There are a lot of perks that come with winning on the PGA Tour.
Aside from the first-place prize money, which is 18 percent of the total purse during most weeks, a PGA Tour winner earns FedEx Cup points and entry into a number of big tournaments, including a pair of major championships.
Let's lay out all the benefits of winning on the PGA Tour.
Benefits a PGA Tour winner gets
- A PGA Tour win comes with a multi-season extension of playing privileges, aka a Tour card. For a regular PGA Tour event, a win means a two-season extension which starts after the current season. In The Players and the major championships, wins come with a five-year exemption. Winning the FedEx Cup also comes with a 5-year exemption.
- A PGA Tour win comes with first-place FedEx Cup points. At regular PGA Tour events, that's 500 FedEx Cup points. It's 300 points for an opposite-field event. It's 700 points for the Signature events and 750 points for major championships and The Players. In the FedEx Cup playoffs, the winner of the first two playoff events gets 2,000 points.
- A PGA Tour win in an event that isn't an opposite-field tournament gets a player into the next Masters Tournament.
- Winning the Zurich Classic does not get a player into the Masters Tournament.
- A PGA Tour win in any individual PGA Tour event, as well the Zurich Classic, gets a player into the PGA Championship.
- A PGA Tour win in any events get the winner into the next edition of The Players Championship, The Sentry, the Charles Schwab Challenge and the remaining Signature events of that season after their win.
However, winning on the PGA Tour does not guarantee a player a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs. A player has to finish in the top 70 in regular-season points to qualify for the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the opening event of the playoffs. Winners of opposite-field events on the PGA Tour have sometimes not qualified for the playoffs.
