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Understanding the Tour Championship starting positions and scoring system

The PGA Tour’s season-long race for the FedEx Cup comes to an end this week at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, a tournament where the scoring gets a little twist to keep things interesting. Here’s what you need to know.

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Tour Championship odds 2023: Starting strokes make Scottie Scheffler a monstrous favorite at East Lake

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Whether you like the starting strokes format or not, there's no debating that Scottie Scheffler has earned every single one of them with the phenomenal season he's had.

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With his runner-up finish at the BMW Championship, the World No. 1 now has 11 finishes of T-11 or better in his last 13 starts. Yet none of those resulted in victories, his last win coming at the Players Championship in March. He may finally get that seventh PGA Tour win this week at the Tour Championship, where he'll begin at 10 under. The two-stroke advantage to start has made him a monstrous +150 favorite at the DraftKings Sportsbook.

BMW winner Viktor Hovland, who will start the week at eight under, two back of Scheffler, is actually the third favorite at +450. Rory McIlroy is sandwiched in between Scheffler and Hovland at +330. He will start his Tour Championship at seven under. The Northern Irishman is gunning for his fourth Tour Championship title, which would give him one more than Tiger Woods, the only other player with three. 

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Jon Rahm, who is at six under, is the only other player at single-digit odds (+750). There is a rather large odds jump after that, with Patrick Cantlay checking in next at 18-1. 

Below are the odds for all 30 players in the 2023 Tour Championship:

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Everything to know for the 2023 Tour Championship

Thirty golfers will compete for the $18 million top prize, by max molski • published august 22, 2023.

It all comes down to this for the PGA Tour .

The Tour Championship serves as the tour’s final event of the year and a culmination of the FedExCup Playoffs . Oh, and as if the title itself wasn’t enough, the event has a whopping $75 million prize pool – $18 million of which goes to the winner.

Thirty golfers have made it to the Tour Championship after surviving the first two playoff events. Viktor Hovland is coming off a win at last weekend’s BMW Championship, while Lucas Glover won the two tournaments before that. Still, Scottie Scheffler is the man to beat after earning the most FedExCup points this season.

Here is everything to know for the 2023 Tour Championship, including the course, format and how to watch information:

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When is the 2023 Tour Championship?

The 2023 Tour Championship will run from Thursday, Aug. 24, to Sunday, Aug. 27.

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The tournament will be held at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. The club has hosted the Tour Championship annually since 2004.

How to watch the 2023 Tour Championship

Here is the viewing schedule for the 2023 Tour Championship:

Round 1: Thursday, Aug. 24

• 1-6 p.m. ET: Golf Channel/ Peacock

Round 2: Friday, Aug. 25

Round 3: Saturday, Aug. 26

• 1-3 p.m. ET: Golf Channel/ Peacock
• 3-7 p.m. ET: CBS/ Paramount+

Round 4: Sunday, Aug. 27

• 12-1:30 p.m. ET: Golf Channel/ Peacock
• 1:30-6 p.m. ET: CBS/ Paramount+

2023 Tour Championship starting strokes

FedExCup points are converted to starting strokes for the Tour Championship.

The PGA Tour adopted the stroke-based bonus system for the tournament in 2019, giving golfers different scores to start their opening round. The players with the most FedExCup points on the season get a greater advantage to begin the Tour Championship.

The starting strokes range from 10-under, given to the FedExCup points leader, to even, given to the last five golfers to qualify for the event. Here is how the starting strokes have been assigned for 2023:

• 10-under: Scottie Scheffler
• 8-under: Viktor Hovland
• 7-under: Rory McIlroy
• 6-under: Jon Rahm
• 5-under: Lucas Glover
• 4-under: Max Homa, Patrick Cantlay, Brian Harman, Wyndham Clark, Matt Fitzpatrick
• 3-under: Tommy Fleetwood, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele
• 2-under: Tom Kim, Sungjae Im, Tony Finau, Corey Conners, Si Woo Kim
• 1-under: Taylor Moore, Nick Taylor, Adam Schenk, Collin Morikawa, Jason Day
• Even: Sam Burns, Emiliano Grillo, Tyrrell Hatton, Jordan Spieth, Sepp Straka

2023 Tour Championship tee times

Opening round tee times for the Tour Championship are determined by starting strokes, so Scheffler and Hovland will be the last players to begin their rounds on Thursday.

Here is a look at all of the tee times for Round 1:

• 11:26 a.m. ET: Jordan Spieth, Sepp Straka
• 11:37 a.m. ET: Emiliano Grillo, Tyrrell Hatton
• 11:48 a.m. ET: Jason Day, Sam Burns
• 11:59 a.m. ET: Adam Schenk, Collin Morikawa
• 12:10 p.m. ET: Taylor Moore, Nick Taylor
• 12:21 p.m. ET: Corey Conners, Si Woo Kim
• 12:32 p.m. ET: Sungjae Im, Tony Finau
• 12:43 p.m. ET: Xander Schauffele, Tom Kim
• 12:54 p.m. ET: Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler
• 1:05 p.m. ET: Tommy Fleetwood, Russell Henley
• 1:16 p.m. ET: Wyndham Clark, Matt Fitzpatrick
• 1:27 p.m. ET: Patrick Cantlay, Brian Harman
• 1:38 p.m. ET: Lucas Glover, Max Homa
• 1:49 p.m. ET: Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm
• 2 p.m. ET: Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland

