THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

'THE TOUR Championship' was historically the final event of golf's PGA Tour season. Starting in 2007, it will be the final event of the FedEx Cup, the competition for the first official championship trophy for the PGA Tour season. Beginning in 1997, the event alternated between Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas and East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia; since 2004, East Lake has been the event's permanent home. It is one of the richest tournaments on the tour.
Through 2006, the top 30 money winners on the PGA Tour after the penultimate event qualified for the event. It took place in early November, the week after the comparable event in Europe, the Volvo Masters, which allowed players who are members of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour to play in both end of season events. After THE TOUR Championship, the money list for the season was finalized. There were, and still are, a number of additional events between THE TOUR Championship and Christmas which are recognised by the PGA Tour, but prize money won in them is unofficial. Also, because this tournament's field is not as large as other golf tournaments, there is no 36-hole cut; all players who start the event are credited with making the cut and receive some prize money.
In 2007, THE TOUR Championship will move from its November date to a date in mid-September, where it will end a four-tournament "Chase for the FedEx Cup", which was announced on the Wednesday of the week of the 2005 event. As in past years, 30 players will qualify for the event, but the basis for qualification will be FedEx Cup points amassed during the season instead of prize money. Despite the tournament's status as the final FedEx Cup event, the trophy will not necessarily be awarded to the winner of THE TOUR Championship. The FedEx Cup will instead go to the player who has accumulated the most FedEx Cup points for the entire season. The season, however, will not end there — a slate of seven events will be used in the Tour's inaugural Fall Series (also known as the "Quest for the Card") to determine the rest of the Top 125 players eligible for the FedEx Cup in 2008.

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Winners

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Winners

'THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola'

Year	Player	Country
2006	Adam Scott
2005	Bart Bryant
2004	Retief Goosen
2003	Chad Campbell
2002	Vijay Singh

'THE TOUR Championship'

Year	Player	Country
2001	Mike Weir
2000	Phil Mickelson
1999	Tiger Woods
1998	Hal Sutton
1997	David Duval
1996	Tom Lehman
1995	Billy Mayfair
1994	Mark McCumber
1993	Jim Gallagher, Jr.
1992	Paul Azinger
1991	Craig Stadler

'Nabisco Championship'

Year	Player	Country
1990	Jodie Mudd
1989	Tom Kite
1988	Curtis Strange
1987	Tom Watson

External link

★ THE TOUR Championship's page on the PGA Tour's official website