The quest to crown 2017’s PGA Tour Champion ends in Atlanta.

It isn’t a major, but the 2017 PGA Tour Championship will crown the season’s top overall golfer after a long and grueling run of events. The top 30 players in the FedEx Cup points rankings will battle for one of the game’s most prestigious new titles through four rounds at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

The limited field means the exclusive event has been reduced to 2017’s top golfers. The back end of Thursday’s start list is littered with some of the game’s biggest stars, as Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler, Hideki Matsuyama, and Jon Rahm will all tee off in the tournament’s final four groups.

Thursday’s start will also be missing some familiar names. Past PGA Tour Championship winners like Henrik Stenson, Brandt Snedeker, and Billy Horschel failed to make this year’s cut. Other veterans like Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, and Ernie Els will also sit this one out.

They’ll miss the season’s final event at a course known for being the home club of Bobby Jones. East Lake is a southern course through and through, eschewing tight fairways and deep sand traps for some of the most challenging water holes on the Tour. Errant shots this weekend won’t require digging or cutting through brush to find — they’ll need scuba gear.

Thursday's time, TV channel, and streaming info

Television:

1 to 6 p.m. — Golf Channel

Online streams:

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. — PGA Tour Live Featured Coverage (PGA Tour Live subscription required)

1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live Featured Holes

3 to 7 p.m. — Golf Channel simulcast stream

Radio:

1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208 and streamed here)

Thursday’s tee times

Only 30 players made the cut for this week’s event, the last in a series that will crown the 2017 PGA Tour champion. Several notable names are absent from Thursday’s start list, including Rory McIlroy, Stenson, and Mickelson.

Here are the tee times and pairings for Round 1 of the Tour Championship.

All times are Eastern.

11:40 a.m. — Patrick Cantlay, Jason Dufner

11:50 a.m. — Russell Henley, Gary Woodland

12 p.m. — Sergio Garcia, Xander Schauffele

12:10 p.m. — Patrick Reed, Tony Finau

12:20 p.m. — Adam Hadwin, Kyle Stanley

12:30 p.m. — Kevin Chappell, Brian Harman

12:40 p.m. — Jhonattan Vegas, Kevin Kisner

12:50 p.m. — Jason Day, Webb Simpson

1 p.m. — Charley Hoffman, Daniel Berger

1:10 p.m. — Pat Perez, Matt Kuchar

1:20 p.m. — Brooks Koepka, Paul Casey

1:30 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Rose

1:40 p.m. — Jon Rahm, Rickie Fowler

1:50 p.m. — Dustin Johnson, Marc Leishman

2 p.m. — Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas