ATLANTA — Without his built-in, starting-strokes advantage, Scottie Scheffler will have his work cut out for him this weekend at the Tour Championship — but he’s been here before.

Scheffler, who entered the finale leading the post-season points race (before the reset), birdied the 18 th hole Friday for a 1-under 69 to keep his streak of 19 consecutive sub-par rounds alive. He’s five shots behind co-leaders Tommy Fleetwood and Russell Henley, which is one shot worse than he was after 36 holes last week at the BMW Championship. He won that event by two strokes.

“I think if I continue to strike it the way I did today, it’s just one of those days where it seemed like I wasn’t getting rewarded for the stuff that I was doing; just a touch off all day,” Scheffler said. “My game definitely doe

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