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2024 Charles Schwab Cup prize money payouts for all the PGA Tour Champions golfers at Phoenix Country Club

Langer has gone over the $37 million mark on the senior circuit.

PHOENIX — The 2024 Charles Schwab Cup Championship put a cap on the season-long Charles Schwab Cup points race on the PGA Tour Champions.

Bernhard Langer shot a final round 5-under 66 to win the season finale at Phoenix Country Club. It’s his 47th PGA Tour Champions victory. The win was good for a $528,000 payday and that pushed him past the $37 million mark in career on-course earnings on the senior tour. Langer made $10.7 million during his PGA Tour career.

Unlike the PGA Tour’s post-season – where the Tour Championship winner is declared the FedEx Cup champion – it’s possible to have someone win the final tournament while someone else captures the Schwab season title. And that’s what happened in 2024. Langer won tournament to win the Charles Schwab Cup Championship; Steven Alker won the season-long race to become the 2024 Charles Schwab Cup champion.

Check out the full prize money payouts for the 35 golfers in the field at Phoenix Country Club.

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Bernhard Langer -18 $528,000
T2 Richard Green -17 $276,000
T2 Steven Alker -17 $276,000
4 Alex Cejka -13 $210,000
5 Rod Pampling -10 $180,000
T6 Ken Tanigawa -9 $135,750
T6 Stewart Cink -9 $135,750
T8 Miguel Angel Jimenez -8 $84,000
T8 Thomas Bjorn -8 $84,000
T8 Retief Goosen -8 $84,000
T8 Padraig Harrington -8 $84,000
T8 Vijay Singh -8 $84,000
T13 Ernie Els -7 $67,500
T13 Jerry Kelly -7 $67,500
T15 Greg Chalmers -6 $61,500
T15 Stephen Ames -6 $61,500
T17 Mark Hensby -5 $55,500
T17 Tim O’Neal -5 $55,500
T19 Shane Bertsch -4 $45,000
T19 Rocco Mediate -4 $45,000
T21 Joe Durant -3 $34,500
T21 Tim Petrovic -3 $34,500
T23 Darren Clarke -2 $29,250
T23 K.J. Choi -2 $29,250
25 Ricardo Gonzalez -1 $27,000
T26 Ken Duke E $22,950
T26 Cameron Percy E $22,950
T26 Hiroyuki Fujita E $22,950
T26 Thongchai Jaidee E $22,950
T26 Paul Broadhurst E $22,950
31 Bob Estes 1 $20,250
32 Y.E. Yang 3 $19,500
33 Stuart Appleby 4 $18,750
34 Jason Caron 5 $18,000
35 Doug Barron 8 $17,250

 

Stewart Cink leads 2024 Charles Schwab Cup a day after helping Phoenix Suns mascot dunk

Cink, a Hawks fan, has a thing for the Phoenix Suns.

PHOENIX — Stewart Cink has a thing for the Phoenix Suns. He might start having a thing for Phoenix Country Club.

Cink opened the 2024 Charles Schwab Cup Championship with a 7-under 65 and walked off the course with a three-shot lead in the 35-man field at the PGA Tour Champions season finale. His scorecard featured eight birdies and one bogey.

He did catch a bit of luck on the par-5 18th hole, when his third shot from a bunker hit the flagstick head on. Had it not done so, he might have ended up in the water but instead the ball dropped straight down, stopping about two feet from the cup. Cink took advantage of this stroke of luck to make birdie at the last.

“It was probably a good enough break that made up for about six bad breaks out there,” he said. “But I’m just glad that it was straight because right in the center of the hole and it kept me from definitely taking a penalty shot.”

Before golf, an NBA game

On Wednesday night, Cink took in the Phoenix Suns game and during a break in the action, got called him down to the court to help the Suns mascot, the Gorilla, who bounced off a trampoline, grabbed the ball out of Cink’s outstretched hand and flew through the air for a dunk.

To top it off, the Gorilla then did the stand-on-his-head celebration that was made famous by Incarnate Word receiver Jalen Walthall.

“It was cool, I got on the court with the Gorilla. I’ve never had a gorilla run towards me that fast on that trampoline,” he said. How did he not flinch?, he was asked. “Part of me wanted to flinch, the other part of me wanted to be holding my camera right here to video that because he was like sprinting.

