ATLANTA — The 2022-23 PGA Excursion FedEx Cup season involves an finish this moment at East Pond Golfing Membership.

There’s nonetheless enough quantity to decide this weekend, together with who’s getting to tug house the FedEx Cup and an $18 million bonus that incorporates it. International Deny. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler is the Deny. 1 seed, adopted by way of Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Northern Eire’s Rory McIlroy.

“It’s obviously good to be back in the position that I’m in,” Scheffler mentioned. “I’m certain that it’s most people’s goal at the beginning of the year is to be No. 1 going into this tournament. It’s a bit of a strange format. I feel like I’ve joked a decent amount about being No. 1 [and how] you don’t get any extra strokes. You show up this week and I do get some extra strokes. So it’s a bit strange, but it should be a fun week.”

There also are a handful of avid gamers seeking to construct an influence on U.S. Ryder Cup group captain Zach Johnson.

The LPGA Excursion season continues on the CPKC Revealed in Canada, the place U.S. Solheim Cup captain Stacy Lewisr can be competing and comparing the contenders for the overall roster spots on her squad.

Right here’s what to look at in skilled golfing this moment:

What’s then at the PGA Excursion

TOUR Championship
When: Thursday-Sunday
The place: East Pond Golfing Membership, Atlanta
Protecting champion: Rory McIlroy

Staggered scoring

International Deny. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler will get started the hole spherical Thursday at 10 underneath, which is two photographs higher than the remains of the ground. Viktor Hovland, who received ultimate moment’s BMW Championship, the second one playoff tournament, begins at 8 underneath. McIlroy tees off at 7 underneath, Jon Rahm at 6 underneath, and Lucas Glover at 5 underneath.

A presen in the past, McIlroy began at 4 underneath and chased i’m sick Scheffler within the ultimate spherical to develop into the primary three-time FedEx Cup champion. Within the earlier 16 iterations of the FedEx Cup, best 3 avid gamers who began Deny. 1 within the TOUR Championship went directly to win. Tiger Timbers did it two times, in 2007 and 2018, in addition to Vijay Singh in 2008 and Dustin Johnson in 2020.

“I fell 11 shots behind Scottie after two holes of the tournament [in 2022],” McIlroy mentioned. “So if I can come back from 11 shots, I feel like everyone in this field should feel like they have a chance to win.”

The sinful information for Scheffler: Within the FedExCup life (since 2007), in step with ESPN Stats & Data, deny participant has received the Excursion Championship later completing because the runner-up the former presen.

Hovland, who has climbed to Deny. 5 on the earth scores later his actual victory, began ultimate season’s Excursion Championship at 2 underneath. He tie for fifteenth at 11 underneath.

“I’m still trying to do the same thing on the golf course, but I think in the back of your mind not starting 10 shots behind makes it a little bit easier,” Hovland mentioned. “You don’t feel like you have to get off to a fast start. You can just kind of play your game and if you make six, seven, eight pars in a row, you’re not stressing out. You’re not thinking, ‘Man, I’m 13 shots back now.’ You’re still right in the thick of it.”

Cash, cash, cash

A $75 million FedEx Cup bonus puddle can be disbursed later this moment, with the supremacy 30 avid gamers competing over 72 holes at East Pond to resolve how a lot they’ll construct. The winner receives $18 million, 2nd position will get $6.5 million, 3rd takes house $5 million and fourth collects $4 million. The Thirtieth-place finisher leaves with $500,000.

The supremacy 150 finishers within the FedEx Cup issues standings will obtain some more or less bonus. Ryan Moore, who’s one hundred and fiftieth in issues, gets $85,000. The bonuses won’t rely towards occupation income.

Cash has already been flowing at the PGA Excursion this season. In truth, 4 of the supremacy 5 spots in single-season on-course income have been eager this season: Scheffler ($21 million), Rahm ($16.5 million), Hovland ($14.1 million) and McIlroy ($13.9 million). Seven avid gamers earned no less than $10 million (a PGA Excursion file), 34 made no less than $5 million (some other file), 53 accumulated no less than $3 million (some other file), and 124 gained $1 million or extra.

As Golfing Digest famous previous this moment, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, winners of 25 majors and 135 excursion titles, earned a blended $7,595,888 all through their Corridor of Repute careers.

Ryder Cup replace

Six avid gamers have certified for the U.S. Ryder Cup group: Scheffler, U.S. Revealed winner Wyndham Clark, Revealed Championship winner Brian Harman, Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele.

Zach Johnson will construct six captain’s selections on Aug. 29.

Six avid gamers who’re believed to be into consideration are competing right here this moment: Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Rickie Fowler, Collin Morikawa and Jordan Spieth.

