🏌️FedEx Cup: How $100M Was Distributed

Good Morning! Scottie Scheffler has won the FedEx Cup - he has now spent 50 weeks at No 1 in the FedEx Cup standings, the second-most of any player since the inception of the FedEx Cup in 2007 - Tiger Woods (85), Scottie Scheffler (50), Dustin Johnson (49).

Fun Fact: When all the bonuses are tallied, Scottie Scheffler will have won $829,710 for each PGA Tour round he played this season.

⛳ This day in history: The 1940 PGA Championship ended on this date. It was the 23rd PGA, held at Hershey Country Club in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was a meeting of titans: Byron Nelson won his first PGA, defeating Sam Snead, 1-up, in the 36-hole final, taking the Wanamaker Cup.

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Scheffler Wins FedEx Cup, Bags $25 Million

Scottie Scheffler is the 18th FedEx Cup champion.

After opening at 10-under with FedEx Cup Starting Strokes, Scheffler posted respective scores of 65, 66, 66 and 67 for 20-under across 72 holes. With all combined scores determining the leaderboard, his final score was 30-under, four strokes lower than runner-up Collin Morikawa.

It’s Scheffler’s seventh PGA TOUR title of 2024 and his eighth win of the year when looping in the men’s Olympic golf competition. Scheffler’s haul for winning the FedEx Cup is $25 million.

For the record, he’s already maxed out on other perks concerning eligibility into The Sentry, THE PLAYERS Championship, the majors and his PGA TOUR membership through 2029.

He also tallied his 13th PGA Tour victory, 931 days after recording his first, becoming the fastest to achieve the feat since 1960, beating out the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Johnny Miller.

Adding the $25M purse he earned winning the FedEx Cup, Scheffler pocketed $54.2M on the course this season, the most in golf. Furthermore, his career earnings sky-rocketed to $96.7M, the second-most all-time behind Woods ($120.9M).

💰 How Much Did The Players Earn? The largest prize fund ever established was dished out on Sunday at the 2024 Tour Championship as the entire PGA Tour season concluded at East Lake Golf Club.

The top 30 players from the PGA Tour vying for their slice of the $100 million FedEx Cup bonus pool - up $25 million from last year.

While Scheffler alone bagged more than $25 million, Xander Schauffele nearly clipped $20 million himself thanks to two major victories. Hideki Matsuyama, Wyndham Clark and Rory McIlroy round out those to earn more than eight figures in 2024.

A top-five finish guaranteed players at least a $5 million bonus, while those inside the top 12 all saw seven figures next to their names. Everyone in the field earned at least a half million dollars for qualifying for the Tour Championship.

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Spieth To Return In 2025 Following Successful Surgery

Jordan Spieth underwent successful surgery on his left wrist. Spieth opted for surgery after his season ended at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, where he failed to qualify for the top 50.

Spieth’s wrist issues date back to May 2023, when he injured it while playing with his son Sammy. He resisted surgery at the time, opting for a rest and recovery strategy, but it never fully healed.

Spieth felt better to begin 2024, but the pain grew as the season wore on. He nearly withdrew during the first round of the RBC Heritage in April after a tendon in his wrist “popped out” while hitting a greenside bunker shot.

The wrist continued to bother him in the latter stages of the season. He carded just three top-10s, a career-low, and missed eight cuts, a career-high in 2024.

Spieth will not play in any tournaments this fall, which includes the Presidents Cup. He is not currently exempt into The Sentry, the season-opening tournament - he's expected to make a return in mid 2025.

📌 Aberg Set To Undergo Surgery: Ludvig Aberg will have arthroscopic surgery this week to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee. The 24-year-old Swede, expects to be able to hit balls three to four weeks post-operation and is “likely to play again in 2024 on a limited schedule.”

Aberg withdrew from the Wells Fargo Championship back in May because of “left knee soreness.” He did not mention the surgery though in his pre-Tour Championship press conference at East Lake, where he went on to finish solo 16th out of 30 players.

Following his surgery, Aberg plans to play at the DP World Tour's events at Dubai and Abu Dhabi in November.

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What else is making news

LPGA Tour: Haeran Ryu topped Jin Young Ko in an all-South Korean playoff to win the inaugural FM Championship in Norton, Massachusetts.

DP World Tour: Niklas Norgaard held his nerve after botching three chip shots for a double bogey, finishing birdie-par for an even-par 72 and a two-shot victory in the British Masters.

Curtis Cup: Mimi Rhodes rallied from a 3-down deficit and holed an 18-foot par putt that secured the half-point Great Britain and Ireland needed to win the Curtis Cup against the Americans - its first time capturing the cup in eight years.

Woods*Nicklaus: Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, who are widely regarded as the greatest players in golf history, are being dragged into a controversial venture to build courses in Florida - click here to check out the details.

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How Theegala's Honesty Cost Him $2.5M

In the third round of the Tour Championship, Sahith Theegala called a penalty on himself, saying in his backswing from a bunker he brushed the sand, a violation of Rule 12.2b, testing the sand. It was imperceptible and the PGA Tour officials had no clue until Theegala called it out himself.

A PGA Tour official, reviewing the video after Theegala’s round, concurred that he had brushed the sand, a two-stroke penalty that cost him this much: $2.5 million.

He made $7.5 million for his third-place finish on Sunday, though with two fewer shots he'd have earned $10 million and tied Collin Morikawa for second place.

Theegala shot 67-66-66-64. Again, the third-round 66 was with the two-shot penalty added.

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