Georgia opened its doors once again for the 2023 Tour Championship. Payday on the PGA Tour. The final tournament of the FedEx Cup 2023 offered prize money that set its own standards. Almost 20 million US dollars awaited the winner at East Lake Golf Club. But it wasn’t just Viktor Hovland, who won the tournament by five strokes, who cleaned up well, because an entire season came to a spectacular end here. Last year, Rory McIlroy rallied from a six-stroke deficit at the start of the week and a five-stroke deficit at the start of the final day to defeat Scheffler by one stroke and claim the prize money. The size of this prize pool is spectacular: for the enormous sum is as large as the combined salaries of the U.S. Masters, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open and the British Open.
As play heads into the final stretch this weekend in Atlanta, the payout of the $75 million FedEx Cup bonus pool that players receive for their finishes in the season-long points race is drawing ever closer. As with regular PGA Tour events, the money will be split equally among players if there is a tie in the standings in this final event of the 2022-23 PGA Tour season. So each of the top 150 players in the FedEx Cup rankings will receive something from the bonus pool.
Tour Championship: $75 million to be distributed
Scottie Scheffler will not have forgotten last year and so the world number 1 went into the FedExCup final with extra motivation. He started the tournament at -10 ahead of Viktor Hovland (-8) and Rory McIlroy (-7), while Sepp Straka had a more difficult time in 30th place and started at even par. This put Scheffler in pole position for the event at the Tour Championship. However, the American was unable to maintain this position, playing only one round under par and thus relinquishing the leading position to Viktor Hovland, who did not rest on his starting capital, the eight strokes under par and increased to 7-under par. The young Norwegian thus secured the astronomical prize money of 18 million dollars for the victory.
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Places 150 to 125 will receive 85,000 dollars, after which the prize money will increase continuously. From 50th place onwards, the prize money is around 200,000 dollars. However, over half a million dollars was waiting for the top 30 at the Tour Championship. Straka and Co. are therefore already guaranteed the 500 000 dollars after the Tour Championship. The mark of 1,000,000 dollars will be cracked from 10th place in the ranking. In 5th place, there are already 3 million dollars waiting. This is followed by 4th place with 4 million dollars, 3rd place with 5 million and the runner-up with 6.5 million dollars. But as if that wasn’t enough, first place will receive almost triple that amount and can look forward to a whole 18,000,000 dollars. A list of the prize money probably makes some amateur golfers jealous.
Tour Championship 2023: The prize money at a glance
| Rank | Prizemoney | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $18,000,000 | Viktor Hovland |
| 2 | $6,500,000 | Xander Schauffele |
| 3 | $5,000,000 | Wyndham Clark |
| 4 | $4,000,000 | Rory McIlroy |
| 5 | $3,000,000 | Patrick Cantlay |
| T6 | $2,000,000 | Collin Morikawa |
| T6 | $2,000,000 | Tommy Fleetwood |
| T6 | $2,000,000 | Scottie Scheffler |
| T9 | $990,000 | Adam Schenk |
| T9 | $990,000 | Keegan Bradley |
| T9 | $990,000 | Max Homa |
| T9 | $990,000 | Matt Fitzpatrick |
| T9 | $990,000 | Sam Burns |
| T14 | $780,000 | Russell Henley |
| T14 | $780,000 | Sepp Straka |
| T16 | $710,000 | Rickie Fowler |
| T16 | $710,000 | Tyrrell Hatton |
| T18 | $670,000 | Lucas Glover |
| T18 | $670,000 | Jon Rahm |
| T20 | $620,000 | Tony Finau |
| T20 | $620,000 | Tom Kim |
| T20 | $620,000 | Si Woo Kim |
| 23 | $580,000 | Brian Harman |
| 24 | $565,000 | Sungjae Im |
| 25 | $550,000 | Nick Taylor |
| 26 | $540,000 | Correy Conners |
| 27 | $530,000 | Jordan Spieth |
| 28 | $520,000 | Jason Day |
| T29 | $505,000 | Taylor Moore |
| T29 | $505,000 | Emiliano Grillo |