Kevin C Cox

To the winner goes the spoils. But the spoils that come with winning this week’s Tour Championship for Viktor Hovland … well they’re the spectacular variety.

Try $18 million.

Yep, that’s the pay day the 25-year-old from Norway collected (after earning $3.6 million for his win last week at the BMW Championship) by closing with a Sunday 63 at East Lake Golf Club (after shooting a Sunday 61 for his win last week at the BMW) to claim a five-shot triumph over Xander Schauffele. Officially, the money on the line this week in Atlanta is not tournament prize money, but rather the payout for the $75 million FedEx Cup bonus pool that players are receiving for their finishes in the season-long points race. (No player’s career earnings increases as a result of their performance in the 2022-23 season finale.)

But that doesn’t mean the cash isn’t crazy. We’ve noted this in the past, but we think it’s worth repeating: For their entire PGA Tour careers, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, winners of 25 majors and 135 tour titles, earned a combined $7,595,888. The difference between finishing first and second this week alone is more than that ($11.5 million).

Here then is the prize money payout for each golfer in the final FedEx Cup standings after the conclusion of the Tour Championship. As with regular PGA Tour events, money is split equally among players if there are tied for different places in this last event of the 2022-23 PGA Tour season.

Win: 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
T-6: Tommy Fleetwood, -11, $2,000,000
T-6: Scottie Scheffler, -11, $2,000,000
T-6: Collin Morikawa, -11, $2,000,000
T-9: Sam Burns, -10, $990,000
T-9: Matt Fitzpatrick, -10, $990,000
T-9: Max Homa, -10, $990,000
T-9: Adam Schenk, -10, $990,000
T-9: Keegan Bradley, -10, $990,000
T-14: Russell Henley, -9, $780,000
T-14: Sepp Straka, -9, $780,000
T-16: Rickie Fowler, -8, $710,000
T-16: Tyrrell Hatton, -8, $710,000
T-18: Jon Rahm, -7, $670,000
T-18: Lucas Glover, -7, $670,000
T-20: Si Woo Kim, -6, $620,000
T-20: Tony Finau, -6, $620,000
T-20: Tom 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
T-29: Emiliano Grillo, +6, $505,000
T-29: Taylor Moore, +6, $505,000