An exhausted Sam Burns would’ve slept soundly on Sunday night. Hell, if he was stuck for a bed, he could’ve slept on a mattress made up of stacks of dollars bills after collecting the biggest cheque of his career at the WGC-Dell Match Play at Austin CC.
Burns steamrolled fellow American Cam Young 6&5 in the final and is now $3.5 million richer after coming out on top after five days of battle in a brilliant competition that’s sadly been dropped from the PGA TOUR schedule next year.
“This week is as mentally exhausting as it is physically,” Burns reflected. “I think after 10 holes this morning, my caddie, Travis, kind of gave me a good kick in the butt and said, ‘Come on man, let’s go, you got this’.
“And I really needed it at the time. Man, he was rock solid all week. I couldn’t have done it without him. I’m just so thankful that he was out there with me battling every step of the way and thankful that we were the last one standing.”
Indeed, Burns had 3.5 million reasons to be thankful. Here’s the breakdown of prize-money from the $20m event in Austin, including a fine consolation prize for those who failed to pick up a single point all week.
Win: Sam Burns, $3,500,000
2: Cameron Young, $2,200,000
3: Rory McIlroy, $1,420,000
4: Scottie Scheffler, $1,145,000
Beaten Quarterfinalists earned $770,000
Mackenzie Hughes
Jason Day
Xander Schauffele
Kurt Kitayama
Round of 16 – $365,000
Max Homa
Patrick Cantlay
Matt Kuchar
J.T. Poston
J.J. Spaun
Lucas Herbert
Andrew Putnam
Billy Horschel
Those not qualifying with two points each earned $219,909
Rickie Fowler
Brian Harman
Cam Davis
Ryan Fox
Si Woo Kim
Tony FInay
Adrian Meronk
Taylor Montgomery
Russell Henley
Corey Conners
Sungjae Im
1.5 points each earned $166,000
Davis Riley
Keegan Bradley
Collin Morikawa
1 point each earned $113,761
Tom Kim
Jon Rahm
Scott Stallings
Nick Taylor
Hideki Matsuyama
Kevin Kisner
Justin Suh
Aaron Wise
Harris English
Viktor Hovland
Victor Perez
Matt Fitzpatrick
Min Wo Lee
Sahith Theegala
Jordan Spieth
Shane Lowry
Seamus Power
Adam Scott
Adam Hadwin
Ben Griffin
Davis Thompson
Half point earned $74,857
Alex Noren
Keith Mitchell
Denny McCarthy
Chris Kirk
Adam Svensson
Tommy Fleetwood
Maverick McNealy
0 points consolation prize worth $67,500 each
K.H. Lee
Tom Hoge
Will Zalatoris
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Tyrrell Hatton
Sepp Straka
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