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2024 John Deere Classic prize money payouts for each PGA Tour player

A big pay day for Davis Thompson.

The John Deere Classic has produced more first-time winners than any other PGA Tour event, and this week, that was Davis Thompson.

The 25-year-old won the 2024 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, on Sunday for his first win in 63 Tour starts. With that, he earned 500 FedEx Cup points and more importantly took home the biggest check of his career for $1.44 million.

There was a three-way tie for second between Michael Thorbjornsen, C.T. Pan and Luke Clanton. For Thorbjornsen and Pan, they each will take home $712,000. Unfortunately for Clanton, as an amateur, he can’t collect any prize money.

Here’s a closer look at how much each player made at the 2024 John Deere Classic from a purse of $8 million.

Prize money payouts

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Davis Thompson -28 $1,440,000
T2 Michael Thorbjornsen -24 $712,000
T2 Luke Clanton (a) -24 $0
T2 C.T. Pan -24 $712,000
T5 Ben Griffin -23 $360,000
T5 Carson Young -23 $360,000
T7 Andrew Novak -21 $252,500
T7 Denny McCarthy -21 $252,500
T7 Hayden Springer -21 $252,500
T7 Eric Cole -21 $252,500
T7 Aaron Rai -21 $252,500
T12 Brendon Todd -20 $171,600
T12 Sungjae Im -20 $171,600
T12 Chan Kim -20 $171,600
T12 Harry Hall -20 $171,600
T12 Sami Valimaki -20 $171,600
17 Seamus Power -19 $138,000
T18 Ben Silverman -18 $126,000
T18 Keith Mitchell -18 $126,000
T20 Mac Meissner -17 $106,000
T20 Kevin Yu -17 $106,000
T20 Jhonattan Vegas -17 $106,000
T23 Jason Day -16 $83,600
T23 Lucas Glover -16 $83,600
T23 J.J. Spaun -16 $83,600
T26 Zach Johnson -15 $64,200
T26 Max Greyserman -15 $64,200
T26 Jordan Spieth -15 $64,200
T26 Rico Hoey -15 $64,200
T30 Pierceson Coody -14 $56,000
T30 J.T. Poston -14 $56,000
T32 Mark Hubbard -13 $51,200
T32 Chesson Hadley -13 $51,200
T34 Brice Garnett -12 $39,200
T34 Doug Ghim -12 $39,200
T34 Sam Ryder -12 $39,200
T34 Hayden Buckley -12 $39,200
T34 S.H. Kim -12 $39,200
T34 Patrick Rodgers -12 $39,200
T34 Sam Stevens -12 $39,200
T34 Robby Shelton -12 $39,200
T34 Adam Svensson -12 $39,200
T34 Joshua Creel -12 $39,200
T44 Chandler Phillips -11 $29,200
T44 Trace Crowe -11 $29,200
T46 Kevin Dougherty -10 $23,280
T46 Joel Dahmen -10 $23,280
T46 Zac Blair -10 $23,280
T46 Kevin Streelman -10 $23,280
T46 Adrien Dumont de Chassart -10 $23,280
T46 Ben Taylor -10 $23,280
T52 Ben Kohles -9 $18,925
T52 Dylan Frittelli -9 $18,925
T52 Nico Echavarria -9 $18,925
T52 Blaine Hale, Jr. -9 $18,925
T52 Bill Haas -9 $18,925
T52 Stewart Cink -9 $18,925
T52 Jake Knapp -9 $18,925
T52 Ryo Hisatsune -9 $18,925
T52 James Hahn -9 $18,925
T61 Kevin Chappell -8 $17,195
T61 Thorbjorn Oleson -8 $17,195
T61 Kyle Westmoreland -8 $17,195
T61 Henrik Norlander -8 $17,195
T61 Sepp Straka -8 $17,195
T61 Roger Sloan -8 $17,195
T61 Bud Cauley -8 $17,195
T61 David Lipsky -8 $17,195
T61 Austin Smotherman -8 $17,195
T61 Scott Gutschewski -8 $17,195
T61 Beau Hossler -8 $17,195
72 Wilson Furr -7 $16,240.00
T73 Justin Suh -6 $16,000.00
T73 Justin Lower -6 $16,000.00
T75 Ryan Palmer -5 $15,680.00
T75 Matt NeSmith -5 $15,680.00
77 Lee Hodges -4 $15,440.00

 

Davis Thompson gets first PGA Tour win at 2024 John Deere Classic, earns British Open spot

Thompson earned his first win in record-setting fashion.

