Tour Championship: Spherical 1 Tee Instances, Tips on how to Watch, Streaming, extra

After Keegan Bradley’s thrilling victory on the BMW Championship in Denver, the high 30 gamers within the FedEx Cup standings return to Atlanta for the Tour Championship, the season’s last occasion.

However this 12 months’s version will really feel fairly completely different. Famend golf architect Andrew Inexperienced, who just lately revitalized Oak Hill Nation Membership prematurely of the 2023 PGA Championship, carried out an identical renovation at East Lake over the previous 12 months. Inexperienced returned East Lake to its early 1910s design, when Donald Ross tweaked the Atlanta-area course from its unique Tom Bendelow format. In doing so, Inexperienced re-structured most holes, created 18 new inexperienced complexes, and re-shaped the entire bunkering.

In setting up new greens, Inexperienced imposed distinctive formations into the placing surfaces, thus creating dozens of latest gap places that may problem and entertain. Inexperienced additionally put in quite a few assortment areas round these placing surfaces, placing some gamers in precarious positions all through the week. This work at East Lake started instantly after Viktor Hovland’s win a 12 months in the past. The bulldozers arrived on the membership’s entrance door the Monday after the event, and the revitalization was underway.

One 12 months later, the highest 30 gamers from this 12 months’s PGA Tour season will basically step foot on a brand new golf course, so who is aware of the way it will play out. However this 12 months’s Tour Championship will certainly entertain, as Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele will start the event at 10-under and 8-under, respectively, because of the beginning strokes format. Every participant’s beginning rating is subsequent to their title below the tee shot under.

Tour Championship Info

The place: East Lake Golf Membership, Atlanta, Ga. (Par 71, 7,490 yards)

When: Aug. 29-Sept. 1st

Purse: $100 million ($25 million to winner)

FedEx Cup factors: N/A

Defending Champ: Viktor Hovland

Tips on how to Watch the Tour Championship

The Golf Channel and NBC will share tv protection for the FedEx Cup finale at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta.

Right here is the complete schedule:

Thursday, August 29:
1-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
Friday, August 30:
1-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
Saturday, August 31:
1-2:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); 2:30-7 p.m. ET (NBC)
Sunday, September 1:
12-1:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); 1:30-6 p.m. ET (NBC)

Tips on how to stream the Tour Championship

The Tour Championship will probably be obtainable on-line by ESPN+ and Peacock.

To stream protection on Peacock, click on right here.

Featured group protection will probably be obtainable all 4 days. These streaming channels start at 11:15 a.m. ET every day.

Photograph by Tracy Wilcox/PGA Tour through Getty Pictures

Tour Championship Tee Instances for Spherical 1 (ET)

* — All gamers begin on No. 1

11:16 a.m. — Christiaan Bezuidenhout (E), Justin Thomas (E)

11:27 a.m. — Tom Hoge (E), Aaron Rai (E)

11:38 a.m. — Taylor Pendrith (-1), Chris Kirk (E)

11:49 a.m. — Sepp Straka (-1), Matthieu Pavon (-1)

12:00 p.m. — Billy Horschel (-1), Tommy Fleetwood (-1)

12:16 p.m. — Akshay Bhatia (-2), Robert MacIntyre (-2)

12:27 p.m. — Viktor Hovland (-2), Russell Henley (-2)

12:38 p.m. — Tony Finau (-3), Byeong Hun An (-2)

12:49 p.m. — Shane Lowry (-3), Adam Scott (-3)

1:00 p.m. — Sungjae Im (-3), Sahith Theegala (-3)

1:16 p.m. — Sam Burns (-4), Patrick Cantlay (-4)

1:27 p.m. — Collin Morikawa (-4), Wyndham Clark (-4)

1:38 p.m. — Ludvig Åberg (-5), Rory McIlroy (-4)

1:49 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama (-7), Keegan Bradley (-6)

2:00 p.m. — Scottie Scheffler (-10), Xander Schauffele (-8)

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