{"id":4948,"date":"2022-08-22T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/?post_type=article&#038;p=4948"},"modified":"2022-08-22T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:45:10","slug":"2022-tour-championship-east-lake-golf-club-course-preview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/article\/2022-tour-championship-east-lake-golf-club-course-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Tour Championship \u2013 East Lake Golf Club \u2013 Course Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The PGA Tour&#8217;s 2021-2022 season will conclude at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia with the finale of the FedExCup Playoffs. The top 30 golfers in the FedExCup standings will be competing for an $18 million total purse with players guaranteed at least $500,000 just for making it to the Tour Championship. Coming off back-to-back wins at the BMW Championship, Patrick Cantlay will look to successfully defend the Tour Championship that he won last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oldest golf course in the city of Atlanta, East Lake is a city course that was the home track of the legendary golfer Bobby Jones. It is a lush old-school parkland course that features narrow fairways, difficult bermuda rough, uneven lies and fast greens. It is known as a risk\/reward type of course, and is one of the more difficult ones on Tour with birdies typically tough to come by. It has been the permanent home of the Tour Championship since 2004, and it has been held at East Lake 21 times since 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike every other Tour event where all players start on a level playing field at even par, the field this week will begin with staggered scores base on their position in the FedExCup points ranking list. Despite the scorn of most golf fans who despise the staggered start, this will be the fourth consecutive year of utilizing the &#8220;Starting Strokes&#8221; format which sees players start between 10-under and even par depending on their ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Starting-Positions.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Starting-Positions.jpg 850w, https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Starting-Positions-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Starting-Positions-768x251.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Certain players this week like Adam Scott and Aaron Wise who are starting ten shots behind have no realistic chance at overtaking anyone near the top of the board. This limits the excitement and drama of this final event and makes it one of the more unwatchable golf tournaments of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Scorecard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Scorecard.jpg 975w, https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Scorecard-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Scorecard-768x213.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>East Lake&#8217;s proud history began well before it started hosting the PGA Tour Championship. With Burton Smith at the helm, a group of 65 men formed the Atlanta Athletic Club in 1898. The club initially did not have a golf course, but four years after it was founded, it had more than 700 members. The club leaders soon realized the increased interest in golf, and in 1904, acquired some property in the \u201csuburbs\u201d of Atlanta to create a country club. They approached architect Tom Bendelow to lay out the course. The grand opening of the Bendelow course took place on July 4, 1908, on the property that was known as East Lake. The course itself, a sparkling stretch of water surrounded by forestland, was originally the site of an amusement park in the 1890s. In 1913, famed golf course architect Donald Ross redesigned the Bendelow course at East Lake. The remodeled course featured a routing plan that allowed each of the nine holes to conclude at the clubhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Ross rebuild, the course basically remained untouched until some changes were made before the 1963 Ryder Cup. Not long after the United States team destroyed Europe in that event, the neighborhood surrounding East Lake began to deteriorate and the course fell into disarray and was mostly forgotten. Fast forward to 1993 when the property was purchased by the East Lake Foundation and the job began to restore the course as a tribute to Bobby Jones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"East Lake Golf Club: The Course That Saved A City\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xJpjY_R020M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1994, famed architect Rees Jones completed a restoration of Donald Ross&#8217;s original layout. Rees would go on to renovate the course again in 2008 and 2016. It has been the permanent home of the Tour Championship since 2004 and is the culminating event of the PGA Tour playoffs. While the course has been around for 118 years, it has stood the test of time and remains one of the most storied and classical courses that is played every year on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Course-Facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Course-Facts.jpg 786w, https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Course-Facts-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Tour-Champ-Course-Facts-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive course preview of East Lake Golf Club, host of the 2022 Tour Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4956,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"bs_types":[14,15],"bs_tags":[29,73,129],"class_list":["post-4948","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","bs_type-betting","bs_type-fantasy","bs_tag-golf-betting","bs_tag-golf-dfs","bs_tag-tour-championship"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HECYCZHLEHH642K72BCPUSGPSQ.jpg","tags_list":[{"id":29,"name":"Golf Betting","slug":"golf-betting"},{"id":73,"name":"Golf DFS","slug":"golf-dfs"},{"id":129,"name":"Tour Championship","slug":"tour-championship"}],"types_list":[{"id":14,"name":"Betting"},{"id":15,"name":"Fantasy"}],"bs_author":{"name":"Ron Klos","profile_image":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ron-Klos-150x150.jpg"},"bs_term_name":null,"is_paid":"true","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bs_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_types?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"bs_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.betspertsgolf.com\/raw-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bs_tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}