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The name Davis Thompson is not unfamiliar for those who follow the PGA Tour.

He has been trending in recent weeks, with two runner-up finishes in his past six starts, including last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. His worst finish in that stretch, outside of a missed cut at the Canadian Open, was T-27.

And now, Thompson is a PGA Tour winner. He captured the 2024 John Deere Classic on Sunday for his first Tour victory. Thompson blitzed TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois, setting a tournament scoring record of 28-under 256, besting Michael Kim’s 2017 record of 27 under. He won by four shots in his 63rd career start over a group of players at 24 under, including amateur Luke Clanton.

“I got off to a great start today and was able to just kind of cruise on the back nine,” Thompson said. “Yeah, getting off to a good start was crucial, and I was just able to ride the momentum coming in.”

With the win, Thompson also punched his ticket to the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon next week. He finished T-9 at the U.S. Open last month.

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Thompson earned $1.44 million with the win in addition to 500 FedEx Cup points.

Also in a weird twist, for the third straight year at the John Deere Classic, the winner has stayed at the same house. In 2022, J.T. Poston took home the title while staying at the property. Last year, Sepp Straka was in a group of golfers who rented the house, and he won.

This year, Thompson was in the group who rented the house. And lo and behold, he’s the winner. He even stayed in the same room that Straka did.

“I think I have to pay for the whole house now, which is unfortunate, but I’ll gladly write the check for that,” Thompson said.

Thompson is also the 24th golfer to earn his first career win at the John Deere Classic, which is the most of any event in PGA Tour history.

Clanton, a 20-year-old junior at Florida State, became the first amateur since Billy Joe Patton in the 1950s to finish in the top 10 in back-to-back PGA Tour starts. He birdied his last hole to shoot 8-under 63 on Sunday and finish T-2 alongside C.T. Pan and Michael Thorbjornsen, who was making his third start as a PGA Tour member after earning his card via PGA Tour University.

Patton did it in the 1957 U.S. Open and 1958 Masters. Clanton did it in consecutive weeks, and he’s in the field next week at the ISCO Championship, as well.

For Pan, his finish earned him the second spot up for grabs this week at the 2024 Open Championship.

“It’s going to be a great trip,” Pan said. “Honestly going to be hectic to arrange all the travel details last minute, but it will be a good problem to have and my wife and I will be looking forward to our trip there.”

Amateur Luke Clanton achieved something not done since the 1950s at John Deere Classic

“It’s unreal to make a birdie on the last hole and do all that.”

Luke Clanton is in the midst of the best stretch of golf of his life. On Sunday at the John Deere Classic, he did something not done since the 1950s on the PGA Tour.

Clanton, a rising junior at Florida State, finished tied for second at TPC Deere Run. With the finish, he became the first amateur with top-10 finishes in back-to-back starts on the PGA Tour since Billy Joe Patton in the 1957 U.S. Open and 1958 Masters.

Last week, Clanton placed T-10 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club.

“We came into the week with pretty high expectations,” Clanton said. “I think I kind of reached that expectation for sure. Of course you want to win. But again, to do what I did out there today was awesome. It’s just a blessing to be here, man.

“It’s unreal to make a birdie on the last hole and do all that.”

Clanton made the cut at the U.S. Open and now has in consecutive weeks on the PGA Tour. He’s up to nine points in PGA Tour University Accelerated, a program that awards Tour status for college golfers who earn 20 points for achievements in the professional and amateur game.

He gets a point for every made cut on Tour in addition to another point for top-10 finishes. That’s four in two weeks.

Clanton is third in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and finished the college season as the highest-ranked player in the NCAA Golf rankings. He helped Florida State to a national runner-up finish.

John Deere Classic 2024 Sunday final round tee times, how to watch PGA Tour coverage

TPC Deere Run takes centerstage in the golf world for the July 4th holiday week.

Davis Thompson holds a two-shot lead at 21 under over Eric Cole and Aaron Rai after 54 holes of the 2024 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. Thompson and Rai both finished second to Cam Davis last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Hayden Springer and C.T. Pan sit at 17 under and in a tie for fourth, four shots back of the lead.

TPC Deere Run, a par 71 that will play 7,289 yards this week, was designed by D.A. Weibring and Chris Gay. It opened in 2000.

