The Tour Championship Will Open With Justin Thomas Opening Up With A Two-Stroke Lead Over Patrick Cantlay

Nothing says a season long point race like having Justin Thomas and Patrick Cantlay—two very fine players with mixed 2019 results by their lofty standards—opening up atop the chase for a $15 million first prize at the Tour Championship.

Koepka and McIlroy?

Yesterday’s news as they crumble under playoff microscope! Or, just didn’t have a 61 in their system this week.

Anyway, Bill Speros with a chart of players, points, wins, top 10s and their place on the leaderboard headed to East Lake. I’m going to reserve judgement as it all may be very exciting given the Tour’s bullishness on modeling of past TC’s and nothing was worse than the old system. Nothing!

However, I am waiting to hear from just one person who is excited about starting Thursday like this…except maybe Thomas!

Justin Thomas -10

Patrick Cantlay -8

Brooks Koepka -7

Patrick Reed -6

Rory McIlroy -5

Jon Rahm, Matt Kuchar, Xander Schauffele, Webb Simpson, Abraham Ancer -4

Gary Woodland, Tony Finau, Adam Scott, Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama -4

Paul Casey, Justin Rose, Brandt Snedeker, Rickie Fowler, Kevin Kisner -2

Marc Leishman, Tommy Fleetwood, Corey Conners, Sungjae Im, Chez Reavie -1

Bryson DeChambeau, Louis Oosthuizen, Charles Howell III, Lucas Glover, Jason Kokrak E