The Tour Championship now has the richest individual prize fund in golf with the PGA Tour making the FedExCup payoff count as official money for the first time.
—
OWINGSMILLS,Md.—TheTourChampionshipnowhastherichestindividualprizefundingolfwiththePGATourmakingtheFedExCuppayoffcountasofficialmoneyforthefirsttime.Thetotalpurseis$40million,with$10milliontothewinner.
SincetheFedExCupbeganin2007,thebonuspoolattheendoftheTourChampionshipwasunofficialmoney,withpartofitdeferred.
PrizemoneywaseliminatedattheTourChampionshipwhenthepostseasonwasreducedfromfourtothreetournamentsin2019,andtheFedExCupbonuspoolincreased.
Withtheintroductionthatyearof“startingstrokes”–theNo.1seedstartedat10-underparandhadatwo-shotleadovertheNo.2seed–whoeverwonthefinaleatEastLakewontheFedExCupandwascreditedwithaPGATourtitleforwinningtheTourChampionship.
Inachangethisyear,thestartingstrokeswereeliminated,andthetop30playerswhoreachtheTourChampionshipwillallstartfromscratchlikeanormaltournament.
APGATourspokespersonconfirme