This week’s winner will go home with $1.44 million of the $8 million purse and 500 FedEx Cup points.

Here’s everything you need to know for the final round of the John Deere Classic. All times listed are ET.

John Deere Classic: Photos | Leaderboard

Sunday tee times

How to watch, stream the 2024 John Deere Classic

Sunday, June 30

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

Jordan Spieth said TPC Deere Run can be ‘one of the easiest ones we play,’ then went out and fired a 63

There’s a soft spot in Jordan Spieth’s heart for TPC Deere Run, the site of his first PGA Tour win.

There’s certainly a soft spot in Jordan Spieth’s heart for TPC Deere Run, the site of the Texan’s first PGA Tour win back in 2013. Two years later, Spieth won a second John Deere Classic.

And with that track record of success in Silvis, Illinois, it’s not surprising Spieth would consider the course one for the taking, a thought he backed up after shooting a 67 on Friday.

“It’s one of the probably bottom-half easier golf courses. It’s a great golf course. When it’s soft it’s one of the easiest ones we play,” Spieth said after his second round. “Yeah, I can make a move, but everyone is going to make a move. So I will try and beat the field average by four or five shots, but that is going to take shooting 8- or 9-under.

“So it’s not like it’s a walk in the park. You still have to hit nice shots.”

During Saturday’s third round, Spieth did exactly what he said he’d need to do, using a white-hot front nine to fire a 63 and get back into the tournament after 54 holes. Spieth sits at 14 under and while he’s not at the top of the leaderboard, he can see it from where he’s sitting. It marked his best round of the 2024 PGA Tour season.

After a birdie on the par-5 second, Spieth made five consecutive birdies on Nos. 4-8 and made the turn with a 6-under 29. Thanks to two more circles on 10 and 12, Spieth was officially put on 59 watch. But, a bogey on the 13th halted his momentum and he’d go on to play his final five holes at 1 under to cement his 8-under 63.

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“I would like to just improve on my back nine score tomorrow from today’s,” Spieth told the media after signing his card. “You know, so that’s certainly something as I make the turn regardless what I do on the front I’ll be sitting there going, man, I want to shoot the 4-under I felt like I should have shot yesterday.”

His previous nine starts coming into this week have been a struggle. Spieth missed three cuts and finished inside the top 40 just three times. But, he’s always loved links golf and he heads across the pond after the John Deere for the Scottish Open and The Open. If he’s found something in his game, he might be a good bet at The Renaissance Club and Royal Liverpool.

The charge pushed him up 46 spots and for a brief spell into a tie for the lead before the bogey on 13. When asked about having a lull on the back nine, Spieth insisted it was just a two-hole stretch.

“So really the lull was just those two holes, right? If I par there and birdie 14 from the position I was in I shoot 32 on the back and a 61. So anything is probably going to be a lull from a 29,” he said. “It was just those two that I wish I played over, but 14 just — both have to do with how soft the greens are. They made the shots somehow harder because the greens are softer from where I was.

“It’s a great golf course. The only downfall sometimes here is sometimes you hit some nice shots that just — someone can hit from a harder position and is end up being in a better spot. That’s golf. That kind of happens everywhere.”

This NFL running back joked about giving ‘Sepp Straka and Greyson Sigg a few pointers’ at pro-am

“Road to my Korn Ferry card coming soon,” he joked.

AJ Dillon might be on a summer break from football but the competitions haven’t stopped.

They just extended beyond the football field lately.

A couple weeks after the Packers’ gregarious player competed in a celebrity cornhole tournament through the American Cornhole League with teammate Carrington Valentine, Dillon entered another sports arena.

He was on the golf course.

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Dillon teamed with three others and was joined in an 18-hole round by pros Sepp Straka and Greyson Sigg for nine holes apiece.

“Such an unbelievable experience at the John Deere Classic,” Dillon noted on Instagram while featuring a video of his day.

Dillon had a good laugh when he wrote in the post that “it was awesome to be able to give Sepp Straka and Greyson Sigg a few pointers on how to play well at this course.”

“I can’t wait until next year,” Dillon added.

We should have seen this coming for Dillon.

He recently played at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin, a course that has hosted multiple major championships and the Ryder Cup over the last two decades.

Football and life off it have worked out pretty well for Dillon, but now he has some connections in the golf world to his ever-growing portfolio.

“Road to my Korn Ferry card coming soon,” Dillon joked again, referencing the U.S.-based developmental tour.

