Insert the voice of former .
Playoffs? Don’t talk about playoffs. Are you kidding me? Playoffs?
Yes, we’re only midway through August and only have three events remaining in the PGA Tour season. Up first, the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind for the first top of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The top 70 in regular-season points are here in muggy Tennessee with the top 50 advancing next week to the BMW Championship at Castle Pines in Colorado.
The unquestionable No. 1 player in the world, Scottie Scheffler, is looking for his seventh PGA Tour win of the season, or the eighth overall after capturing the gold medal two weeks ago at the Paris Olympics. Although to say he’s not a fan of how the season ends on his tour would be an understatement.
“It's quoted as the season-long race, but at the end of the day it really all comes down to East Lake,” Scheffler said earlier in the week. “I talked about it the last few years. I think it's silly. You can't call it a season-long race and have it come down to one tournament.”
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He’ll still has some work to do over the next few weeks to cap off his dominating year. Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Aberg, Sahith Theegala, Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im and Shane Lowry round out the top 10 in the standings.
The overall purse this week is $20 million with the winner taking home $3.6 million for his victory.
Viktor Hovland is the defending FedEx Cup champion but is well down the rankings at No. 57. He’ll have to play well this week at TPC Southwind in order to advance to Round 2 of the playoffs next week.
Here’s the complete rundown of what each player will earn this week. Check back here shortly after play is complete on Sunday for updates.
WIN: $3.6 million
2: $2.16 million
3: $1.36 million
4: $960,000
5: $800,000
6: $720,000
7: $670,000
8: $620,000
9: $580,000
10: $540,000
11: $500,000
12: $460,000
13: $420,000
14: $380,000
15: $360,000
16: $340,000
17: $320,000
18: $300,000
19: $280,000
20: $260,000
21: $240,000
22: $224,000
23: $208,000
24: $192,000
25: $176,000
26: $160,000
27: $154,000
28: $148,000
29: $142,000
30: $136,000
31: $130,000
32: $124,000
33: $118,000
34: $113,000
35: $108,000
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36: $103,000
37: $98,000
38: $94,000
39: $90,000
40: $86,000
41: $82,000
42: $78,000
43: $74,000
44: $70,000
45: $66,000
46: $62,000
47: $58,000
48: $54,800
49: $52,000
50: $50,400
51: $49,200
52: $48,000
53: $47,200
54: $46,400
55: $46,000
56: $45,600
57: $45,200
58: $44,800
59: $44,400
60: $44,000
61: $43,600
62: $43,200
63: $42,800
64: $42,400
65: $42,000
66: $41,600
67: $41,200
68: $40,800
69: $40,400
70: $40,000