2020 Tour Championship: Payouts, prize money for East Lake
The rich definitely will get a great deal richer this week as the PGA Tour wraps up its big-bucks FedEx Cup playoff series with the Tour Championship. Play begins Friday at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta (tee times).
Along with the pride of winning the PGA Tour’s season title, the champion to be crowned on Labor Day will win $15 million from the $45 million purse to be split among 30 players. How big is the prize fund? Last place will be worth $395,000. That’s nearly $100,000 per round for finishing dead last.
Yes, the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings have played their way into this event, which will use a weighted scoring system in which points leader Dustin Johnson will start at 10 under par and two strokes ahead of No. 2 Jon Rahm. Just days after their showdown in the final round of the BMW Championship, they will be paired together in the anchor two-ball in Friday's first round.
Here is a look at the prize-money breakdown:
1st – $15 million
2nd – $5 million
3rd – $4 million
4th – $3 million
5th – $2.5 million
6th – $1.9 million
7th – $1.3 million
8th – $1.1 million
9th – $950,000
10th – $830,000
11th – $750,000
12th – $705,000
13th – $660,000
14th – $620,000
15th – $595,000
16th – $570,000
17th – $550,000
18th – $535,000
19th – $520,000
20th – $505,000
21st – $490,000
22nd – $478,000
23rd – $466,000
24th – $456,000
25th – $445,000
26th – $435,000
27th – $425,000
28th – $415,000
29th – $405,000
30th – $395,000
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