As such, the FedEx Cup playoff field has dipped to 30 players. The 2025 Tour Championship will again host those skilled enough to pass the first two playoff checkpoints and reach the postseason finale, where the final winner of the week will receive $10 million.
Unlike the recent iterations of the Tour Championship, which featured Stugard Start, this year’s Tour Championship will allow all 30 players to start the tournament with pars. Of course, world No. 1 Scotty Scheffler appears to be the first to take in a row in a row in a race during the season, so he puts that list at the top.
Schaeffler will be his defense at 2pm on Thursday, along with the man with Rory McIlroy, the most FedEx Cup title (3). Many quality pairings will take part in the golf course before the top two FedEx Cup players stand at the first teebox at Eastlake Golf Club.
These include exactly two hours before the final tee time when Viktor Hovland and Morikawa begin the tournament at noon. Linking to each other since college, the duo has been pros at the same time, but on the other side, begins to perform pairings that can be seen in Beth Page Black a month later.
Windham Championship winner Cameron Young will be paired with Swedish superstar Ludwig Åberg at 12:49pm and will be ahead of Russell Henry and several Georgia Bulldogs at 1:27pm.
Take a look at all 15 pairings from the first round of the 2025 Tour Championship held at East Lake Golf Club.
Always in the East
2025 Tour Championship T-shirt, Thursday pairing
- 11:16am – Chris Gottap, Akshay Battia
- 11:27 AM – Jacob Bridgeman, Seung Jae Im
- 11:38 AM – Nick Taylor, Harry Hall
- 11:49am – Matsuyama Hideki, Shane Laurie
- 12pm – Morikawa, Victor Hofland
- 12:16 PM – Corey Connors, Patrick Cantray
- 12:27 PM – Sam Burns, Brian Herman
- 12:38 PM – Andrew Novak, Keegan Bradley
- 12:49 PM – Cameron Young, Rudig Åberg
- 1pm – Harris English, Justin Thomas
- 1:16pm – Robert McInteal, Maverick McNerry
- 1:27pm – Russell Henry, Cepstraka
- 1:38pm – Tommy Fleetwood, Ben Griffin
- 1:49pm – JJ Spaun, Justin Rose
- 2pm – Scotty Scheffler, Rory McIlroy
