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No player has ever won the Tour Championship more than once in its 17 year history despite previous winners including players such as Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh and Retief Goosen. This year, Tiger, Phil and Vijay will all be hoping to be the first to an East Lakes double, as will last year's winner, Adam Scott. Mark Calcavecchia is the only player in the field who was present at the first Tour Championship in 1991.

This is what I think of your 14/1

Of our choices last week, mid-table obscurity was the best that we could manage as Rory Sabbatini finished at tied tenth, thirteen shots behind Tiger Woods, the eventual winner. We haven't yet succumbed to the Steve McClaren school of picking players by just sticking a pin in a list but with Tiger predictably installed as huge favourite by the bookies, we're once again left to scour a bit further down the odds for some value.

Adam Scott @ 14/1

Won here last year and finished fourth last week. Is looking to cap off his season by becoming the first player to win the Tour Championship twice.

Steve Stricker @ 20/1

Waited a long time for his first win on the Tour since 2001, but clinched it at The Barclays a few weeks ago. If he manages to take home the Tour Championship, he will win the FedEx Cup regardless of Tiger's finish and net us a few quid too.

Charles Howell III @ 80/1

Howell had an excellent start to the season with five top ten finishes in his first seven starts including a win at the Nissan Open and has finished runner up here twice. Recent performances have shown improvement making his 80/1 a good each way bet.

The USA team pose for a group photo before the start of the 2007 Solheim Cup

"Quit gawping at the back, i'm trying to tee-off"

Atlanta? They found it did they? A bit wet for golf  i'd have thought though...: That's Atlantis you fool. Atlanta, Georgia is in the deep South of America.
Georgia? I thought that was near Russia...: Look, do you want to know who's going to win the FedEx Cup on Sunday or do you want a geography lesson?
The FedEx Cup? I thought it was The Tour Championship?:  It is, they play the Tour Championship as normal, with the top FedEx points scorer at the end of the weekend's play taking home the FedEx Cup.
So who IS going to win it?: Dunno, five players are still in with a shout, Woods, Stricker, Mickelson, Sabbatini and Choi.
Only five players in the field?: No. There'll be thirty players in the field competing for the Tour Championship, five of whom can win the FedEx Cup.
Confusing.:  Not really, the rest of the field is made up of the other top 25 FedEx players. Only the top five have a chance of winning though, well Choi hasn't really, he's 400/1 but mathematically it's still possible.
So, realistically, only four players can win now. That's a bit of a crappy format: Shhhhh. The PGA might hear you. Still they all have the Tour Championship to play for.
OK, so who'll win that?: Dunno that either, defending champ Adam Scott is one of the ones fancied by the bookies, as is Ernie Els. The top thirty players in the World will be competing though so it's difficult to call.
So, Tiger then?: Yeah probably.

Westwood: "Are you sure that's regulation size Darren?"

So what's going on this week?: It's the Tour's third visit of the year to Deutschland.
You what?: You know...Germany? Home of Klinsmann, Kraftwerk and Koln, where this week's Mercedes-Benz Championship is being held.
The Mercedes-Benz Championship eh? Should we expect as classy an affair as the name suggests?: Yes actually. It's an elite 78 man field this week made up of tournament winners and highly placed players in the World Golf Rankings and the European Order of Merit.

So plenty of big names then?: Yep, six of the field are major winners, including; Michael Campbell, Paul Lawrie, John Daly and Bernhard Langer who'll be hosting the tournament.
No room for Langer junior in that field then?: Definitely not, there's no cut either so after four rounds who knows what his score would be...
And who's going to be in contention?: The bookies have Lee Westwood as favourite, but with a field as strong as this it's hard to say. Argentine Angel Cabrera, countryman Andres Romero and South African Retief Goosen are also hotly tipped.
Hotly tipped? Sounds painful:   It is. Hot tipping's the fashionable new training technique in which every time you play a bad shot, your caddie prods you on the back of the neck with a lighter.

Really?: Nah. Making things even hotter though is the fact that this is the final qualifying event for a Seve Trophy spot and the second for a Ryder Cup one with seven of Bernhard Langer's successful 2006 team in attendance.