Featured Groups: TOUR Championship

Justin Thomas will attempt to become just the second player (Tiger Woods) to win the FedExCup twice since its inception in 2007, and he’ll do so starting with a two-stroke lead.

In a new wrinkle this season, the 30-man TOUR Championship, the final event of the Playoffs, will feature a Starting Strokes format, meaning No. 1 seed Thomas gets a two-shot lead over No. 2 Patrick Cantlay, three over No. 3 Brooks Koepka, four over No. 4 Patrick Reed, and five over No. 5 Rory McIlroy. And that’s just for starters.

Gone is the complicated FedExCup math, and there will be no more projections. It’s all been greatly simplified. For more on the new format, click here.

Here’s a look at Thursday’s Featured Groups (FedExCup ranking in parenthesis).

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HOW TO FOLLOW

TELEVISION Thursday-Friday, 1-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday, 1-2:30 p.m. (GC), 2:30-7 p.m. (NBC). Sunday, 12-1:30 p.m. (GC), 1:30-6 p.m. (NBC).

PGA TOUR LIVE: Thursday/ Friday 10:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. ET, Twitter window of 10:30 a.m. to approximately 12:45 p.m. Because we will re-pair after round one, there will be no fan vote to determine second Featured Group on Friday. We will send out Friday groups on Thursday evening. Saturday coverage will be 12:15 p.m. – 7 p.m., with Twitter window of 12:15 p.m. to approximately 1:30 p.m., and Featured Holes starting at 2:30 p.m. Sunday coverage will be 11:15 a.m. – 6 p.m., Twitter 11:15 a.m. to approximately 12:30 p.m., Featured Holes at 1:30 p.m. Featured Holes are the par-4 first, par-3 15th and par-5 18th.

RADIO: Thursday-Friday, noon-6 p.m.; Saturday, 2-7 p.m., Sunday, 1-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com).

FEATURED GROUPS

Rickie Fowler (19) / Kevin Kisner (20)

Fowler, who won the Waste Management Phoenix Open in February and finished T2 at The Honda Classic in March, is starting to come back into form with a T11 at last week’s BMW Championship and T6 at The Open Championship before that.

Kisner, winner of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play earlier this season, broke 70 all four rounds and finished T9 at the BMW.

Thursday tee time: 12:35 p.m. ET

Adam Scott (13) / Dustin Johnson (14)

Scott, 39, has racked up eight top-10 finishes but hasn’t won this season. The runner-up at the Farmers Insurance Open and Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, he is coming off a final-round 67 to finish T9 at the BMW.

Johnson, 35, picked up his 20th PGA TOUR victory at the WGC-Mexico Championship earlier this season, but hasn’t found the same form of late. He’s coming off a T57 in which he never broke 70 at the BMW at Medinah No. 3.

Thursday tee time: 1:05 p.m. ET