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Tour Championship starting positions, tee times: Where will golfers open on the leaderboard at East Lake?

The top 30 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings will head to East Lake to wrap up the PGA Tour season this week

ryan young
Staff writer
·3 min read

With two playoffs events in the books, the PGA Tour will land in East Lake this week for the season-ending Tour Championship to conclude the race for the FedEx Cup.

The leaderboard, at least on Thursday, will look a bit strange.

The Tour Championship uses a staggered start on the leaderboard, which will give top-ranked Scottie Scheffler a significant advantage in Atlanta. Scheffler, who has won six times on Tour this season, will start the week at 10-under par.

"I'm trying not to treat it any differently. Like I said, the starting strokes format is a bit different. It's not a traditional golf tournament," Scheffler said Tuesday.

"But at the end of the day, the format is what it is. I'm going to try to approach it the same way I approach other tournaments, and that's stepping up on the first tee and doing my best to execute, just like I would at the Masters, at the RBC Heritage, at Palm Springs. Every tournament I am stepping up on the first tee seeing my shot and trying to hit that shot, and then going from there."

Xander Schauffele, who finished in second in the standings, will start at 8-under on the week. Hideki Matsuyama will start at 7-under, and Keegan Bradley — who held on to win at the BMW Championship on Sunday to earn a spot in the field at East Lake — will start at 6-under. That system works down until the final five players in the 30-man field, who will start at even par.

From there, whoever wins the tournament will win the FedEx Cup. That comes with a $25 million bonus and a five-year exemption on the PGA Tour.

Here’s a look at the starting leaderboard and initial tee times for the Tour Championship in Atlanta.

1. Scottie Scheffler -10

2. Xander Schauffele -8

3. Hideki Matsuyama -7

4. Keegan Bradley -6

5. Ludvig Åberg -5

6. Rory McIlroy -4

7. Collin Morikawa

8. Wyndham Clark

9. Sam Burns

10. Patrick Cantlay

11. Sungjae Im -3

12. Sahith Theegala

13. Shane Lowry

14. Adam Scott

15. Tony Finau

16. Ben An -2

17. Viktor Hovland

18. Russell Henley

19. Akshay Bhatia

20. Robert MacIntyre

21. Billy Horschel -1

22. Tommy Fleetwood

23. Sepp Straka

24.Matthieu Pavon

25. Taylor Pendrith

26. Chris Kirk E

27. Tom Hoge

28. Aaron Rai

29. Christiaan Bezuidenhout

30. Justin Thomas

All times ET

11:16 a.m. — Christiaan Bezuitenhout, Justin Thomas

11:27 a.m. — Tom Hoge, Aaron Rai

11:38 a.m. — Taylor Pendrith, Chris Kirk

11:49 a.m. — Sepp Straka, Matthieu Pavon

12:00 p.m. — Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood

12:16 p.m. — Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre

12:27 p.m. — Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley

12:38 p.m. — Tony Finau, Ben An

12:49 p.m. — Shane Lowry, Adam Scott

1:00 p.m. — Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala

1:16 p.m. — Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay

1:27 p.m. — Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark

1:38 p.m. — Ludvig Åberg, Rory McIlroy

1:49 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley

2:00 p.m. — Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele