[Music] august 28 2022 atlanta georgia usa scottie sheffielder and his caddy ted scott walk up to the ninth grade during the final round of the tour championship golf tournament mandatory credit adam hagey usa today sports breaking down the tour championship payout and purse to see how much prize money the players win at east lake in the fedex cup playoffs finale the tour championship has long been the finale of the pga tour season but over the past few years it's held an even bigger status as it's been tied into the fedex cup and more importantly the massive amount of prize money that's involved and goes into the effective purse at east lake golf club in [Music] every event prior to the finale factors into the fedex cup standings but those come into play at the start of the last tournament of the year for instance scotty sheffielder entered as the leader in the standings so he began his tournament at 10 under and in the lead thereafter second place was at 8 under patrick cantley and so on until the no [Music] 26 to 30 players in the standings started it even but with a gateable golf course at east lake due to rainy conditions throughout the week golfers started getting close in shaffler's rearview mirror quite rapidly but after round three was suspended on saturday scheffler came out and built his lead to six strokes to finish the round on sunday the question was if rory mcilroy xander schofel or sanchem could make up the ground it was set up for a great finish but just how much money are these guys playing for here's how the purse price money and tour championship payout breakdown under the new format tour championship payout by player finishing position one rory mcilroy dash 18 million two scotty sheffielder dash five dollars seventy five million two sun chain dash five dollars 75 million for [Music] xander show full dash four dollars million five max homo dash two dollars seventy five million five justin thomas dash two dollars 75 million seven patrick cantley dash one dollar seventy five million nine tony fee now dash one dollar twenty five million ten tom hope dash one dollar million to eleven hideki matsuyama dash nine hundred twenty five dollars oot eleven joaquin niemann-925 dollars 825.0013 [Music]