2023 Tour Championship prize pool

Here is how the $75 million prize pool will be allocated at the 2023 Tour Championship:

• 1st: $18 million
• 2nd: $6.5 million
• 3rd: $5 million
• 4th: $4 million
• 5th: $3 million
• 6th: $2.5 million
• $7th: $2 million
• 8th: $1.5 million
• 9th: $1.25 million
• 10th: $1 million
• 11th: $950,000
• 12th: $900,000
• 13th: $850,000
• 14th: $800,000
• 15th: $760,000
• 16th: $720,000
• 17th: $700,000
• 18th: $680,000
• 19th: $660,000
• 20th: $640,000
• 21st: $620,000
• 22nd: $600,000
• 23rd: $580,000
• 24th: $565,000
• 25th: $550,000
• 26th: $540,000
• 27th: $530,000
• 28th: $520,000
• 29th: $510,000
• 30th: $500,000

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‘I’m not a fan’: Is the Tour Championship format working? Pros are lukewarm at best

Patrick Cantlay watches as Xander Schauffele chips during a practice round prior to the Tour Championship.

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Welcome to the only PGA Tour event all year played like your country club’s member guest!

Yes, most weekend warriors can relate to this week’s format at the Tour Championship because it features a staggered start.

Or in other words; handicap strokes.

Well, sort of. Instead of worse players (or in this case, lower-ranked) being given strokes to help level the playing field, it’s the top players who are given the advantage and given a head start based on their play this season.

Here are the starting positions for all 30 players at the Tour Championship

For the players, it’s unusual to say the least. For Scottie Scheffler, who starts the event with a two-shot lead at 10 under by virtue of being the FedEx Cup leader, he doesn’t even recall if he’s ever been given strokes before.

“I can’t remember anything off the top of my head if I was ever the one getting strokes. I’m not going to give you a hard ‘no,’ but I can’t think of any off the top of my head,” Scheffler said Wednesday. “It’s nice being on this end of the strokes versus having to give them up to everybody, which is nice, like I have to do at home.”

Patrick Cantlay took advantage of the format last year, winning the BMW Championship the week before to springboard to the top of the standings and start the Tour Championship with a two-shot lead. He went on to the win the tournament, and by extension the FedEx Cup by a stroke over Jon Rahm.

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean he likes the system, especially considering he won the BMW again this season, but instead starts two behind Scheffler this week.

“I’m not a fan,” Cantlay said bluntly Tuesday. “I think there’s got to be a better system, although frankly I don’t know what that better system is.”

Perhaps no one may have more reason to gripe with the Tour Championship format than Cantlay’s friend, Xander Schauffele . Schauffele has a remarkable record at East Lake, winning in his first appearance there in 2017 as a rookie.

Since the format change in 2019, Schauffele has never finished outside the top-5 at the Tour Championship and in 2020, Schauffele had the best aggregate score at East Lake by three strokes. But that year, Dustin Johnson played well enough to keep Schauffele out of the mix and thanks to his start atop the leaderboard, won the tournament by three over Schauffele.

Schauffele’s starting score that week: three under.

“I’ve obviously been on sort of both sides of that fence, too, from a competition standpoint,” Schauffele said Tuesday. “I understand why it’s the way it is, but I think the overall consensus just from talking to players is maybe a sit-down needs to happen to sort of reshape it or try to make it better, at least come up with options and then show it to us or just give it a whirl.”

It seems like a sit down between players did well for the Tour’s schedule and structure , but the opinions of what needs to be changed seem far from agreed upon.

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U.S. Open Champion Matt Fitzpatrick brought up how he finished 15th in the standings and will start this week at three under, while Cameron Smith came in 6th, but is only one stroke ahead. He suggested the gap may be “a little bit unfair.”

And of course with a subject as polarizing as the format, there are still players who like the format, Fitzpatrick said.

“I actually spoke to [Collin Morikawa] about it last week, and he defended it,” Fitzpatrick said.

Morikawa entered last year’s playoffs as the No. 1 in the FedEx Cup standings. He underperformed in the playoffs, missing the cut at the Northern Trust and finishing tied for 63rd at the BMW. He played poorly at East Lake too, and walked away with a T26 finish in the FedEx Cup.

Fitzpatrick chalked it up to the playoff events having too many FedEx Cup points, being worth four times as many as a regular Tour stop.

“He’s got more class than me, I guess, I’d be fuming if I was him,” Fitzpatrick said of Morikawa. “I just think it’s hard to sort of do these extra points in our game. I did have a thought that somehow the Playoffs could be match play somehow where it’s a bit more realistic to every other sports playoffs if that’s the way the Tour want to go.”

Match play was something Cantlay said could be part of the “limitless” solutions to the format.

Fitzpatrick said Morikawa continued his defense by comparing the format to playoffs of other sports. That’s where Fitzpatrick disagreed.

