Atlanta, Georgia Perhaps the largest indicator of the identity dilemma with which the Tour Championship is confronted is that, with a rare exception, the conversation when the PGA Tour is rolling to East Lake, about one of the two things – the fixed location of the seasonal finale, which has long been changed and briefly changed this year.
After those two things, the subject generally changes to those who could win, which suggests that a recovery of priorities is appropriate, which, it turns out, depends on the first two things that are resolved.
Regarding who is expected to win this year, Scottie Scheffler is in the field of 30 players, so there is your answer.
What is different this time is that Scheffler, unlike the previous two years, even starts when the rest of the field. The starting format-that Scheffler had par and two free of his nearest pursuer before he hit his first shot in favor of a traditional 72-hole tournament with a non-traditional $ 40 million on the line.
For those who want a real playoff system, something that does not fit naturally in the paradigm of Golf, this format offers that. The only thing that counts are the 72 holes on the docket.
It does not matter that Scheffler dominated the FedEx Cup racing to this point, although it led at the end of the regular season and again after the BMW championship that he won last week, Scheffler earned an extra $ 15 million extra from the point pool.
The points no longer matter. Akshay Bhatia and Chris Gotterup, who were 30th and 29th respectively in points, have the same opportunity to win this week as Scheffler, assuming that they can beat the man who won five times this year and has not been completed outside the top eight since March.
Under the old format, Bhatia and GotterUp 10 would start behind.
It is possible that the East Lake event will leave, perhaps rotating between locations such as the BMW championship, and there has been talk of cutting the field of 30 players after two rounds of stroke game to conclude with a game bracket.
Prior to the FedEx Cup and the FedEx Cup were independent competitions that led to two players on Sunday evening with two different trophies with two different trophies from time to time, led to the timeless photo of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson who trophies with their respective trophies with their respective trophies in 2009 and ready with their respective trophies tired of their respective trophies tired. Occasionally.
Sometimes it has had a clarity of muddy water. Even last year Scheffler won the tournament, but it was Collin Morikawa who recorded the lowest score of 72 holes.
Understand the confusion?
Although the old format Scheffler would benefit the most, he was one of the most vocal proponents for eliminating the tool.
“I was not a big fan of the start-up format. I was a fan of the points format, but I understand why people wanted to leave Fedex as a huge sponsor and at the end of the week had to give two trophies and explained the season-long race. This is a much easier size to end the year,” Scheffler said.
“When it comes to this week, we all even start par, and it’s time to chase what you want. To win tournaments, you have to play good wave at the right time, and if you want to win our season -hose race, you really have to play good wave at the end of the season … and if you want to win the FedExcup, you have to win this week.”
Rory McIlroy is the only triple Fedex Cup champion and he conquered a shortage of six-stroke starting deficiency in the first round-on Sunday to beat Scheffler in 2022.
“I didn’t hate the starting regions. I thought the player who played the best during the season should have had an advantage here. But the majority of the people just didn’t love the starting areas,” said McIlroy.
As part of his radical evaluation of the PGA Tour, the new CEO Brian Rolapp will look at the play -off structure with a goal to better combine it with the regular season, while it simplifies so much, so that all sports fans, not just Golffans, have a clear understanding of what happens.
It is possible that the event will leave East Lake, perhaps rotating at locations such as the BMW championship, and there has been talk of cutting the field of 30 players after two rounds of a blow to end with a match-play bracket. The table seems, it seems full of ideas, although the play-off of three events has been set for next year.
“I don’t think I’m going to commit myself for a specific time. I think the correct answer is that we will take so much time to get it right, at least the first time out, but we are going to move aggressively. So I would like to place the right competitive model in the right competitive model,” Rolapp said when the structure will change in 2027.
Anyway for this week, it’s simple – 30 players, 72 holes, low score wins the FedEx Cup.
All this evokes an interesting scenario. What if this is finally the week of Tommy Fleetwood?
“I think it would be pretty funny if I won this week and then also got the FedExcup,” said Fleetwood. “I think that would be funny.”
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