It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask this week’s winner, Sahith Theegala.

In the first of seven FedEx Cup Fall events, Theegala, the 25-year-old second-year Tour pro from California, captured the 2023 Fortinet Championship at Silverado Resort’s North Course to win for the first time on the PGA Tour. Theegala finished at 21 under in Napa, California.

The victory earned Theegala $1.512 million.

Rookie S.H. Kim finished solo second and takes home $915,600. Justin Thomas finished solo fifth and earned $344,400.

Check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2023 Fortinet Championship at Silverado Resort’s North Course.

Fortinet Championship prize money

It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask this week’s winner, Viktor Hovland.

The 25-year-old shot a 7-under 63 on Sunday to win the 2023 Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta to also claim the FedEx Cup at 27 under.

For his efforts, Hovland will leave with top prize of $18 million from the lucrative $75 million season-ending event, while Xander Schauffele will take home a $6.5 million consolation prize for finishing runner-up at 22 under.

In total eight players cleared more than $1 million from this week’s event, including third-place finisher Wyndham Clark (16 under, $5 million), Rory McIlroy in fourth (14 under, $4 million) and Patrick Cantlay (13 under, $3 million) in fifth. Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood and Scottie Scheffler each earned $2 million for finishing 16 shots back, T-6 at 11 under.

Check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2023 Tour Championship at East Lake.

Tour Championship prize money

Seven years ago, Jordan Spieth had a season for the ages, winning five times, including a pair of majors. In fact, his finishes in the 2015 majors were 1, 1, 4, T2.

Spieth cleared $12 million in earnings, the first PGA Tour golfer to break that mark.

My how times have changed.

Thanks to an influx of money in the designated (now signature) events, along with the Big Four (PGA Championship, Masters, U.S. Open, British Open) upping their purses, the oversized checks they hand out are now humongous.

And Scottie Scheffler is cashing in.

A year after setting the Tour’s single-season record at $14 million, Scheffler set a new high-water mark at $21 million. He made $21,014,342 to be exact. The easy-going Texan was 22-for-22 in cuts made, posted 16 top 10s and had two wins, at the WM Phoenix Open (good for $3.6 million) and the Players Championship (where he won $4.5 million, the biggest payday on the PGA Tour).

It’s not just Scheffler counting zeroes on his bank account. Jon Rahm was second on the 2022-23 money list at $16.5 million. Viktor Hovland was third at $14.1 million and Rory McIlroy was fourth with $13.9 million. All four guys broke Spieth’s 2015 money mark.

Another three surpassed $10 million in earnings: Wyndham Clark ($10.7), Max Homa ($10.5) and Patrick Cantlay ($10.3).

Denny McCarthy was 20th on the money list this season and he made $6.4 million. Justin Thomas was 50th on the list and he earned $3.2 million. Callum Tarren checks in at No. 100. He made $1.3 million.

The Tour average was $2,146,002 and 76 golfers beat the average. There were 124 golfers who earned more than $1 million during the 2022-23 season.

Even Tiger Woods shows up on the money list. He’s 220th, having made $59,560 for his tie for 45th in February at the Genesis Invitational.

There can be a lot of money won playing professional tournament golf, especially on the PGA Tour and especially in the last two decades. And especially in the last two seasons.

Prize money has exploded on the circuit thanks to the signature events and the majors boosting their purses.

Because of the influx of cash, four of the top five single-seasons for money earned happened during the 2022-23 season.

Note: This list does not count bonus money nor does it account for money earned on the DP World Tour.

It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask this week’s winner, Viktor Hovland.

The 25-year-old shot a career-low 9-under 61 on Sunday to win the 2023 BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Golf Club in Illinois. Hovland made seven birdies on the back nine to beat Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick by two shots at 17 under for his fifth PGA Tour win and second of the season.

For his efforts, Hovland will leave with top prize of $3.6 million while Scheffler and Fitzpatrick will each take home $1.76 million.

Check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2023 BMW Championship at Olympia Fields.

BMW Championship prize money

The 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs conclude this week at the Tour Championship, where the winner will take home $18 million (before taxes) in bonus money.

This year marks the 17th season of the playoffs. PGA Tour players battled through 46 events to get to the finale.

The top 70 in the FedEx Cup points made the postseason with the top 50 advancing to Week 2 and then just the top 30 reaching East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

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Rory McIlroy became the first three-time winner of the FedEx Cup when he rallied from six shots back a year ago to track down Scottie Scheffler.

The money

The winner of the Tour Championship is declared the FedEx Cup champion and takes home the first-place prize of $18 million in bonus money. The runner-up gets $6.5 million, with third place earning $5 million, all the way down to 30th place, which is good for $500,000.

Bonus money payouts

There is a total of $75 million in bonus money up for grabs at East Lake.

The format

The PGA Tour will continue to utilize the FedEx Cup Starting Strokes, which was introduced for the first time in 2019. It’s a staggered system whereby the golfer in the top position will start the Tour Championship at 10 under.

Starting strokes

This system was established to give players at the top of the points list the reward of a starting advantage in the Tour Championship.

Only two multiple winners

The first 16 seasons of the playoff produced 13 different winners with McIlroy (2016, 2019, 2022) and Tiger Woods (2007, 2009) the only golfers to win it more than once.

It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask this week’s winner, Lucas Glover.

The 43-year-old claimed last week’s Wyndham Championship and followed suit with another victory this week at the 2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis. Glover beat Patrick Cantlay in a playoff for the sixth win of his career on Tour and took home the top prize of $3.6 million.

For his efforts, Cantlay will leave with $2.16 million while Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood, who finished T-3 at 14 under, will each take home $1.16 million.

Check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind.

FedEx St. Jude Championship prize money

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Wyndham Championship winner Lucas Glover surpassed $30 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour on Sunday.

It might be small consolation after making bogey on his final three holes to lose the lead and finish T-2, but Russell Henley, along with Harris English, who finished T-35, became the 26th and 27th players to cross the $5 million mark in earnings this season during the FedEx Cup regular-season finale.

Glover banked $1.368 million from the total purse of $7.6 million.

Scotte Scheffler, who took the week off, still leads the money list with a single-season record of $19,138,342, the highest single-season mark of all time. The top five on the money list behind him — Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Wyndham Clark and Viktor Hovland — have all earned more than $10 million to date.

Here’s a closer look at how much each player earned this week for four days of work at Sedgefield Country Club.

It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask this week’s winner, Lee Hodges.

The 28-year-old won the 2023 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota for his first-ever PGA Tour victory on Sunday. Hodges shot a 4-under 67 in the final round to finish at 24 under, seven shots clear of Martin Laird, Kevin Streelman and J.T. Poston, who all finished T-2 at 17 under.

For his efforts, Hodges will take home the top prize of $1.4 million, while Laird, Streelman and Poston each earned $590,200,

Check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2023 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities.

2023 3M Open prize money

It seemed like Akshay Bhatia was primed to break through on the PGA Tour and Sunday evening, he finally did.

Bhatia claimed the 2023 Barracuda Championship, the final opposite-field event of the PGA Tour season, in a playoff. The tournament is the only one on Tour to use the Modified Stableford scoring system, so the more points the better in this event.

The first-place check at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood course in Truckee, California, was $684,000.

Take a closer look at the full prize money payouts from the 2023 Barracuda Championship.