It’s The TOUR Championship week – the final stop of the 2025 PGA Tour season, and while the field at East Lake is missing some familiar names, it still features a throng of marquee stars, including the season’s major winners: Rory McIlroy (Masters), J.J. Spaun (U.S. Open) and Scottie Scheffler (PGA and The Open).
The 30-player set will once again be contested at the historic East Lake Golf Club.
The star-studded gathering in Atlanta, Georgia will feature several former FedEx Cup winners, including Scheffler (2024), Viktor Hovland (2023), McIlroy (2022, 2019, 2016), Patrick Cantlay (2021), Justin Rose (2018), and Justin Thomas (2017).
Other top-ranked stars teeing it up this week in the Peach State include Ludvig Aberg, Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, and Hideki Matsuyama, among others.
Below, you’ll find more details to help you get primed for the 2025 edition of the FedEx Cup’s TOUR Championship.
The Skinny
Tournament: The TOUR Championship
Dates: Aug 21-24, 2025
Where: Atlanta, GA
Course: East Lake Golf Club
Distance: Par 70, 7440 yards
Architect: Tom Bendelow (1908), Donald Ross (1913)
Redesign: Rees Jones (1994)
Format: 72-holes
Field Size: Top 30 in FEC Standings
Purse: $40 million
Winning Share: $10 million
2024 Champion: Scottie Scheffler
How to Follow The TOUR Championship
TELEVISION: Thu-Fri: 1-6 p.m. (GOLF); Sat: 1-2:30 p.m. (GOLF), 2:30-7 p.m. (NBC); Sun: 12-1:30 p.m. (GOLF), 1:30-6 p.m. (NBC)
STREAM: Thu-Fri: 1-6 p.m.; Sat: 1-2:30 p.m., 2:30-7 p.m.; Sun: 12-1:30 p.m., 1:30-6 p.m. (NBC SPORTS APP)
PGA TOUR LIVE: Thu-Fri: 11:15 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat: 12-7 p.m.; Sun: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (ESPN+)
PGA TOUR RADIO: Thu-Fri: 12-6 p.m.; Sat: 2-7 p.m.; Sun: 1-6 p.m. (SIRIUSXM)
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TOUR Championship History
The Tour Championship has been the FedExCup playoff finale since the first playoff in 2007, but the event has roots going back 20 years earlier. Always an elite event, prior to 2007, its field consisted exclusively of the top 30 money leaders of the past PGA Tour season and generally took place in the late fall.
The inaugural 1987 event was claimed by Tom Watson – two strokes clear of Chip Beck, the second member of the 59 Club.
Other champions in the pre FedExCup era included legends such as Curtis Strange, Tom Kite, Paul Azinger, David Duval, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
In 2007, the Tour Championship moved from November to mid-September, where it ended the then four-tournament FedEx Cup Playoffs. As in past years, 30 players qualified for the event, but the basis for qualification was no longer prize money. Instead, FedEx Cup points accumulated during the regular PGA Tour season and then during the three preceding playoff events determined the participants.
From 2019 onward, the FedExCup was reduced to three events, and the Tour Championship is now held in late August rather than mid-September. The tournament adopted a format called starting strokes in 2019, in order to ensure that the winner would also be the FedExCup champion. After much criticism, the format was shelved ahead of the 2025 finale and now plays as a traditional stroke-play championship.
Woods and McIlroy hold the tournament record with three wins – two coming in the FedExCup format, the most recent of which was in 2018. Mickelson is the only other player to have won more than one, with Tiger as the runner-up in both of Phil’s victories.
East Lake Golf Club has been the Tour Championship’s permanent venue since 2004, although the FedEx Cup is only a small part of the club’s story. Founded 100 years earlier in 1904, the Atlanta course is a Donald Ross design, famous for being the home course of the legendary Bobby Jones.
It is believed to be the site where Jones played his first and last rounds. The course also once hosted the Ryder Cup, the 1963 edition, with Arnold Palmer as the U.S. captain.
History: Recent Winners
Year-Winner-To Par (Margin)
2024 Scottie Scheffler -30 (4)*
2023 Viktor Hovland -27 (5)*
2022 Rory McIlroy -21 (1)*
2021 Patrick Cantlay -21 (1)*
2020 Dustin Johnson -21 (3)*
2019 Rory McIlroy -18 (4)*
2018 Tiger Woods -11 (2)
2017 Xander Schauffele -12 (1)
2016 Rory McIlroy -12 (Playoff)
2015 Jordan Spieth -9 (4)
* Scheffler started -10 (Gross -20)
* Hovland started -8 (Gross -19)
* McIlroy started -4 (Gross -17)
* Cantlay started -10 (Gross -11)
* Johnson started -10 (Gross -11)
* McIlroy started -5 (Gross -13)
History: Wins
3 – Tiger Woods (1999, 2007, 2018)
3 – Rory McIlroy (2016, 2019, 2022)
2 – Phil Mickelson (2000, 2009)
Hole of the Week
No. 15, East Lake Golf Club
Par 3, 211 yards
Considered one of the oldest “isthmus” par 3s (not an island, but close to being one) in the country, the 15th hole at East Lake should once again provide all kinds of action this week. A super-flat green is surrounded by the golf course’s iconic lake, which provides a natural setting for gusts of wind to create havoc at most any time.
“The 15th hole will really be a gut-checking hole, as Justin Rose refers to some of the holes at East Lake,” Rees Jones said in 2016. “They will have to fight through 14 and 15 and then push the pedal down on the last three holes.”
The club’s signature hole has historically played well over par, and has ruined many good rounds down the stretch.
The Field at East Lake
2025 FedExCup: Top 30
30. Akshay Bhatia
29. Chris Gotterup
28. Sungjae Im
27. Jacob Bridgeman
26. Nick Taylor
25. Harry Hall
24. Shane Lowry
23. Hideki Matsuyama
22. Collin Morikawa
21. Viktor Hovland
20. Patrick Cantlay
19. Corey Conners
18. Brian Harman
17. Sam Burns
16. Keegan Bradley
15. Andrew Novak
14. Ludvig Åberg
13. Cameron Young
12. Justin Thomas
11. Harris English
10. Maverick McNealy
9. Robert MacIntyre
8. Russell Henley
7. Sepp Straka
6. Tommy Fleetwood
5. Ben Griffin
4. Justin Rose
3. J.J. Spaun
2. Rory McIlroy
1. Scottie Scheffler
Top-5 Betting Favorites
1. Scottie Scheffler +150
2. Rory McIlroy +900
3. Tommy Fleetwood +1400
4. Ludvig Aberg +1800
5. Russell Henley +2200
Full Field & Odds
Credits: OWGR, PGA Tour Media, Getty Images, Joel Cook
