Scottie Scheffler will start the TOUR Championship with a two-stroke advantage, but bet365 are offering markets on both the tournament winner and the best 72-hole score.

TOUR Championship Tips

• GROSS Winner: Xander Schauffele (9/2)
• NET Winner: Xander Schauffele (11/5)
• GROSS Sleeper: Justin Thomas (28/1)
• NET Sleeper: Collin Morikawa (20/1)

East Lake Golf Club course guide

Located five miles south of downtown Atlanta, East Lake Golf Club is the host course for the season-ending TOUR Championship for the 21st consecutive season.

Originally designed by Tom Bendelow in 1903, Donald Ross arrived in 1913 to redesign the course where Bobby Jones learned to play the game.

After hosting the event in 1998, 2000, and 2002, East Lake has served as host since 2004. Following the 2023 TOUR Championship, Andrew Green was hired to restore the course to the golden age of Ross’s design, based on aerial photographs and notes discovered from 1949.

Among the biggest changes, the property did not change the routing of the holes. The fairways, which usually did not deviate from the sprinkler lines, now sweep and curl throughout the property. The greens used to have two complexes on each hole, one for summer and one for cooler months, have combined to form larger targets with more locations for pin placements and no longer tilt exclusively from back to front.

TOUR Championship preview

Beginning as the Nabisco Championship in 1987, the TOUR Championship teed it up at East Lake for the first time in 1998.

The TOUR Championship evolved into the FedExCup Playoffs finale beginning in 2007 and continuing through today.

Before 2019, the player with the most total FedExCup points, regardless of the finish at the TOUR Championship, was awarded the FedExCup. The 2019 edition debuted the Starting Strokes metric. The winner with the lowest total, including the Starting Strokes, was crowned FedExCup Playoffs champion.

Viktor Hovland, the reigning event champion, posted 19-under-par 261 over 72 holes to match the gross record total on Bermuda greens. The Norwegian’s five-shot victory set the record after the shift to Bermuda greens in 2008.

Rory McIlroy, the only player to win this event three times, the most in history, has done so twice since 2019. Trailing by six shots entering the final round in 2022, the four-time major champion set the mark for the largest comeback in the Starting Strokes format.

Tiger Woods is the only other player to win this event twice and is the oldest player to win (age 43).

The 2017 edition saw Xander Schauffele win the tournament, but Justin Thomas won the FedExCup Playoffs points race. Schauffele is the only rookie winner and only debut winner. The Californian matched Hovland’s 19-under-par gross total last season to tie the tournament scoring record post 2013

In 2015, Jordan Spieth (who did not qualify) became the youngest winner at 22.

The lowest round on Bermuda greens is 61, set by Collin Morikawa in Round 1 in 2023.

No player has successfully defended the FedExCup Playoffs title or won the TOUR Championship in successive seasons.

There has never been a winner who made the TOUR Championship their maiden voyage.

The winner will pocket $25 million of the $100 million bonus pool and earn a five-year exemption on TOUR.