Tour Championship Betting Preview and DFS Picks
Tour Championship Betting Preview and the Staggered Start Structure
Greetings folks. We’re back again for the final event of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, let alone the PGA Tour Season. We’ll head southeast to the Peach State for the East Lake Golf Club Tour Championship. It’s a place with tons of tradition embedded and quite the challenge for sure. This tournament will consist of the top 30 players of the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season based on their rank in the FedEx Cup Standings.
However, knowing how exactly this event will be formatted is important because it creates interesting ways bettors can make their lineups and picks.
2023 Tour Championship TV schedule
All times Eastern; streaming start times approximated
Round 1 – Thursday, Aug. 23
Round starts: 11:30 a.m.
Live TV coverage: 1-6 p.m. on Golf Channel
PGA Tour Live: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live
Radio: 12-6 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio
Round 2 – Friday, Aug. 24
Round starts: 11:30 a.m.
Live TV coverage: 1-6 p.m. on Golf Channel
PGA Tour Live: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live
Radio: 12-6 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio
Round 3 – Saturday, Aug. 25
Round starts: 12:30 p.m.
Early TV coverage: 1-3 p.m. on Golf Channel
Live TV coverage: 3-7 p.m. on CBS
Live streaming: 3-7 p.m. on Paramount+
Live simulcast: 3-7 p.m. on CBSS
PGA Tour Live: 12:30-7 p.m. — PGA Tour Live
Radio: 2-7 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio
Round 4 – Sunday, Aug. 26
Round starts: 11:30 a.m.
Early TV coverage: 12-1:30 p.m. on Golf Channel
Live TV coverage: 1:30-6 p.m. on CBS
Live streaming: 1:30-6 p.m. on Paramount+
Live simulcast: 1:30-6 p.m. on CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports App
PGA Tour Live: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live
Radio: 1-6 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio
Tour Championship Format
The Tour Championship has undergone a vast majority of format changes throughout the years, but commencing in 2019, the Tour Championship implemented a staggering start. What this means exactly is based on where you stand in the FedEx Cup standings is where you’re going to start come Thursday.
So, in this year’s case, Scottie Scheffler’s well-earned top finish awarded him the one-seed, so he will begin the event at ten under par. Viktor Hovland, who put on a show last week in Olympia Fields, climbed up the ladder to number two and will start at eight under. And the list goes on from there.
To paint the whole picture, here are the top four on the leaderboard:
- Scottie Scheffler -10 (ten under par)
- Viktor Hovland -8 (eight under par)
- Rory McIlroy -7 (seven under par)
- Jon Rahm -6 (six under par)
East Lake / Course Breakdown
When you talk about a special place, you think of East Lake. This track has been the continuous home to the Tour Championship since 2004 and the concluding event of the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedEx Cup. After being initially designed by Donald Ross back in 1913, East Lake has gone through multiple renovations by Rees Jones in both 2008 and 2016 with one theme in mind. How much can we test a player’s ability?
Nothing about East Lake is easy. The track is extremely long, measuring about 7,300 yards with sand galore. The fairways are as tight as a needle, and the Bermuda rough can cause massive penalties for these golfers. Driving accuracy ranks fifth among courses on the PGA Tour. So, the players who generally have been consistent during the year in hitting fairways and setting up well for greens in regulation usually set themselves up for more success than others when coming here.
Given the length, the elite ball strikers who hit their long irons consistently well can play out as a huge advantage this week.
With no miracles, I believe only six golfers can win this week—Scheffler, McIlroy, Hovland, Rahm, Glover, and Cantlay. If you want to, bet them all, all the power to you.
DFS Picks
Below, I will give you my DFS Optimal Lineup:
- Patrick Cantlay $10,800
- Tommy Fleetwood $8,800
- Sungjae Im $8,500
- Russell Henley $8,300
- Corey Conners $7,900
- Sepp Straka $6,400
Check out all of our latest DFS content, including picks, strategies, advice, and more, here.
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