{"id":52780,"date":"2026-08-19T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52780\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:28:14","slug":"scheffler-extends-his-pga-tour-season-money-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52780\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler extends his PGA Tour season money lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 18, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The season-long race to see which players can earn the most cash on the PGA Tour is off and running. With more than $400 million in combined purses up for grabs in 2026, there&#8217;s plenty of money to go around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Scottie Scheffler concluded the 2025 season by leading the Tour with $27.7 million in winnings and after posting a win in the <a href=\"http:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/pga\/2026\/08\/16\/scottie-scheffler-wins-2026-fedex-st-jude-championship\/91331123007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening event of the FedEx Cup playoffs<\/a>, he&#8217;s well in front of the pack again. Last year, Scheffler was followed by Tommy Fleetwood ($18.5 million) and Rory McIlroy ($17 million). Here&#8217;s a look at where the top pros stand on the season money list as of August 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">PGA Tour 2026 Season Money Rankings: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/golf\/pga\/rankings?season=2026&amp;type=pga-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">See the full leaderboard here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2026 PGA Tour top 25 earners<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Earnings are accurate as of Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, at 6:02 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Explore how to live where you love to play <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (golf-re)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"http:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/golflife\/real-estate\/\">Access community guides, golf real estate insights, trusted agent connections, and content built for passionate golfers.<\/a>RankPlayerEarnings1Scottie Scheffler$20.5 million2Cameron Young$14.3 million3Matt Fitzpatrick$14.1 million4Wyndham Clark$10.6 million5Si Woo Kim$9.6 million6Sam Burns$8.7 million7Collin Morikawa$8.6 million8Rory McIlroy$8.5 million9Chris Gotterup$7.9 million10Jacob Bridgeman$7.7 million11Akshay Bhatia$7.5 million12Xander Schauffele$7.3 million13Tommy Fleetwood$7.0 million14Ludvig Aberg$6.8 million15Viktor Hovland$6.4 million16Kristoffer Reitan$6.2 million17Russell Henley$6.0 million18Ryan Gerard$6.0 million19J.T. Poston$5.8 million20Min Woo Lee$5.7 million21Hideki Matsuyama$5.5 million22Ryan Fox$5.5 million23Alex Smalley$5.1 million24Aaron Rai$5.1 million25Kurt Kitayama$5.0 million<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/stats\/detail\/110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">See the full PGA Tour career money list here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787138894_634_85613620007-bmwtrophies.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 18, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET The season-long race to see which players can earn the most cash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[58,208,59,819,820,1238,1302,65,1794,68,69,193,1239,1011,308,67,62],"class_list":["post-52780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-accessfree","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolf","tag-sstsngolf","tag-tagaaron-rai","tag-tagfedex-cup","tag-taggolf","tag-taggpi-629-automated-sports-story","tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpga-tour","tag-tagrory-mcilroy","tag-tagscottie-scheffler","tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52780","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=52780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}