Scottie Scheffler's PGA Tour postseason amounts to a Super Bowl at East Lake
Scottie Scheffler starts the final leg of his remarkable year in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup playoffs
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler goes into the PGA Tour's postseason as the No. 1 seed and it's not even close. Winning the FedEx Cup and its $25 million bonus still feels far away.
The FedEx Cup playoffs begin Thursday at the St. Jude Championship for the top 70 from the season standings. The leading 50 players after this week move on to the BMW Championship, and from there it's the top 30 who reach the season finale at the Tour Championship.
Scheffler doesn't see this as a chance to put an exclamation point on his remarkable season of winning the Masters, an Olympic gold medal, The Players Championship and four signature events against the strongest fields.
The FedEx Cup playoffs are so fickle that no matter what he has done since January, and no matter what he does the next two weeks, the best he can do is start the Tour Championship at East Lake with a two-shot lead.
