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
| Position | Player | Total bonus | Deferred payment | Cash payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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: $195,000
- 56-60: $185,000
- 61-65: $180,000
- 66-70: $175,000
- 71-85: $145,000
- 86-100: $140,000
- 101-125: $100,000
