We now officially have only 30 players left in the race for the FedEx Cup.
Keegan Bradley, who was the last player in the field this week, won by one stroke at the BMW Golf Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club in Colorado on Sunday. It not only moved him into fourth place in the FedEx Cup standings, but also earned him $3.6 million as part of his $20 million purse this week.
Like last week’s event that opened the three-tournament playoffs, the BMW Championship offered $20 million in prize money like the season-long highlight event. But with only 50 players on the field this week, most golfers won big money.
Hideki Matsuyama won the FedEx St. Jude Championship last week, earning $3.6 million in qualifying. It was Matsuyama’s second win on the tour this season after winning the Genesis Invitational in February, which earned him $4 million. Matsuyama withdrew from this week’s tournament with a back injury, though he was safely through to the Tour Championship.
Despite finishing the week one point off the bottom half of the leaderboard, Scotty Scheffler will enter the Tour Championship in first place. Scheffler, who has won six times this season, leads the FedEx Cup standings by more than 1,000 points. Xander Schauffele, who won the PGA Championship and the British Open this year, is securely in second place.
Here’s how much money Bradley and the rest of the racers made this week in the BMW Championship.
BMW Championship Finance Prizes, Payments
1. Keegan Bradley – $3.6 million
T2. Sam Burns, Ludwig Aberg, Adam Scott – $1.503 million
T5. Cam Davis, Tommy Fleetwood, Si Woo Kim, Xander Schoeffel – $728,750
T9. Chris Kirk, Alex Noren — $580,000
T11. Sungjae Im, Rory McIlroy — $500,000
T13. Tony Finau, Will Zalatoris, Ben Ahn, Shane Lowry, Patrick Cantlay, Tom Hogg, Seb Straka, Taylor Pendreth, Wyndham Clark — $344,111
T22. Corey Conners, Russell Henley, Brian Harman — $229,000
25. Brian Harman – $197,000
T26. Denny McCarthy, Viktor Hovland – $177,500
T28. Matt Fitzpatrick, Max Graiserman, Collin Morikawa — $160,000
T31. Thomas Detri, Nick Dunlap — $142,500
T33. Max Homa, Christian Bezuidenhout, Matteo Pavon, Jason Day, Scottie Scheffler, JT Poston – $119,667
T39. Justin Thomas, Stefan Jaeger — $102,000
T41. Davis Thompson, Adam Hadwin — $94,000
T43. Aaron Ray, Cameron Young — $86,000
45. Akshay Bhatia – $80,000
T46. Eric Cole, Austin Eckrodt — $74,000
48. Sahith Thegala – $70,000
Hideki Matsuyama and Robert McIntyre have both withdrawn from the BMW Championship due to lower back injuries, reducing the field to 48 players.
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