“It was pretty fun. Like I said, I love the NBA. The energy at the games all across the whole league is awesome, but the Suns is right up there at the top.”

During the 2023 WM Phoenix Open, Cink donned a Kevin Durant jersey on the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale. What was impressive then was Durant had just been traded to the Suns the day before, and Cink pulled some strings to get a jersey made.

Format, TV, prize money | Winners in 2024 | Money in 2024

Cink went to Georgia Tech, lives in Atlanta and is a self-described die-hard Hawks fan. He says he looked around for a No. 2 Suns jersey of Josh Okogie, a fellow Yellow Jacket, but he struck out there.

As far as his play on Thursday went, Cink sounded pleased.

“The things I’ve been working on this year are swing related. They’re coming together. I still don’t feel 100 percent there, but good enough to battle with,” he said. “And then my heart is the biggest piece. If I get my heart in the right place, I can be pretty dangerous out here.”

Cink earned his first PGA Tour Champions win earlier this season but he entered the finale 12th in the points, falling just shy of the group of 10 who have a shot to capture the season-long points title.

Still, he’s off to a solid start in hopes of winning again in 2024.

Breaking down the prize money at the 2024 Charles Schwab Cup, which is more than two majors

The season finale has a bigger first-place prize than three of the majors did in 2024.

PHOENIX — The 2024 PGA Tour Champions season has 28 events and more than $67 million in prize money up for grabs.

It all ends this week at the 2024 Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

The season finale has a bigger total purse than two of the senior majors and a larger first-place prize than three of the majors this season.

Here’s where the Schwab ranks in total purse and first-place money compared to the 2024 majors:

  • U.S. Senior Open: $4 million, $720,000
  • KitchenAide Senior PGA Championship: $3.5 million, $630,000
  • Kaulig Companies Championship: $3.5 million, $525,000
  • Charles Schwab Cup Championship: $3 million, $528,000
  • Senior Open: $2.8 million, $447,800
  • Regions Tradition: $2.6 million, $390,000

First place at the Schwab is good for $528,000, with $300,000 going to the runner-up, $252,000 for third place, $210,000 for fourth and $180,000 to fifth place. Everyone in the field earns a paycheck, with 35th place getting $17,250. There are 36 golfers who qualified but No. 8 Steve Stricker chose not to enter.

How it works

The tournament is a four-round, 72-hole, no-cut tournament.

Unlike the PGA Tour’s post-season – where the Tour Championship winner is declared the FedEx Cup champion – it’s possible to have someone win this event while someone else captures the Schwab season title.

Format, TV, prize money | Winners in 2024 | Money in 2024

The winner of the tournament wins the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. The winner of the season-long race is the Charles Schwab Cup champion.

But wait. There’s more

In addition to tournament prize money, there’s more cash on the line as part of the season-long Schwab race.

The top five in the final points standings will split $2.1 million that will be distributed in lump sum deposits into a Schwab brokerage accounts.

The breakdown:

  • 1st: $1 million
  • 2nd: $500,00
  • 3rd: $300,000
  • 4th: $200,000
  • 5th: $100,000

That money is considered bonus money and doesn’t count towards a player’s official career earnings.

Top 20 money winners on the PGA Tour Champions in 2024

There was more than $67 million in prize money on the line in 2024.

The 2024 PGA Tour Champions season comes to a close at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Phoenix Country Club.

The season features 28 events in all, 25 from the regular season and the three-tournament Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs.

There was more than $67 million in prize money on the line in 2024. There’s a $3 million purse at the Schwab event, which ranks it ahead of two of the five senior majors in 2024.

  • U.S. Senior Open: $4 million
  • Kaulig Companies Championship: $3.5 million
  • KitchenAide Senior PGA Championship: $3.5 million
  • Charles Schwab Cup Championship: $3 million
  • Senior Open: $2.8 million
  • Regions Tradition: $2.6 million

First place this week in Phoenix is good for $528,000.

Here’s a list of the top 20 money earners in 2024.

