And then there was one. One last tournament to decide who will be the 2025 FedEx Cup champion.
After nearly eight months and 35 events, the PGA Tour season comes down to the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, where all 30 players start at even par and the golfer with the lowest aggregate score after 72 holes wins the tournament, the FedEx Cup and a $10 million first-place prize money payout from the $40 million overall purse that’s on the line.
Suffice it to say, the best of the best on the PGA Tour are in Atlanta, led by the most dominant golfer on the planet, Scottie Scheffler. The World No. 1 has earned 7,456 FedEx points, more than double his next closest rival. But that won’t mean anything this week, given the change in the format that scraps the staggered start.
In year’s past that would have been music to Xander Schauffele’s ears; his record at East Lake is as impressive as anyone’s. But with Xander not qualifying among the top 30, others who have good vibes at East Lake should be chomping at the bit.
That includes Rory McIlroy, a three-time winner at East Lake; Justin Thomas, a two-time runner-up; Viktor Hovland, who has a 67.40 stroke average in 20 rounds at East Lake; Justin Rose, a previous runner-up as well. And wouldn’t it be ironic if Tommy Fleetwood, after years of trying to chase down his first PGA Tour title, did it this week and claimed the FedEx Cup title as well? Interestingly, there has never been a player who won the Tour Championship for his first career PGA Tour victory.
Of course, with the way Scheffler has been playing of last, there’s no reason he won’t runaway and hide from the field the way he seems to have done for much of the 2025 season. If so, he’d become the first player to win FedEx Cup titles in back-to-back seasons. It might not seem that important, but being the first to do anything is something that certainly motivates Scottie.
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Tom Bendelow actually laid out the original course at East Lake, back when it was known as Atlanta Athletic Club, and that was the layout upon which Stewart Maiden taught the game to the now-legendary Bobby Jones. Donald Ross basically built a new course on the same spot in 1915, which remained untouched until changes were made before the 1963 Ryder Cup. When Atlanta Athletic moved to the suburbs in the late 1960s, the intown East Lake location (many of the members stayed behind) fell on hard financial times until being rescued in the 1990s by businessman Tom Cousins, who made it a sterling fusion of corporate and inner-city involvement. Rees Jones redesigned most holes beginning in the mid-90s, making the course more reflective of his views of championship golf. After the PGA Tour reversed the nines for the 2016 Tour Championship (flipping the unpopular par-3 finish into the ninth hole), the club made the new routing permanent for regular play. East Lake underwent another major restoration following the 2023 Tour Championship, this time by Andrew Green, that focuses on bringing back the course’s Donald Ross heritage. Green used a 1949 aerial to inform the replacement of bunkers and the shape of greens, which are much larger and possess a wider variety of hole locations and slopes than before. Almost every hole was dramatically revamped, creating a course that poses driving options and requires the careful calibration of each shot rather than a mere test of straight hitting. The result is a massive jump in our rankings. View Course TV Schedule
Golf Channel and the NBC Sports app will carry live coverage on Thursday and Friday from 1-6 p.m. ET. On Saturday, Golf Channel and the NBC Sports app will air coverage from 1-2:30 p.m., with NBC, Peacock and the NBC Sports app taking over from 2:30-7 p.m. On Sunday, Golf Channel and the NBC Sports app will air coverage from 12 noon-1:30 p.m., with NBC, Peacock and the NBC Sports app taking over from 1:30-6 p.m.
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Streaming Schedule
PGA Tour Live streaming coverage will occur on ESPN+ from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday through Sunday. Four live feeds will be available Thursday and Friday: A main feed, marquee groups, featured groups and featured holes. On Saturday coverage runs from 12 noon to 7 p.m. with Sunday coverage running again from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
SiriusXM coverage on Thursday and Friday runs from 12 noon to 6 p.m. Saturday’s broadcast is from 2 to 7 p.m. and Sunday is from 1 to 6 p.m.
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Tee Times (all times EDT) FIRST ROUND/THURSDAY
First tee
11:16 AM — Chris Gotterup, Akshay Bhatia
11:27 AM — Jacob Bridgeman, Sungjae Im
11:38 AM — Nick Taylor, Harry Hall
11:49 AM — Hideki Matsuyama, Shane Lowry
12:00 PM — Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland
12:16 PM — Corey Conners, Patrick Cantlay
12:27 PM — Sam Burns, Brian Harman
12:38 PM — Andrew Novak, Keegan Bradley
12:49 PM — Cameron Young, Ludvig Åberg
1 PM — Harris English, Justin Thomas
1:16 PM — Robert MacIntyre, Maverick McNealy
1:27 PM — Russell Henley, Sepp Straka
1:38 PM — Tommy Fleetwood, Ben Griffin
1:49 PM — J.J. Spaun, Justin Rose
2 PM — Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
