Max Homa, 10 shots back despite rare 62, joins chorus of growing Tour Championship format frustration

ATLANTA — The New England Patriots don't start the Super Bowl with a 14-point lead. Alabama doesn't have a 10-point advantage at kickoff in the College Football National Championship. The Golden State Warriors didn't start the NBA finals with a 15-point cushion.

PGA Tour player Max Homa wonders whether the FedEx Cup Playoffs points leader should have a 2-shot lead over everyone else before the first tee shot is hit in the season-ending Tour Championship.

«Yeah, I don't know,» Max Homa said Friday, of the staggered scoring system, which the PGA Tour only uses at the Tour Championship. «We talk a lot about it. I listen to a lot of what [media] say about it. I've been saying this lately. I don't think it's perfect. I don't know what the answer is, so I'm not going to complain about it.»

«I think that we're not football, we're not basketball, we're not baseball. Just because the Patriots are undefeated do we need to then start them with a two-touchdown lead? Because it feels like that year they should have won the Super Bowl; they didn't. That's football, but golf is different.»

Homa's comments came after he posted the second-lowest round ever at the Tour Championship on Friday when he carded a bogey-free 62, which still left him 10 shots behind leader Xander Schauffele.

The scoring format has already proven to be a sizable advantage for world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler, as the FedEx Cup points leader, started the Tour Championship at 10 under, at least 2 shots better than everyone else.

Schauffele, who was fourth in points and started at 6 under, made up 4 shots in the final three holes of Friday's second round of the Tour Championship, carding back-to-back birdies and an eagle on the par-5 18th hole at East