For the first time in four years, Scottie Scheffler will start the Tour Championship just like everybody else.

Gone are starting strokes, a fixture at the PGA Tour’s FedExCup playoff finale at East Lake since 2019, and back in effect is a 72-hole, stroke-play tournament that will see the winner on Sunday also crowned the FedExCup champion. Scheffler had begun each of the past three Tour Championships at 10 under, two shots clear of the field, but he and the rest of the 30-man field enter the week at level par.

“I guess no more sandbagging for me at the end of the year,” Scheffler said. “I was not a huge fan of the starting strokes format. I was a fan of the points format (where the Tour Championship winner wasn’t necessarily the FedExCup champ), but I understand why people wanted to move

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