The 2024 PGA Tour season will reach its crescendo this weekend at the prestigious and lucrative TOUR Championship at East Lake.
The 30 best players on Tour this year will meet in Atlanta, Georgia for the season-ending tournament which has a top prize of $25million.
The TOUR Championship is unique in that each player begins the week with starting strokes based on how they have performed this term.
That means world number one Scottie Scheffler, who won The Masters, The Players and Olympic gold this year, will tee it up on Thursday morning at 10-under.
Open and PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele will be two back at 8-under while Hideki Matsuyama, who won the recent FedEx St Jude Championship, will begin at 7-under.
Keegan Bradley won the BMW Championship last week and will start his tournament at 6-under while Ludvig Aberg completes the top five.
Scheffler is the heavy favourite for glory having won six events already this year but he has never won the FedEx Cup.
TOUR Championship: Date and how to follow
The tournament is being held from Thursday, August 29 to Sunday, September 1.
It is taking place at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. The course is a par 71 and measures 7,490 yards in length.
Play for the opening two rounds will begin at 4:16pm UK time while the action will get underway at 5pm over the weekend.
talkSPORT 2 will have live commentary of all the action on each day of the tournament.
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You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
Sky Sports Golf will also have live coverage of the action throughout the week here.
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TOUR Championship: Field and starting strokes
The latest leaderboard from East Lake can be found here.
The top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings are making up the field in Atlanta.
Scheffler leads the way while Rory McIlroy will start six shots behind the American at 4-under.
A host of European players have qualified for the season-ending event including Tommy Fleetwood, Shane Lowry and Robert MacIntyre.
The full field and their starting strokes will be as follows:
- 10 under: Scottie Scheffler
- 8 under: Xander Schauffele
- 7 under: Hideki Matusyama
- 6 under: Keegan Bradley
- 5 under: Ludvig Aberg
- 4 under: Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay
- 3 under: Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala, Shane Lowry, Adam Scott, Tony Finau
- 2 under: Byeong Hun An, Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley, Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre
- 1 under: Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp Straka, Matthieu Pavon, Taylor Pendrith
- Even: Chris Kirk, Tom Hoge, Aaron Rai, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Justin Thomas
The players will head out in reverse order meaning Bezuidenhout and Thomas will get the tournament underway at 4:16pm UK time.
Scheffler and Schauffele will be the final pair out on Thursday and will hit their opening tee shots at 7pm UK time.
Prize money for all 30 players this week
- 1: $25,000,000
- 2: $12,500,000
- 3: $7,500,000
- 4: $6,000,000
- 5: $5,000,000
- 6: $3,500,000
- 7: $2,750,000
- 8: $2,250,000
- 9: $2,000,000
- 10: $1,750,000
- 11: $1,075,000
- 12: $1,025,000
- 13: $975,000
- 14: $925,000
- 15: $885,000
- 16: $795,000
- 17: $775,000
- 18: $755,000
- 19: $735,000
- 20: $715,000
- 21: $670,000
- 22: $650,000
- 23: $630,000
- 24: $615,000
- 25: $600,000
- 26: $590,000
- 27: $580,000
- 28: $570,000
- 29: $560,000
- 30: $550,000
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TOUR Championship: What has been said?
US Ryder Cup captain Bradley clinched a shock win at the BMW Championship on Sunday and now enters the Tour Championship in fourth place.
“I still feel like I’m in the prime of my career,” he said.
“I’m in a bit of a state of shock because there was a time a week ago about this time that I didn’t think I was going to be coming here.
“I had to have a lot of magical things happen for me to just play in this tournament, and when I got here, I was so grateful just to be here.
“I played with a real sense of calm all week, which is not the norm for me.”
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