Only the Top 30 Players Advance to This Week’s TOUR Championship at East Lake
Keegan Bradley won the BMW Championship by a single shot Sunday in Colorado, and with that, the field is set for this week’s TOUR Championship in Atlanta.
Since their inception, the FedEx Cup Playoffs have concluded at East Lake Golf Club, a historically significant place where the legendary career of Bobby Jones began.
Bradley’s seventh career PGA TOUR victory moved him from 50th place to No. 4. in the FedExCup, while Scottie Scheffler is now the first player to open the TOUR Championship as the FedExCup leader for a third consecutive season—a spot he’s held since winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard in March.
Xander Schauffele won two of golf’s four Majors, tied for second and fifth in the first two playoff events in Memphis and Colorado, and begins the week No. 2 in the FedExCup. Hideki Matsuyama, who earned his 10th career PGA TOUR title at the FedEx St. Jude Championship two weeks ago before withdrawing from the BMW with lower back discomfort, enters at No. 3.
Four players, including Bradley, began last week on the outside of the top 30 but played their way into the finale. Adam Scott (No. 41 to No. 14), Tommy Fleetwood (No. 31 to No. 22) and Chris Kirk (No. 32 to No. 26).
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 last spot in the field.
Nine players will be making their TOUR Championship debuts.
- Ludvig Åberg (No. 5)
- Shane Lowry (No. 13)
- Byeong Hun An (No. 16)
- Akshay Bhatia (No. 19)
- Robert MacIntyre (No. 20)
- Matthieu Pavon (No. 24)
- Taylor Pendrith (No. 25)
- Aaron Rai (No. 28)
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout (No. 29)
The TOUR Championship on TV
The first and second rounds will be broadcast live on Golf Channel on Thursday, Aug. 29, and Friday, Aug. 30, from 1 to 6 p.m. The third round will be broadcast on Golf Channel from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and on NBC fromon Saturday, Aug. 31. The final round is set for 2:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. on Golf Channel and 1:30 to 6 p.m. on NBC.
