the motion from 1-6 p.m. ET on Golf Channel on Thursday and Friday. Saturday’s broadcast is 1-2:30 p.m. on Golf Channel and a couple of:30-7 p.m. on NBC, and Sunday’s remaining spherical is 12-1:30 p.m. on Golf Channel and 1:30-6 p.m. on NBC.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

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