The FedEx Cup Comes Down to This Week at East Lake — and Scheffler Is Lurking at No. 1 Again
The top 30 are in Atlanta with the season's biggest check on the line. Scottie Scheffler arrives as the top seed chasing his second Cup.
August 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM EDT
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The PGA Tour season ends the way it always does: 30 players, East Lake, everything on the line. The Tour Championship is under way in Atlanta, and Scottie Scheffler arrives as the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup standings, chasing the second Cup of his career after winning it in 2024.
The stakes
Scheffler earned the top seed the loud way — a dominant win at the FedEx St. Jude opened the playoffs, and he's been the best player in the world for long enough that 'Scheffler, No. 1 seed' reads like a formality. It isn't: East Lake has a habit of crowning the week's best golfer rather than the season's. Tommy Fleetwood's win here last year is the standing reminder.
How to watch it like the field does
Thirty players, no cut, one course everyone knows — the Tour Championship is the closest golf gets to a knowable event, which is exactly why it's a favorite of golf bettors. Course history at East Lake matters more than at almost any regular stop, and current playoff form (who's actually striking it this month, not this season) is the sharper signal than the season-long seeding.
The season's entire narrative — the money, the trophy, the year-in-review paragraph — gets written by Sunday evening. Worth your weekend.