There's a lot of money on the line for the 30 PGA Tour players competing in the 2020 Tour Championship. The 2020 Tour Championship purse is $46 million because the results determine the payout of that money from the FedEx Cup bonus pool, which is $60 million.
You'll hear talk about how the winner of the FedEx Cup gets $15 million, and that's true. They do get $15 million. However, they don't get that $15 million paid to them right then and there. The winner of the Tour Championship gets $14 million in cash, with $1 million deferred into their PGA Tour pension account, which could grow into much more money than that considering how well it's managed.
The second-place finisher in the Tour Championship, and therefore the FedEx Cup, gets $5 million in total compensation, with $4 million in cash and $1 million deferred. It goes on like this, down the final Tour Championship leaderboard, all the way down to 30th place, who gets $190,000 in cash for the week and $205,000 in deferred compensation.
Again, getting to the Tour Championship is a tremendous financial boon for the players, but they don't get that money right away.
Tour Championship purse, winner's share, prize money payout
| POS | CASH | DEFERRED | |
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| 1 | $14,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $15,000,000 |
| 2 | $4,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
| 3 | $3,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $2,200,000 | $800,000 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $1,900,000 | $600,000 | $2,500,000 |
| 6 | $1,500,000 | $400,000 | $1,900,000 |
| 7 | $900,000 | $400,000 | $1,300,000 |
| 8 | $700,000 | $400,000 | $1,100,000 |
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| 9 | $550,000 | $400,000 | $950,000 |
| 10 | $430,000 | $400,000 | $830,000 |
| 11 | $350,000 | $400,000 | $750,000 |
| 12 | $325,000 | $380,000 | $705,000 |
| 13 | $300,000 | $360,000 | $660,000 |
| 14 | $280,000 | $340,000 | $620,000 |
| 15 | $270,000 | $325,000 | $595,000 |
| 16 | $260,000 | $310,000 | $570,000 |
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| 17 | $255,000 | $295,000 | $550,000 |
| 18 | $250,000 | $285,000 | $535,000 |
| 19 | $245,000 | $275,000 | $520,000 |
| 20 | $240,000 | $265,000 | $505,000 |
| 21 | $235,000 | $255,000 | $490,000 |
| 22 | $230,000 | $248,000 | $478,000 |
| 23 | $225,000 | $241,000 | $466,000 |
| 24 | $220,000 | $236,000 | $456,000 |
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| 25 | $215,000 | $230,000 | $445,000 |
| 26 | $210,000 | $225,000 | $435,000 |
| 27 | $205,000 | $220,000 | $425,000 |
| 28 | $200,000 | $215,000 | $415,000 |
| 29 | $195,000 | $210,000 | $405,000 |
| 30 | $190,000 | $205,000 | $395,000 |
