DALLAS — The already-lucrative PGA Tour has seen an infusion of more cash in recent years, and Dallas golfer Scottie Scheffler seems intent on winning all of it.
Scheffler didn't play in this past week's Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., but he still pocketed $8 million. That's because, with the Tour's regular season schedule completed, Scheffler comfortably finished atop the Comcast Business TOUR Top 10 rankings, entitling him to the big bonus and pushing his 2024 earnings above $30 million.
The Comcast rankings are just an added sponsor name to the season-long FedEx Cup standings. Scheffler also won the Comcast bonus in 2022, when it was $4 million.
The FedEx Cup playoffs begin this week at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tenn., where Scheffler and the other top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings will tee it up.
Along with prize money for each of the next three FedEx Cup playoff tournaments, the FedEx Cup champion will earn $25 million. So Scheffler is in a prime position to win even more cash.
His stellar 2024 season earned him 5,993 FedEx Cup points, well ahead of second-place finisher Xander Schauffele's 4,057 points. And that's with Schauffele having a career year with major wins at the PGA Championship and the Open Championship.
Scheffler, however, was the more dominant player across a longer stretch, winning six titles on Tour, including the Masters. Then, earlier this month, he took home the gold medal at the Olympics, coming back from four shots in the final round.
Here's another nugget to show just how lucrative 2024 has been for Scheffler: Of the $50,090,000 potential earnings he could have won this year -- meaning, if he won every event he played -- he took home $28,148,691. That's a percentage of 56.20%. The next best percentage among Tour players is Schauffele, who at $15.8 million in earnings has won 28.94% of his potential money.
Along with the six wins on Tour, Scheffler finished 14 times in the top 10 (out of 16 events) and was runner-up twice.
The earnings have reflected both Scheffler's dominant season but also the large increase in prize money payouts on Tour over the last few seasons, as the competing LIV Golf League has upped the ante on player earnings. As surprising as it might sound, Scheffler already ranks seventh all-time in PGA Tour earnings, at just more than $70 million. He is only 28.
