At least for this year, the 30 players who advanced to the Tour Championship this week in Atlanta are starting from scratch. No FedEx Cup points were carried over, and no player will get a head start over any other.

Asked Tuesday if getting rid of the “starting strokes” arrangement left the PGA Tour with the “best format” for its season championship, Rory McIlroy merely said it’s the format they have for this week.

“I’m maybe part of the minority. I didn’t hate the starting strokes,” Northern Ireland’s McIlroy told reporters at East Lake Golf Club. “I thought that the player that played the best during the course of the season should have had an advantage coming in here. But the majority of people just didn’t like the starting strokes.”

McIlroy sat on the player advisory committee that

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