The 2024-25 PGA TOUR season and the FedEx Cup Playoffs conclude this week with the TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club (par 70, 7,440 yards, Bermuda greens) in Atlanta, Georgia. This course has hosted every TOUR Championship since 2004 and Scottie Scheffler (-20) is the defending champion of this playoff finale. The top-30 players in the FedEx Cup standings have qualified for this week’s TOUR Championship and these golfers will compete for an enormous $40 million purse at this no-cut tournament, with first place taking home a whopping $10 million. Instead of the starting stroke format that the TOUR Championship featured the last few years, each player will start at even par this week like a normal event.
East Lake is a long Donald Ross designed par 70 that features narrow fairways, large greens, thick rough, 78 bunkers and water in play on eight holes. East Lake has always been a venue that favors strong drivers of the golf ball, who are both accurate and long. Last year, Scheffler became the second winner in a row at East Lake to lead their field in SG OTT and each of the last five victors at this track have finished top-five in the category.
As expected, terrific iron play is also a must at East Lake, with three of the last four winners at this course finishing the event top-five in SG APP. Lastly, with East Lake being a traditional par 70 with 12 par fours, being an elite par four scorer is a necessity at this venue. Of the last five winners at East Lake, four have finished the tournament top-five in par four efficiency.
Below, I have featured three of my favorite DraftKings bargain plays for the TOUR Championship, which all cost less than $7.5K.
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Top DraftKings PGA TOUR DFS Bargain Plays for the TOUR Championship
Keegan Bradley ($7,200) – Bradley has finished inside the top-12 in three of his six starts at East Lake – including a 7-under 63 in 2023 – and the veteran has had a terrific season, making 18-of-20 cuts with 10 top-25 finishes. Bradley won the Travelers Championship in June and he is on the heels of a T17 finish at the BMW Championship last week, in which he closed with a 3-under 67 in the final round.
Bradley ranks top-25 in total strokes gained, total driving and par four performance this season, and he is a tough value play to overlook at this cheap $7,200 salary.
Harry Hall ($7,000) – Hall’s breakout season continued at the BMW Championship last week. The Englishman finished T8th at the playoff event while gaining strokes in every major category at Caves Valley Golf Club. Hall has finished T28th or better at 11 straight tournaments and included in this run is a T13 finish at the Rocket Classic and a T15 finish at the Wyndham Championship, which are notable performances, as both these tournaments were played at Donald Ross designed courses.
Hall has never competed at East Lake before, but the budding star is an elite scorer, who should effortlessly out produce this low $7,000 salary. Impressively, Hall ranks second in SGP, BOB% and par four performance this season and as a result, the 28-year-old ranks fourth among this world-class field in FPTS per start in 2025. Additionally, when we compare the fields results at no-cut tournaments this season, Hall ranks seventh in strokes gained per round.
Jacob Bridgeman ($6,100) – Bridgeman has been great thus far in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. After finishing T17th at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the Clemson product finished T19th at the BMW Championship last week. Bridgeman has only missed one cut in his last eight starts and four of these finishes have been top-30 results.
Bridgeman is another player making his East Lake debut this week, but the 25-year-old has been successful at other Ross creations. Bridgeman has made four starts at a Ross design since joining the PGA TOUR and he has finished T31st or better in three of these starts, most notably with a T12 at Sedgefield CC for last year’s Wyndham Championship. That week, Bridgeman posted a 6-under 64, which is one stroke shy of his career-low on the PGA TOUR. Bridgeman is gaining 1.13 strokes per round at Ross venues, which ranks seventh among this field. Bridgeman has the potential to finish inside the top half of the leaderboard this week and he is a strong punt play for GPPs, which will likely come with low ownership.