Pos. Player Money Victories
1 Ernie Els $2,289,476 3
2 Steven Alker $2,171,588 1
3 Stephen Ames $2,052,395 3
4 Richard Green $1,892,079 0
5 Y.E. Yang $1,748,457 1
6 Padraig Harrington $1,634,183 3
7 K.J. Choi $1,602,007 1
8 Steve Stricker $1,561,570 1
9 Paul Broadhurst $1,462,264 2
10 Jerry Kelly $1,358,087 1
11 Ricardo Gonzalez $1,245,024 1
12 Stewart Cink $1,122,406 1
13 Doug Barron $1,080,130 1
14 Darren Clarke $968,222 0
15 Retief Goosen $958,621 1
16 Ken Tanigawa $950,013 1
17 Rocco Mediate $939,908 1
18 Alex Cejka $937,121 0
19 Bernhard Langer $890,992 0
20 Joe Durant $876,552 1

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Chris DiMarco spouts off that the PGA Tour Champions deserve to play for more money

Professional golf’s growing entitlement problem extends beyond the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

Professional golf’s growing entitlement problem extends beyond the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. Just listen to Chris DiMarco, who joined the Subpar podcast with Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz this week and his comments came off as anything but humble.

The ongoing discussions between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund – the financial backers of the Tour’s rival, LIV Golf – have hung over the game like a cloud for nearly a year now. When asked about the current state of the professional game, the three-time PGA Tour winner from 2000-2002 didn’t waste any time and unloaded thoughts on the money being thrown around and why the PGA Tour Champions, of all tours, deserve more of it.

“We’re kind of hoping that (LIV Golf) buys the Champions Tour,” DiMarco said. “Let’s play for a little real money out here. I mean this is kind of a joke when we’re getting $2 million. There were like seven guys last week from (TPC Sawgrass at the Players Championship) that made more money than our purses.”

A joke? That’s funny coming from the 55-year-old who hasn’t finished in the top 10 on the senior circuit since 2020. Overall, across 114 starts on the Champions tour, DiMarco has earned 17 top-25 finishes and just four top-10s.

The PGA Tour Champions offers over-the-hill players the chance to still compete for a little scratch on the side once they’re unable to keep up with the young guns on the PGA Tour. The over-50 tour has 28 events on its schedule for 2024, with $67 million up for grabs. That’s not a bad second career for a group of guys who spent their prime earning well more than the national average.

And yes, with more than $400 million on the line across 38 events, the PGA Tour plays for five times more cash than the seniors. And they should. It’s a better product that garners more interest and produces better TV ratings (though ratings for the men’s game have gone down in 2024).

Golf fans are fed up with players, at any level, who demand more when they haven’t done anything to earn it. DiMarco had a few great summers in the early 2000s and hasn’t been heard from since. If he wants to play for more money, maybe he should focus on finding the top half of a Champions tour leaderboard instead of finishing a few scrolls down.

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2023 PNC Championship prize money payouts for each team in Orlando

It pays to play well, even in silly season events.

It pays to play well, even in golf’s silly season events. Just ask this weekend’s winners, Bernhard and Jason Langer.

The father-son duo won the 2023 PNC Championship on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando by two shots over David Duval and his son, Brady. The win is the fifth for Langer at the annual family event, tying Raymond Floyd with the most wins.

For their efforts, Team Langer will take home the top prize of $200,000, while the Duvals earned $80,000. Check out how much money each team earned this weekend at the 2023 PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando.

2023 PNC Championship prize money payouts

Position Team Score Earnings
1 Team Langer -25 $200,000
2 Team Duval -23 $80,000
3 Team Singh -22 $57,250
4 Team Goosen -21 $50,000
T-5 Team Lehman -19 $47,000
T-5 Team Cink -19 $47,000
T-5 Team Daly -19 $47,000
T-5 Team Woods -19 $47,000
T-5 Team Kuchar -19 $47,000
10 Team Stricker -16 $44,500
T-11 Team Annika -15 $43,750
T-11 Team O’Meara -15 $43,750
T-13 Team Thomas -14 $42,750
T-13 Team Korda -14 $42,750
15 Team Leonard -13 $42,000
16 Team Price -12 $41,500
17 Team Faldo -11 $41,000
18 Team Trevino -9 $40,500
T-19 Team Harrington -7 $40,250
T-19 Team Furyk -7 $40,250

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