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Open champion and world No.1 Scottie Scheffler is the man to beat as the FedExCup play-offs reach their climax with the Tour Championship at East Lake, Atlanta.
Scheffler heads for Georgia in the hottest of form having effortlessly overhauled Robert MacIntyre on Sunday at the BMW Championship, and he will take some stopping as he looks to successfully defend his FedEx crown.
But with Scheffler such a short price, here are three of his rivals teeing it up in the elite 30-man field that could have reason to celebrate come Sunday night.
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With 13 straight top-eight finishes including five wins, the most recent of which coming at Caves Valley last week in the BMW Championship, it's a lot easier to make a case for Scottie Scheffler than go against him.
His Sunday comeback to beat Robert MacIntyre was efficiency on a brutal scale and he stands head and shoulders above the rest.
That, of course, is factored into his price and in a field this strong - just the top 30 in the FedEx standings have made it - he can be opposed. Or at least there are alternatives to look at with each-way or finishing position safety nets.
Of those alternatives few look as peachy as Russell Henley, a Georgia native who will have the crowd rooting for him, not that he needs too much help.
Up to No.4 in the world, metronomically accurate from tee to green and a vastly improved putter, Henley has plenty going for him.
The Arnold Palmer winner back in March, he is on a run of six T20s on the spin and finished fourth at East Lake last year when he signed off with a 62.
Henley has a Ryder Cup debut to look forward to this autumn, confirmation that he has enjoyed a sparkling 2025. And there may be one more win to come.
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Backing up a big week isn't always that easy - to anyone not called Scottie Scheffler - but Scotland's Robert MacIntyre looks like the sort of character who just loves to hear the bell again.
The left-handed scrapper had a Sunday to forget at Caves Valley with a 73 to hand the advantage to Scheffler, but it just looked like one of those days rather than a nerve-fuelled collapse.
This is a player who has registered a second-place finish at the US Open and seventh at The Open this summer, suggesting the bigger the prize the bigger the appetite.
And this is one big prize. Up to No.8 in the world, MacIntryre won't look out of place at East Lake where he can make the frame again.
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The only player from 'outside the ropes' at Caves Valley who qualified for East Lake was Harry Hall, who shot up to 26 from 45 after finishing sixth.
It means the Cornishman gets to play the Tour Championship for the first time and, as pretty much the most clinical putter on tour at the moment, if he can give himself some looks he can shoot low.
To win it? Probably not (though stranger things have happened in this wonderful game). Top 10? That wouldn't be strange at all.