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2024 Barracuda Championship prize money payouts for each PGA Tour player

It’s the fifth and final opposite-field event on the PGA Tour’s 2024 schedule.

It’s the fifth and final opposite-field event on the PGA Tour’s 2024 schedule.

But the money still spends. There was a $4 million purse and a $720,000 first-place prize on the line at the Old Greenwood course at Tahoe Mountain Club at the 2024 Barracuda Championship.

The lone Modified Stableford scoring system event of the season rewards aggressive play and Nick Dunlap, who had seven birdies and an eagle Sunday, was the most rewarded this week.

Dunlap won for the second time on the PGA Tour this season after scoring 19 points in the final round for a four-day total of 49 points.

Here’s the complete look at the money won at the 2024 Barracuda Championship.

Pos. Player Score Earnings
1 Nick Dunlap 49 $720,000
2 Vince Whaley 47 $436,000
3 Patrick Fishburn 46 $276,000
4 Mac Meissner 44 $196,000
T5 Taylor Pendrith 43 $154,500
T5 Patrick Rodgers 43 $154,500
7 Hayden Buckley 41 $135,000
T8 Patton Kizzire 40 $117,000
T8 Charley Hoffman 40 $117,000
T8 Rico Hoey 40 $117,000
T11 Henrik Norlander 39 $97,000
T11 Justin Suh 39 $97,000
T13 Lukas Nemecz 38 $76,000
T13 Jayden Schaper 38 $76,000
T13 Chad Ramey 38 $76,000
T13 Max Greyserman 38 $76,000
T17 Mark Hubbard 37 $59,000
T17 Mitchell Schow 37 $59,000
T17 Kevin Chappell 37 $59,000
T17 S.H. Kim 37 $59,000
T21 Andrew Putnam 36 $45,267
T21 Martin Laird 36 $45,267
T21 Paul Waring 36 $45,267
T24 Jake Knapp 35 $33,400
T24 Chesson Hadley 35 $33,400
T24 S.Y. Noh 35 $33,400
T24 Michael Kim 35 $33,400
T24 Marcus Armitage 35 $33,400
T29 Sam Stevens 34 $26,800
T29 Adrien Saddier 34 $26,800
T29 J.J. Spaun 34 $26,800
T29 Chan Kim 34 $26,800
T33 MJ Daffue 33 $21,800
T33 Todd Clements 33 $21,800
T33 Alex Smalley 33 $21,800
T33 Sean O’Hair 33 $21,800
T33 Casey Jarvis 33 $21,800
T38 Nate Lashley 32 $18,600
T38 Sam Ryder 32 $18,600
T40 Neal Shipley 31 $16,600
T40 Lanto Griffin 31 $16,600
T40 Ben Silverman 31 $16,600
T40 Ian Gilligan (a) 31 $0
T44 Maximilian Kieffer 30 $13,400
T44 Joseph Bramlett 30 $13,400
T44 Chez Reavie 30 $13,400
T44 Oliver Wilson 30 $13,400
T44 Maximilian Rottluff 30 $13,400
49 Will Gordon 29 $11,160
T50 Ben Taylor 28 $10,440
T50 Cameron Champ 28 $10,440
52 Robby Shelton 27 $10,040
T53 Alejandro Tosti 25 $9,640
T53 Hurly Long 25 $9,640
T53 Chase Hanna 25 $9,640
56 Ryan Brehm 24 $9,400
T57 Matti Schmid 23 $9,240
T57 Sam Bairstow 23 $9,240
T57 Santiago Tarrio 23 $9,240
60 Espen Kofstad 22 $9,080
T61 Michael Thorbjornsen 21 $8,960
T61 Scott Piercy 21 $8,960
63 Nick Watney 18 $8,840
64 Scott Gutschewski 16 $8,760
65 Peter Malnati 14 $8,680

Nick Dunlap, still just 20, wins 2024 Barracuda Championship for second PGA Tour title

This time, Dunlap gets to cash the winner’s check.

Nick Dunlap has won again on the PGA Tour but this time, he gets to cash the winner’s check.