Dillon will turn in his golf clubs for his football pads when the Packers training camp begins July 22. That means he still has a couple weeks to take that vacation that teammate Keisean Nixon told him to take after watching a video of Dillon running the stairs inside an empty Lambeau Field last month.

Dillon, drafted by the Packers in 2020, re-signed with the team this offseason.

Tee times, groupings, TV info for 2024 John Deere Classic Saturday third round at TPC Deere Run

TPC Deere Run takes centerstage in the golf world for the July 4th holiday week.

Aaron Rai and C.T. Pan are tied for the lead at the halfway mark of the 2024 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. Rai and Pan each shot 6-under 65s on Thursday followed by 8-under 63s on Friday.

Harry Hall is alone in third at 13 under, while there are 17 players at or within three shots of the lead.

TPC Deere Run, a par 71 that will play 7,289 yards this week, was designed by D.A. Weibring and Chris Gay. It opened in 2000.

This week’s winner will go home with $1.44 million of the $8 million purse and 500 FedEx Cup points.

Here’s everything you need to know for the third round of the John Deere Classic. All times listed are ET.

John Deere Classic: Leaderboard

Saturday tee times

How to watch, stream the 2024 John Deere Classic

Saturday, June 29

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

Sunday, June 30

Golf Channel/Peacock: 1-3 p.m

CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m

A year after driving all night to play a mini-tour event, Eric Cole is hot again at the 2024 John Deere Classic

It wasn’t too long ago that a $20,000 payday would have kept Eric Cole’s golf dreams alive.

It wasn’t long ago that a $20,000 payday was the kind that kept Eric Cole’s dreams of playing professional golf alive.

Now, the reigning PGA Tour Rookie of the Year has a little different comfort level when it comes to his finances. After posting seven top-10 finishes this season, Cole has already made over $2 million in 2024 and he’s currently near the top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings, meaning the prospect of more big paychecks is well within range.

And after firing a 62 in the opening round of the John Deere Classic on Thursday, Cole followed with a workmanlike 68 on Friday, staying just behind leaders C.T. Pan and Aaron Rai after the early wave. He’s 12 under through 36 holes.

But a year ago at this time, while in the throes of his rookie year on Tour, Cole drove through the night, after playing 10 straight weeks, to play in a mini-tour event that had once kept him afloat. The final Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational was held in 2023 after the tournament’s namesake died.

Cole, who won the event in 2014 at a time when he had to put tournament entry fees on a credit card, never forgot how important the event was in his development. A year ago, he drove nearly eight hours after playing the Travelers Championship to Pittsburgh Field Club in Western Pennsylvania.

“That one was really impactful for me in continuing my dream of playing the PGA Tour,” he said on Friday. “I thought it was really important to be there, and it had a huge impact on me continuing my dream of playing the PGA Tour. With it being the last edition it felt like the right thing to do and an important spot to be.”

It’s that kind of mentality that’s helped Cole remain grounded through any hiccups he’s had on Tour. After a stretch of three straight missed cuts in late May and early June, Cole rebounded by making the weekend at both the Memorial and this year’s Travelers, and then finished sixth last week at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.

“I feel unbelievably lucky to be out here on Tour. I think that’s probably why I play as much as I do. So it’s just a great spot to be playing, and I like I said, I’m very fortunate and lucky to be out here, so I try and play as much as I can,” he said. “I don’t think about it too much. I’m definitely, like I said, very thankful. I’ve played golf in a lot of places and taken a long road to be here, so happy to be here.”

Last year was his breakout year, one in which he turned 35. He played 37 events with seven top 10s, including two seconds. One of those was the Honda Classic (now Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches) where he lost a playoff to Chris Kirk.

All of that resulted in Cole capturing the Tour’s Rookie of the Year, 50 years after his mom, Laura Baugh, won the same award on the LPGA Tour. He was the second-oldest player to be named top rookie behind Todd Hamilton, who was 39 when he won in 2004. The Rookie of the Year Award was established in 1990.

On Friday, he stayed steady, even holing out from the bunker on his penultimate hole for an unconventional birdie.

Cole knows this next stretch is pivotal — a big run in the Quad Cities could put him in good position for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and set up 2025 to potentially get into signature events next season.

