Five of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Fall Series events have smaller purses in 2024 than they did last year

While the money is down a tad, the perks are the same, including a two-year exemption for winning.

The 2024 FedEx Fall Series features eight tournaments over an 11-week span, and the main point of emphasis for most of the participants is securing status for the PGA Tour’s 2025 season. As it turns out, they’ll also be playing for slightly less money overall than a year ago.

Of the eight events in the Fall Series, one is new: the Black Desert Championship in Utah. Of the seven that are back from a year ago, one will have more money on the line, another will offer the same amount as last year and five will feature lower total purses and lower winner’s checks than they did in 2023.

While the money is down a tad, the perks are the same, according to the Tour:

Tournaments in the FedExCup Fall offer winners the same benefits as Regular Season events – including a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour, 500 FedExCup points and spots in the Players Championship, the Sentry and those major championships that invite PGA Tour winners.

Needless to say, there’s still quite a bit to play for.

Here’s a closer look at the fall 2024 events and the money.

Procore Championship

Tournament Total purse Winner First-place money
2023 Fortinet Championship $8.4 million Sahith Theegala $1.512 million
2024 Procore Championship $6 million Patton Kizzire $1.08 million

The lone fall event with a new name from a year ago was the Procore Championship, with its new title sponsor moving with lightning speed to get a deal done. Total purse in 2024 was $6 million – as compared to $8.4 million – and the first-place prize saw a drop of $432,000.

Sanderson Farms Championship

Tournament Total purse Winner First-place money
2023 Sanderson Farms Championship $8.2 million Luke List $1.376 million
2024 Sanderson Farms Championship $7.6 million TBD $1.368 million

Wayne Sanderson Farms’ run as a full partner with Jackson and its PGA Tour event has been a historic one. However, the 2024 Sanderson Farm Championship will be the last for the company as the title sponsor of the Jackson, Mississippi, stop. While its contract runs through 2026, the company decided in August to move on as the title sponsor, but remain as a major sponsor for the tournament, which is held at the Country Club of Jackson. The purse in 2024 is down $600,000 and the winner’s check is a slight $8,000 lighter from 2024.

Shriners Children’s Open

Tournament Total purse Winner First-place money
2023 Shriners Children’s Open $8.4 million Tom Kim $1.512 million
2024 Shriners Children’s Open $7 million TBD $1.26 million

Tom Kim won $1.44 million for winning at TPC Summerlin in 2022 and saw a check that was $72,000 larger for repeating in 2023. But if he three-peats in Vegas in 2024, his prize will be $252,000 smaller than a year ago.

Zozo Championship

Tournament Total purse Winner First-place money
2023 Zozo Championship $8.5 million Collin Morikawa $1.53 million
2024 Zozo Championship $8.5 million TBD $1.53 million

The Zozo Championship is holding steady with its total purse and first-place prize. Collin Morikawa, who won on the PGA Tour for the sixth time in this event in 2023, has committed to the tournament in 2024. Zozo’s six-year title sponsorship deal started in 2019 and despite the event being moved to California in 2020 due to travel restrictions from the COVID pandemic, the contract will run through the 2026 tournament.

World Wide Technology Championship

2023 World Wide Technology $8.2 million Erik van Rooyen $1.476 million
2024 World Wide Technology $7.2 million TBD $1.296 million

The PGA Tour returns to the Baja California Sur peninsula for a second time this fall. The Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas will host once again. This event will see the second-largest dip from first-place prize from – $180,000 – from a year ago.

Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Tournament Total purse Winner First-place money
2023 Butterfield Bermuda $6.5 million Camilo Villegas $1.17 million
2024 Butterfield Bermuda $6.9 million TBD $1.242 million

While the Zozo held firm, the event in Bermuda is going up with its money, the only increase among the fall events. The purse will go up $400,000 with the winner getting $72,000 more than a year ago.

RSM Classic

Tournament Total purse Winner First-place money
2023 RSM Classic $8.4 million Ludvig Aberg $1.512 million
2024 RSM Classic $8 million TBD $1.44 million

The finale of the fall campaign will see a slight dip in money, so if Ludvig Aberg were to win his second PGA Tour event in repeat style, he’d see a check $72,000 less than he did in 2023.

PGA Tour adds new event, the Myrtle Beach Classic, to its 2024 schedule

The host site of the Myrtle Beach Classic features one of the most extreme doglegs in tournament golf.

The PGA Tour announced Wednesday it will in 2024 launch a new full-field tournament, the Myrtle Beach Classic in South Carolina. An opposite-field event to be played the same week as one of the Tour’s designated events, the new tournament will be played at the Dunes Beach and Golf Club.

Visit Myrtle Beach will sponsor the new event and offer a purse of $3.9 million with 300 FedEx Cup points going to the winner. A four-year agreement was announced, but the dates of the event were not. The full 2024 Tour schedule is yet to be determined.

“We are thrilled to announce the debut of the Myrtle Beach Classic, an exciting new playing opportunity for our members in one of our country’s most recognized and visited destinations,” PGA Tour President Tyler Dennis said in a media release announcing the news. “With its incredible passion for golf, the Myrtle Beach community is a natural fit to bring this tournament to life. We look forward to partnering with Visit Myrtle Beach for a first-class tournament at a championship venue in Dunes Golf and Beach Club.”

The course at Dunes Golf and Beach Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., and nine holes (the back nine) opened in 1949. It was renovated by Jones’ son, Rees Jones, in 2013. It is ranked by Golfweek’s Best as the No. 4 public-access layout in the state, and it comes in at No. 143 on Golfweek’s Best list of all classic courses in the U.S. The course is best known for its brilliant, often elevated and tilted greens, many of which feature brisk runoffs in multiple directions, confounding players on approach shots.

The layout also features one of the most extreme examples of a dogleg in golf. The par-5 13th boomerangs around a lake, almost turning back on itself as it juts to the right. Jones Sr. called it one of his best examples of “heroic architecture,” and it will be interesting to see how Tour pros tackle the hole.

The club hosted the PGA Tour Champions’ season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship from 1994 to 1999, and it was the site of PGA Tour Q-School Finals in 1973, with Ben Crenshaw taking the medalist spot. Among other top-tier events and national championships, it also hosted the 1962 U.S. Women’s Open, won by Murle Lindstrom.

The Tour noted that the Myrtle Beach Classic will be one of its two stops in the Palmetto State in 2024, along with the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links, an event that made its debut in 1969.

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