Tour Championship 2024: Full prize money payout as Scottie Scheffler wins $25 million at East Lake
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Scottie Scheffler picks up the biggest cheque in golf as he romps home to win the Tour Championship and a first FedEx Cup title.
The PGA Tour concluded its end-of-season playoffs with the Tour Championship where the top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings competed for the most lucrative paycheque of the year, won fittingly by the most dominant player of the season.
Scottie Scheffler capitalized on his pre-tournament headstart by holding off a tenacious Collin Morikawa by four shots. Be it not for the staggered start employed at the Tour Championship, Morikawa would have won the 72-hole strokeplay tournament by a shot from Sahith Theegla, with Scheffler finishing in third.
But rounds of 65, 66, 66, and 67 proved more than enough for the World No.1 who became the first player to win seven PGA Tour events since Tiger Woods in 2007, in addition to the golden lining of becoming Olympic champion. Victory in Atlanta never really looked in doubt with nearest rival Xander Schauffele failing to match Scheffler’s consistency throughout the week.
Despite Scheffler’s win being a fitting ending to a landmark year that also saw him become a father and get arrested at Valhalla, the PGA season’s showpiece finale felt more akin to a Tour de France final Champs-Elysees stage than a high-drama decider.
And while the nature of Scheffler’s win wasn’t quite processional with the lead narrowing to two at one point, it wasn’t the spectacle capable of captivating sports fans, particularly with so many other sports competing for viewers in August. The lack of final-day jeopardy is just another reminder of the frustrating state of play in the men’s game with the ongoing merger deadlock feeling as far away as ever.
The $25 million bonus awarded to Scheffler as FedEx Cup champion takes his on-course earnings to over $62 million this year, having also won $29.2 million in prize money and a further $8 million as the leader in the Comcast Business Tour Top 10. That’s before the PGA Tour payout its $50 million Play Impact Program at the end of the year.
The Tour Championship provided a handsome payout to every player in the field at East Lake with 13 players all earning a minimum of $1 million. Even Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Tom Hodge in T29 at the bottom of the leaderboard took home $555,000 each.
Here’s the full breakdown of how the bonuses were distributed at East Lake.
Tour Championship: Bonus money payout
| Position | Player | Score | Earnings |
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | -30 | $25,000,000 |
| 2 | Collin Morikawa | -26 | $12,500,000 |
| 3 | Sahith Theegala | -24 | $7,500,000 |
| T4 | Russell Henley | -19 | $4,833,333 |
| T4 | Adam Scott | -19 | $4,833,333 |
| T4 | Xander Schauffele | -19 | $4,833,333 |
| 7 | Sungjae Im | -18 | $2,750,000 |
| 8 | Wyndham Clark | -17 | $2,250,000 |
| T9 | Rory McIlroy | -16 | $1,608,333 |
| T9 | Hideki Matsuyama | -16 | $1,608,333 |
| T9 | Shane Lowry | -16 | $1,608,333 |
| T12 | Viktor Hovland | -15 | $1,000,000 |
| T12 | Sam Burns | -15 | $1,000,000 |
| T14 | Justin Thomas | -14 | $905,000 |
| T14 | Taylor Pendrith | -14 | $905,000 |
| 16 | Ludvig Aberg | -12 | $795,000 |
| T17 | Robert MacIntyre | -11 | $755,000 |
| T17 | Matthieu Pavon | -11 | $755,000 |
| T17 | Patrick Cantlay | -11 | $755,000 |
| 20 | Tommy Fleetwood | -10 | $715,000 |
| T21 | Keegan Bradley | -8 | $660,000 |
| T21 | Byeong Hun An | -8 | $660,000 |
| T23 | Billy Horschel | -6 | $615,000 |
| T23 | Aaron Rai | -6 | $615,000 |
| T23 | Tony Finau | -6 | $615,000 |
| 26 | Akshay Bhatia | -5 | $590,000 |
| T27 | Chris Kirk | -3 | $575,000 |
| T27 | Sepp Straka | -3 | $575,000 |
| T29 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | 3 | $555,000 |
| T29 | Tom Hoge | 3 | $555,000 |
The total bonus pool in 2024 rose from $75 million to a staggering $100 million with a $25 million cut reserved for the FedEx Cup champion. The first-place payout is $7 million more than the last two editions, won in 2023 by Viktor Hovland and in 2022 by Rory McIlroy.
The increasing competitiveness of purses on the PGA Tour in 2024 is largely down to the $3 billion investment by the Strategic Sports Group, signed in January to reward the tour’s star names for staying loyal to golf’s premier tour.
As a result, the PGA Tour’s eight Signature Events saw their purses bumped up to $20 million, and the Players Championship to $25 million, matching the prize funds offered on the LIV Tour. The FedEx Cup Champion’s bonus far exceeds the $18 million bonus reserved for LIV’s Individual Champion which is somewhat surprising given the emphasis the Saudi-backed tour places on financial renumeration.
FedEx Cup Champions and Bonuses
| Year | Winner | Winner’s Bonus |
| 2024 | Scottie Scheffler | $25 million |
| 2023 | Viktor Hovland | $25 million |
| 2022 | Rory McIlroy | $18 million |
| 2021 | Patrick Cantlay | $18 million |
| 2020 | Dustin Johnson | $15 million |
| 2019 | Rory McIlroy | $15 million |
| 2018 | Tiger Woods | $15 million |
| 2017 | Xander Schauffele | $10 million |
| 2016 | Rory McIlroy | $10 million |
| 2015 | Jordan Spieth | $10 million |
| 2014 | Billy Horschel | $10 million |
| 2013 | Henrik Stenson | $10 million |
| 2012 | Brandt Snedeker | $10 million |
| 2011 | Bill Haas | $10 million |
| 2010 | Jim Furyk | $10 million |
| 2009 | Tiger Woods | $10 million |
| 2008 | Vijay Singh | $10 million |
| 2007 | Tiger Woods | $10 million |
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