But a year after he drove through the night to play a mini-tour event (which he won and then donated the $20,000 winnings back to the family for charitable causes), Cole is still aware that he’s been one of the lucky ones, and he hopes his story can be an inspiration for those with whom he played on smaller tours for years.

“I’m still friends with a lot of guys that play mini-tours. I check on their scores all the time and see how they’re doing. Hopefully, they see how I’m doing and realize that it’s not that big of a difference between what they’re doing and what I’m doing now,” he said. “Hopefully, it’s kind of like maybe some light at the end of the tunnel or something to where they’re not that far from being out here and competing on the PGA Tour.

“Playing mini-tour golf and maybe some bad golf in there teaches you a lot of things about yourself and everything like that. So it’s taught me a lot. Everything I am today is probably because of a lot of those experiences.”

Kid therapy at Kevin Kisner’s mountain home has given Kevin Chappell renewed mindset for John Deere Classic

What magic did Chappell find between his last start and Thursday? Let’s call it kid therapy.

After digging himself into a hole with an opening-round 75 at the RBC Canadian Open in late May, Kevin Chappell went on to miss the cut, marking the fourth time in his last five PGA Tour starts he’d failed to reach the weekend.

These have been trying times for Chappell, now 37, as the UCLA product has slipped from a career-best Official World Golf Ranking of 23rd back in 2017 — after winning the Valero Texas Open — to his current place at No. 458.

But there he was on Thursday at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois, opening the day with birdies on four of his first seven holes and carding a 64 to put his name near the top of the leaderboard at TPC Deere Run.

So what magic did Chappell find between his last start nearly five weeks ago and Thursday?

Let’s call it kid therapy.

Chappell, who has children ages three, seven and nine, spent a couple of weeks as a guest at the mountain home of buddy Kevin Kisner, a fellow member of the 2017 Presidents Cup team. While the two families spent one full week together, the Kisners left their two kids behind for some of the second week, giving Chappell and his wife Elizabeth time to soak in five little ones all under 10 years old.

The move seems to have cleared his mind. And the move helped Kisner, who opened with a 68 on Thursday.

John Deere Classic: Photos | Friday’s tee times, TV | Leaderboard

But Chappell, who mixed a total of seven birdies into a bogey-free round on Thursday, said his kids are a driving force behind his desire to get back near the top.

“It’s my job, so it’s how I feed my family. I think I am driven right now by having my kids getting older. A lot of my success happened when they were young and they don’t have memories of it,” he said. “I would love for them to have memories of Dad playing good golf, not packing the car up on Fridays. I think that’s what drives me right now. Continue to provide, do something I really enjoy. I am getting to live my dream. 30 years of this, getting to play professional golf or work towards playing professional golf.

“So even the bad days can’t be that bad. That’s the ultimate goal, is to show them that hard work pays off and there could be success there, especially though there have been years where there hasn’t been.”

Chappell will need to keep the birdie train rolling to compete for a title at TPC John Deere, where low scores are often the norm. Although Thursday’s round was his second-lowest of the season (he fired a 63 in the final round of the CJ Cup), reigning champion Sepp Straka won last year’s event with a 62 on Sunday.

And there’s more at stake than just a payday in the Quad Cities. Two spots are available into the 152nd Open. The top players, not otherwise exempt, who make the cut at the John Deere Classic will earn an exemption to Royal Troon.

“I’m still out here to win, out here to compete. I generally feel as good as I have felt in years, and think my best golf could be ahead of me because of that. I just haven’t seen it,” he said. “It’s hard to hold onto that hope when you’re not seeing the results. Rounds like today are great. I played a good final round at the CJ Cup, which felt like I was going to have some momentum and haven’t seen any momentum since then.

“But a good round today is awesome, and something to build off and something I can really feel like can project me forward into some good results.”

Photos: 2024 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run

This year marks the 25th year of John Deere’s partnership with the PGA Tour.

The 2024 John Deere Classic has returned to TPC Deere Run. This year marks the 25th year of John Deere’s partnership with the PGA Tour. It’s the second-longest title sponsorship after AT&T at Pebble Beach.

The golf course opened in 2000 and will play as a par 71 at 7,289 yards.

The JDC is the 30th event of the regular season and is part of The Open Qualifying Series which means two players not already qualified can play their way into the 152nd Open at Royal Troon.

Jason Day and Jordan Spieth headline the field. Defending champion Sepp Straka is there as well.

Take a look at some photos of TPC Deere Run for the 2024 John Deere Classic.