4 alternative avid gamers hoping for a captain’s pick out didn’t qualify for the Excursion Championship: LIV Golfing League celebrity Brooks Koepka, Cameron Younger, Denny McCarthy and Justin Thomas.

Thomas overlooked the FedEx Cup playoffs later completing 71st in issues.

Geoff Ogilvy, a life Presidents Cup vice-captain, mentioned he’d nonetheless tug the two-time main champion, in spite of his season-long hunch.

“If they don’t take him, it’s the worst call ever,” Ogilvy informed Golfing Era. “He’s the best head-to-head match player in the world.”

Thomas has a 6-2-1 file in two earlier Ryder Cup appearances and 10-3-2 mark in 3 Presidents Cups, tallying 17.5 issues for the American citizens.

“JT would be my first pick,” Ogilvy mentioned. “I’ve been inside the ropes at enough Presidents Cups, there’s just no chance you don’t take Justin. He does something to the team. He goes out front and leads and fist pumps and makes everyone behind him believe.”

What’s then at the LPGA Excursion

CPKC Girls’s Revealed
When: Thursday-Sunday
The place: Shaughnessy Golfing & Nation Membership, Vancouver, British Columbia
Protecting champion: Paula Reto

Solheim Cup countdown

The U.S. Solheim Cup group can be finalized later this moment’s CPKC Girls’s Revealed (Canadian Girls’s Revealed). It’s the ultimate qualifying tournament for the American squad that may compete towards Europe at Finca Cortesin in Andalucia, Spain, on Sept. 22-24.

4 avid gamers have already certified for spots at the squad: international Deny. 1 golfer Lilia Vu, international Deny. 2 Nelly Korda, U.S. Revealed champion Allisen Corpuz and Megan Khang.

Jennifer Kupcho is 5th in issues, adopted by way of Danielle Kang, Lexi Thompson, Andrea Lee, Best friend Ewing and Alison Lee. Thompson is 157th within the Race to CME Globe, the season-long issues race, and is vulnerable to dropping her LPGA card with no need to importance a one-time occupation cash exemption. She is best 12.5 issues forward of Lee within the Solheim Cup.

The 2 highest-ranked avid gamers within the Rolex Girls’s International Golfing Rating now not another way eligible later Sunday’s ultimate spherical additionally will construct the group. Rookie Rose Zhang is thirty first on the earth and will be the highest-ranked later Kupcho, Kang and Thompson. Angel Yin is thirty second.

Lewis may even construct 3 captain’s selections. She informed journalists in Vancouver on Wednesday that she had an inventory of about 20 to twenty-five attainable avid gamers ultimate presen. It’s now right down to 13 or 14.

“I don’t think anything crazy is going to happen this week,” Lewis mentioned. “I like where we are. We have some scenarios in our head of what’s going to happen. Could be some movement within the points and Rolex. In my head, I don’t think there will be a lot of movement.”

On Tuesday, the Eu captain Suzann Pettersen introduced her 4 captain’s selections: Gemma Dryburgh, Caroline Hedwall, Emily Pedersen and Madelene Sagstrom.

Crank up the computer systems

Just like the U.S. males’s group has achieved day construction as much as the life few Ryder Cups, Lewis has driven the Solheim Cup squad to spend money on analytics. She discovered that Yin performs really well on bermudagrass, which goes to be the taking part in floor in Spain. Ewing pairs up smartly with with reference to somebody and excels in group occasions.

“A lot of it is based on the golf course that we’re going to play,” Lewis mentioned. “We’re able to input if they’re hitting driver or 3-wood off the tee and what club you’ll be hitting from there. We now have the data that shows who is going to birdie that length of hole.

“Crowd have tendencies. They construct birdies with positive golf equipment, so it’s that. I heartless, it’s parched to provide an explanation for. There [are] simply constant avid gamers. There [are] extra variable avid gamers. And so they paintings another way for every structure.”

Vu’s reward

Vu will be back on the course this week for the first time since picking up her second major of the season at the AIG Women’s Open in England. She had earlier captured the Chevron Championship in Texas.

The former UCLA star said there isn’t much that has changed about her life, other than her mindset.

“I believe it’s indubitably other,” Vu said. “I believe I will be able to view golfing otherwise now and simply have amusing and know that my sport is excellent plethora to be out right here and simply hold doing what I’m doing.”

Vu’s father, Douglas, also offered extra motivation before she closed out a 6-stroke victory at Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey, England.

“Handiest factor is my dad attempted to bribe me,” Vu said. “He was once mainly announcing if I received some other main we will be able to get a cat, so I’ve been surfing for that.”