The curtain falls on the 2024 PGA Tour season this week with the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, where Sunday’s champion will take home the $18 million FedEx Cup winning prize. The top 30 on the FedEx Cup standings head to Atlanta to tee it up in the PGA Tour's season finale where once again a starting-strokes system is in operation. Scottie Scheffler, number one on the points list after a stellar year, will begin the tournament at ten under par with Xander Schauffele hot on his heels at eight under. Hideki Matsuyama and Keegan Bradley, the winners of the first two FedEx Cup playoff events, sit three and four shots back with the rest of the field conceding between five and ten shots to the leader.
A winner of seven titles this year including the Players Championship, the Masters and the Olympics, Scheffler is a red-hot favorite but he has twice failed to convert from pole position in this event, finishing runner-up to Rory McIlroy in 2022 and 6th behind Viktor Hovland last season. While it's less than a month since he won Olympic gold, last week's BMW Championship effort, in which he placed 33rd of 48 finishers, suggests that Scheffler is beatable, while he has not ranked inside the top 10 in 72-hole scoring in his last 3 East Lake visits.
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Schauffele's East Lake record is far more robust than Scheffler’s and the confident Californian looks the best bet in his bid to overhaul Scottie at the head of the standings. With 2 Majors safely tucked away, this has been the best season of Schauffele's career and there is no better place for him to finish it off in style than East Lake, a course which he has always relished.