Tour Championship now offers a richest price with a 40 million dollars handbag

Owings Mills, MD. – The Tour championship now has the richest Golf Individual Prix Fund with the PGA Tour, which means that the Fedex Cup has the official money for the first time. The total bag is $ 40 million, with $ 10 million in the winner.

Since the start of the Fedex Cup in 2007, the bonus swimming pool at the end of the tour championship was unofficial money, with a delayed part.

The price was eliminated in the touring championship when the playoffs were reduced by four to three tournaments in 2019, and the FedEx Cup bonus pool increased.

With the introduction of this year of “starting strokes” – the seeded n ° 1 began 10 sous and had an advance of two strokes on the seeded n ° 2 – the one who won the final at East Lake won the Fedex Cup and was credited with a PGA Tour title for winning the Tour championship.

In a change this year, the starting blows have been eliminated, and the 30 best players who reach the Tour championship will all start from scratch as a normal tournament.

A spokesperson for the PGA Tour confirmed on Wednesday evening that the $ 40 million bonus swimming pool would now be official money in East Lake.

In another change, the $ 25 million for the Fedex Cup victory were distributed. Scottie Scheffler received $ 10 million for managing the Fedex Cup in the regular season, and he will get $ 5 million to be the head of N ° 1 after this week’s BMW championship. It’s always part of the bonus pool and will not be official money.

But now that the player with the lowest score has won the Tour – and the Fedex Cup championship – the $ 40 million reserved for the best 30 players will be official, with $ 10 million to the winner.

Scheffler runs the list of funds with $ 20,362,883. The champion of masters Rory McILroy ($ 16,156,418) and the US Open JJ SPAUN champion ($ 12,302,222) will now have a mathematical chance of exceeding Scheffler if they win at East Lake.

The East Lake finalist obtains $ 5 million in official money, while third place obtains $ 3,705,000. The last place obtains $ 355,000.

The last time East Lake had an official bag was $ 9 million in 2018, and Tiger Woods won $ 1.62 million. Justin Rose won the Fedex Cup without winning an event in the playoffs and obtained the $ 10 million bonus.

Patrick Cantlay was one of several players who loved the change far from the starting blows, and he said that winning the tour championship – even if a player was at n ° 30 – was always worthy of the Fedex Cup champion.

“I think that at this stage, if you have played a whole year and enter the Tour championship with the guys who played – the best guys who played the best all year round – and you beat them this week with everything on the line, it’s a huge success,” he said.