Odds to Win the Tour Championship

Only 30 men are left standing in the race to be crowned the 2019 FedExCup playoff champion and it’s all going to come down to the final postseason event at East Lake Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia.

At Bovada, Justin Thomas is the +250 favorite to win the Tour Championship, with Patrick Cantlay (+450), Brooks Koepka (+500), Rory McIlroy (+800), Jon Rahm (+1400), Patrick Reed (+1400), Webb Simpson (+2200), Dustin Johnson (+2500), Xander Schauffele (+2800) and Hideki Matsuyama (+3300) rounding out the top 10.

To find out which three golfers I’m picking to win the Tour Championship, check out my Expert Picks article.

New Year, New Format

A new format has been installed for this year’s Tour Championship, with each player getting assigned starting strokes based on his position in the points standings. That means Thomas will start the tournament at -10, while Cantlay (-8), Koepka (-7), Reed (-6) and McIlroy (-5) will be right behind him. For a full list of starting strokes for the Tour Championship, click here.

With $15 million on the line for the FedExCup winner, the drama will certainly be high at East Lake. Considering Thomas is getting 10 strokes on the majority of the field, if a player were to come back and erase the huge deficit, it would make for one of the craziest come-from-behind victories we’ve seen on the PGA Tour in quite some time.

Could We See a Major Upset at East Lake?

Due to the aforementioned new system, Bovada is offering some extremely long odds on the golfers who find themselves at the back of the pack. For example, Charles Howell III is listed at +35000, and Lucas Glover (+30000), Corey Conners (+30000) and Chez Reavie (+30000) also find themselves as major long shots.

The chances of any of them winning are obviously slim, but it’s interesting to see those high numbers given the small 30-man field.

Woods Won’t Be in the Mix This Time

Having not won in over five years and fresh off four back surgeries, Tiger Woods pulled off a major upset at the Tour Championship to outlast McIlroy in the final-round pairing a year ago. Justin Rose ended up winning the FedExCup and a $10-million bonus, but the biggest story was undoubtedly Woods.

Eldrick wasn’t able to replicate last year’s postseason performance and was knocked out of the FedExCup playoffs last week, but there’s no shortage of big-name talent that will be teeing it up at East Lake.

The course, a 7,385-yard par 70, has been the permanent home for the Tour Championship since 2004. Zach Johnson owns the 18-hole record thanks to a sizzling round of 60 in the third round of the 2007 tournament, while Woods possesses the 72-hole record with a score of 257 in the same year.

Take a look at the book’s full list of odds. Who are you picking to win the 2019 Tour Championship? Have your say in the comments.