{"id":52685,"date":"2026-08-19T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52685\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:34:08","slug":"nearly-100-million-in-fedexcup-bonus-prize-money-is-on-the-line-at-the-bmw-championship-heres-how-its-handed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52685\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly $100 million in FedExCup bonus prize money is on the line at the BMW Championship. Here\u2019s how it\u2019s handed out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nearly $100 million up for grabs this week as the 2026 FedExCup Bonus Prize Money will be determined at the end of the BMW Championship (and that\u2019s not even counting the $20 million prize money payout for the tournament itself).<\/p>\n<p>Upon the conclusion of play Sunday at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, each golfer\u2019s position on the FedExCup points list will determine how much they earn, with the player finishing in the No. 1 spot getting $23 million.<\/p>\n<p>That player is already known. By virtue of winning last week\u2019s FedEx St. Jude Championship, Scottie Scheffler has built a 1,400-plus-point lead over Matt Fitzpatrick. With this week\u2019s winner receiving 750 FedEx Cup points, Scheffler is assured of finishing No. 1 no matter the outcome.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/golfdigestme.com\/bmw-championship-2026-how-to-watch-the-pga-tours-fedexcup-playoffs-in-the-uae\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: How to watch the PGA Tour\u2019s FedExCup playoffs in the UAE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Scheffler already earned $10 million for being No. 1 in FedExCup points at the end of the regular season. Plus, he took home $3.4 million for winning at TPC Southwind. Suffice it to say, the now 21-time tour winner has had a very profitable couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the FedEx Cup bonus pool prize money payout for each golfer in the top 50.<\/p>\n<p>Position: Bonus Money\/Deferred Money<\/p>\n<p>1: $22 million \/ $1 million<\/p>\n<p>2: $12 million \/ $1 million<\/p>\n<p>3: $7 million \/ $1 million<\/p>\n<p>4: $5.5 million \/ $1 million<\/p>\n<p>5: $4.4 million \/ $1 million<\/p>\n<p>6: $3.4 million \/ $900,000<\/p>\n<p>7: $2.5 million \/ $800,000<\/p>\n<p>8: $1.7 million \/ $700,000<\/p>\n<p>9: $1.05 million \/ $600,000<\/p>\n<p>10: $760,000 \/ $550,000<\/p>\n<p>11: $485,000 \/ $500,000<\/p>\n<p>12: $410,000 \/ $475,000<\/p>\n<p>13: $360,000 \/ $450,000<\/p>\n<p>14: $320,000 \/ $435,000<\/p>\n<p>15: $290,000 \/ $420,000<\/p>\n<p>16: $285,000 \/ $405,000<\/p>\n<p>17: $280,000 \/ $390,000<\/p>\n<p>18: $275,000 \/ $375,000<\/p>\n<p>19: $270,000 \/ $360,000<\/p>\n<p>20: $265,000 \/ $345,000<\/p>\n<p>21: $260,000 \/ $330,000<\/p>\n<p>22: $255,000 \/ $320,000<\/p>\n<p>23: $250,000 \/ $310,000<\/p>\n<p>24: $245,000 \/ $300,000<\/p>\n<p>25: $240,000 \/ $290,000<\/p>\n<p>26: $235,000 \/ $280,000<\/p>\n<p>27: $230,000 \/ $270,000<\/p>\n<p>28: $225,000 \/ $260,000<\/p>\n<p>29: $220,000 \/ $250,000<\/p>\n<p>30: $215,000 \/ $245,000<\/p>\n<p>31: $75,000 \/ $244,000<\/p>\n<p>32: $75,000 \/ $243,000<\/p>\n<p>33: $75,000 \/ $242,000<\/p>\n<p>34: $75,000 \/ $241,000<\/p>\n<p>35: $75,000 \/ $240,000<\/p>\n<p>36: $75,000 \/ $239,000<\/p>\n<p>37: $75,000 \/ $238,000<\/p>\n<p>38: $75,000 \/ $237,000<\/p>\n<p>39: $75,000 \/ $236,000<\/p>\n<p>40: $75,000 \/ $235,000<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/golfdigestme.com\/bmw-championship-2026-how-to-watch-the-pga-tours-fedexcup-playoffs-in-the-uae\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: How to watch the PGA Tour\u2019s FedExCup playoffs in the UAE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>41: $50,000 \/ $234,000<\/p>\n<p>42: $50,000 \/ $233,000<\/p>\n<p>43: $50,000 \/ $232,000<\/p>\n<p>44: $50,000 \/ $231,000<\/p>\n<p>45: $50,000 \/ $230,000<\/p>\n<p>46: $50,000 \/ $229,000<\/p>\n<p>47: $50,000 \/ $228,000<\/p>\n<p>48: $50,000 \/ $227,000<\/p>\n<p>49: $50,000 \/ $226,000<\/p>\n<p>50: $50,000 \/ $225,000<\/p>\n<p>51-55: $195,000<\/p>\n<p>56-60: $185,000<\/p>\n<p>61-65: $180,000<\/p>\n<p>66-70: $175,000<\/p>\n<p>71-85: $145,000<\/p>\n<p>86-100: $140,000<\/p>\n<p>101-125: $100,000<\/p>\n<p>Follow Golf Digest Middle East on social media<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/golfdigestme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfDigestME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GolfDigestME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@GolfDigestME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Image: Ryan Young\/PGA Tour<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s nearly $100 million up for grabs this week as the 2026 FedExCup Bonus Prize Money will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1443,2912,704],"class_list":["post-52685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bmw-championship","tag-bmw-championship","tag-fedexcup","tag-prize-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}