• All selections are ; clicking them will populate betslip with Sky Bet - prices may differ

'Peace of mind' either is or once was the company mantra of FedEx, owners of the PGA Tour close-season. It implies a calmness brought about by due diligence; the sort of tranquility which comes only from knowing all bases are covered. Or in other words, that comfort of knowing your parcel is being looked after in transit. There's just no feeling like it.

It's in the spirit of their own mission statement that FedEx have forced the PGA Tour into ripping up the final event of the season, the TOUR Championship. They're forking out tens of millions of dollars, after all, and want the reassurance that their baby - the FedEx Cup - will be the story. It wasn't last year, as the purity of actual sporting drama took over courtesy of Tiger Woods, and it wasn't in 2017, when Xander Schauffele nervily held off Justin Thomas. Schauffele won the tournament, Thomas won the bounty; perfect on the one hand, unacceptable on the other.

So here we are, preparing for the start of an event which has forsaken credibility for simplicity. Instead of a tournament and a season-long points race coexisting, they have been forced together to make an ugly portmanteau of birdies and dollars. The winner of the TOUR Championship is the winner of the FedEx Cup is the winner of $15million. It will if nothing else be easy to follow.

The scoring system goes like this: on Thursday, Justin Thomas, by virtue of his position atop the FedEx Cup rankings, will begin the tournament on 10-under. Patrick Cantlay, in second, is eight-under with Brooks Koepka next on seven-under, and every player attributed a score according to where exactly they sit inside the top 30 players who qualified for East Lake. From there, everything is as you would expect: one less than par is a birdie, one more is a bogey, and these traditional scores will help determine the winner.