The 2026 PGA Tour FedEx Cup bonus pool purse is set for $137.875 million, with the winner's share coming in at as much as $33,000,000 -- not the standard payout according to the PGA Tour's prize money distribution chart.
Going back to 2019 and the creation of the starting-strokes format in the Tour Championship, the payout of the FedEx Cup bonus pool was connected directly to the finish of the playoff finale and the three events preceding it. However, that changed in 2025, along with the format of the Tour Championship.
Now, the Tour Championship is a stand-alone tournament for the top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship. The tournament will effectively have a $40 million purse, which will be paid out to 30 players who qualify. The winner will get $10 million.
In 2026, the remainder of the FedEx Cup bonus pool will be fully decided at the end of the BMW Championship, marking a big change from the 2025 system. The FedEx Cup points leader at the end of the BMW Championship, Scottie Scheffler, will earn $23 million. All told, $22 million will come in cash and $1 million will be deferred into that player's PGA Tour pension account. The rest of the top 50 will earn bonus money based on their FedEx Cup standing at the end of that tournament, with a total of $87,425,000 decided at that point. The Comcast Business Tour Top 10 has ended as a payout to the top 10 players in the FedEx Cup at the end of the regular season.
In 2025, $43 million of the total pool was paid out before East Lake. The top 10 players in standings at the end of the regular season earned bonus money from a $20 million pool, including $10 million to the winner of the regular season, that was separate from the $40 million Comcast Business Tour Top 10. Then, after the BMW Championship, all 30 players who qualify for the Tour Championship were paid $22,930,000 in bonus money, with the FedEx Cup points leader at that time earning $5 million.
After the season ends at the Tour Championship, players who finish 51st through 125th in the points standings will earn a share of $10,450,000 million in bonus money that will be paid out as deferred compensation into their retirement fund.
The top 125 players in the final standings are paid part of the $100 million bonus pool, based on the points standings at the conclusion of the Wyndham Championship, for players who don't qualify for the playoffs, and the FedEx St. Jude Championship for players who finish 51st though 70th in points. Where players finish when they're knocked out of the season (either by not qualifying for the playoffs or in the playoffs themselves) is their finishing position.
Enter Golf News Net’s biggest-ever giveaway for a prize package worth more than $2,500!
The first two FedEx Cup playoff events -- the FedEx St. Jude Championship and the BMW Championship -- each have $20 million purses.
2026 FedEx Cup bonus pool, purse, winner's share, prize money payout
FedEx Cup bonus money after the BMW Championship
| POSITION | PLAYER | MONEY |
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| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | $23,000,000 |
| 2 | Matt Fitzpatrick | $13,000,000 |
| 3 | Wyndham Clark | $8,000,000 |
| 4 | Cameron Young | $6,500,000 |
| 5 | Si Woo Kim | $5,400,000 |
| 6 | Chris Gotterup | $4,300,000 |
| 7 | Collin Morikawa | $3,300,000 |
| 8 | Sam Burns | $2,400,000 |
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| 9 | Tommy Fleetwood | $1,650,000 |
| 10 | Ludvig Åberg | $1,310,000 |
| 11 | Rory McIlroy | $985,000 |
| 12 | Xander Schauffele | $885,000 |
| 13 | Jacob Bridgeman | $810,000 |
| 14 | Russell Henley | $755,000 |
| 15 | Akshay Bhatia | $710,000 |
| 16 | Hideki Matsuyama | $690,000 |
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| 17 | Ryan Gerard | $670,000 |
| 18 | Gary Woodland | $650,000 |
| 19 | Patrick Cantlay | $630,000 |
| 20 | Kristoffer Reitan | $610,000 |
| 21 | Min Woo Lee | $590,000 |
| 22 | J.J. Spaun | $575,000 |
| 23 | Alex Smalley | $560,000 |
| 24 | Alex Fitzpatrick | $545,000 |
| 25 | Robert MacIntyre | $530,000 |
| 26 | Viktor Hovland | $515,000 |
| 27 | Justin Rose | $500,000 |
| 28 | Adam Scott | $485,000 |
| 29 | Tom Kim | $470,000 |
| 30 | Ryan Fox | $460,000 |
| 31 | Kurt Kitayama | $319,000 |
| 32 | J.T. Poston | $318,000 |
| 33 | Rickie Fowler | $317,000 |
| 34 | Bud Cauley | $316,000 |
| 35 | Nicolai Højgaard | $315,000 |