Dunlap scored 19 points in Sunday’s final round of the Barracuda Championship, the fifth and final opposite-field event on the PGA Tour’s 2024 schedule and also the lone event that uses the Modified Stableford scoring system.

Dunlaps’s day matched the highest single-day scoring mark of the week at the Old Greenwood course at Tahoe Mountain Club. His Sunday scorecard featured seven birdies (worth two points) and an eagle (worth five) and would’ve added up to a 62 it it were a stroke-play event.

His eagle came courtesy of a 55-foot bomb on the par-5 15th.

Dunlap vaulted up the leaderboard to finish with 49 points. He then had to play the waiting game to see if third-round leader Mac Meissner or anyone else could catch up. But no one could and Dunlap, who doesn’t turn 21 until December 23, collected a second piece of hardware this year.

Dunlap won the American Express in January to become the first amateur since Phil Mickelson in 1991 to win on Tour as an amateur. His amateur status, though, kept him from collecting the top prize of $1.512 million. Dunlap turned pro shortly after that and now has a second Tour win on his resume. His win this time around is good for $720,000.

He’s the first golfer in PGA Tour history win as both an amateur and a pro in the same season.

As he awaited the trophy ceremony, a camera captured a phone conversation Dunlap had with his mom, who insisted she’s not missing his next tournament.

Dunlap, who was No. 95 on the FedEx Cup points list heading into the Barracuda, has shot up to 63rd, which, if it holds, would put him into the FedEx Cup Playoffs in his rookie season. The top 70 make the field at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.

Where’s the Beef? Andrew Johnston is chasing a comeback nearly 5,000 miles away from the site of ‘the best week of my golfing career’

“Is it OK if I call you ‘Beef?’ ” one asks. “I’d be offended if you didn’t.”

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TROON, Scotland – Eight years ago, the last time the British Open was held at Royal Troon, Andrew Johnston was the media darling of the championship.

“You want to pick me up?” Johnston joked to a reporter who asked about his weight during a media session that week.

Of the pizza he pounded after the first round, he said, “It wasn’t like a 20-inch, ‘Win a T-shirt if you finish it’ type of thing.”

Henrik Stenson may have won the Claret Jug but the jovial Johnston, known since childhood as Beef, won the hearts and minds of golf fans everywhere, finishing eighth after a final-round 68 and entered the top 100 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time at No. 89.

“The best week of my golfing career,” he said this week.

Reporter Nick Lozito, who interviewed Johnston before the tournament and wrote a piece worth your time on his Substack, shared that Johnston recently stumbled on an Instagram reel from that week at Troon. It showed his entrance under the first-tee grandstands to chants of “Beef! Beef! Beef!”

“That was an amazing experience,” Johnston told Lozito. “I’m still pretty speechless. Everywhere I’ve gone since, all over the world — America, all throughout Europe, Australia, South Africa — the fans and crowds have been amazing.”

This week, the 35-year-old Englishman is a continent and nearly 5,000 miles away from the 152nd Open and trying to resurrect his career. He’s playing his trade in Truckee, California, competing in a co-sanctioned event for the PGA Tour and DP World Tour at the Barracuda Championship. After spending one season on the PGA Tour in 2017-18, he failed to keep his card and then suffered a thumb injury that required multiple surgeries and sidelined him for most of 2021-22. That sent his world ranking plummeting to No. 1,932 late in 2023.

“I didn’t know if I’d ever play golf again,” Johnston said late last year. When he finally returned, he withdrew from a tournament in South Africa citing a back injury.

According to Lozito, Johnston played with childhood friend Jess McAvoy, who caddied for him earlier in his career, at North Middlesex, their home course in London, a few months later, and convinced him to leave his job and caddie for him once again.

Andrew Johnston is 13 under through 36 holes at the Albertsons Boise Open.
Englishman Andrew Johnston slaps hands with a fan at the Albertsons Boise Open. He earned his PGA Tour card through the Korn Ferry Tour Finals in 2017.

Johnston returned to the DP World Tour in June and missed his first two cuts. His play improved over the next two events, placing in the top 40 to jump nearly 800 spots in the world rankings, to 1,245, before heading to America. It’s a long way from those peak days of Beef Mania when the golf world couldn’t get enough of him.

