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2024 Tour Championship Odds & Picks: Xander Schauffele

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The PGA Tour season comes to an end this week with the Tour Championship at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

It's the final event of the three-event FedEx Cup Playoffs. At stake: the honor of being the FedEx Cup champion and a whole lot of money. The winner of the Tour Championship receives $25 million and a five-year PGA Tour exemption. Second place is worth $12.5 million. Every player in the 30-man field will earn at least $550,000.

The Tour Championship uses a unique "starting strokes" system that rewards players based on the number of FedEx Cup points accumulated so far this season. FedEx Cup points leader Scottie Scheffler will start at -10. No. 2 player Xander Schauffele starts at -8, No. 3 Hideki Matsuyama starts at -7, No. 4 Keegan Bradley starts at -6, and No. 5 Ludvig Aberg starts at -5. The rest of the field is sorted into groups of five, with groups starting at -4, -3, -2, -1 and even par. Bear in mind that betting odds for the Tour Championship take the starting strokes system into account.

Let's take a closer look at our top 2024 Tour Championship odds and picks for Xander Schauffele.

2024 Tour Championship Odds & Picks: Xander Schauffele

Xander Schauffele Stats to Know

  • Best Odds to Win: +225 (DraftKings)
  • World Ranking: 2
  • Best Tour Championship finish: 1 (2017)
  • Last four Tour Championship finishes: 2, 4, 5, 2
  • Last four tournament finishes: 5, 2, 9, 1

Xander Schauffele Tour Championship Course History

In seven career appearances at East Lake covering 28 competitive rounds, Schauffele has never posted a round over par and has finished no worse than T7. Clearly, the California native feels comfortable at East Lake. If the San Diego State alum has a weakness here, it’s on the par 3s, where his scoring average is slightly over par. Otherwise, there’s not a metric you’ll find that shows a weakness in Schauffele’s game in Atlanta.

Xander Schauffele Recent Form

At the beginning of May, it looked like Scottie Scheffler was going to run away with Player of the Year honors. That all changed thanks to the 30-year-old Schauffele’s late-season form. With two major championship wins and 10 straight finishes of T15 or better, Schauffele has made it a two-horse race. No one in the 30-player field has a game that is in as fine a form as the 2017 champion. Schauffele has a chance to put the finishing touches on a historic season with one last solid week.

Xander Schauffele 2024 Tour Championship Betting Outlook

The staggered scoring system used in the Tour Championship puts Schauffele at a bit of a disadvatage, as he’ll start two strokes behind Scottie Scheffler. That shouldn’t deter you from backing the hottest player in the world right now — especially after Scheffler’s performance at the BMW Championship and what looked like a potential tweak of Scheffler’s back. Schauffele outright may just be the best bet on the board.

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