Viktor Hovland may not have managed to get a maiden Major title on his resumé in 2023, but the 25-year-old finished runner-up at the PGA Championship and was inside the top-20 at each of the other three majors and secured his eighth worldwide win at the Tour Championship at East Lake, taking with it the $18 million first prize, taking his fortnightly earnings to $21.6 million.
Xander Schauffele, who now has an outright win and two low-72-hole scores [albeit jointly with Hovland this year] at East Lake, will have to console himself with the $6.5 million runner-up prize, while U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, whose breakout year had already seen him earn almost seven times what he’d managed in his previous best year, added an additional $5 million to the kitty.
Rory McIlroy, who it had been feared would have to withdraw pre-tournament with a muscular back injury gets $4 million for soldiering on to the end and impressively taking fourth, while Scottie Scheffler, who had the opportunity to take on-course earnings to almost $40 million for the year had he made full use of pole position and gone on to win, will have to settle for a $2 million payout.
Here are the Tour Championship payouts in full….
| 1 | Viktor Hovland | -27 | $18,000,000 |
| 2 | Xander Schauffele | -22 | $6,500,000 |
| 3 | Wyndham Clark | -16 | $5,000,000 |
| 4 | Rory McIlroy | -14 | $4,000,000 |
| 5 | Patrick Cantlay | -13 | $3,000,000 |
| T6 | Collin Morikawa | -11 | $2,000,000 |
| T6 | Tommy Fleetwood | -11 | $2,000,000 |
| T6 | Scottie Scheffler | -11 | $2,000,000 |
| T9 | Adam Schenk | -10 | $990,000 |
| T9 | Keegan Bradley | -10 | $990,000 |
| T9 | Max Homa | -10 | $990,000 |
| T9 | Matt Fitzpatrick | -10 | $990,000 |
| T9 | Sam Burns | -10 | $990,000 |
| T14 | Russell Henley | -9 | $780,000 |
| T14 | Sepp Straka | -9 | $780,000 |
| T16 | Rickie Fowler | -8 | $710,000 |
| T16 | Tyrrell Hatton | -8 | $710,000 |
| T18 | Lucas Glover | -7 | $670,000 |
| T18 | Jon Rahm | -7 | $670,000 |
| T20 | Tony Finau | -6 | $620,000 |
| T20 | Tom Kim | -6 | $620,000 |
| T20 | Si Woo Kim | -6 | $620,000 |
| 23 | Brian Harman | -4 | $580,000 |
| 24 | Sungjae Im | -3 | $565,000 |
| 25 | Nick Taylor | -2 | $550,000 |
| 26 | Corey Conners | -1 | $540,000 |
| 27 | Jordan Spieth | 1 | $530,000 |
| 28 | Jason Day | 3 | $520,000 |
| T29 | Taylor Moore | 6 | $505,000 |
| T29 | Emiliano Grillo | 6 | $505,000 |
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