Golf

Because of the Tour Championship's staggered scoring system based on points, Scottie Scheffler will start this week at East Lake with a two-stroke lead on Xander Schauffele and a 10-stroke lead on the last man in the field (Justin Thomas).

The top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings will continue their season this week in Colorado at the BMW Championship.

Scottie Scheffler, the world's top-ranked golfer, is the +330 favorite as the FedEx Cup Standings leader

Scheffler is the odds-on favorite at -130 and hopes to break through and claim his first PGA Tour Championship in the season-long race.

Scottie Scheffler enters as the clear favorite (+450), while Rory McIlroy (+850) is the second favorite as he continues to pursue his first major victory in a decade.

The PGA Tour will head to TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, for the John Deere Classic. Defending champion Sepp Straka is part of a diluted field that does include some proven past winners like Jordan Spieth and Jason Day.

The Travelers Championship marks the PGA Tour's final Signature Event of the season, hosted by TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.

Rory McIlroy (+320), Patrick Cantlay (+750) and Matthieu Pavon (+1600) all sit three strokes back. Cantlay and McIlroy will play in the same group on Sunday ahead of Pavon and DeChambeau.

McIlroy has not won a major championship in a decade but history is on his side. Not only has he finished in the top 10 in five straight U.S. Opens, all three major victories have come after a bogey-free opening round.