The first leg of the 2026 FedEx Cup Playoffs brought 69 of the PGA Tour's best to Memphis for the St. Jude Championship. Scottie Scheffler entered with a healthy lead for the No. 1 spot in the season-long standings over Matt Fitzpatrick, and he ensured he would clinch that positioning after a dominant performance at the St. Jude Championship, where he nearly lapped the field with an eight-shot margin of victory, the largest on the PGA Tour this season.
The battle for top 50 qualifications — cementing a spot in the second event of the postseason, the BMW Championship — was much tighter, though not much jockeying was done there by the time the St. Jude Championship concluded.
Along with players jockeying for playoff position, they were also aiming to take home their share of another $20 million purse. Everyone in the field was guaranteed at least a $41,000 paycheck, with the top 36 all taking home at least a six-figure payday.
The winner's share for Scheffler is $3.6 million, which is what Justin Rose took home last year for his dramatic playoff win at TPC Southwind, and with just three events left on the 2026 schedule, the playoffs present one last chance at a huge boost for the bank account heading into the PGA Tour's long offseason.
Below is the full breakdown of payouts for each spot on the leaderboard this week from the $20 million purse.
1st: $3,600,000 — Scottie Scheffler 2nd: $2,160,000 — Si Woo Kim 3rd: $1,360,000 — Alex Noren, Sam Burns ($1,160,000 each) 4th: $960,000 5th: $800,000 — Wyndham Clark, Sungjae Im ($760,000 each) 6th: $720,000 7th: $670,000 — Ludvig Åberg, Xander Schauffele, Hideki Matsuyama, Tommy Fleetwood, Jake Knapp ($602,800 each) 8th: $621,000 9th: $581,000 10th: $541,000 11th: $501,000 12th: $461,000 — Bud Cauley, Matt Fitzpatrick, Patrick Cantlay, Nico Echavarria, Adam Scott, Kurt Kitayama, Tom Kim ($381,000 each) 13th: $421,000 14th: $381,000 15th: $361,000 16th: $341,000 17th: $321,000 18th: $301,000 19th: $281,000 — Pierceson Coody, Patrick Rodgers, Maverick McNealy, Jodan Spieth, Viktor Hovland ($241,500 each) 20th: $261,000 21st: $241,000 22nd: $224,500 23rd: $208,500 24th: $192,500 — Alex Smalley, Max Homa, Harry Hall, Ryan Gerard, Jackson Koivun, J.T. Poston ($160,833.33 each) 25th: $176,500 26th: $160,500 27th: $154,500 28th: $148,500 29th: $142,500 30th: $136,500 — Russell Henley, Jacob Bridgeman, Chris Gotterup, Brian Harman ($127,500 each) 31st: $130,500 32nd: $124,500 33rd: $118,500 34th: $113,500 — Sepp Straka, Nicolai Hojgaard, Keith Mitchell, J.J. Spaun, Rickie Fowler ($102,700 each) 35th: $108,500 36th: $103,500 37th: $98,500 38th: $94,500 39th: $90,500 — Justin Rose, Cameron Young, Nick Taylor ($86,500 each) 40th: $86,500 41st: $82,500 42nd: $78,500 — Harris English, Ben Griffin, Sam Stevens, Michel Brennan, Gary Woodland ($70,500 each) 43rd: $74,500 44th: $70,500 45th: $66,500 46th: $62,500 47th: $58,500 — Corey Conners, Michael Thorbjornsen, Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Matthias Schmid, Justin Thomas ($53,420 each) 48th: $55,300 49th: $52,500 50th: $51,000 51st: $49,800 52nd: $48,600 — Shane Lowry, Collin Morikawa, Ryo Hisatsune ($47,800 each) 53rd: $47,800 54th: $47,000 55th: $46,600 — Min Woo Lee, Michael Kim, Jordan Smith ($46,200 each) 56th: $46,200 57th: $45,800 58th: $45,400 — Ryan Fox, Kristoffer Reitan, Eric Cole ($45,000 each) 59th: $45,000 60th: $44,600 61st: $44,200 — Alex Fitzpatrick, Aldrich Potgieter ($44,000 each) 62nd: $43,800 63rd: $43,400 — Matt McCarty, Ricky Castillo, Aaron Rai ($43,000 each) 64th: $43,000 65th: $42,600 66th: $42,200 — Rory McIlroy 67th: $41,800 — Sahith Theegala 68th: $41,400 — Akshay Bhatia