Lozito concluded his piece by painting the picture of Johnston sitting in the shade before his Wednesday pro-am round, when his three amateur partners rushed to shake his hand.

“Is it OK if I call you ‘Beef?’ ” one asks.

Beef gives one of his infectious chuckles, Lozito noted.

“I’d be offended if you didn’t.”

Akshay Bhatia wins 2023 Barracuda Championship for first PGA Tour victory

Bhatia won his first Korn Ferry Tour event as a pro. This one took a little longer but not much.

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In his first start on the Korn Ferry Tour, Akshay Bhatia walked home with the hardware.

Winning on the PGA Tour took more time, but not much as Bhatia won the 2023 Barracuda Championship, the final opposite-field event of the PGA Tour season, in a playoff Sunday evening in his 36th start. He’s also the second left-handed player to win Sunday, following Brian Harman’s victory at the 2023 Open Championship.

“I was definitely watching the Open Championship,” Bhatia said. “Brian Harman, I know him pretty well.

“It’s kind of cool that two lefties won on the same day. That’s pretty cool to have that happen. I was so excited for him, obviously, and for his whole team.”

The Barracuda tournament is the only one on Tour to use the Modified Stableford scoring system, so the more points the better in this event, and Bhatia had 40 points at the end of regulation, tied with Patrick Rodgers. After one playoff hole, it was over, with the big-hitting left-hander hoisting the trophy at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood course in Truckee, California.

Bhatia’s 17-point Saturday got him into contention. It tied for the third best scoring day of the week based on the points system.

In addition to the first-place prize of $684,000, Bhatia is fully exempt on the PGA Tour through the 2025 season. He also vaults to No. 90 in the FedEx Cup standings; the top 70 advance to the Playoffs this season.

Bhatia is the 10th first-time winner on Tour this season.

2023 Barracuda Championship prize money payouts at Old Greenwood

The opposite-field PGA Tour event paid $684,000 to the winner.

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It seemed like Akshay Bhatia was primed to break through on the PGA Tour and Sunday evening, he finally did.

Bhatia claimed the 2023 Barracuda Championship, the final opposite-field event of the PGA Tour season, in a playoff. The tournament is the only one on Tour to use the Modified Stableford scoring system, so the more points the better in this event.

The first-place check at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood course in Truckee, California, was $684,000.

Take a closer look at the full prize money payouts from the 2023 Barracuda Championship.

Pos Name Points Earnings
1 Akshay Bhatia 40 $684,000
2 Patrick Rodgers 40 $414,200
T3 Julien Guerrier 37 $224,200
T3 Jens Dantorp 37 $224,200
5 Ryan Gerard 36 $155,800
T6 Chesson Hadley 35 $123,975
T6 Erik van Rooyen 35 $123,975
T6 James Hahn 35 $123,975
T6 Beau Hossler 35 $123,975
T10 Sean Crocker 34 $82,379
T10 Sebastian Söderberg 34 $82,379
T10 JC Ritchie 34 $82,379
T10 J.J. Spaun 34 $82,379
T10 Ryo Hisatsune 34 $82,379
T10 Mark Hubbard 34 $82,379
T10 Joel Dahmen 34 $82,379
T17 Marcus Armitage 33 $57,950
T17 Chad Ramey 33 $57,950
T17 Cameron Champ 33 $57,950
T20 Martin Laird 32 $43,206
T20 Marcus Kinhult 32 $43,206
T20 Kevin Roy 32 $43,206
T20 Johannes Veerman 32 $43,206
T20 Rico Hoey 32 $43,206
T25 Vincent Norrman 31 $31,223
T25 Nathan Kimsey 31 $31,223
T25 James Morrison 31 $31,223
T28 Matt NeSmith 30 $27,170
T28 Jason Scrivener 30 $27,170
T28 Seung-Yul Noh 30 $27,170
T31 Wesley Bryan 29 $23,750
T31 Charley Hoffman 29 $23,750
T31 Martin Trainer 29 $23,750
T34 MJ Daffue 28 $19,798
T34 Justin Suh 28 $19,798
T34 Stephan Jaeger 28 $19,798
T34 David Lipsky 28 $19,798
T34 Carl Yuan 28 $19,798
T39 Robert Streb 27 $16,150
T39 Zecheng Dou 27 $16,150
T39 Sam Stevens 27 $16,150
T39 Edoardo Molinari 27 $16,150
43 Carson Young 26 $14,250
T44 Kevin Chappell 25 $12,730
T44 Brent Grant 25 $12,730
T44 William McGirt 25 $12,730
T47 Andy Sullivan 22 $10,627
T47 Russell Knox 22 $10,627
T47 Kyle Westmoreland 22 $10,627
T50 Augusto Núñez 21 $9,356
T50 Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez 21 $9,356
T50 Troy Merritt 21 $9,356
T50 Michael Gligic 21 $9,356
T50 Alexander Levy 21 $9,356
T55 Tano Goya 20 $8,816
T55 Chase Hanna 20 $8,816
T55 Trevor Werbylo 20 $8,816
T55 Chez Reavie 20 $8,816
59 Peter Kuest 19 $8,626
T60 Maximilian Kieffer 17 $8,474
T60 Austin Cook 17 $8,474
T60 Joakim Lagergren 17 $8,474
$63 Nick Hardy 16 $8,322
T64 Aaron Cockerill 12 $8,246
T64 Bastien Amat (a) 12 $0
66 Trevor Cone 11 $8,170

