ATLANTA, Ga. — The field is set for the 2024 TOUR Championship with the top 30 players in the FedExCup qualifying for the season finale at the newly restored East Lake Golf Club. Keegan Bradley captured the seventh win of his PGA TOUR career and his first of the 2024 season at the BMW Championship, elevating him to No. 4. in the FedExCup entering the TOUR Championship. Scottie Scheffler will become the first player to open the TOUR Championship as the FedExCup leader for a third consecutive season, a position he has held since winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard.
Xander Schauffele, who won the PGA Championship and Open Championship this year, notched T2 and T5 finishes in the first two Playoffs events and will enter the week at No. 2 in the FedExCup. Hideki Matsuyama, who earned his 10th PGA TOUR title at the FedEx St. Jude Championship before withdrawing from the BMW Championship with lower back
discomfort, enters at No. 3.
The FedExCup Playoffs conclude this week at the TOUR Championship, supported by Proud Partners Accenture, Coca-
Cola and Southern Company, where the top 30 players will compete for the FedExCup title as the PGA TOUR’s season champion. The first and second rounds will be broadcast live on Golf Channel from historic East Lake Golf Club on
Thursday, Aug. 29 and Friday, Aug. 30 from 1-6 p.m. The third round will be broadcast on Golf Channel from 1-2:30 p.m.
and on NBC from 2:30-7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 31, with the final round slated for Sunday, Sept. 1 from 12-1:30 p.m. on
Golf Channel and 1:30-6 p.m. on NBC.
Other Player Storylines:
• Scottie Scheffler (No. 1) holds the FedExCup lead entering the TOUR Championship for the third consecutive
year. Scheffler finished T2 and T6 in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
• With his victory at the BMW Championship, Keegan Bradley moved from No. 50 to No. 4 in the FedExCup.
Bradley entered the FedEx St. Jude Championship at No. 39, finished T59, and fell to No. 50 to grab the final
spot at the BMW Championship. He will be making his sixth career start at the TOUR Championship.
• Four players began the BMW Championship outside the top 30 in the FedExCup and played their way into
the TOUR Championship: Keegan Bradley (No. 50 to No. 4), Adam Scott (No. 41 to No. 14), Tommy
Fleetwood (No. 31 to No. 22) and Chris Kirk (No. 32 to No. 26).
• Nine players will be making their TOUR Championship debuts.
• Five former FedExCup Champions qualified for the TOUR Championship: No. 6 Rory McIlroy (2016, 2019,
2022), No. 10 Patrick Cantlay (2021), No. 17 Viktor Hovland (2023), No. 21 Billy Horschel (2014) and No. 30
Justin Thomas (2017). Thomas, who failed to advance to the FedExCup Playoffs in 2023, will make his eighth
appearance at the TOUR Championship after securing the 30th and final spot in the field.
Final Field and Starting Leaderboard
Pos. Player Starting FedExCup Strokes
1 Scottie Scheffler -10
2 Xander Schauffele -8
3 Hideki Matsuyama -7
4 Keegan Bradley -6
5 Ludvig Åberg -5
T6 Rory McIlroy -4
Collin Morikawa -4
Wyndham Clark -4
Sam Burns -4
Patrick Cantlay -4
T11 Sungjae Im -3
Sahith Theegala -3
Shane Lowry -3
Adam Scott -3
Tony Finau -3
T16 Byeong Hun An -2
Viktor Hovland -2
Russell Henley -2
Akshay Bhatia -2
Robert MacIntyre -2
T21 Billy Horschel -1
Tommy Fleetwood -1
Sepp Straka -1
Matthieu Pavon -1
Taylor Pendrith -1
T26 Chris Kirk E
Tom Hoge E
Aaron Rai E
Christiaan Bezuidenhout E
Justin Thomas E
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