“Golf is just so different to the other sports,” he said. “That’s why I think looking at match play would probably be more of an answer because you’ve got a team that makes the Playoffs in last place or whatever and you don’t think they’re going to go anywhere, and then they end up going all the way.

“And then you could have a guy say in 90th gets all the way to the final.”

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It is hard to argue the three FedEx Cup winners were unworthy of the title since the format change. Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and Patrick Cantlay each led the PGA Tour in wins during the season in which they won. However, only McIlroy has won the Tour Championship not starting from the pole position at 10 under.

In fact, in 2019 when McIlroy won, Justin Thomas was the pre-round leader at the Tour Championship, despite only winning once that season, the week prior at the BMW Championship.

Regardless of the format, players seem to be treating it the same. Scheffler called his two-stroke lead “nice,” but he said it won’t change how he plays the week.

“I’m still just preparing like it’s a regular four-day event and kind of going from there,” he said. “Definitely haven’t felt like I’ve been sleeping on a lead or anything like that. Just kind of feel like I’m just getting ready for a tournament.”

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A Triple-Bogey Start Vanquished, Rory McIlroy Captures the FedEx Cup

McIlroy edged out Scottie Scheffler, who had held the lead in Atlanta for almost the entire Tour Championship. Sungjae Im and Scheffler finished tied for second, a stroke behind.

By Alan Blinder

ATLANTA — On Thursday, his scorecard a shambles after only two holes at the Tour Championship, Rory McIlroy did not find himself thinking about golf’s comeback magicians or his fellow major champions.

Instead, he considered the example of a 20-year-old player, Joohyung Kim, also known as Tom Kim, who won the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., this month.

“He started with a quad and ended up going on to win the golf tournament,” McIlroy, who had opened his Tour Championship with a triple-bogey and a bogey, said then. “It is possible.”

So McIlroy proved it himself. Three days after he produced an instant debacle at East Lake Golf Club and six weeks after he faltered at the British Open , McIlroy orchestrated the largest final-round comeback in the history of the Tour Championship and defeated Scottie Scheffler by a stroke on Sunday. Although McIlroy’s win did not end his eight-year drought in major tournaments, he earned $18 million, claimed his third FedEx Cup, a record, and allowed the PGA Tour to close a turbulent season by crowning a beloved stalwart as its champion.

“I just felt so close all year,” McIlroy said after his victory in Atlanta, where Scheffler started with the tournament lead Thursday and held it until Sunday evening. “I had a couple wins, but I was just waiting for something. Maybe this was it. I got a little lucky with Scottie not playing his best golf today, and I took advantage of that with my good play.”

But, McIlroy added, “I went up against the best player in the world today and I took him down, and that’s got to mean something.”

Even though McIlroy trailed Scheffler by six strokes at the beginning of the fourth round, the final two holes of his third round — played on Sunday morning because of Saturday’s weather in Atlanta — suggested he was in fighting form: He birdied both.

McIlroy started the final round with a bogey, but he made birdie on No. 3 to bring his score even. Starting with the fifth hole, he stitched together three consecutive birdies that would undergird a 32 on the front nine. Scheffler, McIlroy’s partner in the final pairing, had three bogeys in the first half of the fourth round, which he finished with a three-over-par 73.

For as sure-footed as McIlroy so often seemed Sunday, and for as wobbly as Scheffler sometimes was, McIlroy did not assume sole command of the leaderboard until the final putts at No. 16.

He might as well have on No. 15, though.

Thirty-one feet from the pin, McIlroy tapped the ball and then stood like a statue, his putter barely aloft as the ball broke to the left. Then it swung toward the hole, McIlroy stepping back — and willing, praying, something — a few steps before it rolled into the cup. McIlroy raised his right fist in jubilation as the crowd thundered its approval.

Scheffler made a bogey on the next hole and, at last, surrendered the solo lead.

“I really fought hard today; Rory just played a really good round of golf,” Scheffler said. “He made some key putts there at the end, and he definitely deserved to win.”

Scheffler finished in a tie for second with Sungjae Im. Xander Schauffele was two strokes behind them, and Max Homa and Justin Thomas finished tied for fifth, trailing McIlroy by four strokes.

In McIlroy, 33, the PGA Tour got a FedEx Cup winner who has been one of its fiercest loyalists during the year’s upheaval over LIV Golf, the new series that has lured top players with hundreds of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

The dramatics over LIV were hardly absent from Atlanta — McIlroy was paired Thursday and Friday with Cameron Smith, the British Open winner who has not publicly denied a British news media report that he intends to defect as soon as this week. But McIlroy’s win was a boon for an entrenched order that has lately been besieged.

“Everyone on tour has had to deal with a lot; even the guys that have went to LIV have had to deal with a lot,” McIlroy said before adding, a few moments later: “This is the best place in the world to play golf. It’s the most competitive. It’s got the best players. It’s got the deepest fields. I don’t know why you’d want to play anywhere else.”

He could have been forgiven, of course, for thinking otherwise Thursday in the rain in Atlanta. But Sunday, he said his mind had “automatically” wandered to Kim’s resurrection in Greensboro.

