offers $10 million to the
winner and that is a very big
motivator. Don’t feel too sorry
for theplayer that finishesdead
last in the Tour Championship
field though. He will receive
$135,000 in prize money and
an additional $175,000 in
FedEx Bonus Pool earnings.
$310,000 does tend to take
the sting out of finishing last.
Past winners of the $10
million FedEx Cup include,
Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh,
Jim Furyk, Bill Haas, Brant
Snedeker, Henrik Stenson,
Billy Horschel and Jordan
Spieth. Woods is the only
player to win the FedEx Cup
twice; he took home the $10
mil in 2007 and 2009.
Winning the $10 million
first-place check is fantastic,
but simply making the
top-30 is the goal of every
touring professional at the
start of each year. The four
tournaments
individually
offer an $8.5 million purse
with $1.485 million going to
each winner.
In addition, FedEx provides
a total bonus pool of $35
million to be split among the
top 150 golfers in descending
amounts down to $32,000
each, for numbers 126-150.
Add the $35 million bonus
pool to the $34 million total
purse available for the four
tournaments and FedEx
shells out $69 million every
September to the top 150
professionals on the PGA
Tour.
Merry Christmas boys!
For the players that failed to
make the FedEx Cup Playoffs
this year, not to worry. The
2016-17 PGA Tour season
begins with the Safeway
Classic immediately after the
Ryder Cup, October 13-16.
There’s always next year.
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