TGD Newswire – This Week In Golf – Scottie Scheffler Closes Out the Season With the FedEx Cup (Sept 1, 2026)
The 2026 PGA Tour season ended the way a lot of the year felt: with Scottie Scheffler on top. The World No. 1 closed out the Tour Championship at East Lake at -16, finishing three shots clear of Viktor Hovland to claim the FedEx Cup and cap the postseason.
How the Week Unfolded
Min Woo Lee opened the tournament with a career-best 8-under 62 to grab the early lead in his Tour Championship debut, ahead of Hovland, Collin Morikawa, and Chris Gotterup. Scheffler’s own start was far less dramatic — a difficult opening lie in the rough led to a lay-up and a scrambling par save, not the kind of round that signals a runaway win is coming.
It didn’t matter. By the final round, Scheffler had built the kind of lead that turns a tournament into a formality, closing at -16 with Hovland the closest challenger at -13 and Ryan Gerard rounding out the top three at -12. Jackson Bridgeman and Andrew Fitzpatrick tied for fourth at -11.
What the Win Confirms
This was Scheffler’s tournament to lose from the moment the postseason field was set, and he didn’t give anyone a real opening. For a season that already included multiple wins and sustained time at World No. 1, closing it out with the FedEx Cup itself is the kind of exclamation point that removes any ambiguity about who had the best year on Tour.
The Rest of the Field
Hovland’s runner-up finish continues a strong late-summer stretch, and Lee’s opening 62 — even without a win to show for it — served notice that he’s a name to watch heading into next season. Gerard’s top-three finish and Bridgeman’s continued strong play (after his BMW Championship performance factored into the qualifying bubble the week prior) round out a Tour Championship field that had real depth even with Scheffler pulling away.
Why It Matters
The FedEx Cup Playoffs exist to answer one question: who had the best season? For 2026, there wasn’t much drama in the answer. Scheffler’s East Lake performance was the logical conclusion to a year where he was rarely challenged for the top spot in the world rankings, and the Tour now heads into its fall series and the Presidents Cup at Medinah with Scheffler firmly established as the player every roster conversation starts with.
Sources: CBS Sports, PGA TOUR
