2021 FedEx Cup purse, payout: Tour Championship prize money distribution from $46 million playoff pool
Written by Luck Wilson on September 6, 2021
The 2021 Tour Championship concluded Sunday with Patrick Cantlay finishing one shot ahead of Jon Rahm to win the FedEx Cup Playoffs and capture the $15 million grand prize. Cantlay, who won the BMW Championship in a six-hole playoff over Bryson DeChambeau just last week, captured back-to-back events to end the 2020-21 PGA Tour season and is now the leader in the clubhouse for player of the year honors.
The figures up for grabs Sunday were startling. The winner of the Tour Championship, Cantlay, netted $15 million. If you make it to the final event at all, you’re guaranteed $395,000, even if you finish 30th or withdraw like Brooks Koepka. Everyone who made it to the BMW Championship was guaranteed at least $140,000. Heck, everyone who finished in the top 125 was guaranteed at least $101,000. And all of that is on top of what the tournaments themselves pay out. Add it all up, and FedEx is giving out $60 million in bonus funds to the best players in the world.
Here’s a breakdown of the prize money payouts for the top 30 golfers at the end of the Tour Championship. When Cantlay and Rahm were competing on the 72nd hole Sunday, there was a $10 million differential hanging on every shot they took.
FedEx Cup purse, prize money at Tour Championship
- 1st: $15 million — Patrick Cantlay
- 2nd: $5 million — Jon Rahm
- 3rd: $4 million — Kevin Na
- 4th: $3 million — Justin Thomas
- 5th: $2.5 million — Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland ($2.2 million each)
- 6th: $1.9 million
- 7th: $1.3 million — Bryson DeChambeau
- 8th: $1.1 million — Dustin Johnson
- 9th: $950,000 — Abraham Ancer, Billy Horschel ($890,000 each)
- 10th $830,000
- 11th: $750,000 — Daniel Berger, Tony Finau, Jason Kokrak ($705,000 each)
- 12th: $705,000
- 13th: $660,000
- 14th: $620,000 — Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, Cameron Smith, Louis Oosthuizen ($583,750 each)
- 15th: $595,000
- 16th: $570,000
- 17th: $550,000
- 18th: $535,000 — Harris English, Sam Burns ($527,500 each)
- 19th: $520,000
- 20th: $505,000 — Sungjae Im, Jordan Spieth ($497,500 each)
- 21st: $490,000
- 22nd: $478,000 — Erik van Rooyen, Corey Conners, Scottie Scheffler ($466,667 each)
- 23rd: $466,000
- 24th: $456,000
- 25th: $445,000 — Patrick Reed
- 26th: $435,000 — Hideki Matsuyama, Stewart Cink, Collin Morikawa ($425,000 each)
- 27th: $425,000
- 28th: $415,000
- 29th: $405,000 — Joaquin Niemann
- 30th / WD: $395,000 — Brooks Koepka
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