Tour Championship Betting Preview

Aug 24, 2022

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The PGA Tour’s 2021-2022 season will conclude at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia with the finale of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The top 30 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings will be competing for an $18 million total purse with players guaranteed at least $500,000 just for making it to the Tour Championship. Coming off back-to-back wins at the BMW Championship, Patrick Cantlay will look to successfully defend the Tour Championship he won last season.

The oldest golf course in the city of Atlanta, East Lake is a city course that was the home track of legendary golfer Bobby Jones. It is a lush old-school parkland course that features narrow fairways, difficult bermuda rough, uneven lies, and fast greens. It is known as a risk/reward type of course and is one of the more difficult ones on Tour with birdies typically tough to come by. It has been the permanent home of the Tour Championship since 2004, and it has been held at East Lake 21 times since 1998.

Unlike every other Tour event where all players start on a level playing field at even par, the field this week will begin with staggered scores based on their position in the FedEx Cup points ranking list. Despite the scorn of most golf fans who despise the staggered start, this will be the fourth consecutive year of utilizing the “Starting Strokes” format that sees players start between 10-under and even par depending on their ranking.

Certain players this week, like Adam Scott and Aaron Wise, who are starting 10 shots behind, have no realistic chance of overtaking anyone near the top of the board. This limits the excitement and drama of this final event and makes it one of the more unwatchable golf tournaments of the year.