 

Ryan Gerard takes big lead at PGA Tour’s Barracuda Championship

The name of the game in a Modified Stableford scoring event is big numbers.

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The name of the game in a Modified Stableford scoring event is big numbers and Ryan Gerard is putting up a lot of them so far this week.

Through two rounds at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood in Truckee, California, Gerard has 16 birdies, each worth two points in the unique scoring format. Two late bogeys in Thursday’s first round cost him one point each but through 36 holes, Gerard has 30 points to lead the 2023 Barracuda Championship.

Gerard’s best finish this season is a solo fourth at the Honda Classic in February. He has made nine cuts in 14 events.

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Patrick Rodgers made a late move with birdies on three of his last four holes to get to 26 points, good for second.

Vincent Norrman, a first-time Tour winner a week ago at the Barbasol Championship, like the Barracuda an opposite-field event, is playing well again this week. He has 23 points.

S.Y. Noh led after the first round with 23 points thanks to three eagles (each worth five points) to become the fourth player this season to have three eagles in one round. Friday, though, was a disastrous day at Old Greenwood for Noh, as he posted a minus-5 score after two double bogeys, a bogey and just one birdie. His Friday 75 dropped him into a tie for 10th.

The cut came in at 10 points and among those to miss out on a weekend tee time: S.H. Kim, Keith Mitchell, Harry Higgs, Greyson Sigg and Taylor Pendrith.

An ace and an eagle help Beau Hossler to early Barracuda Championship lead

The race for the FedEx Cup Playoffs is on.

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Coming into the week at Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood course, Beau Hossler sat 73rd in the FedEx Cup standings.

With the new rules, only the top 70 are guaranteed spots in the Playoffs. Counting this week, there’s only three events left for players like Hossler to lock up their spots in the field at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.

After the first round of the 2023 Barracuda Championship, Hossler is doing his best to make sure he’s well inside the cut line.

Hossler, in a Modified Stableford scoring format, is +17 after the first round in Truckee, California, and sits on top of the leaderboard. The highlight of his day came on the par-3 third, when he recorded an ace for the first time in his Tour career.

“I was kind of in between clubs,” Hossler said. “I think it was like 211, but at altitude it’s playing like 190. I hit 7-iron and it landed in a good spot and it went in. It looked like it was the only hole on Tour this year that had no camera.”

In addition to his ace, Hossler also made eagle on the par-5 sixth. Two holes, +10 (as eagles are worth five points) on the scorecard and a first-round lead.

He shot 7-under 64 in stroke play with four birdies (worth two points each), the two eagles and a lone bogey (golfers lose a point for bogeys). Hossler hasn’t won in his Tour career but does have two runner-up finishes.

