ATLANTA \u2014 Without his built-in, starting-strokes advantage, Scottie Scheffler will have his work cut out for him this weekend at the Tour Championship \u2014 but he\u2019s been here before.<\/p>\n
Scheffler, who entered the finale leading the post-season points race (before the reset), birdied the 18th hole Friday for a 1-under 69 to keep his streak of 19 consecutive sub-par rounds alive. He\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if I continue to strike it the way I did today, it\u2019s just one of those days where it seemed like I wasn\u2019t getting rewarded for the stuff that I was doing; just a touch off all day,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cMy game definitely doesn\u2019t feel off, but you look at 18, end up a foot off the fairway.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PGA Tour changed the format for this year\u2019s Tour Championship to 72 holes of stroke play with all 30 players starting at even par instead of the starting-strokes format which began in 2019 and gave the post-season points leaders shots to start the week. <\/p>\n
Last year at East Lake, Scheffler began the week at 10 under and beat Collin Morikawa, who had the week\u2019s lowest total without starting strokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Without his built-in, starting-strokes advantage, Scottie Scheffler will have his work cut out for him this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-168834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115077442781502304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}