Payday at East Lake
Here's the FedEx Cup prize money payout for each golfer at the 2022 Tour Championship
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For all the debate this summer about rapidly rising prize money payouts in professional golf, it was crazy to think what was on the line this week at the Tour Championship. The winner on Sunday at East Lake Golf Club was going to earn $18 million for his victory.
Let’s repeat this: $18 million.
By comparison, 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.
And that winner, fittingly, was Rory McIlroy, the man who has served as the de facto face of the PGA Tour in 2022. As LIV Golf has risen to prominence and created a schism in men’s pro golf this summer, McIlroy has been the calming presence the PGA Tour needed, rallying some of the biggest names to try to keep the tour together.
McIlroy began the tournament six shots back of Scottie Scheffler, was 10 shots back after two holes (when he opened with a triple bogey, bogey), nine back after 36 holes and a six back to start the final round. But with rounds of 67-67-63-66 to get to 21 under, he rallied for a third career FedEx Cup title to the ones won in 2014 and 2019.
Technically speaking, the money on the line in Atlanta is not tournament prize money, but rather the payout for the $75 million FedEx Cup bonus pool that players are receiving for their finishes in the season-long points race. No player’s career earnings will increase as a result of their performance in the 2021-22 season finale.
Here then is the prize money payout for each golfer in the final FedEx Cup standings after the conclusion of the Tour Championship. 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 2021-’22 PGA Tour season. We’ll update this list shortly after Sunday’s finish to include individual names with their earnings.
One additional note: Every player in the FedEx Cup top 150 earns some distribution from the bonus pool. It’s why the list below has far more names than just the 30 competing in the Tour Championship.
Win: Rory McIlroy, -21, $18,000,000
T-2: Scottie Scheffler, -20, $5,750,000
T-2: Sungjae Im, -20, $5,750,000
4: Xander Schauffele, -18, $4,000,000
T-5: Max Homa, -17, $2,750,000
T-5: Justin Thomas, -17, $2,750,000
T-7: Sepp Straka, -16, $1,750,000
T-7: Patrick Cantlay, -16, $1,750,000
9: Tony Finau, -15, $1,250,000
10: Tom Hoge, -14, $1,000,000
T-11: Joaquin Niemann, -13, $925,000
T-11: Hideki Matsuyama, -13, $925,000
T-13: Jordan Spieth, -12, $825,000
T-13: Aaron Wise, -12, $825,000
T-15: Viktor Hovland, -11, $710,000
T-15: Matt Fitzpatrick, -11, $710,000
T-15: J.T. Poston, -11, $710,000
T-15: Jon Rahm, -11, $710,000
19: Cameron Young, -10, $660,000
20: Cameron Smith, -9, $640,000
T-21: Brian Harman, -8, $600,000
T-21: Billy Horschel, -8, $600,000
T-21: Collin Morikawa, -8, $600,000
24: Sam Burns, -7, $565,000
25: Adam Scott, -4, $550,000
26: Corey Conners, -3, $540,000
27: K.H. Lee, -1, $530,000
28: Sahith Theegala, +1, $520,000
29: Scott Stallings, +3, $510,000
30: Will Zalatoris, $500,000
31: Shane Lowry, $250,000
32: Trey Mullinax, $236,000
33: J.J. Spaun, $228,000
34: Joohyung Kim, $221,000
35: Davis Riley, $214,000
36: Denny McCarthy, $211,000
