The 2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs will conclude this week with the Tour Championship, with the winner taking home a $25 million bonus prize.
That’s a $7 million increase from a year ago. In 2019, the first year under the current format, the first place prize was $15 million.
Any winnings earned this week will be considered bonus money and will not count towards a player’s earnings on the PGA TOUR’s official money list.
This year marks the 18th season of the playoffs. PGA Tour players have competed in 38 events and made it to the finals. The top 70 players in FedEx Cup points will advance to the 2024 postseason, with the top 50 advancing to the second week, and then only the top 30 players will make it to East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
Viktor Hovland won the 2023 Tour Championship.
How much prize money is at stake at the Tour Championship?
The winner of the Tour Championship will be declared the FedEx Cup champion and will receive a first-place prize of $25 million.
Runner-up will receive $12.5 million, third place will receive $7.5 million, and the top 30 places will each receive $550,000. The top 12 finishers will each receive seven-figure prizes. Let’s take a closer look.
Bonus Money Payments
Position Dividend Position Dividend 1 $25,000,000 16 $795,000 2 $12,500,000 17 $775,000 3 $7,400,000 18 $755,000 4 $6,000,000 19 $735,000 5 $7,000,000 20 $715,000 6 $3,500,000 21 $670,000 7 $2,750,000 22 $650,000 8 $2,250,000 23 $630,000 9 $2,000,000 24 $615,000 10 $1,750,000 25 $600,000 11 $1,075,000 26 $590,000 12 $1,025,000 27 $580,000 13 $975,000 28 $570,000 14 $925,000 29 $560,000 15 $885,000 30 $550,000
There will be a $100 million bonus prize pool awarded across the 2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs.
format
The PGA Tour will continue to use the FedEx Cup Starting Strokes, first implemented in 2019, a tiered system in which the top golfers start the Tour Championship at 10-under par.
Start of stroke
Starting Position Starting Score Golfer 1st Scottie Scheffler 10 under 2nd Xander Schauffele 8 under 3rd Hideki Matsuyama 7 under 4th Keegan Bradley 6 under 5th Ludvig Aberg 5 under 6th Rory McIlroy 4 under 7th Collin Morikawa 4 under 8th Wyndham Clark 4 under 9th Sam Burns 4 under 10th Patrick Cantlay 4 under 11th Sung-jae Lim 3 under 12th Sahith Teegala 3 under 13th Shane Lowry 3 under 14th Adam Scott 3 under 15th Tony Finau 3 under 16th Byung-hun Ahn 2 under 17th Viktor Hovland 2 under 18th Russell Henley 2 under 19th 2 under Akshay Bhatia 20th Robert MacIntyre 2 under 21st #1 under Billy Horschel #22 under Tommy Fleetwood #23 under Sepp Straka #24 under Mathieu Pavon #25 under Taylor Pendrith #26 tied for Chris Kirk #27 tied for Tom Hoge #28 tied for Aaron Lai #29 tied for Christiaan Bezuidenhout #30 tied for Justin Thomas
The system was established to reward players high on the points list with a starting advantage at the Tour Championship.
Only two multiple winners
The first 17 playoff seasons have produced 14 different winners.
Only two golfers have won the tournament multiple times: Rory McIlroy (2016, 2019, 2022) and Tiger Woods (2007, 2009).