- ABC News
- January 3, 2025
Golf's season-ending Tour Championship could be held under a bracket-type competition involving stroke and match play as the PGA Tour looks at options to improve its playoff format, a source confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Adjusting the format to the Tour Championship is among a handful of potential changes under consideration, the source said, adding that "everything is on the table." The Tour Championship is the final event of the three-tournament FedEx Cup Playoffs, with 30 players advancing to play for the $25 million year-end top prize that Scottie Scheffler won in 2024. Under the current format, the top-ranked players in the FedEx Cup standings enter the Tour Championship with a scoring advantage. Though that can be just two strokes for the top-ranked golfer over No. 2, a format Scheffler challenged as "silly" in August. "You can't call it a seasonlong race and have it come down to one tournament," Scheffler said. "Hypothetically, we get to East Lake and my neck...