“I could have easily thought the other way and thought: ‘I’ve got no chance now. What am I doing here?’” McIlroy said Sunday, when he shot a 66. “But I just sort of, I guess, proved that I was in a really good mind-set for the week, and I didn’t let it get to me too much and just stuck my head down and got to work.”

By a lone stroke, it was enough.

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The 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs conclude this week at the Tour Championship, where the winner will take home $18 million (before taxes) in bonus money.

This year marks the 17th season of the playoffs. PGA Tour players battled through 46 events to get to the finale.

The top 70 in the FedEx Cup points made the postseason with the top 50 advancing to Week 2 and then just the top 30 reaching East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

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Rory McIlroy became the first three-time winner of the FedEx Cup when he rallied from six shots back a year ago to track down Scottie Scheffler.

The winner of the Tour Championship is declared the FedEx Cup champion and takes home the first-place prize of $18 million in bonus money. The runner-up gets $6.5 million, with third place earning $5 million, all the way down to 30th place, which is good for $500,000.

Bonus money payouts

There is a total of $75 million in bonus money up for grabs at East Lake.

The PGA Tour will continue to utilize the FedEx Cup Starting Strokes, which was introduced for the first time in 2019. It’s a staggered system whereby the golfer in the top position will start the Tour Championship at 10 under.

Starting strokes

This system was established to give players at the top of the points list the reward of a starting advantage in the Tour Championship.

Only two multiple winners

The first 16 seasons of the playoff produced 13 different winners with McIlroy (2016, 2019, 2022) and Tiger Woods (2007, 2009) the only golfers to win it more than once.

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PGA Tour Championship 2022: What the Final Leaderboard Would Look Like Without the Starting Strokes Format

The final 18 holes of the 2022 PGA Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club weren’t supposed to be this entertaining.

When the final round began, top seed Scottie Scheffler held a six-stroke lead after playing brilliant golf to close out his third round early Sunday morning.

But Rory McIlroy and Sungjae Im clearly didn’t get the memo that Scheffler was supposed to cruise to an $18 million payday. As the world No. 1 struggled to a 3-over round of 73, McIlroy and Im pounced.

While Im came close to the lead, he could never take it but shot a solid 66 to finish at 20-under for the week, tying Scheffler for second.

The first three-time #FedExCup Champion! 🏆🏆🏆 @McIlroyRory has won the @PlayoffFinale . pic.twitter.com/Sb5mlPPYL5 — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 28, 2022

McIlroy also shot 66, which was all he needed to close the six-shot gap. Rory took the lead with a long birdie putt at the 15th and held on for a one-shot win, finishing at 21-under.

What the actual final leaderboard at the 2022 Tour Championship looks like

Here’s what the actual final leaderboard at the 2022 Tour Championship looked like.

• Rory McIlroy: -21
• Scottie Scheffler: -20
• Sungjae Im: -20
• Xander Schauffele: -18
• Max Homa: -17
• Justin Thomas: -17
• Sepp Straka: -16
• Patrick Cantlay: -16
• Tony Finau: -15
• Tom Hoge: -14
• Joaquin Niemann: -13
• Hideki Matsuyama: -13
• Jordan Spieth: -12
• Aaron Wise: -12
• Viktor Hovland: -11
• Matt Fitzpatrick: -11
• J.T. Poston: -11
• Jon Rahm: -11
• Cameron Young: -10
• Cameron Smith: -9
• Brian Harman: -8
• Billy Horschel: -8
• Collin Morikawa: -8
• Sam Burns: -7
• Adam Scott: -4
• Corey Conners: -3
• K.H. Lee: -1
• Sahith Theegala: +1
• Scott Stallings: +3

How it would look without the use of the starting strokes format

WOW! HUGE putt from @McIlroyRory to regain a share of the lead @PlayoffFinale . pic.twitter.com/PgnAcqpRtR — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 28, 2022

And here’s how the 2022 Tour Championship would have played out without using the starting strokes format. As you can see, the outcome is no different, at least at the top.

• Rory McIlroy: -17
• Sungjae Im: -16
• Max Homa: -15
• Justin Thomas: -14
• Tom Hoge: -13
• Xander Schauffele: -12
• Sepp Straka: -12
• Tony Finau: -11
• Joaquin Niemann: -11
• Hideki Matsuyama: -11
• Scottie Scheffler: -10
• Jordan Spieth: -10
• Viktor Hovland: -9
• Patrick Cantlay: -8
• Matt Fitzpatrick: -8
• Jon Rahm: -8
• Cameron Young: -7
• Brian Harman: -7
• Billy Horschel: -7
• Collin Morikawa: -7
• Cameron Smith: -5
• Sam Burns: -2
• Corey Conners: -2
• Scott Stallings: +6

Stats courtesy of  PGATour.com

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TOUR Championship leaderboard without starting strokes after two rounds

We're set for some drama at East Lake Golf Club this week at the TOUR Championship on the weekend.

Collin Morikawa, who started nine strokes back of Scottie Scheffler in the starting strokes for the PGA Tour's playoff finale, has gone gangbusters around the famed Atlanta property over the first two rounds to take a share of the lead into the final two rounds. He's not alone, though, as he has hefty competition from BMW Championship winner Viktor Hovland, who is tied atop the TOUR Championship leaderboard with his peer.

