The biggest prize of the PGA Tour season is up for grabs – with a few changes for 2025.

While Scottie Scheffler has completely dominated so far this season – including a victory at the BMW Championship, the second of three FedExCup Playoffs events – there is still a chance he will not hoist the FedExCup after this week at the Tour Championship.

The last few years has seen the No.1-ranked Scheffler (he heads to East Lake Golf Club in the top spot for the fourth year in a row) receive what the PGA Tour called Starting Strokes – essentially, he began the Tour Championship with a lead before the first balls were in the air.

For 2025, the Tour has reverted back to an even-par start not unlike every other event on the schedule. So, if you’ve made the Tour Championship you’ve got a chance to win the Tour’s ultimate prize.

“If you want to win major championships, you have to play great golf major championship weeks. If I want to win the FedExCup this year, I have to have a great week next week. You kind of throw out what happened the rest of the year. I think when you get the reward for getting to the Tour Championship, I think that's really what we're looking at is once you get to the Tour Championship you've had a great season, and now you have an opportunity to go out and win the FedExCup, but you have to play good golf at the right time,” Scheffler said. “I was pretty adamant that our old format was not the right way to do it. I was a fan of the points format, but it got confusing for the casual fan, I think, when you look at our post season, and I think now it'll be a cool format where you show up next week, everybody is at even and it's time to go chase what you want, and that's the FedExCup.”

Scheffler, Rory McIlroy (who is gunning for his record fourth FedExCup), and J.J. Spaun are the top 3 in the FedExCup standings, while Justin Rose, who won the FedEx St. Jude Championship two weeks ago, is No. 4. This is the first time Rose has played the Tour Championship since 2019. Spaun, who won the U.S. Open for his first major title, is one of seven golfers who are making their Tour Championship debuts: Maverick McNealy, Ben Griffin, Andrew Novak, Harry Hall, Jacob Bridgeman, and Chris Gotterup.

Harry Hall was the lone golfer who was able to jump into the Top 30 in the standings after the BMW Championship. Hall, who finished sixth at Caves Valley and had five top-10 finishes this season, jumped from No. 45 to No. 26 in the standings – bumping Lucas Glover.

There will be two Canadians teeing it up at East Lake, Corey Conners and Nick Taylor. Taylor Pendrith was close to joining his countrymen but ended up No. 33 in the standings. Pendrith got off to a wonderful start Sunday at the BMW Championship, sitting 3 under through his first eight holes. A double bogey on the par-4 12th was his ultimate undoing (he also made a bogey on the penultimate hole of the BMW Championship) and ended up tied for 15th.

Conners (who had six top-10s finishes this season including at two majors) and Taylor (who won the Sony Open in Hawaii) join the Tour Championship field together again after they both earned their way in 2023.

Two Canadians is a record in the FedExCup era in the field of the Tour Championship.

For both Canadians, however, the golf course will be completely different than what they remember. The iconic club just outside Atlanta underwent a robust and complete remodel in 2024 while a couple of small changes were made for 2025.

Conners is ranked No. 19 in the standings while Taylor is No. 25.

Those rankings, however, matter little this week with everyone starting at the same spot. But no one has played as well as Scottie Scheffler – who has had 13 top-8 finishes in a row – and it will take an impressive effort to top him at the PGA Tour’s season finale.