{"id":55514,"date":"2026-08-24T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/55514\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:55:23","slug":"tour-championship-2026-pga-tour-prize-money-payouts-for-each-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/55514\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour Championship 2026 PGA Tour prize money payouts for each player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tour Championship 2026 PGA Tour prize money payouts for each player<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Updated Aug. 24, 2026, 11:19 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It&#8217;s time for the final event of the PGA Tour&#8217;s 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Tour Championship begins Thursday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, where Tommy Fleetwood is the defending champion. The field of 30 golfers will battle it out for the right to hoist the <a data-autotag=\"e13e5562-2c23-42c1-b3b8-d1f86ca9977b\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/golf\/pga\/fedex-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">FedEx Cup<\/a>. Whoever wins at East Lake will take home the trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For the winner, there&#8217;s also an eight-figure pay day on the line. The purse at the Tour Championship is the largest of the season at $40 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here&#8217;s a look at the purse and prize money payouts for the 2026 Tour Championship:<\/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\/1787604923_988_85709752007-usatsi-18945162.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/>Tour Championship 2026 prize money payoutsPositionEarnings1$10,000,0002$5,000,0003$3,750,0004$3,150,0005$2,550,0006$2,000,0007$1,450,0008$1,070,0009$900,00010$745,00011$700,00012$660,00013$625,00014$590,00015$560,00016$530,00017$500,00018$475,00019$460,00020$445,00021$430,00022$415,00023$400,00024$390,00025$380,00026$375,00027$370,00028$365,00029$360,00030$355,000Explore 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:7|\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><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/staff\/6040595002\/cameron-jourdan\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Jourdan<\/a>\u00a0is an assistant editor of Golfweek, covering college and amateur golf, the PGA Tour and plenty more. Follow Cameron on X\/Twitter (@Cam_Jourdan) or Instagram (@GolfweekJourdan).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 golfweek.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787604923_425_p.gif\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tour Championship 2026 PGA Tour prize money payouts for each player Updated Aug. 24, 2026, 11:19 a.m. ET&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,1278,531,59,1236,1237,20585,1302,65,1340,68,80,193,67,19317,62],"class_list":["post-55514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pga-championship","tag-accessfree","tag-ga","tag-pga-championship","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolfpga","tag-sstsnpga-tour","tag-tagatlanta","tag-tagfedex-cup","tag-taggolf","tag-taginstagram","tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpga-tour","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtour-championship","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55514","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=55514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}