Right behind that duo at 16-under is Scheffler in third at 14-under with Keegan Bradley at 14-under and a group of heavy-hitters right behind them all.

But with the starting strokes in play, some golf fans want to know simply what the leaderboard would look like without the staggered start -- commonly referred to as the shadow leaderboard. So let's take a look at that going into the weekend to see which players are dominating the competition this week and which players are resting heavily on their starting strokes at the TOUR Championship.

TOUR Championship leaderboard without starting strokes entering weekend

• 1. Collin Morikawa (-15)
• 2. Keegan Bradley (-10)
• T3. Tyrrell Hatton (-9)
• T3. Xander Schauffele (-9)
• T5. Sam Burns (-8)
• T5. Viktor Hovland (-8)
• 7. Adam Schenk (-7)
• 8. Jon Rahm (-6)
• T9. Matt Fitzpatrick (-5)
• T9. Wyndham Clark (-5)
• T11. Russell Henley (-4)
• T11. Scottie Scheffler (-4)
• T13. Sepp Straka (-3)
• T13. Tom Ki m (-3)
• T13. Jason Day (-3)
• T13. Patrick Cantlay (-3)
• T13. Rory McIlroy (-3)
• T13. Max Homa (-3)
• T19. Brian Harman (-2)
• T19. Tony Finau (-2)
• T19. Nick Taylor (-2)
• 22. Lucas Glover (-1)
• 23. Jordan Spieth (E)
• T24. Rickie Fowler (+1)
• T24. Corey Conners (+1)
• T24. Tommy Fleetwood (+1)
• T27. Si Woo Kim (+2)
• T27. Sungjae Im (+2)
• 29. Emiliano Grillo (+5)
• 30. Taylor Moore (+6)

It's no surprise that Morikawa is running away with this thing on the shadow leaderboard at East Lake. As mentioned, he started nine strokes back at 1-under for the TOUR Championship and has climbed up to the top of the leaderboard over the first 36 holes of the tournament. A similar plight is true of Bradley, who started at 3-under and is now in the mix.

Having said that, with how hot those guys have started this week, you have to wonder if that's sustainable over the final 72 holes of the tourament with a monster $18 million payout going to the winner of the FedEx Cup.

We will soon find out, but it's looking like we could be in for a thriller to end the PGA Tour season.

2021 Tour Championship format: Starting strokes, handicaps and cut rules

The 2021 Tour Championship format has been announced for the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup finale played at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

The Tour Championship is the only PGA Tour stroke-play event that will use a handicap system. The Tour Championship field is comprised of 30 players, competing over 72 holes.

The top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship qualify for the event, and they're slotted with starting strokes based on their FedEx Cup ranking.

The top seed starts the tournament at 10 under par, with the No. 2 seed at 8 under par, and so on, all the way down to Nos. 26-30 starting at even par. This means the lowest-seeded players will have to overcome a 10-stroke disadvantage during four rounds of golf.

For the purposes of the Official World Golf Ranking, points are doled out based on how players score in the 72-hole tournament without starting strokes.

2021 Tour Championship starting strokes and handicaps

• 1. Patrick Cantlay (1) -10
• 2. Bryson DeChambeau (2) -8
• 3. Tony Finau (3) -7
• 4. Jon Rahm (4) -6
• 5. Cameron Smith (5) -5
• T6. Justin Thomas (6) -4
• T6. Harris English (7) -4
• T6. Abraham Ancer (8) -4
• T6. Jordan Spieth (9) -4
• T6. Sam Burns (10) -4
• T11. Collin Morikawa (11) -3
• T11. Sungjae Im (12) -3
• T11. Viktor Hovland (13) -3
• T11. Louis Oosthuizen (14) -3
• T11. Dustin Johnson (15) -3
• T16. Rory McIlroy (16) -2
• T16. Xander Schauffele (17) -2
• T16. Jason Kokrak (18) -2
• T16. Kevin Na (19) -2
• T16. Brooks Koepka (20) -2
• T21. Corey Conners (21) -1
• T21. Hideki Matsuyama (22) -1
• T21. Stewart Cink (23) -1
• T21. Joaquin Niemann (24) -1
• T21. Scottie Scheffler (25) -1
• T26. Daniel Berger (26) E
• T26. Erik van Rooyen (27) E
• T26. Sergio Garcia (28) E
• T26. Billy Horschel (29) E
• T26. Patrick Reed (30) E

The player with the lowest total -- combining their starting strokes and on-course play -- after 72 holes wins both the tournament and the FedEx Cup. There is no cut in this tournament.

The format is designed to create an incentive for players to get into the season finale as highly ranked in the FedEx Cup as possible, while also making it straight-forward for fans to understand who is going to win the FedEx Cup without thinking about points and math.

In the event of a tie in points after 72 holes, the Tour Championship playoff format becomes a sudden-death stroke-play affair, with the player earning the fewest strokes on a playoff hole advancing or winning the tournament. The Tour Championship winner earns the FedEx Cup, the $15 million first-place prize, a five-year PGA Tour exemption and entry into all four major championships in 2021.

