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, payouts
Total pool: $100 million
1
Scottie Scheffler
$23 million
$1,000,000
$22,000,000
2
Matt Fitzpatrick
$13 million
$1,000,000
$12,000,000
3
Wyndham Clark
$8 million
$1,000,000
$7,000,000
4
Cameron Young
$6.5 million
$1,000,000
$5,500,000
5
Si Woo Kim
$5.4 million
$1,000,000
$4,400,000
6
Chris Gotterup
$4.3 million
$900,000
$3,400,000
7
Collin Morikawa
$3.3 million
$800,000
$2,500,000
8
Sam Burns
$2.4 million
$700,000
$1,700,000
9
Tommy Fleetwood
$1.65 million
$600,000
$1,050,000
10
Ludvig Åberg
$1.31 million
$550,000
$760,000
11
Rory McIlroy
$985,000
$500,000
$485,000
12
Xander Schauffele
$885,000
$475,000
$410,000
13
Jacob Bridgeman
$810,000
$450,000
$360,000
14
Russell Henley
$765,000
$435,000
$320,000
15
Akshay Bhatia
$710,000
$420,000
$290,000
16
Hideki Matsuyama
$690,000
$405,000
$285,000
17
Ryan Gerard
$670,000
$390,000
$280,000
18
Gary Woodland
$650,000
$375,000
$275,000
19
Patrick Cantlay
$630,000
$360,000
$270,000
20
Kristoffer Reitan
$610,000
$345,000
$265,000
21
Min Woo Lee
$590,000
$330,000
$260,000
22
J.J. Spaun
$575,000
$320,000
$255,000
23
Alex Smalley
$560,000
$310,000
$250,000
24
Alex Fitzpatrick
$545,000
$300,000
$245,000
25
Robert MacIntyre
$530,000
$290,000
$240,000
26
Viktor Hovland
$515,000
$280,000
$235,000
27
Justin Rose
$500,000
$270,000
$230,000
28
Adam Scott
$485,000
$260,000
$225,000
29
Tom Kim
$470,000
$250,000
$220,000
30
Ryan Fox
$460,000
$245,000
$215,000
31
Kurt Kitayama
$319,000
$244,000
$75,000
32
J.T. Poston
$318,000
$243,000
$75,000
33
Rickie Fowler
$317,000
$242,000
$75,000
34
Bud Cauley
$316,000
$241,000
$75,000
35
Nicolai Højgaard
$315,000
$240,000
$75,000
36
Alex Noren
$314,000
$239,000
$75,000
37
Sungjae Im
$313,000
$238,000
$75,000
38
Jake Knapp
$312,000
$237,000
$75,000
39
Aaron Rai
$311,000
$236,000
$75,000
40
Sepp Straka
$310,000
$235,000
$75,000
41
Ben Griffin
$284,000
$234,000
$50,000
42
Maverick McNealy
$283,000
$233,000
$50,000
43
Justin Thomas
$282,000
$232,000
$50,000
44
Michael Thorbjornsen
$281,000
$231,000
$50,000
45
Nico Echavarría
$280,000
$230,000
$50,000
46
Michael Brennan
$279,000
$229,000
$50,000
47
Ryo Hisatsune
$278,000
$228,000
$50,000
48
Sahith Theegala
$277,000
$227,000
$50,000
49
Eric Cole
$276,000
$226,000
$50,000
50
Matt McCarty
$275,000
$225,000
$50,000
Players 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