{"id":82946,"date":"2025-08-21T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82946\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:12:13","slug":"who-will-win-the-tour-championship-and-be-crowned-the-pga-tours-fedexcup-champion-scottie-scheffler-is-the-best-backed-at-7-4-while-rory-mcilroy-is-a-15-2-second-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/82946\/","title":{"rendered":"Who will win the Tour Championship and be crowned the PGA Tour&#8217;s FedExCup champion? Scottie Scheffler is the best-backed at 7\/4, while Rory McIlroy is a 15\/2 second-favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">PGA Tour action returns on Thursday &#8211; as Atlanta&#8217;s East Lake Golf Course plays host to the Tour Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Tour Championship has added importance given it will determine the winner of the FedEx Cup &#8211; a season-long competition where points are awarded based on finishing position in all PGA Tour sanctioned tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It is worth noting that the rules have changed &#8211; as the Tour Championship features a new format that was introduced this year, with the event being played as a 72-hole stroke-play event with all players starting at even par to determine the winner of the FedExCup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Therefore &#8211; although Scottie Scheffler leads the FedExCup standings by 3,679 points from Rory McIlroy in second &#8211; he won&#8217;t have a starting strokes advantage like in years past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Despite the above &#8211; Scheffler will be particularly motivated as he looks to become the first player in FedExCup history to claim back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">If successful &#8211; he will pick up a cool $10million (\u00a37.4m).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For those who will be watching the Tour Championship closely &#8211; <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">let&#8217;s take a look at the favourites and multiple Price Boosts on offer with Sky Bet for this highly-anticipated tournament<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Scottie Scheffler<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is unsurprisingly the best-backed at <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">BOOSTED odds of 7\/4<\/a> to claim his sixth win of the calendar year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Scheffler enters the Tour Championship in fantastic form &#8211; with the American just days removed from winning the BMW Championship by two shots from Robert MacIntyre on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It was the manner in which he won that was most impressive &#8211; as he overcame a four-shot deficit on the final day in yet another awe-inspiring performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Scheffler also boasts course form at East Lake, having won the Tour Championship there by four shots in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Will he justify the bookies&#8217; odds and be crowned champion? Or, can one of his 29 opponents cause the upset? We will find out Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2d48def99b08fbff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/101390759-15017191-image-a-19_1755694965224.jpg\" height=\"379\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Scottie Scheffler is a BOOSTED 7\/4 odds to win the Tour Championship starting Thursday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Scottie Scheffler is a BOOSTED 7\/4 odds to win the Tour Championship starting Thursday<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Although he has been a little inconsistent at times this year &#8211; 2025 has largely been a great campaign for Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Northern Irishman has registered three wins to his name thus far &#8211; including victories at the\u00a0AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Players Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However &#8211; it was his win in April that was the most significant &#8211; as he defeated countryman Justin Rose in a playoff en route to his maiden Masters title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Additionally, it was a huge monkey off the back for McIlroy as it marked his first major in more than a decade and ensured he completed the elusive career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As it relates to his chances at the Tour Championship this weekend &#8211; <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">he is a 15\/2 second-favourite according to Sky Bet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">McIlroy has the joint most Tour Championship titles alongside all-time great Tiger Woods &#8211; with the pair having won it three times apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tommy Fleetwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">The third-favourite in the market with Sky Bet is England&#8217;s Tommy Fleetwood at 11\/1 odds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fleetwood has been in strong form of late &#8211; with the 34-year-old coming agonisingly close to claiming his maiden win on the PGA Tour on multiple occasions in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He was in a prime spot to win the Travelers Championship in Connecticut in June &#8211; however &#8211; he finished second by a shot after shooting a disappointing 2-over on the final day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fleetwood then squandered another late lead at the St. Jude Championship earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Boasting a two-shot lead with just three holes remaining &#8211; Fleetwood registered a par-bogey-par finish that saw him overtaken by Justin Rose and J.J. Spaun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Can he put that behind him and finally get over the hump en route to his first PGA Tour win? Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ludvig Aberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ludvig Aberg secured his second career PGA Tour victory in February &#8211; with the Swede defeating big-name opposition such as Scheffler, Fleetwood and Justin Thomas to win the Genesis Invitational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Additionally, although he hasn&#8217;t come away with an title, Aberg has been in strong form of late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The supremely talented 25-year-old has registered a top-10 finish in three of his last four starts &#8211; and for those tipping him to build on those performances and reign supreme at the Tour Championship &#8211; <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">he is a 16\/1 fourth-favourite to be crowned champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Russell Henley<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Russell Henley won his fifth PGA Tour event in March &#8211; as he triumphed at the esteemed Arnold Palmer Invitational by a single shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It appears the bookies believe he will be there or thereabouts this weekend &#8211; <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">as he enters as an 18\/1 fifth-favourite to hoist the trophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Henley performed well at the Tour Championship last year &#8211; with the American finishing tied fourth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Price Boosts<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In addition to the Price Boost outlined earlier in the article &#8211; which requires Scheffler to win at 6\/4 &#8211; there are a further three boosts on offer with Sky Bet that are generating interest in the betting lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They include <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">Scheffler and Fleetwood to both finish top five including ties<\/a>, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">Fleetwood and MacIntyre to both shoot 68 or less in round 1<\/a>, and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">Collin Morikawa and Henley to both finish top 10 including ties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The odds for those three bets have been enhanced to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"class\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/skybet.com\/golf\/pga-tour-championship-2025\/c-12753993\">7\/2, 7\/2 and 9\/2 respectively<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Regarding the above boosts &#8211; Scheffler and Fleetwood finished top five at the BMW Championship, while MacIntyre and Fleetwood shot 62 and 65 respectively after round 1 at the same event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Additionally, Morikawa has recorded four top-10 finishes this calendar year, while Henley has achieved a very impressive nine top-10 finishes in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>All odds are correct at the time of publication\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PGA Tour action returns on Thursday &#8211; as Atlanta&#8217;s East Lake Golf Course plays host to the Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[97,5904,217,101,41946,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-82946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-dailymail","tag-golf","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-sportsbets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}