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.

Presidents Cup teams heavily represented at PGA Tour’s 2024 Procore Championship

There will be 11 members of the two teams in all at the Silverado Resort.

The first event of the PGA Tour’s 2024 FedEx Fall is the newly renamed Procore Championship in Napa Valley, where both sides of the upcoming Presidents Cup will be heavily represented.

There will be 11 members of the two teams in all at the Silverado Resort, Sept. 12–15, including both team captains.

U.S. captain Jim Furyk will be on site and while he’s not playing, there will be plenty of strategizing between him and three of the guys on his roster: defending tournament champ Sahith Theegala, two-time event winner Max Homa and Wyndham Clark. In addition, two of Furyk’s assistant captains, Kevin Kisner and Stewart Cink, will be playing in the event.

Cink, who recently won his first PGA Tour Champions event, won in Napa in 2000 when it was called the Safeway Championship. It was later called the Fortinet Championship until this season. This year marks the 11th straight season Silverado has hosted a PGA Tour stop.

More: Meet the six Team USA 2024 Presidents Cup captain’s picks

On the International side, captain Mike Weir, one of only six International Team members with 10 or more wins in the Presidents Cup, will be playing as will one of his assistant captains, Camilo Villegas. Players on the International roster teeing it up in Napa are Min Woo Lee, Corey Conners and Mackenzie Hughes.

Other tournament commitments include Webb Simpson as well as Joel Dahmen and three rising stars in the game: Luke Clanton, the top-ranked amateur in the WAGR who posted three top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour in 2024; Neal Shipley, the low amateur at the Masters and the U.S. Open; and Wenyi Ding, formerly of Arizona State and the Pac-12’s Player of the Year last season. All three are playing as sponsor exemptions.

The full list of entries was released Friday evening.

https://twitter.com/PGATOURComms/status/1832163177557074319

The Procore Championship is the first of eight Fall Series events on the PGA Tour. It’s the last event before the Presidents Cup, to be held in Montreal, Canada, Sept. 24–29, at The Royal Montreal Golf Club.

ESPN+ to carry PGA Tour Live on Thursdays, Fridays only at fall 2023 U.S. events

For you live streamers and cord-cutters out there, your viewing options are being altered just a tad.

The FedEx Cup Fall is a unique one-off of seven tournaments, as the PGA Tour transitions from the wrap-around schedule to a return to a calendar-based format, with the 2024 campaign starting in January.

Of the seven events, four of them will be staged in the U.S.

That means for you live streamers and cord-cutters out there, your viewing options are being altered just a tad, as the streaming coverage of PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will only be on Thursdays and Fridays.

ESPN+ is the exclusive home of PGA Tour Live, and Front Office Sports reports that it’s the most watched content on the streaming platform. But while ESPN+ generally has its four-channel experiences for all four days of PGA Tour stops, it’ll only have the first and second rounds of those U.S.-based tournaments.

According to ESPN: “Coverage of the four fall events on PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will include one feed showcasing complete rounds of two Featured Groups in both the morning and afternoon waves on Thursday and Friday.”

Dates Tournament Course Coverage start time
Sept. 14-15 Fortinet Championship Silverado Resort
Napa, Calif.
10 a.m. ET
Oct. 5-6 Sanderson Farms Championship The Country Club of Jackson
Jackson, Miss.
8:30 a.m. ET
Oct. 12-13 Shriners Children’s Open TPC Summerlin
Las Vegas
9:30 a.m. ET
Nov. 16-17 RSM Classic Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
St. Simons Island, Ga.
9:30 a.m. ET

The Zozo Championship in Japan, the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico and the Butterfield Bermuda Championship will not have PGA Tour Live on ESPN+.

All seven of the fall events will have four rounds of live coverage of Golf Channel, which will be simulcast on NBC’s streaming service Peacock.

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