Tour Championship prize money 2026: How much they're playing for at East Lake
Tour Championship prize money 2026: Check out how much the PGA Tour golfers are playing for in the season finale.
The PGA Tour will bring the curtain down on its 2025/2026 season this week.
Only the top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings have earned a tee time for the Tour Championship.
Battle will commence on Thursday at East Lake and the field is led by world number one Scottie Scheffler.
Scheffler, 30, is the hot favourite to be crowned the FedEx Cup champion for the second time in his career.
For the fifth straight year, the four-time major champion will begin the Tour Championship atop the season-long standings.
Scheffler has a comfortable lead over England's Matthew Fitzpatrick and his compatriot Wyndham Clark but may not to be 100 per cent healthy when he gets his opening round underway.
Last week, Scheffler blamed contracting hand, foot and mouth disease as a reason for his underwhelming performance at the BMW Championship.
Scheffler said he mulled withdrawing from the second leg of the PGA Tour's playoffs as the blisters on his hand made it difficult to grip a club.
The American is playing the first two rounds of the no-cut event alongside Fitzpatrick.
Elsewhere, Masters champion Rory McIlroy will attempt to be crowned the FedEx Cup champion for the fourth time in his career.
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Pos. | Player |
|---|---|
1 | Scottie Scheffler |
2 | Matt Fitzpatrick |
3 | Wyndham Clark |
4 | Cameron Young |
5 | Si Woo Kim |
6 | Chris Gotterup |
7 | Collin Morikawa |
8 | Sam Burns |
9 | Tommy Fleetwood |
10 | Ludvig Aberg |
11 | Rory McIlroy |
12 | Xander Schauffele |
13 | Jacob Bridgeman |
14 | Russell Henley |
15 | Akshay Bhatia |
16 | Hideki Matsuyama |
17 | Ryan Gerard |
18 | Gary Woodland |
19 | Patrick Cantlay |
20 | Kristoffer Reitan |
21 | Min Woo Lee |
22 | J.J. Spaun |
23 | Alex Smalley |
24 | Alex Fitzpatrick |
25 | Robert MacIntyre |
26 | Viktor Hovland |
27 | Justin Rose |
28 | Adam Scott |
29 | Tom Kim |
30 | Ryan Fox |
McIlroy won the FedEx Cup in 2016, 2019 and 2022.
The Northern Irishman is out with Xander Schauffele in the first two rounds.
All players will begin the Tour Championship on level par.
For the winner, there is also an astronomical amount of prize money on the line.
The total purse for the 2026 Tour Championship is $40m, with the winner set to walk away with a cheque for $10m.
GolfMagic has listed all of the payout information below.
And don't forget to check back in at the end of the week to see how much they all won.
Position | Earnings |
1 | $10,000,000 |
2 | $5,000,000 |
3 | $3,750,000 |
4 | $3,150,000 |
5 | $2,550,000 |
6 | $2,000,000 |
7 | $1,450,000 |
8 | $1,070,000 |
9 | $900,000 |
10 | $745,000 |
11 | $700,000 |
12 | $660,000 |
13 | $625,000 |
14 | $590,000 |
15 | $560,000 |
16 | $530,000 |
17 | $500,000 |
18 | $475,000 |
19 | $460,000 |
20 | $445,000 |
21 | $430,000 |
22 | $415,000 |
23 | $400,000 |
24 | $390,000 |
25 | $380,000 |
26 | $375,000 |
27 | $370,000 |
28 | $365,000 |
29 | $360,000 |
30 | $355,000 |
Tour Championship previous winners
Year | Winner | Winning score to par | Winner's earnings |
2025 | Tommy Fleetwood | −18 | $10,000,000 |
2024 | Scottie Scheffler | −30 | $25,000,000 |
2023 | Viktor Hovland | −27 | $18,000,000 |
2022 | Rory McIlroy | −21 | $18,000,000 |
2021 | Patrick Cantlay | −21 | $15,000,000 |
2020 | Dustin Johnson | −21 | $15,000,000 |
2019 | Rory McIlroy | −18 | $15,000,000 |
2018 | Tiger Woods | −11 | $1,620,000 |
2017 | Xander Schauffele | −12 | $1,575,000 |
2016 | Rory McIlroy | −12 | $1,530,000 |
2015 | Jordan Spieth | −9 | $1,485,000 |
2014 | Billy Horschel | −11 | $1,440,000 |
2013 | Henrik Stenson | −13 | $1,440,000 |
2012 | Brandt Snedeker | −10 | $1,440,000 |
2011 | Bill Haas | −8 | $1,440,000 |
2010 | Jim Furyk | −8 | $1,350,000 |
2009 | Phil Mickelson | −9 | $1,350,000 |
2008 | Camilo Villegas | −7 | $1,260,000 |
2007 | −23 | $1,260,000 |
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