![]() Technically, all 30 players in the field have the chance to scoop the €12.5 million ($15 million) jackpot to whoever lifts the title, with the tournament finishing on Monday. Only Brooks Koepka and Adam Scott from the world's top-10 are absent. The field: After their heavyweight encounter at the BMW, world number one Dustin Johnson and world number two Jon Rahm renew rivalry in the PGA Tour's season finale. The par 70 measures 7,346 yards and features many water hazards, among them the Par-3 15th which is considered the signature hole. Originally designed by Tom Bendelow, it was redesigned by Donald Ross in 1913 and, then, after suffering a period of neglect in the '70s and '80s, Robert Trent Jones was commissioned in the early-90s to restore Ross's original work. An historic course, the home course of the legendary Bobby Jones, it has been home to the Tour Championship, the conclusion of the megabucks FedEx Cup, since 2004. The course: East Lake Golf Club, established in 1904, is the oldest club in the Atlanta city limits. Purse: €39 million (€12.5 million to the winner) “The trials and tribulations of what goes on out on the golf course don’t really seem to matter that much, so you can sort of let it just slide off you a little bit more and not be as reactive to your mistakes and know that this is important and it’s your career, but at the end of the day you get to go home to your family, which is the most important thing.” Tour Championship Lowdown “I think if you look at fathers in all different sports, golf, tennis, it’s not a new lease of life, but it’s a different perspective,” he added. Much has been made of the so-called “nappy factor” in golf, whereby new fathers experience an unusually high rate of success, and McIlroy will be hoping that rings true not only this week, but also with the US Open and Masters still to play in 2020. ![]() It’s already been the best week of my life, and this would obviously just be the icing on the cake.” But maybe things just will fall into place. “I haven’t played my best since coming back out since sort of post-Covid. ![]() But maybe this is what I needed, just for everything to happen and go well. “It’s been hard to think about golf the last few days just because I’ve been so focused on making sure that everything is okay at home. “Thankfully Erica has her mom and sister with her at the minute, so she’s got plenty of help and I feel a little better leaving and coming here to play this week. And then you’re handed your child and they’re like, ‘See you later’, and they don’t come with an instruction manual. You’ve got so much help and all the nurses are around and they did a phenomenal job. “You feel like you get to know your baby while she’s still in her mother’s belly, but to go from not having met this person to having unconditional love for them from one minute to the next is just.
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