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2024 PGA Championship odds, field: Surprising PGA picks from golf model that has nailed 11 majors

Sportsline's proven model simulated the pga championship 2024 10,000 times and revealed its pga golf picks for valhalla golf club.

The 2024 PGA Championship will be a homecoming for Justin Thomas since the tournament takes place in his hometown of Louisville, Ky. Valhalla Golf Club will host the event, with the first round beginning on Thursday, May 16. Thomas is a two-time PGA champion, but this will be his first pro event at his hometown course. Even with the feel-good story of Thomas' homecoming, he still sits outside the top 20 golfers with the shortest 2024 PGA Championship odds. He's a 33-1 longshot, while two-time Masters champion Scottie Scheffler is the 4-1 favorite. Jon Rahm follows at 9-1, with McIlroy at 10-1 and Koepka at 16-1 among the 2024 PGA Championship golfers.

Before locking in any 2024 PGA Championship picks of your own, entering picks on sites like DraftKings or FanDuel, or finalizing PGA Championship props and PGA Championship Pick Six entries, be sure to see the 2024 PGA Championship golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine .

Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June of 2020. In fact, the model is up almost $10,000 on its best bets since the restart, nailing tournament after tournament.

McClure's model correctly predicted Scottie Scheffler would finish on top of the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and The Players Championship this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit at +9000, and for the entire tournament, McClure's best bets returned nearly $1,000.

The model also predicted Jon Rahm would be victorious at the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model was all over Rahm's second career major victory heading into the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead heading into the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the second straight Masters win for the model, which also nailed Scheffler winning in 2022.

In addition, McClure's best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

This same model has also nailed a whopping 11 majors entering the weekend and hit the Masters three straight years. Anyone who has followed it has seen massive returns.

Now with the PGA Championship 2024 field taking shape, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard.

Top 2024 PGA Championship predictions 

One major surprise the model is calling for at the 2024 PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka, a three-time PGA champion and one of the favorites, stumbles and doesn't even crack the top 10. Koepka has five major tournament wins on his resume and a reputation for elevating his level of play in big events. However, his last two major starts haven't gone well as he was 45th at the Masters, which followed a 64th-place finish at last year's Open Championship. He's failed to shoot par in each of his last seven rounds at major tournaments.

After notching three tournament wins in 2023, including last year's PGA Championship, it has been tough sledding for Koepka in 2024. He has no victories, or even top-fives, and across his six starts, he has three times as many finishes outside the top 25 (three) as he has inside the top 10 (one). He played Valhalla at the 2014 PGA Championship and finished in a tie for 15th place, but that placement ranks just eighth out of his 11 career PGA Championship starts.

Another surprise: Will Zalatoris, a 25-1 longshot, makes a strong run at the title. He's a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. After missing most of last season following back surgery, Zalatoris has rebounded in a big way. His ninth-place finish at the Masters marked his third top-10 over his last five starts of this season. Additionally, it displayed Zalatoris' resolve in majors, as he has an eye-popping seven top-10s over his last 10 major starts. That includes a runner-up at the 2022 PGA Championship, where he was among the top two of the leaderboard after every round and only lost in a playoff to Justin Thomas.

Zalatoris is one of the premier ball-strikers, both with his driver and with iron play. He ranks in the top 25 of the PGA Tour in strokes gained: tee-to-green, driving accuracy percentage, total driving and strokes gained: approach the green. Being such a strong first- and second-shot golfer has allowed him to rank 21st on tour in scoring average (adjusted) despite shaking off rust early in the season.  See who else to pick here .

How to make 2024 PGA Championship picks

The model is also targeting three other golfers with odds of 25-1 or longer to make a strong run at the title. Anyone who backs these longshots could hit it big. You can only see the model's picks here .

Who will win the 2024 PGA Championship, and which longshots will stun the golfing world? Check out the PGA Championship 2024 odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected PGA Championship leaderboard, all from the model that's nailed 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters .

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Get full 2024 PGA Championship picks, best bets, and predictions here.

Scottie Scheffler 4-1 Jon Rahm 9-1 Rory McIlroy 10-1 Ludvig Aberg 16-1 Brooks Koepka 16-1 Xander Schauffele 18-1 Viktor Hovland 20-1 Patrick Cantlay 20-1 Wyndham Clark 20-1 Cameron Smith 22-1 Joaquin Niemann 22-1 Collin Morikawa 25-1 Sam Burns 25-1 Max Homa 25-1 Matt Fitzpatrick 28-1 Tom Kim 28-1 Jordan Spieth 30-1 Bryson DeChambeau 30-1 Tony Finau 30-1 Dustin Johnson 30-1 Justin Thomas 33-1 Hideki Matsuyama 35-1 Jason Day 35-1 Cameron Young 35-1 Tommy Fleetwood 40-1 Rickie Fowler 45-1 Min Woo Lee 50-1 Sungjae Im 50-1 Shane Lowry 50-1 Tyrrell Hatton 50-1 Brian Harman 55-1 Corey Conners 60-1 Patrick Reed 65-1 Justin Rose 65-1 Russell Henley 65-1 Sahith Theegala 65-1 Keegan Bradley 75-1 Adam Scott 80-1 Talor Gooch 90-1 Gary Woodland 100-1 Kurt Kitayama 100-1 Daniel Berger 100-1 Louis Oosthuizen 125-1 Tiger Woods 125-1 Si Woo Kim 125-1 Keith Mitchell 125-1 Thomas Pieters 125-1 Abraham Ancer 125-1 J.T. Poston 125-1 Sepp Straka 125-1 Mito Pereira 150-1 Harris English 150-1 Phil Mickelson 150-1 Ryan Fox 150-1 Adam Hadwin 150-1 Sergio Garcia 150-1 Seamus Power 175-1 Denny McCarthy 175-1 Robert MacIntyre 175-1 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 175-1 Davis Riley 175-1 Aaron Wise 175-1 Marc Leishman 175-1 Billy Horschel 200-1 Harold Varner III 200-1 Jason Kokrak 200-1 Mackenzie Hughes 225-1 Francisco Molinari 225-1 Joel Dahmen 250-1

