Scottie Scheffler will play at East Lake Golf Course in Atlanta for the Tour Championship. He earlier revealed that he has a handicap advantage when playing at home with his friends.
This time he has a handicap index of 7, which is quite low, meaning he has a higher potential ability on the course. He leads the FedEx standings.
To make the game fairer for other golfers with higher handicap indexes, Scheffler stated that they’d get two extra shots per hole or on difficult holes.
Recently, Justin Thomas was questioned about whether he was agreeable to this arrangement.
He revealed that he’d find it disrespectful and would question his ability. He said (via ASAP Sports):
“It’s definitely not common. I think it would be pretty — I don’t want to say disrespectful,
but I’d be pretty pissed if Scottie Scheffler and I played a practice round and he’s like, do you want a stroke on this nine? It would be like, what do I think of myself and what does he think of me. Honestly, it would be a pretty good intimidation factor.”
“I definitely have some buddies that I play with at home that are maybe mini-tours or stuff like that, people that I’m close enough with where I feel like I can say that and I’ll just — I’ll be like, do you want some strokes or what do you want and they kind of look at me, and I know right then that I’ve already won the match,” he added.
The Tour Championship will start on August 29 and continue for four days.
What are Scottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas, and other players’ tee times for Round 1 of the Tour Championship?
Scottie Scheffler will tee off at 2 pm and is paired with Xander Schauffele. Justin Thomas will start with Christiaan Bezuidenhout at 11:16 a.m. (ET) and Rory McIlroy and Ludvig Aberg will play at 1:49 p.m. Here’s the list of tee times for the first round of the Tour Championship:
11:16 a.m. — Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Justin Thomas11:27 a.m. — Tom Hoge, Aaron Rai11:38 a.m. — Taylor Pendrith, Chris Kirk11:49 a.m. — Sepp Straka, Matthieu Pavon12:00 p.m. — Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood12:16 p.m. — Akshay Bhatia, Robert MacIntyre12:27 p.m. — Viktor Hovland, Russell Henley12:38 p.m. — Tony Finau, Byeong Hun An12:49 p.m. — Shane Lowry, Adam Scott1:00 p.m. — Sungjae Im, Sahith Theegala1:16 p.m. — Sam Burns, Patrick Cantlay1:27 p.m. — Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark1:38 p.m. — Ludvig Åberg, Rory McIlroy1:49 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley2:00 p.m. — Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele
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Source: USA Today
