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Here’s The FedEx Cup Prize Money “Payout” For Each Golfer At The 2024 Tour Championship
Here’s the FedEx Cup prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 Tour Championship
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 prize money payout.
This year the PGA Tour is handing out $100 million for its FedEx Cup bonus pool, with the ultimate champion earning $25 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 $7,595,888. 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 prize money; 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 playing chase
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
Tom Bendelow actually laid out the original course at East Lake, back when it was known as Atlanta Athletic Club, and that was the layout upon which Stewart Maiden taught the game to the now-legendary Bobby Jones. Donald Ross basically built a new course on the same spot in 1915, which remained untouched until changes were made before the 1963 Ryder Cup. When Atlanta Athletic moved to the suburbs in the late 1960s, the intown East Lake location fell on hard financial times until being rescued in the 1990s by businessman Tom Cousins, who made it a sterling fusion of corporate and inner-city involvement. Rees Jones redesigned most holes beginning in the mid-90s, making the course more reflective of his views of championship golf. After the PGA Tour reversed the nines for the 2016 Tour Championship (flipping the unpopular par-3 finish into the ninth hole), the club made the new routing permanent for regular play. East Lake underwent another major restoration following the 2023 Tour Championship, this time by Andrew Green, highlighting the course’s Donald Ross heritage.
