Tour Championship Round 1 Tee Times: Rory McIlroy out with Scottie Scheffler
Tour Championship First Round Pairings and Starting Times: check out the tee times for round one of the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup finale at East Lake.
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy will tee off alongside each other in the first round of the 2025 Tour Championship at East Lake on Thursday. Scroll down this page to check out the full list of pairings and starting times for the opening day's play at East Lake.
Unlike previous years at the Tour Championship, there is no adjusted handicap start.
Instead, all the points in the FedEx Cup standings reset for the top 30 competing in the FedEx Cup finale.
A huge total prize pot of $40m is on the line at the Tour Championship, with $10m going to the winner.
Scheffler, 29, is looking to become the first player in PGA Tour history to successfully defend the FedEx Cup.
The World No.1 arrives in blistering form having won two of his last three tournaments and rightly starts a red-hot 7/4 favourite to win for the sixth time this season.
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Scheffler joins World No.2 Rory McIlroy for the first round at the Tour Championship.
McIlroy has also enjoyed an impressive 2025 campign with three wins to his name, highlighted by becoming the sixth player in history to complete the career grand slam at The Masters.
The Ulsterman's game has somewhat tailed off since but he still holds every chance of winning a record fourth FedEx Cup title.
Other standout pairings for Thursday's action includes Cameron Young out with Ludvig Aberg, Harris English with Justin Thomas and JJ Spaun with Justin Rose.
GolfMagic has listed the first round tee times for the Tour Championship below.
Tour Championship Round One Tee Times: Thursday 21 August
All times local
Time | Player 1 | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|
11:16 AM | Chris Gotterup (Little Silver, NJ) | Akshay Bhatia (Jupiter, FL) |
11:27 AM | Jacob Bridgeman (Inman, SC) | Sungjae Im (Jeju-do, KOR) |
11:38 AM | Nick Taylor (Abbotsford, BC, CAN) | Harry Hall (Cornwall, ENG) |
11:49 AM | Hideki Matsuyama (Sendai, JPN) | Shane Lowry (County Offaly, IRL) |
12:00 PM | Collin Morikawa (La Canada, CA) | Viktor Hovland (Oslo, NOR) |
12:16 PM | Corey Conners (Listowel, ON, CAN) | Patrick Cantlay (Jupiter, FL) |
12:27 PM | Sam Burns (Shreveport, LA) | Brian Harman (St. Simons Island, GA) |
12:38 PM | Andrew Novak (Sea Island, GA) | Keegan Bradley (Woodstock, VT) |
12:49 PM | Cameron Young (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) | Ludvig Åberg (Eslov, SWE) |
1:00 PM | Harris English (Sea Island, GA) | Justin Thomas (Louisville, KY) |
1:16 PM | Robert MacIntyre (Oban, SCO) | Maverick McNealy (Las Vegas, NV) |
1:27 PM | Russell Henley (Columbus, GA) | Sepp Straka (Vienna, AUT) |
1:38 PM | Tommy Fleetwood (Southport, ENG) | Ben Griffin (Chapel Hill, NC) |
1:49 PM | J.J. Spaun (Los Angeles, CA) | Justin Rose (London, ENG) |
2:00 PM | Scottie Scheffler (Dallas, TX) | Rory McIlroy (Holywood, NIR) |
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