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2024 RBC Heritage best bets, predictions: PGA Tour odds, picks

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While I’m sad that we have to wait another 52 weeks for another Masters , I am happy to report that we had a tremendous week of PGA Tour betting.

We had four picks on the card last week and cashed three of them – Scottie Scheffler to win, Xander Schauffele to finish in the top 10 and Tiger Woods to make the cut.

When you add in the Stephan Jaeger outright at +5000 from a few weeks ago, this has been a great start to the season. Let’s try to keep the momentum going at the RBC Heritage. 

The course in play this week is Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head, S.C. It is a par-71 that measures a little more than 7,200 yards.

Like most Pete Dye courses, this is not one that can be overpowered off the tee. With narrow fairways, doglegs, overhanging tree limbs and water hazards lurking everywhere, this is more of a positional course off the tee.

In other words, you don’t have to be a bomber to play well there. 

The greens at Harbour Town are extremely small (3,400 square feet) and difficult to hit on average. This places an emphasis on both approach play and scrambling.

The three main statistics I am looking at this week from players are strokes-gained approach, strokes gained around the green and bogey avoidance.

Course history has been fairly predictive over the years, so I don’t mind leaning on golfers who have played well here in the past. 

2024 RBC Heritage best bets

Cameron young to win (+3000, fanduel ).

Young has yet to pick up a win on the PGA Tour, but he has been in contention so many times.

In his short career, he has seven runner-up finishes and two third-place finishes. It’s only a matter of time before he gets the breaks he needs on a Sunday.

And the fact he’s won twice on the Korn Ferry Tour shows he knows how to win.

While this is a less-than-driver course for the most part, nearly 40% of approach shots are hit from 150-200 yards. Young is one of the best in the field when it comes to approach shots from that distance.

He’s been in solid form all year and nearly won this event in 2022. 

Wyndham Clark to win (+3500, DraftKings )

Clark missed the cut at the Masters last week, which has led to a very enticing price point in the outright betting market.

If he had made the cut and had a decent weekend, his odds would likely be in the +2000 range. Instead, it’s nearly double that.

He seems to love these Signature Events, as he won at Pebble Beach and finished second at both The Players Championship and the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

He doesn’t have a weakness in his game and he plays this event every year.

If you want to play the regional narrative, he won on a Carolina course last year (Quail Hollow). 

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Shane Lowry top 10 (+330, FanDuel)

Lowry was close to making my outright betting card this week, but his number cratered before I had the chance to bet it. Instead, I will settle for a top-10 finish.

His T33 result at the Masters doesn’t look like much on paper, but he lost eight strokes putting. Had he been just even with the field on the greens, he would have finished in the top 10.

His irons and his play around the green are excellent, and he clearly likes the course. In his last five appearances at Harbour Town, he has finished in the top 10 three times. 

Russell Henley top 20 (+115, DraftKings)

I can’t think of a better course for Henley’s game. He’s accurate off the tee, he’s elite on approach and he’s very good around the greens.

On top of all that, he seems to have found something with his putting this year.

In a field of only 70 golfers, I love his chances of finishing in the top 20. He’s been able to hit that mark in full-field events in eight of his last 13 starts and has hit that mark in two of his last three trips to Harbour Town. 

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Who is Ludvig Aberg? Rookie pro golfer finished second in 2024 Masters, behind Scottie Scheffler

Editors note: This story has been updated to reflect Ludvig Aberg's finish at the Masters

Ludvig Aberg isn't playing like a rookie at The Masters.

Building off a strong Round 3 on Saturday in which he shot 2-under par, Aberg, 24, finished second in the 2024 Masters Tournament with an overall finish of seven under par. He trailed only World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler , who won his second Masters in three years.

"I think there is a lot of things we'd done very well this week, especially today," said Ludvig of his performance this week to CBS's Amanda Balionis. "I came out and was very nervous, obviously was shaking at the first tee. But those are all things that I enjoy doing and we said, 'It is a privilege to be hitting all these shots out here and it's a privilege to be in this position.'"

This is Aberg's first trip to the Augusta National Golf Club for the Masters, as the Swedish golfer turned professional in June 2023. He finished runner-up in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February and eighth in The Players Championship in March. He has one win on the PGA Tour, winning the 2023 RSM Classic with a score of 29 under par, four strokes ahead of second-place Mackenzie Hughes.