37: Maverick McNealy, $209,000
38: Kevin Kisner, $208,000
39: Keith Mitchell, $207,000
40: Kurt Kitayama, $206,000
41: Lucas Glover, $205,000
42: Seamus Power, $204,000
43: Lucas Herbert, $203,000
44: Russell Henley, $202,000
45: Andrew Putnam, $201,000
46: Taylor Pendrith, $200,000
47: Cameron Tringale, $199,000
48: Tyrrell Hatton, $198,000
49: Mito Pereira, $197,000
50: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, $196,000
51: Luke List, $195,000
52: Emiliano Grillo, $194,000
53: Keegan Bradley, $193,000
54: Sebastián Muñoz, $192,000
55: Cam Davis, $191,000
56: Mackenzie Hughes, $190,000
57: Si Woo Kim, $189,000
58: Marc Leishman, $188,000
59: Brendan Steele, $187,000
60: Troy Merritt, $186,000
61: Adam Hadwin, $185,000
62: Tommy Fleetwood, $185,000
63: Chez Reavie, $185,000
64: Matt Kuchar, $185,000
65: Taylor Moore, $185,000
66: Chris Kirk, $175,000
67: Harold Varner III, $175,000
68: Alex Noren, $175,000
69: Alex Smalley, $175,000
70: Wyndham Clark, $175,000
71: Anirban Lahiri, $140,000
72: Lee Hodges, $140,000
73: John Huh, $140,000
74: Brendon Todd, $140,000
75: Gary Woodland, $140,000
76: Beau Hossler, $140,000
77: Lanto Griffin, $140,000
78: Brandon Wu, $140,000
79: Matthew NeSmith, $140,000
80: Chad Ramey, $140,000
81: Adam Long, $140,000
82: Dylan Frittelli, $140,000
83: Ryan Palmer, $140,000
84: David Lipsky, $140,000
85: Adam Schenk, $140,000
86: Daniel Berger, $130,000
87: Joel Dahmen, $130,000
88: Aaron Rai, $130,000
89: Stephan Jaeger, $130,000
90: Patrick Rodgers, $130,000
91: Russell Knox, $130,000
92: Adam Svensson, $130,000
93: Kevin Streelman, $130,000
94: Mark Hubbard, $130,000
95: Peter Malnati, $130,000
96: Danny Lee, $130,000
97: Michael Thompson, $130,000
98: Hayden Buckley, $130,000
99: C.T. Pan, $130,000
100: Justin Rose, $130,000
101: Martin Laird, $120,000
102: Sam Ryder, $120,000
103: Vince Whaley, $120,000
104: Tyler Duncan, $120,000
105: Jhonattan Vegas, $120,000
106: Nate Lashley, $120,000
107: James Hahn, $120,000
108: Greyson Sigg, $120,000
109: Robert Streb, $120,000
110: Scott Piercy, $120,000
111: Callum Tarren, $120,000
112: Max McGreevy, $120,000
113: Chesson Hadley, $120,000
114: Nick Watney, $120,000
115: Jason Day, $120,000
116: Doug Ghim, $120,000
117: Stewart Cink, $120,000
118: Kevin Tway, $120,000
119: Ryan Brehm, $120,000
120: Matthias Schwab, $120,000
121: Patton Kizzire, $120,000
122: Webb Simpson, $120,000
123: Rickie Fowler, $120,000
124: Nick Taylor, $120,000
125: Kramer Hickok, $120,000
126: Matt Wallace, $85,000
127: Austin Smotherman, $85,000
128: Justin Lower, $85,000
129: Doc Redman, $85,000
130: Danny Willett, $85,000
131: Kelly Kraft, $85,000
132: Nick Hardy, $85,000
133: Cameron Champ, $85,000
134: Brian Stuard, $85,000
135: Michael Gligic, $85,000
136: Harry Higgs, $85,000
137: Francesco Molinari, $85,000
138: Martin Trainer, $85,000
139: Erik van Rooyen, $85,000
140: Zach Johnson, $85,000
141: Rory Sabbatini, $85,000
142: Hank Lebioda, $85,000
143: Cameron Percy, $85,000
144: Henrik Norlander, $85,000
145: Andrew Novak, $85,000
146: Garrick Higgo, $85,000
147: Brice Garnett, $85,000
148: Jonathan Byrd, $85,000
149: Austin Cook, $85,000
150: Charley Hoffman, $85,000