2023 Tour Championship: PGA Tour Golf Betting Odds

The winner of the tournament wins the FedExCup, and Scottie Scheffler is the betting favourite on the golf odds.

The Top 30 in FedExCup points advanced to Atlanta from last week’s BMW Championship outside of Chicago. The lone golfer to play his way into the Top 30 was England’s Matt Fitzpatrick, who finished tied for second and moved from No. 40 to No. 10. He supplanted Chris Kirk, who finished T29 and dropped from No. 29 to No. 32.

The points leader begins the tournament at 10 under par and that’s Scheffler. The next four start at 8 under through 5 under, respectively, and then it drops by one stroke per five players to where those in spots 26-30 start at even par. Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club has hosted the Tour Championship since 2005 and is a par 70 at approximately 7,345 yards (there will be a remodel after this event). With such a small field, there is no cut.

Rory McIlroy is the defending champion, winning the Tour Championship for a record-tying third time (Tiger Woods) and the FedExCup for a solo record third time. You didn’t used to have to win the Tour Championship to also win the Cup. McIlroy started the 2022 event at 4 under, six shots behind the leader Scheffler. Needless to say, McIlroy had the lowest gross score in the field of 263. He shot a final-round a 4-under 66 to overtake Scheffler, who made only one birdie in a 73.

Scheffler didn’t trail in the tournament until the 70th hole. No one has repeated in the Tour Championship or as FedExCup champion.

There will be PGA Tour golf after this tournament into November but now part of a standalone FedExCup Fall – not counting the Ryder Cup – so the Tour can reset back to a calendar-year schedule at the start of 2024. The Fall season starts Sept. 14 with the Fortinet Championship from California wine country.

Tour Championship Golf Odds

Scottie Scheffler +158
Rory McIlroy +321
Viktor Hovland +552
Jon Rahm +800
Max Homa +1400
Patrick Cantlay +1500
Xander Schauffele +1900
Brian Harman +2100
Lucas Glover +3300
Matt Fitzpatrick +3600
Tommy Fleetwood +4300
Russell Henley +5600
Rickie Fowler +5700
Wyndham Clark +6300
Corey Conners +6600
Sungjae Im +8900
Collin Morikawa +9000
Tony Finau +11200
Keegan Bradley +12300
Adam Schenk +14300
Si Woo Kim +15200
Jordan Spieth +15600
Joohyung Kim +15900
Tyrrell Hatton +23900
Jason Day +25400
Sam Burns +26000
Nick Taylor +34000
Emiliano Grillo +45400
Taylor Moore +45500
Sepp Straka +46100

Show More Odds

Scheffler finished T2 at the BMW Championship on Sunday outside Chicago to earn the top seed in the Tour Championship – just like he had last year in finishing runner-up. Scheffler won the Players Championship in March but not since. The worst the opening leader of the Tour Championship has finished in the past four years of this format was T3 in 2019.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy is +354 with Viktor Hovland +443 and Jon Rahm +716. Rory starts at 7 under off his fourth-place finish at the BMW Championship. Hovland shot a final-round course-record 61 on Sunday to win and will start the Tour Championship at 8 under.

The 61 was the lowest finish by a winner on the PGA Tour this season, Hovland’s career low, and the lowest final-round score in the history of the FedExCup playoffs. Rahm is at 6 under as he looks to win the tournament for the first time.

The lone Canadian winner of the Tour Championship was Mike Weir in 2001. Corey Conners (+9000) was the only qualifier in 2021 and finished T22 at 3 under. He starts at 2 under this week and is +13400 to win. Nick Taylor starts 1 under and is +36500. No player from a starting position of 1 under or even par in this format has ever finished the week inside the Top 5. It’s the first time in the playoff era more than one Canadian is at East Lake.