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Scottie Scheffler Tops New FedEx Cup Bonus List With $18M Payday

The PGA Tour’s playoffs begin this week, but first, the top 10 players from the regular season are getting even bigger paydays than in recent years.

Sep 1, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Sep 1, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan presents Scottie Scheffler the FedEx Cup after winning the TOUR Championship golf tournament.
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The PGA Tour’s playoffs begin this week, but first—thanks to a new FedEx Cup bonus money structure—the top 10 players from the regular season are getting even bigger paydays than in recent years.

Scottie Scheffler leads the pack, pocketing $18 million from finishing first in the FedEx Cup standings at season’s end. Scheffler earned $10 million from the FedEx Cup’s new bonus money distribution system, and $8 million from the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 program that has been in place since 2024.

Rory McIlroy came in second, earning a combined $10 million ($4 million from FedEx Cup bonus and $6 million from Comcast), while Sepp Straka rounded out the top three, cashing $6 million ($1.2 million and $4.8 million).

Overall, $60 million in bonus money was distributed to the top 10 players at the end of the regular season ($20 million from the FedEx Cup and $40 million from the Comcast initiative).

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Last year, the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 paid out an equal $40 million, but there were no FedExCup bonuses at the end of the regular season. That is a new system that was implemented midseason after the Tour Championship altered its format, eliminating starting strokes from the playoff finale. 

More changes to the FedEx Cup are likely on the way in 2026, so the separate bonus payout programs this year could be consolidated into one next year.

This year’s FedEx Cup changes mean there will be another bonus payout following the second playoff event, the BMW Championship. The top 30 players in FedEx Cup standings at that point (the same 30 that advance to the Tour Championship) will split $22.93 million in bonus money, on top of the $20 million purses that are up for grabs at the first two playoff tournaments. 

At the Tour Championship, season-long FedEx Cup points go out the window, and a standard 72-hole stroke-play tournament will decide the FedEx Cup champion, who will win $10 million (down from $25 million in 2024), and the rest of the $40 million purse at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

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