ATLANTA — The Tour Championship tees off Thursday, bringing an end to the 2022-23 golf season. Here's what you need to know about the PGA Tour's crowning event.
While the sport of golf revolves around the four majors — the Masters, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open and the Open Championship — the PGA Tour handles the tournaments before, between and after the majors. The Tour's season-long FedEx Cup gives players the chance to pile up points over the course of many months, with grinders able to stack up stats while victorious players hit occasional highs.
Scottie Scheffler comes into the Tour Championship with the points lead, which entitles him to start the week at -10 before hitting a single shot. Second-place Viktor Hovland is two strokes back at -8, Rory McIlroy is at -7, Jon Rahm at -6, and Lucas Glover at -5. The rest of the field cycles downward from there, with the final five players in the field of 30 starting at even par.
It's a confusing system, to be sure, but it's better than earlier variants. Some used a points system that required a Ph.D. in statistics to understand or explain; others robbed the Tour Championship itself of any suspense by allowing a golfer on a hot streak to claim the FedEx Cup before even arriving in Atlanta.Six of the top 10 players atop the Tour Championship leaderboard are major champions — Scheffler, McIlroy, Rahm, Brian Harman, Matt Fitzpatrick and Wyndham Clark.
. But several other players have the opportunity to shoot their way into Johnson's good graces, including Collin Morikawa, Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler. The most interesting case belongs to Lucas Glover, who didn't evenin the four majors this year but is in the mix because he won two straight tournaments earlier this month. Is that enough to get him on the team? The way he plays this week will likely have a significant impact on his Ryder Cup fate.
The small field at the Tour Championship means that even the first players tee off late in the morning; Spieth and Sepp Straka start the tournament at 11:26 a.m. ET on Thursday, with Scheffler and Hovland teeing off in the final pairing at 2:00 p.m. The tournament will be broadcast on Golf Channel and CBS and streamed on ESPN+.
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