Only the top 30 on the season ranking get to play the tour final in August, but since 2019, the leader has been allowed to start the competition at ten strokes under par. The second-place finisher has started at –8, the third-place finisher at –7, and so on. Players ranked 26–30 have started at par.
Before last year's final, the dominant Fedex cup leader Scottie Scheffler thought the advantage was too small.
At the moment, you can't really call it a season-long battle when everything boils down to a stroke play competition on the same golf course every year, said the world number one, who despite everything won the final and became the champion.
Other golf stars have thought that the advantage should be abolished altogether. That's the line that the PGA tour is now taking for this year's tour final, which, just like before, will be decided at East Lake in Atlanta, Georgia. All 30 players will start at par, and the winner after 72 holes of stroke play will also become the Fedex Cup champion.
Before the system with an advantage, the Fedex cup ranking continued even during the season's final competition. This led to confusion about who took home the overall victory – it wasn't always enough to win the tour final to become the champion.