| 36 | Alex Noren | $314,000 |
| 37 | Sungjae Im | $313,000 |
| 38 | Jake Knapp | $312,000 |
| 39 | Aaron Rai | $311,000 |
| 40 | Sepp Straka | $310,000 |
| 41 | Ben Griffin | $284,000 |
| 42 | Maverick McNealy | $283,000 |
| 43 | Justin Thomas | $282,000 |
| 44 | Michael Thorbjornsen | $281,000 |
| 45 | Nico Echavarria | $280,000 |
| 46 | Michael Brennan | $279,000 |
| 47 | Ryo Hisatsune | $278,000 |
| 48 | Sahith Theegala | $277,000 |
| 49 | Eric Cole | $276,000 |
| 50 | Matt McCarty | $275,000 |
Tour Championship purse
| POSITION | PLAYER | MONEY |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scottie Scheffler | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | Viktor Hovland | $5,000,000 |
| 3 | Ryan Gerard | $3,705,000 |
| T4 | Alex Fitzpatrick | $1,707,143 |
| T4 | Jacob Bridgeman | $1,707,143 |
| T4 | Min Woo Lee | $1,707,143 |
| T4 | Russell Henley | $1,707,143 |
| T4 | Rory McIlroy | $1,707,143 |
| T4 | Ludvig Åberg | $1,707,143 |
| T4 | Chris Gotterup | $1,707,143 |
| T11 | Tommy Fleetwood | $660,000 |
| T11 | Cameron Young | $660,000 |
| T11 | Adam Scott | $660,000 |
| T14 | Xander Schauffele | $536,250 |
| T14 | Tom Kim | $536,250 |
| T14 | Collin Morikawa | $536,250 |
| T14 | Si Woo Kim | $536,250 |
| T18 | Akshay Bhatia | $460,000 |
| T18 | Justin Rose | $460,000 |
| T18 | Sam Burns | $460,000 |
| T21 | Hideki Matsuyama | $408,750 |
| T21 | Patrick Cantlay | $408,750 |
| T21 | Wyndham Clark | $408,750 |
| T21 | Matt Fitzpatrick | $408,750 |
| 25 | Kristoffer Reitan | $380,000 |
| 26 | Ryan Fox | $375,000 |
| 27 | Alex Smalley | $370,000 |
| 28 | Robert MacIntyre | $365,000 |
| 29 | Gary Woodland | $360,000 |
| 30 | J.J. Spaun | $355,000 |
FedEx Cup bonus money for Nos. 51 and beyond
| POSITION | PLAYER | MONEY |
|---|---|---|
| 51 | Keith Mitchell | $195,000 |
| 52 | Jordan Spieth | $195,000 |
| 53 | Max Homa | $195,000 |
| 54 | Harris English | $195,000 |
| 55 | Pierceson Coody | $195,000 |
| 56 | Harry Hall | $185,000 |
| 57 | Sam Stevens | $185,000 |
| 58 | Sudarshan Yellamaraju | $185,000 |
| 59 | Corey Conners | $185,000 |
| 60 | Daniel Berger | $185,000 |
| 61 | Michael Kim | $180,000 |
| 62 | Shane Lowry | $180,000 |
| 63 | Nick Taylor | $180,000 |
| 64 | Patrick Rodgers | $180,000 |
| 65 | Brian Harman | $180,000 |
| 66 | Jordan Smith | $175,000 |
| 67 | Jackson Koivun | $175,000 |
| 68 | Aldrich Potgieter | $175,000 |
| 69 | Ricky Castillo | $175,000 |
| 70 | Matti Schmid | $175,000 |
| 71 | Steven Fisk | $145,000 |
| 72 | Beau Hossler | $145,000 |
| 73 | Matt Wallace | $145,000 |
| 74 | Keegan Bradley | $145,000 |
| 75 | Mac Meissner | $145,000 |
| 76 | Andrew Putnam | $145,000 |
| 77 | Davis Thompson | $145,000 |
| 78 | Johnny Keefer | $145,000 |
| 79 | Jackson Suber | $145,000 |
| 80 | Austin Smotherman | $145,000 |
| 81 | Tom Hoge | $145,000 |
| 82 | Jason Day | $145,000 |
| 83 | Stephan Jaeger | $145,000 |
| 84 | Andrew Novak | $145,000 |
| 85 | David Lipsky | $145,000 |
| 86 | Denny McCarthy | $140,000 |
| 87 | Brandt Snedeker | $140,000 |
| 88 | Zach Bauchou | $140,000 |
| 89 | Taylor Pendrith | $140,000 |
| 90 | Kevin Roy | $140,000 |
| 91 | Chandler Phillips | $140,000 |
| 92 | Kevin Yu | $140,000 |
| 93 | Doug Ghim | $140,000 |
| 94 | Brooks Koepka | $140,000 |
| 95 | John Parry | $140,000 |
| 96 | Ben Kohles | $140,000 |
| 97 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | $140,000 |
| 98 | Tony Finau | $140,000 |
| 99 | Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen | $140,000 |
| 100 | Billy Horschel | $140,000 |
| 101 | Lucas Glover | $100,000 |
| 102 | Taylor Moore | $100,000 |
| 103 | Max Greyserman | $100,000 |
| 104 | Kristoffer Ventura | $100,000 |
| 105 | A.J. Ewart | $100,000 |
| 106 | Lee Hodges | $100,000 |
| 107 | Rasmus Højgaard | $100,000 |
| 108 | Ben James | $100,000 |
| 109 | Emiliano Grillo | $100,000 |
| 110 | Chandler Blanchet | $100,000 |
| 111 | Davis Riley | $100,000 |
| 112 | Marco Penge | $100,000 |
| 113 | Rico Hoey | $100,000 |
| 114 | Seamus Power | $100,000 |
| 115 | Keita Nakajima | $100,000 |
| 116 | William Mouw | $100,000 |
| 117 | Zecheng Dou | $100,000 |
| 118 | Mackenzie Hughes | $100,000 |
| 119 | Mark Hubbard | $100,000 |
| 120 | Austin Eckroat | $100,000 |
| 121 | Joel Dahmen | $100,000 |
| 122 | Zac Blair | $100,000 |
| 123 | Max McGreevy | $100,000 |
| 124 | Adrien Dumont de Chassart | $100,000 |
| 125 | Jesper Svensson | $100,000 |
