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The last man standing at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club on Sunday can boast of being the winner of the Tour Championship as well as the year-long FedEx Cup title. He also will walk away with one incredible prizemoney payout.
This year the PGA Tour is handing out $US100 million for its FedEx Cup bonus pool, with the ultimate champion earning $US25 million. We understand that in this PGA Tour vs LIV Golf world that paydays are exponentially greater than they were just a few years ago. And we know we’ve noted this before, but seriously this is a mind-blowing sum when you consider that for their entire PGA Tour careers, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, winners of 25 majors and 135 tour titles, earned a combined $US7,595,888. The difference between finishing first and second this week alone is almost double that ($12.5 million).
As has been the case since the tour moved to its staggered-start scoring format for the Tour Championship in 2019 – giving the FedEx Cup points leader entering East Lake a head start over the rest of the field – the money on the line this week in Atlanta is not officially tournament prizemoney; no player’s individual career earnings increases as a result of his performance in the 2024 season finale.
Here’s where things stand before the start of play on Thursday, Scottie Scheffler leading with the other 29 players in the field giving chase.
1: Scottie Scheffler, -10
2: Xander Schauffele, -8
3: Hideki Matsuyama, -7
4: Keegan Bradley, -6
5: Ludvig Ã…berg, -5
T-6: Rory McIlroy, -4
T-6: Collin Morikawa, -4
T-6: Wyndham Clark, -4
T-6: Sam Burns, -4
T-6: Patrick Cantlay, -4
T-11: Sungjae Im, -3
T-11: Sahith Theegala, -3
T-11: Shane Lowry, -3
T-11: Adam Scott, -3
T-11: Tony Finau, -3
T-16: Byeong Hun An, -2
T-16: Viktor Hovland, -2
T-16: Russell Henley, -2
T-16: Akshay Bhatia, -2
T-16: Robert MacIntyre, -2
T-21: Billy Horschel, -1
T-21: Tommy Fleetwood, -1
T-21: Sepp Straka, -1
T-21: Matthieu Pavon, -1
T-21: Taylor Pendrith, -1
T-26: Chris Kirk, E
T-26: Tom Hoge, E
T-26: Aaron Rai, E
T-26: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, E
T-26: Justin Thomas, E
And here is the prizemoney payout for each golfer in the final FedEx Cup standings after the conclusion of the Tour Championship. We’ll update this list shortly after Monday morning’s finish with player names and prizemoney payouts. As with regular PGA Tour events, money is split equally among players if there are ties for different places in this last event of the 2024 PGA Tour season. (All figures in $US.)
1: $25,000,000
2: $12,500,000
3: $7,500,000
4: $6,000,000
5: $5,000,000
6: $3,500,000
7: $2,750,000
8: $2,250,000
9: $2,000,000
10: $1,750,000
11: $1,075,000
12: $1,025,000
13: $975,000
14: $925,000
15: $885,000
16: $795,000
17: $775,000
18: $755,000
19: $735,000
20: $715,000
21: $670,000
22: $650,000
23: $630,000
24: $615,000
25: $600,000
26: $590,000
27: $580,000
28: $570,000
29: $560,000
30: $550,000
