2026 Tour Championship: $40M Purse Breakdown
Get the Sports newsletter
Daily sports — scores, transfers, the storylines from the leagues you actually follow. Free.
- PGA Tour awards $40 million in total purse money at the 2026 Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, with the winner claiming $10 million — the largest single payout of the season.
- Scottie Scheffler's St. Jude Championship win and Wyndham Clark's BMW Championship victory both paid less than what the Tour Championship's third-place finisher alone will earn ($3.7 million); the top three spots pay $10M, $5M, and $3.7M respectively.
- The 2026 Tour Championship is the first without the staggered start format (and its associated staggered purse) and is described as the penultimate edition of the current FedEx Cup Playoffs postseason structure.
- Top eight finishers will each clear seven figures, the top 16 will break $500,000, and the 30th-place finisher earns a minimum payout of $355,000.
- Patrick Cantlay, Gary Woodland, and Robert MacIntyre clinched Tour Championship spots via their BMW Championship play, locking in at least $355,000 on top of their St. Louis earnings.
Why it matters: With $40 million on the line — including a $10 million top prize that dwarfs every other individual payout on the PGA Tour this season — the Tour Championship remains the FedEx Cup's financial centerpiece even as the staggered start format disappears. For the 30 players who qualified, merely finishing inside the top 8 guarantees a seven-figure payday while the last-place earner still takes home $355,000.
Ask SkimNews