Aberg is 9 under in the first nine during the week at Augusta National but playing above par in the back nine at two over par according to the CBS broadcast. Here's everything to know about Aberg and his runner-up finish at the 2024 Masters Tournament:

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Who is Ludvig Aberg?

Aberg is a 24-year-old professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour after turning professional in 2023.

The native of Sweden is currently the ninth-ranked golfer in the world, according to the  Official World Golf Ranking. He played collegiately at Texas Tech, where he was the top-ranked amateur in the world and a three-time First Team All-American selection.

Aberg is making his first Masters appearance and first major championship debut this week at Augusta National. He was also part of Team Europe's Ryder Cup team in 2023.

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Ludvig Aberg age

Aberg is 24 years old. He is a native of Eslov, Sweden.

Has Ludvig Aberg won the Masters?

No. Aberg is making his Masters debut this year.

If Aberg can hold his ground and find a way to come out on top Sunday, he would be the fourth golfer in Masters history to win golf's marquee tournament in his first attempt, joining Frank Urban Zoeller, Horton Smith and Gene Gene Sarazen according to Golfweek.

Ludvig Aberg's PGA Tour 2023 results

Here's a full breakdown of Aberg's results from tournaments this season on the PGA Tour:

• The Sentry: T-47 finish
• Sony Open in Hawaii: T-30 finish
• Farmers Insurance Open: T-9 finish
• AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: 2 finish
• The Genesis Invitational: T-19 finish
• Arnold Palmer Invitational: T-25 finish
• The Players Championship: 8 finish
• Valero Texas Open: T-14 finish

Alex Noren Betting Profile: Corales Puntacana Championship

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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - APRIL 07: Alex Noren of Sweden plays his tee shot on the 2nd hole during the final round of the Valero Texas Open at TPC San Antonio on April 07, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Brennan Asplen/Getty Images)

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In his last tournament at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio, Texas, Alex Noren ended the weekend at -5, good for a 14th-place finish. He heads into the 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship April 18-21 aiming for a higher finish.

The Corales Puntacana Championship Tournament & Course Info

• Date: April 18-21, 2024
• Location: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
• Course: Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course)
• Par: 72 / 7,670 yards
• Previous Winner: Matt Wallace

At the Corales Puntacana Championship

• This is Noren's first time competing at the Corales Puntacana Championship in the past five years.
• Matt Wallace won this tournament in 2023, posting a driving average of 299.8 yards (15th in the field) with a 73.21% driving accuracy (31st) and 26.75 putts per round (third).

Noren's Recent Performances

• Noren has earned one top-10 finish and four top-20 finishes over his last five appearances.
• Noren has finished within three shots of the leader in one of his last five appearances. Over that span, he's finished within five shots of the winner two times and finished with a better-than-average score four times.
• In his last five tournaments, his average score has been -8.
• Off the tee, Alex Noren has averaged 292.0 yards in his past five tournaments.
• In his past five starts, Noren is averaging 1.092 Strokes Gained: Putting.
• Looking at Strokes Gained: Total, Noren has an average of 5.643 in his past five tournaments.

Noren's Advanced Stats and Rankings

• Noren has a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.323 this season, which ranks 41st on TOUR. Meanwhile, his average driving distance (291.8 yards) ranks 135th.
• In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, Noren ranks 46th on TOUR with a round-by-round average of 0.320. Additionally, he ranks third with a Greens in Regulation mark of 72.63%.
• On the greens, Noren has registered a 0.187 Strokes Gained: Putting mark this season, which places him 63rd on TOUR. In addition, he ranks 146th with a putts-per-round average of 29.44, and he ranks 94th by breaking par 24.49% of the time.

Noren's Best Finishes

• Noren has not won any of the eight tournaments he has participated in this season, though he has collected one top-10 finish.
• In those eight events, he made the cut eight times (100%).
• Currently, Noren has 374 points, ranking him 61st in the FedExCup standings.

Noren's Best Strokes Gained Performances

• This season, Noren's best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee performance came in February 2024 at the WM Phoenix Open, where he ranked 15th in the field with a mark of 2.728. He finished 53rd in that tournament.
• Noren's best Strokes Gained: Approach performance this season came at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, where he ranked sixth in the field with a mark of 5.734 (he finished ninth in that tournament).
• When it comes to Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, Noren's best performance this season was at the Valero Texas Open in April 2024, as he delivered a 5.046 mark, which ranked him fifth in the field. He finished 14th in that tournament.
• At the Texas Children's Houston Open in March 2024, Noren posted his best Strokes Gained: Putting mark this season -- 4.151, which ranked him 14th in the field. He finished 11th in that event.
• Noren delivered his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (9.048) at the Texas Children's Houston Open in March 2024. That ranked 11th in the field.

Noren's Strokes Gained Rankings

Noren's past results.

All stats in this article are accurate for Noren as of the start of the Corales Puntacana Championship.

Note: The PGA TOUR has created this story via a machine-learning model using data from ShotLink , powered by CDW, in addition to player performance data. While we strive for accuracy and quality, please note that the information provided may not be entirely error-free.