RORY McILROY WILL start the Tour Championship six strokes behind leader Scottie Scheffler at East Lake, with Shane Lowry one shot behind the Northern Irishman.
FedExCup leader Scheffler will be 10-under teeing off on Thursday, with McIlroy four under and Lowry three under.
In 2022 Scheffler started on 10-under and McIlroy made up six shots over the course of the week to win out.
The Tour Championship will once again feature a staggered start. Scheffler begins the week at the top of the leaderboard looking to win the FedExCup for the first time and the bonus of $25 million (€22.3 million).
The FedExCup points leader after the first two playoffs events begins the Tour Championship at 10-under par.
The No 2 player will start at eight-under. The No 3 player starts at seven-under; the No 4 player starts at six-under; the No 5 player starts at five-under.
Players No 6-10 start at four-under; players 11-15 start at three-under; players 16-20 start at two-under; players 21-25 start at one-under; and players 26-30 start at even par.
At the Tour Championship, the player with the lowest stroke total over 72 holes when combined with his FedExCup starting strokes will be crowned the FedExCup champion, be credited with an official victory at the Tour Championship, earn a bonus of $25 million (€22.3 million) and a five-year PGA Tour exemption.
Here’s how the final 30 players in the FedExCup standings who qualified through the BMW Championship will begin the Tour Championship:
10-under: Scottie Scheffler
Eight-under: Xander Schauffele
Seven-under: Hideki Matsuyama
Six-under: Keegan Bradley
Five-under: Ludvig Aberg
Four under: Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay
Three under: Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott, Tony Finau
Two under: Byeong Hun An, Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley, Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre
One under: Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith
Even: Chris Kirk, Tom Hoge, Aaron Rai, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Justin Thomas
FedExCup bonus
Place: Total
1. $25m
2. $12.5m
3. $7.5m
4. $6m
5. $5m
6. $3.5m
7. $2.75m
8. $2.25m
9. $2m
10. $1.75m
11. $1.075m
12. $1.025m
13. $975k
14. $925k
15. $885k
16. $795k
17. $775k
18. $755k
19. $735k
20. $715k
21. $670k
22. $650k
23. $630k
24. $615k
25. $600k
26. $590k
27. $580k
28. $570k
29. $560k
30. $550k
Looking forward to seeing East Lake after it’s renovation by Andrew Green. Greens should make for some more interesting viewing and the bunkers appear to be more in the style of the great Donald Ross.
Last place gets half a million lol. Wat a joke. Richest sport in world by a million miles
@Gary Galligan: at least the person finishing last will have had a good season and deserves to be there. There’s fellas on LIV that have been playing muck all year and they’re still getting paid loads. A sport that didn’t need this split is going to struggle to recover from the endless greed (on both sides) we’ve seen these past few years
@Gary Galligan: well Gaz, it’s not really last place now is it. You do have to qualify and be in the top 30.
Another way of saying it, is the 30th best golfer of the year gets half a mil.
As for richest sport in the world, that’s nonsense. You have to earn prize money in golf. Some PL footballers don’t give a rats about winning get paid EVERY week.
@Gary Galligan: Why is this a joke? Don’t they deserve it? And it’s really not last place it’s 39th in the whole pga. Big difference