Adam Scott skeptical about reported new TOUR Championship format: "It's hard to see where match play fits"

The Tour Championship is reportedly switching formats to a medal match play this year. However, Adam Scott is admittedly unsure of how that would fit in.

The Tour Championship is the season-ending event of the PGA Tour calendar. Since 2019, the tournament has been employing a staggered start format. That might change this year if the medal match play format is adopted as reports have been suggesting.

As stroke play has been the popular format in most events, this change would mean that the finale event will stand different to the rest of the tournaments throughout the season. Adam Scott is skeptical about how that would work.

"It's hard to see where match play fits into pro golf. We play the whole season one way and then have the final week be head-to-head match play," Scott said.

He further added:

"I mean, we can have a look at it, but you'd have to kind of sell me on that just a little more,"

Currently, the Australian golfer is playing at the first event of the season which is the Sentry in Hawaii. He is placed T9 at the moment in the ongoing Round 3 with a total score of 17-under.

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Who is Adam Scott grouped with in Round 3 of The Sentry?

Adam Scott at The Sentry 2025 (Source: Getty)

Adam Scott was grouped with Robert MacIntyre and Max Greyserman for the Round 3 of The Sentry in Hawaii. The trio teed off at 1:48pm ET at the Kapalua Plantation Course.

Scott was paired alongside Justin Thomas and Hideki Matsuyama in the first two rounds. Here is the full list of the Round 3 tee times and pairings (please note that all timings are in ET)

Tee No. 1

• 1:12 p.m. – Patrick Cantlay, Viktor Hovland, Patton Kizzire
• 1:24 p.m. – Max Homa, Matt Fitzpatrick, Sam Burns
• 1:36 p.m. – Cam Davis, Peter Malnati, J.T. Poston
• 1:48 p.m. – Robert McIntyre, Max Greyserman, Adam Scott
• 2:00 p.m. – Jonathan Vegas, Taylor Pendrith, Austin Eckroat
• 2:12 p.m. – Sungjae Im, Tony Finau, Adam Hadwin
• 2:24 p.m. – Wyndham Clark, Sepp Straka, Will Zalatoris
• 2:36 p.m. – Keegan Bradley, Harry Hall, Cameron Young
• 2:48 p.m. – Maverick McNealy, Tom Hoge, Thomas Detry
• 3:00 p.m. – Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa, Corey Connors

Tee No. 10

• 1:12 p.m. – Stephan Jaeger, Russell Henley, Denny McCarthy
• 1:24 p.m. – Aaron Rai, Ludvig Aberg, Byeong Hun An
• 1:36 p.m. – Jason Day, Brice Garnett, Kevin Yu
• 1:48 p.m. – Billy Horschel, Chris Kirk, Chris Gotterup
• 2:00 p.m. – Matt McCarty, Nico Echavarria, Davis Thompson
• 2:12 p.m. – Justin Thomas, Eric Cole, Xander Schauffele
• 2:24 p.m. – Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Akshay Bhatia, Rafael Campos
• 2:36 p.m. – Matthieu Pavon, Sahith Theegala, Si Woo Kim
• 2:48 p.m. – Jake Knapp, Nick Taylor, Nick Dunlap
• 3:00 p.m. – Brian Harman, Davis Riley