“My game feels probably the best it’s felt in years right now, which is good,” Hossler said. “Maybe the results haven’t quite been there the last few weeks, but I feel like I’m working on some good stuff with my golf swing. Starting to see some a lot better iron play the last probably two weeks. So, hopefully, I can keep doing that and get the putter hot.”

Alexander Levy sits second after the morning wave at +16. Carson Young and Patrick Rodgers are at +15. The Barracuda is the lone event on the Tour schedule to use the Modified Stableford scoring system.

Chez Reavie has blistering round Friday, takes lead at 2022 Barracuda Championship

He was one of the first players on the course and Chez Reavie did not waste time.

TRUCKEE, Calif. – He was one of the first players on the course and Chez Reavie did not waste time.

Reavie scored 19 points in Friday’s second round and surged into the lead at the PGA Tour’s Barracuda Championship at the Tahoe Mountain Club’s Old Greenwood golf course.

Reavie, 40, from Wichita, Kansas, who played his college golf at Arizona State, has plus-28 points after two rounds. Mark Hubbard and Henrik Norlander are tied for second with plus-25 points.

Reavie had seven birdies and an eagle on No. 6, and no bogeys on Friday.

The eagle, his second of the week, came after he chipped in from just off the green.

He said it was a little colder out, starting so early. Reavie teed off at 7:18 a.m. local time Friday, and his shots were not flying quite as far as they did Thursday when he started later in the day.

“Fortunately we kind of noticed that on the range and adjusted for it, and I was lucky enough to just trust the numbers, the clubs that we picked, and then as it warmed up, it kind of gradually kind of started getting closer to what it was yesterday afternoon,” Reavie said.

He said staying in the fairways and out of the rough is key to doing well at Old Greenwood because the greens are so firm.

Hubbard, 33, had seven birdies and two bogeys on Friday, en route to scoring 12 points.

He played basketball at San Jose State and had a few friends from there up at Old Greenwood to watch him play golf this week.

Hubbard is winless on the PGA Tour. He was third last week in Kentucky in the Barbasol Championship.

Hubbard agreed with Reavie that the early start Friday morning took some adjusting.

“It was tough early, man, with the cold and the elevation. It’s hard to know how far the ball is going, and it seemed like every pin on our front nine, the back nine, was front with water short, so you couldn’t really play with it,” he said. “So it was just tough to get the ball close early. Once it heated up and started going another 10 percent I started making some birdies.”

2022 Barracuda Championship
Martin Laird putts on the 18th green during the second round of the 2022 Barracuda Championship at Old Greenwood in Truckee, California. (Photo: Jason Bean/Reno Gazette Journal)

Norlander, who has been working with a sports psychologist, is in his best position after 36 holes this season.

“First of all, I’m pretty excited to not make travel plans on Friday afternoon. That’s been sort of what I’ve been doing every Friday the last few weeks,” Norlander said. “But yeah, it’s a lot of pressure. I’m going to be nervous, but I believe I’m ready for it. … That’s why I practice, and I’m ready for the challenge.”

Under the Modified Stableford scoring system, players receive eight points for albatross, five for eagle and two for birdie. A point is deducted for bogey and three taken away for double bogey or worse.

Kevin Tway is in fourth with plus-21 points, followed by Nino Bertasio, Maverick McNealy and Martin Trainer, each on the leaderboard with plus-19 points.

The cut was at plus-7 points with 70 players making it to keep playing on the weekend.

Noren was been the first alternate for the British Open this week, but decided to fly to California instead to play in the Barracuda.

When Justin Rose withdrew from the British Open, the final major of the year, that opened a spot that would have gone to Noren. Instead that spot went to Rikuya Hoshino.

Noren played nine holes of a practice round at St. Andrews, before flying to California.

“I didn’t think anybody would withdraw. They actually did, and sad for them, but also I wanted to play this,” Noren said. “I wanted to get some more points. I’ve got three weeks of training after this before the playoffs, and I wanted to play this week, and maybe that mindset made me have a little less patience that I needed this time. Golf is a long career, and I’ve played a lot of British Opens, and I’ll get to play it again.”

Erik van Rooyen, who won the Barracuda Championship last year, also withdrew from the British Open.

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