The 2026 PGA Tour season has just one tournament left: the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, which carries a $40 million purse distributed among the top 30 golfers in the FedEx Cup standings. However, big money is already being sent out at the onset of this week for FedEx Cup bonuses, which are being awarded after the BMW Championship for the first time.The winner of this week’s Tour Championship will also be crowned the FedEx Cup champion, a title Tommy Fleetwood is seeking to defend. As he proved last year, winning at the right time can turn a disappointing season into a FedEx Cup championship year, but as the PGA Tour also wanted to reward season-long excellence, it has created a $100 million bonus pool from which massive checks will be sent to those atop the FedEx Cup standings coming out of the year’s penultimate event.This is in addition to the $20 million purses that were on the line for the St. Jude Championship and BMW Championship, the first two legs of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. In total, $180 million will be awarded to the best golfers in the world over a three-week span. Scottie Scheffler once again enters the Tour Championship at No. 1 in the FedEx Cup standings, and for his consistency at the top all year, he earned a $23 million bonus — $22 million in cash and a $1 million deferred payment to his pension fund. The rest of the top 10 players in the FedEx Cup standings earned over $1 million combined in cash and deferred bonuses.
Wyndham Clark’s win over the weekend at the BMW Championship jumped him from fifth to third in the FedEx Cup, which not only earned him $3.6 million for the win in Bellerive but also increased his bonus payout from $5.4 million to $8 million. Below is the complete breakdown of how the FedEx Cup bonus pool is being distributed with deferred payments going to that player’s pension fund and cash payments being sent out immediately to those in the top 50. 2026 FedEx Cup bonus money, payoutsTotal pool: $100 million
PositionPlayerTotal bonusDeferred paymentCash payment1Scottie Scheffler$23 million$1,000,000$22,000,0002Matt Fitzpatrick$13 million$1,000,000$12,000,0003Wyndham Clark$8 million$1,000,000$7,000,0004Cameron Young$6.5 million$1,000,000$5,500,0005Si Woo Kim$5.4 million$1,000,000$4,400,0006Chris Gotterup$4.3 million$900,000$3,400,0007Collin Morikawa$3.3 million$800,000$2,500,0008Sam Burns$2.4 million$700,000$1,700,0009Tommy Fleetwood$1.65 million$600,000$1,050,00010Ludvig Åberg$1.31 million$550,000$760,00011Rory McIlroy$985,000$500,000$485,00012Xander Schauffele$885,000$475,000$410,00013Jacob Bridgeman$810,000$450,000$360,00014Russell Henley$765,000$435,000$320,00015Akshay Bhatia$710,000$420,000$290,00016Hideki Matsuyama$690,000$405,000$285,00017Ryan Gerard$670,000$390,000$280,00018Gary Woodland$650,000$375,000$275,00019Patrick Cantlay$630,000$360,000$270,00020Kristoffer Reitan$610,000$345,000$265,00021Min Woo Lee$590,000$330,000$260,00022J.J. Spaun$575,000$320,000$255,00023Alex Smalley$560,000$310,000$250,00024Alex Fitzpatrick$545,000$300,000$245,00025Robert MacIntyre$530,000$290,000$240,00026Viktor Hovland$515,000$280,000$235,00027Justin Rose$500,000$270,000$230,00028Adam Scott$485,000$260,000$225,00029Tom Kim$470,000$250,000$220,00030Ryan Fox$460,000$245,000$215,00031Kurt Kitayama$319,000$244,000$75,00032J.T. Poston$318,000$243,000$75,00033Rickie Fowler$317,000$242,000$75,00034Bud Cauley$316,000$241,000$75,00035Nicolai Højgaard$315,000$240,000$75,00036Alex Noren$314,000$239,000$75,00037Sungjae Im$313,000$238,000$75,00038Jake Knapp$312,000$237,000$75,00039Aaron Rai$311,000$236,000$75,00040Sepp Straka$310,000$235,000$75,00041Ben Griffin$284,000$234,000$50,00042Maverick McNealy$283,000$233,000$50,00043Justin Thomas$282,000$232,000$50,00044Michael Thorbjornsen$281,000$231,000$50,00045Nico Echavarría$280,000$230,000$50,00046Michael Brennan$279,000$229,000$50,00047Ryo Hisatsune$278,000$228,000$50,00048Sahith Theegala$277,000$227,000$50,00049Eric Cole$276,000$226,000$50,00050Matt McCarty$275,000$225,000$50,000Players from 51-125 each receive deferred payments into their pension funds without cash bonuses.51-55: $195,00056-60: $185,00061-65: $180,00066-70: $175,00071-85: $145,00086-100: $140,000101-125: $100,000
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